The Ugandan Jobline

• Oversee the planning, monitoring and
  reporting on agreed plans and budgets both corporately and to donors where
  required, to ensure efficient and effective implementation or timely
  modification as appropriate. This includes overall budgetary monitoring
  and control responsibilities for the management of all financial resources
  entrusted to the   Health, Social
  and Commercial Services directorate and ensure that its activities are an
  integral and coordinated part of the overall National programs.
• Build URCS’ Health, Social and Commercial
  health Services Programs and capacity, provide leadership on strategic
  directions for URCS in collaboration with operations, technical units and
  program teams and branches in general.
• Lead the directorate initiatives of
  resource mobilization through proposals development and any other form and
  drive programs development for Health, Social and Commercial Services in
  existing and new contexts in line with the URCS Strategy.
• Provide leadership in Networking and
  building strategic alliances with partners and donors related to Health,
  Social and Commercial Services programming in line with organizational
  strategies and policies.
• Offer technical guidance to URCS’ branches
  at all stages of the program cycle (assessments, implementation,
  monitoring and evaluation) for Health, Social and Commercial Services
  programming.
• Manage, supervise, monitor, coach, develop,
  appraise and motivate all the staff in the directorate line with URCS
  policies and the National Labour laws.
• Work in close collaboration with the
  Secretary General, position URCS as the partner of choice in relevant
  context with partners and donors identified through mapping.
• Promote URCS visibility at national,
  regional and International platforms and forums concerning Health, Social
  and Commercial health Services in humanitarian, transitional and
  development programming.
• Develop and lead the implementation of
  frameworks for documenting the evidence of best practices in Health,
  Social and Commercial health Services programming and ensure the field
  teams incorporate the practices into the program while also enabling them
  to share across URCS, during local, national and global forums.
• Participate in the relevant meetings at
  the national, international and policy levels to advance URCS’ visibility
  and contribution to Health, Social and Commercial health Services in
  general. This may include development of strategic and sustainable
  networking and collaboration mechanisms with relevant Government of Uganda
  Ministries, particularly (but not limited to) donor agencies, and related
  platforms and existing and new partners of the National Society.
• Ensure that URCS’ Health, Social and
  Commercial health Services interventions are aligned to major national and
  international conventions, treaties, policies and laws, with a major bias
  to those of Uganda particularly.

• The ideal candidate for the Uganda Red
  Cross Society (URCS) Director Health Services job opportunity should
  preferably hold a Master’s, degree in Public Health care, Post Graduate
  Diploma in Public Health and or primary health care.
• Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Human
  medicine.
• Possession of a Post graduate training in
  Project planning and management is essential
• Additional training in health emergencies
  and Relief operations/ Disaster Risk Reduction, as well as Participatory
  approaches and methodologies is essential.
• A minimum of seven years of practical
  experience in Public health care services work, health emergencies and
  relief work and development management preferably with humanitarian and
  relief NGOs at National or International level.
• A minimum of five years’ experience at
  senior management level
• Previous experience in capacity building,
  facilitation of multi-stakeholder processes, organizational learning, and
  change management processes
• Good knowledge of the international
  humanitarian context including current humanitarian policy framework
  issues.
• Excellent written and oral communications
  skills including ability to write technical documents and give
  presentations to colleagues in and outside of URCS
• Public speaking and presentation;
  Negotiation skills; Project Planning and Management.
• Performance management; Budgeting and
  budgetary control; Resource mobilization and Contract management;
  Networking, alliance building and stakeholder management; Training of
  Trainers (ToT)
• Strategic planning and management, Monitoring
  & Evaluation, Computer literacy skills – MS Office applications, word,
  excel, PowerPoint, Spread sheets.

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