USAID IntraHealth International Grant Careers – Human Resources Management Team Leader

Organisation: IntraHealth
International
Project Funding Source:
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Reports to: Deputy Chief of
Party
Job Requisition Number:
14-0034
About IntraHealth:
For over 30 years, in more than 90 countries, IntraHealth International
has empowered health workers to better serve communities in need. IntraHealth
fosters local solutions to health care challenges by improving health worker
performance, strengthening health systems, harnessing technology, and
leveraging partnerships.
In collaboration with governments, nongovernmental organizations, and
private-sector organizations around the world, IntraHealth champions the needs
and contributions of health workers—from doctors and nurses to community health
workers to health facility managers—and works to ensure they have the tools,
supplies, information, training, and support they need to provide communities
they serve with the best possible opportunity for health and well-being.
Job Summary: The USAID Human
Resources Management Team Leader will be responsible for strengthening the
capacity of the Ministry of Health (MoH) health workers at the national and
local levels who are responsible for the development, , implementation and
monitoring of evidence-based outcomes that strengthen HRM systems. The Team
Leader will build partnerships and linkages with national and district HRH
stakeholders—both public and private—to ensure HRM initiatives are introduced
throughout the health system. As a member of the Project Leadership Team (PLT),
the HRM Team Leader will partner with the MoH to support a cadre of
professional HR managers in the MoH and with professional associations to
address current and expanded health worker workforce performance and support
systems.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities: 
  • Support the national and regional
    country-level counterparts and stakeholders in reviewing, designing and
    strengthening systems such as HRH assessments, recruiting, deployment and
    performance management systems .
  • Support other health sector leaders to
    review HR legislative policies, operational practices and procedures,
    build capacity and improve HR and recruitment systems to improve the
    quality and availability of health services in Uganda, especially in
    remote and low resource areas.
  • Co-conduct, with the MoH, assessments to
    determine the best interventions and approaches to address pressing
    problems;
  • Steer the design, implementation and
    monitoring of training activities and interventions to build local
    capacity in managing health sector human resources.
  • Play a primary role in HRM programming to
    strengthen the capacity of the MoH, HRM and Human Resource Development Departments
    to perform a more strategic role in terms of management and production of
    health workers.
  • Provide technical leadership in sharing
    and developing new and improved strategies, tools and interventions for
    improved human resources availability and productivity and in documenting
    evidence of success or lack of success for the interventions
  • Build capacity in the central and the sub
    national public health sector to strengthen their HR management systems,
    especially systems such as recruitment, deployment, retention and
    motivation, and performance management systems.
  • Build local professional capacity and
    expertise in HRM and personnel policies and develop innovative strategies
    for building this local capacity at national and district levels.
  • Offer linkages required within the public
    health sector and with training institutions to support the development of
    a pool of HRH experts for the country.
  • Identify and utilize best practices for
    task shifting and advocate for adoption by the MoH and professional councils
    of task shifting strategies.
  • Develop MoH and district capacity in
    application and use of Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN)
    approaches to determine appropriate staffing patterns at different
    facility levels, and advocate for the use of WISN as the MoH standard for
    setting staffing norms.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience: 
  • The applicant should hold a Master’s
    degree in Human Resource Planning/ Management. Additional degree in
    International Health or Public Health preferred
  • A minimum of eight years’ experience in
    designing and implementing HRM systems and practices (e.g. planning,
    recruitment, performance management, etc).
  • Extensive knowledge of the World Health
    Organization’s Workload Indicators of Staffing Needs (WISN) approaches and
    the ability to lead its application at the national and district level
    preferred. Demonstrated experience developing work plans and budgets and
    delivering results on time and within budget.
  • Demonstrated ability to direct and manage
    a team to achieve technical goals on a large, complex project, preferably
    for USAID.
  • Proven diplomatic and interpersonal skills
    and ability to work in a complex and changing environment with all levels
    of stakeholders.
  • Excellent written and oral communications
    skills in English.
  • Computer literacy skills i.e. proficiency
    in MS Office applications including Word, Excel, Power Point, and Outlook.
  • Willingness to travel 25% within the
    country and internationally on occasion.
How to Apply: 
All suitably qualified and interested candidates who wish to join the
Not for Profit Sector with USAID’s IntraHealth International should visit the
e-recruitment website below to express their interest in this vacancy.
Deadline: 27th June
2014

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