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• Mentor and manage the team of coordinators,
  include job description review, goal-setting and appraisal
• Coordinate training in facility maintenance
  and safety methods, procedures, and techniques
• Plan, prioritize, assign, supervise, review,
  and participate in the work of staff responsible for facility maintenance
• Build, strengthen and maintain respectful and
  good working relationships with all staff.
• Take a leading role in establishing and
  promoting a culture of responsiveness and customer service among
  maintenance staff

• Actively participate in the preparation and
  administration of the facility maintenance budget
• Organize/Assist in the preparation of various
  tenders, contracts and requests for proposals related to facilities
  maintenance
• Establish schedules and methods for providing
  facility maintenance services
• Manage all operational and maintenance
  aspects of campus facilities, transport and housing for overseas hire
  teachers
• Ensure that the daily transport service
  provided for students and staff is effective and efficient and that school
  vehicles are properly maintained
• Keenly monitor fuel consumption and ensure
  that accurate and up to date stock records are maintained of fuel, oil and
  vehicle parts
• Develop and organize preventative, proactive
  maintenance and safety inspection programmes for all facilities maintenance
  equipment.
• Establish, monitor and manage the Help Desk
  request system and establish achievable service response time
• Regularly monitor and control facilities
  maintenance supplies & equipment and order supplies and tools as necessary
• Regularly review, update and oversee Security
  and Emergency procedures and plan and implement regular drills.
• Work closely with the US Embassy Regional
  Security Office (RSO) and Ugandan Police to ensure security for students,
  staff and all visitors to ISU
• Supervise contracted Security Staff –
  negotiate contract, etc
• Supervise Catering Contractor – negotiate
  contract and oversee to ensure healthy balance daily menu and food
  prepared in accordance with highest possible hygiene standards
• Render support in the set-up and facilitation
  of school functions and special events
• Support the Head of School in developing
  plans for campus development
• Act as on-site project manager for smaller
  construction projects, monitoring materials, timelines, quality of work
  and safety standards
• Work closely with any external project
  manager appointed for larger construction

• Will be proactive and take initiative in
  leading the operational aspects of the school.
• Communicate facility maintenance resource
  needs proactively to the Head of School and Business Manager.
• Build a good working relationship with the US
  embassy’s Regional Security Officer (RSO), the Ugandan Police Force and
  the school’s outsourced security provider.
• Provide information to the School community
  on facilities maintenance matters and investigate and / recommend
  corrective action as necessary to resolve complaints
• Support the Construction Project Manager in
  coordinating facilities maintenance requirements for School construction
  projects
• Prepare and submit monthly facility
  maintenance related reports to the EMT and Head of School.
• Work in liaison with the EMT to ensure the
  smooth running of all operations of the school to support the educational
  programmes

• Ensure that site Health & Safety
  committees are convened and operate effectively
• Ensure that urgent repairs and maintenance
  issues are resolved promptly and effectively
• Ensure that appropriate legal and school
  regulations regarding health and safety are adhered to by the Facilities
  and Maintenance teams
• Ensure that highest possible levels of health
  and safety standards are consistently applied through documented
  procedures & training of appropriate individuals
• Establish and implement procedures to ensure
  that buildings, grounds and vehicles are maintained to high level of
  cleanliness throughout

• The applicant should hold an Undergraduate
  degree in a related field
• Previous experience working in a school
  setting
• Experience working in a multicultural setting
• Experience and/or understanding of
  educational programs
• Previous experience and/or understanding of
  teaching methods and practices
• Demonstrated success in a complex
  facility-management position
• Previous exposure and experience with
  contract negotiations and project management
• Excellent written and spoken communication
  skills
• Significant experience in supervising and
  training others
• Proven ability to work independently and act
  ethically
• Strong work ethic, based on proactive
  planning and personal responsibility
• Systems thinker
• Good team player
• Ability to understand and speak Luganda

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