The Ugandan Jobline

• Effectively lead and line manage the
  country Executive Management Team (EMT), developing both individual and
  team capacity, providing clear strategic direction to managers and team
  members
• Work collaboratively with the East and
  Africa Regional Support Team (RST), enabling capacity building and sharing
  best practice within the region
• Lead MSI’s vision and manage the short,
  medium and long term plans; simplifying the complexity for themselves and
  others
• Instil a positive MSI management culture
  and social business approach across the team, constantly seeking feedback
  and continual improvement
• Improve operations by strengthening
  capacity, building high performance teams, identifying and promoting
  talent, managing performance
• Ensure human resource policy and processes
  and procedures are in line with best practice and local legislation

• Ensure that the programme is equipped to
  work towards the goals set out in the country programme ‘Scaling up
  Excellence’ 2020 strategy
• Lead country programme subsequent
  strategic and annual business planning processes
• Plan and implement strategies for
  delivering sustainable growth
• Position MSI as a sector leader
  contributing to national strategy and goals
• Deliver a comprehensive country marketing
  strategy and plan to build the brand of choice by using robust audience
  data, competitor analysis and other market data
• Deliver a robust business model ensuring
  the on-going growth of healthy income streams including innovative
  financing, earned income and more traditional grant resources

• Build and maintain strong partnerships
  with government, health professionals, businesses, peer agencies and the
  community
• Build relationships with traditional and
  non-traditional donor representatives, including domestic financing
  stakeholders. Ensure the development of strong new business proposals  in collaboration with the London based
  Programme Design and Development (PDD) team
• Deliver an organisational structure that
  supports increasing efficiency of operations regardless of their funding
  modalities.

• Lead the adoption of innovative solutions,
  such as MSI Channel,Youth & Adolescent, Project Cycle Management (PCM)
  ‘Success Models’, to improve productivity 
  and increase effectiveness of delivery channels
• Promote evidence-based decision making and
  support operational research to better understand our clients and barriers
  to access
• Ensure robust systems and processes are in
  place, such as strong compliance with MSI’s service data validation minimum
  standards, to support operations, drive productivity and deliver results
• Ensure clinical quality of care is
  maintained at all times; supports quality assurance processes and leads
  Medical Advisory Team meetings for continuous clinical quality improvement
• Ensure complete donor contractual
  compliance at every stage of the project cycle and ensure all project
  management staff are trained on and follow the MSI PCM rules and
  recommendations

• Improve the bottom line through the
  following:-
• Revenue growth and optimising
  earned income from selected MSI outlets
• Increased efficiency of
  operations and sound financial management
• Sustained surplus of the
  activities that are implemented under the social business model.
• Base strategic and annual business plans
  on accurate financial and statistical performance data
• Ensure strong financial management and
  robust internal controls are in place and that the programme adheres to
  local statutory obligations, MSI minimum standards and international
  development donor requirements
• Meet governance requirements of the
  country programme entity/entities
• Represent MSI on the Board of the local
  organization
• Ensure that externally funded operations
  and use of funds are in full compliance with donor regulations
• Ensure compliance with MSI anti-fraud and
  bribery (AFB) policies and procedures.

• Ensure the programme fully meets duty of
  care requirements and operates within MSI’s Global Security Framework
• Ensure that team members and visitors
  receive full in-country briefings covering the context, risks and security
  rules

• Foster and maintain close relationship
  with the Ministry of Health and the relevant agencies of the Government of
  Uganda
• Promote One MSI, encouraging cooperation
  and supporting learning across the partnership
• Ensure the MSI Partnership Manual
  guidelines are observed, meeting MSI best practice and minimum standards
• Actively participate in regional and
  international meetings of the MSI Global Partnership

• The applicant must hold a relevant
  post-graduate qualification e.g. MBA, MSc, MA (desirable)
• Project Management (Prince 2 desirable)
• The applicant should have significant
  general management experience in operationally demanding and challenging
  environments (to include staff recruitment, training and supervision of
  teams)
• Proven experience of change management,
  including identifying required change, leading the change programme and
  ensuring change is embedded and sustained
• Designed and delivered strategic and
  annual business plans
• Experience of income generation through
  donor funding and/or commercial activities and in delivering proven
  results by making informed decisions with the use of management
  information
• Financial management experience, including
  internal controls and accountability: Ideally the individual will have
  managed a P&L at minimum experience managing and improving the bottom
  line
• Demonstrable experience of generating,
  tracking and analysing management information and client data to inform
  management decision-making
• Previous experience identifying and
  sharing best practice and encouraging innovation within dispersed teams
• Proven experience of building lasting
  relationships with key external stakeholders, e.g. government or donor
  stakeholders in order to deliver tangible results for the organisation
  (for example, previous fundraising success).
• Experience of business development
  including developing and writing compelling tender proposals
• Board Management experience: Experience
  of building a brand into a brand of choice (including experience in FMCG
  or other private sector experience)
• Fluent written and spoken English

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