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.
• Manage 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.
• Provide 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 closely with the Secretary General,
  position URCS as the partner of choice in relevant context with partners
  and donors identified through mapping.
• Actively 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.
• Actively 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.
• The Director Health Services will 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 Director Health Services job vacancy should hold a Master’s degree
  in Public Health care, Post Graduate Diploma in Public Health and or
  primary health care. The applicant must also 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.
• Five years’ experience at senior management
  level
• Significant experience in capacity building,
  facilitation of multi-stakeholder processes, organizational learning, and
  change management processes
• Broad working 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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