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Job Title:   Regional Supervisor (5 Job Vacancies)   

Organisation: Makerere University College of Health Sciences, School of Public Health (MakSPH)

Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda

Reports to: Study Coordinator

About US:

Makerere University College of Health Sciences, School of Public Health (MakSPH), and the Ministry of Health, with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, plan to conduct a climate change health vulnerability and adaptation assessment (VAA) to facilitate the sound management of climate Change-related health risks in Uganda. Evidence generated by the VAA will be used to inform the development of a Health National Adaptation Plan for Uganda. The assessment will be conducted in healthcare facilities in 43 districts in the 15 regions of Uganda i.e. Acholi, Ankole, Bugisu, Bukedi, Bunyoro, and Busoga. Kampala, Karamoja, Kigezi, Lango, North central, South central, Teso, Tooro, and West Nile. It is based on this background that, MakSPH seeks to recruit responsible, qualified, and competent individuals who can work with minimum supervision to join the core research team.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Obtain administrative clearance from the selected district health offices
• Guide the team leaders in the sampling of study healthcare facilities and community health workers
• Supervise all the team leaders in the assigned districts
• Lead the mobilization of all key informants in the study district
• With the help of team leaders, spearhead the development of field reports, detailing the different activities, challenges faced, and corrective action
• Review all the accountabilities of the assigned study teams and write a brief financial report outlining how the funds are spent

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• The applicant must hold a Master’s degree in a health-related discipline such as Public Health, Public Health Disaster Management, Environmental and Occupational Health, Medicine, Nursing, OR Social sciences, Statistics and Environmental studies
• Evidence of being a regional supervisor on at least 2 research projects
• Must have a certificate of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) or Human Subjects Research
• Proven research experience in public health research is mandatory
• Should have at least three years of experience in conducting quantitative and qualitative health research
• Proficiency in English and at least one of the local languages spoken in any of these regions (Acholi, Ankole, Bugisu, Bukedi, Bunyoro, Busoga. Kampala, Karamoja, Kigezi, Lango, Northcentral, South Central, Teso, Tooro, and West Nile, (both spoken and written)
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Prior experience in using mobile data collection applications (ODK, Kobo Collect, or Survey Monkey)
• Must have an Android phone of version 10 and above and should be willing to use it for data collection
• Must be willing to work beyond official working hours in the field

Terms of service: This is a short-term position which will not exceed four weeks

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested persons should send on email their applications, scanned copies of their academic documents with a current Curriculum Vitae (C.V) and a recommendation letter (addressed to the Dean School of Public Health) to sweemhealthconsultlimited@gmail.com, indicating the language of preference, two referees, and their active (24hour) phone contacts.

Deadline: 9th September 2023 by 17:00 hrs.

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