Managerial Careers – Executive Director at Uganda National Association of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors (UNABCEC)

Job Title: Executive Director
Organisation: Uganda
National Association of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors (UNABCEC)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Reference: REF UNC001

About UNABCEC:

Uganda National Association of Building and Civil Engineering
Contractors (UNABCEC) is a non-profit, non-political, member-driven association
bringing together building and civil engineering contractors as well as
construction-related materials manufacturers and/or suppliers to promote their
mutual interest. KSK Associates is a Professional Services Firm that provides
Financial Consultancy Services including Assurance and Business Advisory
Services, Business Planning, Feasibility studies & Project Proposal
Preparation, Human Resource, Risk Management and Information System Solutions.

Job Summary: The ED will have
overall strategic and operational responsibility for UNABCEC’s secretariat
staff, programs, expansion, and execution of its mission. S/he will develop
deep knowledge of field, core programs, operations, and business plans from the
strategic plan 2014-2018.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Leadership & Management:
  • Ensure ongoing projects programmatic
    excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and consistent quality of finance
    and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems; recommend timelines
    and resources needed to achieve the strategic goals
  • Actively engage and energize newly
    established secretariat staff, marketing teams, board members, local
    chapter committees, partnering organizations, and funders
  • Develop, maintain, and support a strong
    Board of Directors: serve as ex-officio of each committee, seek and build
    board involvement with strategic direction for both ongoing local operations
    as well as for the national rollout
  • Take lead, coach, develop, and retain
    UNABCEC high-performance Secretariat team
  • Ensure effective systems to track scaling
    progress, and regularly evaluate program components, so as to measure
    successes that can be effectively communicated to the board, funders, and
    other constituents
2. Fundraising & Communications:
  • Expand local revenue generating and
    fundraising activities to support existing program operations and regional
    expansion while simultaneously retiring building debt
  • Deepen and refine all aspects of
    communications—from web presence to external relations with the goal of
    creating a stronger brand
  • Use external presence and relationships to
    garner new opportunities
3. Planning & New Business:
  • Design the national expansion and complete
    the strategic business planning process for the program expansion into all
    regions of Uganda.
  • Begin to build partnerships in new
    markets, establishing relationships with the funders, and political and
    community leaders at each expansion site
  • Be an external local and national presence
    that publishes and communicates program results with an emphasis on the
    successes of the local program as a model for regional and national
    replication;
  • Perform any other duties that may be
    allocated to you from time to time.

Qualifications, Skills &
Experience:

The ED will be thoroughly committed to UNABCEC mission. All candidates
should have proven leadership, coaching, and relationship management
experience. Concrete demonstrable experience and other qualifications include:
  • An advanced degree, ideally an MBA, with
    at least 10 years of senior management experience; track record of
    effectively leading and regionally and/or nationally scaling a
    performance- and outcomes-based organization and staff; ability to point
    to specific examples of having developed and operationalized strategies that
    have taken an organization to the next stage of growth
  • Unwavering commitment to quality programs
    and data-driven program evaluation
  • Excellence in organizational management
    with the ability to coach staff, manage, and develop high-performance
    teams, set and achieve strategic objectives, and manage a budget
  • Past success working with a Board of
    Directors with the ability to cultivate existing board member
    relationships
  • Strong marketing, public relations, and
    fundraising experience with the ability to engage a wide range of
    stakeholders and cultures
  • Strong written and verbal communication
    skills; a persuasive and passionate communicator with excellent
    interpersonal and multidisciplinary project skills
  • Action-oriented, entrepreneurial,
    adaptable, and innovative approach to business planning
  • Ability to work effectively in
    collaboration with diverse groups of people
  • Passion, idealism, integrity, positive
    attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their
applications together with:
  • Attached copies of all academic
    qualifications (transcripts and certificates);
  • Updated detailed CVs and contact telephone
    numbers;
  • Three professional references and
    or/academic references

Please send an application via E-mail to; recruitment@kskassociates.net


You can physically deliver your application to any of our offices in
East Africa.

Please send your applications to;

The Recruitment Director, KSK Associates Financial Consultants, Annex
Ruth Towers, Plot 15 A, Clement H ill P.O Box 70434 Kampala – Uganda.

Deadline: 26th April 2014 by
5pm.



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