Employer: Amref Health Africa
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Application Deadline: 27 Jan 2015
Job Description:
Duties and Responsibilities:
• Ensure that Amref Health Africa's projects in the districts of operation have a clear strategy and operational guidelines that are aligned to Uganda Country programme;
• Coordinate the development and implementation of high quality projects that are consistent with Amref Health Africa's core mission, values and principles;
• Spend time in the field to ensure that the assigned portfolio of work is integrated within the districts and within the country programme and that project experiences are consistently documented, widely shared and utilized for evidence-based advocacy at the local and national level;
• Improve the visibility/credibility of Amref Health Africa in the districts of operation, among communities, donors and government structures and to ensure prudent management of and quality reporting on activities and budgets;
• Liaise and network with relevant Amref Health Africa partners and collaborators to improve Amref Health Africa's visibility, coordination of activities and promotion of shared advocacy agenda;
• Represent Amref Health Africa at fora at local level that are relevant to the Foundation's work at the local level and provide relevant feed to and from relevant partners;
• Organize and participate in steering committee meetings and other relevant for a Quality Assurance — Continuous quality improvement on the project; and
• Contribute to development of concept papers and proposals. Accountability & Human Resource Management Manage the usage of all resource savailable to the assigned that complies with the policies.
Monitoring and evaluation
• Manage the planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting activities of the various projects in the district;
• Contribute to the change management and strategic growth of the Uganda country programme by keeping the Country Director informed of developments and issues of interest to Amref Health Africa;
• Collect and analyze data to facilitate quality planning and the development of indicators to measure project impact; and
• Establish and maintain regular systems of project monitoring and evaluation in close collaboration with projects' staff and other relevant stakeholders.
Capacity and team building of professional growth;
• Supervise all staff at the field stations of Operation
• Mentorship and coaching of staff.
Reporting Ensureprudent management of and quality reporting on activities and budges.
Qualifications, Skills & Experience:
• A degree in Social Sciences, Health, related field. Post graduate training in Public this desirable; and
• Additional training TB Malaria and HIV AIDS are desirable.
• At least 5 years' experience in HIVAIDS and Reproductive Health, preferably in an NGO environment; and
• Experience in managing community health development
• Health strategy development, resource e mobilization and proposal writing; Interpersonal and
• Strong team leader and player;
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills;
• Excellent networking and organizational skills;
• Strong project and people management skills;
• Willingness and ability to work in Luwero on full-time basis and to travel to all projects areas fora minimum of 75% of his/ her time; • Excellent listening skills combined with an eye for details and the ability to see the bigger picture;
• A clear thinker with strong conceptual and analytical skills and the capacity to weigh options and to make informed strategic choices;
• A personal commitment to Amref Health Africa's values;
• A high degree of integrity and credible work ethics; and
• Result-oriented and able to balance conflicting priorities and to produce high quality results under tight deadlines.
How to Apply:
Please send an updated CV including three work related referees and cover letter addressed to the Human Resources Manager, Amref Health Africa in Uganda through jobs.amrefugandae arring. Emails should not exceed 2MB. The closing date for submitting applications is Tuesday January 27, 2015 at 5 pm. Those who earlier applied for the position of Deputy Country Director may not need to re-apply. We regret that only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Qualified Women are highly encouraged to apply
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