Project Manager Jobs in Uganda at Amref Health Africa

Job Title: Project Manager

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

Deputy Country Director Jobs in Uganda at Amref Health Africa

Job Title: Deputy Country Director

Employer: Amref Health Africa

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Application Deadline: 27 Jan 2015

Job Description:

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support the Country Director in defining Amref Health Africa-Uganda's overall strategy, develop clear operational plans for execution, and continually identify opportunities for Amref Health Africa to add value and maximize impact.
• Maintain a thorough understanding of the health landscape in Uganda and the Ministry of Ffealth's key priorities and challenges.
• Maintain appropriate bi-directional communication with Amref Health Africa headquarters to ensure that Amref Health Africa's strategic directions are being fully leveraged
• Develop and manage program, activities, and budgets in collaboration with program and support staff.
• Oversee Amref Health Africa's RMNCH„ TB/HIV/Malaria, WASH and e-learning programs, including the management of several staff members, development of relationships with key relevant government partners, donor agencies, and other and international stakeholders.
• Provide technical and managerial oversights for the development and implementation of a comprehensive program strategy and work plan.
• Plan, manage and execute specific programmatic initiatives, such as the emergency responses and clinical and outreach rograms.
• Develop and implement facilitative supervision and ensure that field staff gets onsite training, coaching and mentoring to improve quality of services renderingto target beneficiaries.
• Manage the individual performance of the staff under program management, ensuring that their performance is aligned to the strategic business plan of Amref Health Africa.
• Work closely with Ministry of Health officials; coordinate and collaborate with top-management officials of MoH and other line ministries and other agencies related to the program
• Discuss plans and strategies with different stakeholders to ensure proper understanding of the projects concepts, timeline and reporting
• Identity research topics and provides technical oversights for the design and implementation of applied researches, and use evidence for future programing and improving quality.
• Spearhead institutional and unrestricted fundraising efforts and and management of relationships with existing and potential all programme reports, assessing quality of the programmes and ensuring compliance with relevant regulations.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience:

 • Minimum of a first degree in Medicine (MD) and a Masters degree in public health (MPH) or equivalent.
• Minimum of 7 years experience in a senior leadership role working with international non-governmental organizations (NG0s) or at a similar level
• Ability to manage a complex health projects and experience in working with multidisciplinary and cultural teams
• Experience in Amref's strategic directions notably on health system strengthening, human resource for health, RMNCH, TB/HIV/Malaria, and WASH program design, quality assurance, monitoring and evaluation.
• Experience in new business development, donor relation management, networking, and relation building.
• Past experience of team building, leading and developing a team of senior staff with different backgrounds and expertise.
• Proven experience in program development and good knowledge of relevant government offices, donors and private sectors
• Proven Experience of solving complex issues through analysis, definition of a clear way forward.
• Hands on skills and expertise in planning, financial and budget management as well as people management.
• An overall understanding of operational, financial and support services management processes.
• Communicate effectively in English orally and in writing
• Excellent computer and organizational skills.
• Strong work ethics, flexibility, and high level of integrity.

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

Internal Audit Assistant Careers at Britania Allied Industries Ltd in Uganda

Job Title: Internal Audit Assistant

Employer: Britania Allied Industries Ltd

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Application Deadline: 30 Jan 2015

Job Description:


Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conducting Internal Control evaluation and risk assessment to identify loopholes and areas requiring management intervention to prevent frauds, embezzlements, misappropriations, misuse and wastage and ensuring that objectives of the organization are achieved economically, efficiently and effectively;
• Assist in the preparation of special reports when asked for by the management on various aspects of financial management, including asset management and security, financial reporting, decision support systems, management Information systems;
• Facilitating in undertaking periodic reviews and annual audit of financial transactions as per the organization requirements.
• Assisting the finance department in preparation SOPs in critical areas like meeting financial obligations under procurements and the process itself. Specifying internal checks including preaudit checks, adherence to policies procedures and compliance with rules, laws and regulations to ensure that payments to suppliers and other entities are made by them in accordance with the stipulated guidelines
• Ensuring that systems exist for generation of accurate and reliable financial and other Information;
• Prepares, analyzes and reconciles and conducts verification regarding accounts being examined.
• Conducts surprise cash counts on company funds as required
• Gathers, verifies and analyses monthly sales reports, contracts and other related documents
• Conducts system review to assess its effectiveness and efficiency and recommends necessary actions to improve deficient conditions
• Witnesses inventory taking of company’s fixed assets and supplies on quarterly and annual basis.
• Submits audit observations and recommendations to the supervisor for review and evaluation.
• Conducting any other related tasks that may be assigned by the management

Qualifications and experience:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’ Degree in one of these fields: Accounting, Finance, Audit, Economics, Commerce or Business Administration
. • Audit experience of between 1 – 3 years is required
• At least 2 years’ experience in accounting
Skills and competencies:
• The candidate should have skills and ability to identify issues, formulate opinions, make conclusions and recommend solutions.
• Should have good interpersonal skills, excellent communication and report writing skills and should have the ability to work independently.
• He/ she should have working knowledge of IT systems and MS office especially Excel.

How to Apply:

Suitably qualified candidates should submit letters of application specifying their field of study together with a C.V, contact number (s), copies of relevant certificates, names and details of three references to the undersigned not later than 30th January 2015.
The Human Resource Manager Britania Allied Industries Ltd. P.O Box 7158, Kampala

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.