Job Title: Business Development Graduate Trainee (No Experience Jobs)
Organisation: Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) is an independently governed institute within the College of Health Sciences at Makerere University and has the mission “To strengthen health systems in Africa, with a strong emphasis on infectious diseases, through research and capacity development.” IDI has operations across Uganda as well as in a number of other African countries and has a staffing of over 1,000 managing multiple projects in research, clinical services, public health and training.
Job Summary: The Business Development Graduate Trainee will support acquisition of new business, further development of existing business, and monitoring programmatic compliance across all the IDI main programs. The Business Development Graduate Trainee will be working under the direct supervision of, and be evaluated by the IDI Manager (Strategic Information and Business Development).
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support identifying opportunities for funding, in line with IDI strategy, across a broad range of funding agencies; and share such information with senior staff.
- Support the development of proposals for funding new projects (primarily non-research) and extensions to existing projects.
- Provide support in tracking compliance to proposal requests and reporting practices.
- Monitor programmatic compliance on selected projects through processing institutional key performance indicators (KPI) reports.
- Schedule team meetings, attend, take minutes and oversee meeting logistics.
- Establish and maintain a manual & electronic filing record keeping system for M&E and Business Development data. For easy storage and retrieval of documents, reports and correspondence related to M&E and Business Development.
- May be required to work closely with the team to support project staff to prepare various reports that will reflect the status of indicators outlined in the M&E plan.
- Any other duties specified by the Manager (Strategic Information and Business Development).
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a Bachelor Degree in Health, Social / Behavioral Sciences, Statistics, Finance, Business or Commerce.
- Field experience
- Good organization skills including ability to track / monitor multiple funding prospects simultaneously.
- Good interpersonal skills including strong verbal and written communication skills.
- High proficiency in the use of Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and spreadsheets.
- Ability to work in a pro-active manner with little supervision.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested applicants should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 28th May 2024
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