mothers2mothers (m2m) Available Job Opening – Apply Now!

mothers2mothers (m2m) is an Africa-based NGO that unlocks the potential of women to eliminate paediatric AIDS and create healthy families across eight sub-Saharan countries. m2m trains, employs, and helps empower HIV-positive women to work as community healthcare workers in understaffed health centres and underserved communities. Through a peer-to-peer approach, these ‘Mentor Mothers’ deliver a range of health services, advice, and support to women and their families.

Started in Cape Town, South Africa in 2001 with an initial focus on preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, m2m has innovated and built on its strengths and now provides family-centred support for a range of related health and social issues spanning pregnancy, birth, childhood, and adolescence. It also partners with governments and other NGOs on the adoption of its programme to spread the Mentor Mother Model and its benefits. m2m has a track record of scaling its services and proven impact.

In 2017, m2m and its partners enrolled 2.3 million new clients. m2m has virtually eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV among the enrolled clients it serves directly for the last four years, with an average transmission rate of just 1.6%, while 97% of children in its ECD programmes meet all of their development milestones at 12 months. For more, visit www.m2m.org.

Job Title: HR/Communications Intern

Job Location: Cape Town

The position is based at our head office in Cape Town and reports to the HR Business Partner. To support the work of refreshing organisation wide internal communications and human resource functions

Key Performance Areas:

• Play an important role in refreshing organisation wide internal communications.
• Submit help desk tickets to update Global Address Book with contact information for new employees and recent leavers.
• Post adverts to company website, LinkedIn and other recruitment websites.
• Schedule ‘phone interviews, in-house interviews, creating interview itineraries.
• Assist with onboarding new employees
• Streamline onboarding process; designing benefits brochures, forms, and other documents.
• Work with communications, HR, and Country Directors to develop an induction video.
• Distribute HR communications to the organisation.
• Ensure the HR department is Brand compliant. This will include updating existing materials, and liaising with the design team to request support for new resources.
• Play a lead role on website update to ensure a stand alone careers page tool is successfully transferred and integrated into the new site.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications/Journalism, Business/Management, Marketing or Human Resources.
• Excellent skills in verbal and written English, with an ability to demonstrate a proficiency in grammar, proofreading and editing.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to effectively communicate and interact with employees at all levels.
• Experience with MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint).
• Experience of using a range of digital media, including social, video, and web.

Competencies:

• Fluency in English essential
• Well-developed interpersonal skills and ability to handle confidential matters in a professional and ethical manner
• Well-developed verbal and written communication skills
• Planning and organising
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to take initiative
• A passion for the m2m vision and values

mothers2mothers is an equal opportunity employer. We particularly encourage applications from people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA), people with disabilities, women and previously disadvantaged people.

Competitive salary packages will be negotiable in accordance with m2m’s remuneration policies.

To Apply:

Interested applicants should apply for this position via https://www.m2m.org/careers/

Application Deadline: Friday, 3 May, 2019