Classified Information - Program Co-ordinators, The Fred Hollows Foundation
Sydney Morning Herald
Saturday January 17, 2009
The Fred Hollows Foundation needs program co-ordinators in Sydney to liaise with overseas staff. The foundation is looking for talented, enthusiastic people who have the dream of helping others overcome avoidable blindness - people who can turn 1000 operations into 10,000 and 100,000 into a million.
"[The job involves] looking for new opportunities, new relationships that we can develop in existing or new projects," chief executive officer Brian Doolan says. "Our goal is there should be nobody in any developing country who has to go blind because they are poor. The job of the program co-ordinator is to work in partnership with our colleagues in that country to figure out how we get to all of those people." The co-ordinators are expected to travel and work with colleagues in Nepal, Vietnam, Kenya or South Africa. Tasks are to develop initiatives, advise governments, give presentations, write proposals and submissions, manage budgets, supply training and equipment and ensure workers are protected and treated well."This is not a 9-5 position - it's a position [where] people find they are challenged every day, often by things they don't expect," Doolan says. "When you wake up in the morning expecting something, the only thing we can guarantee is that by the time we go to bed you'll have done something completely different."The job pays up to $81,313 a year. See hollows.org.au/employment.
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