PRINCIPAL EXAMINATIONS OFFICER Job, Uganda

POST:PRINCIPAL EXAMINATIONS OFFICER

The position reports to the Deputy Executive Secretary

Qualifications:
The suitable candidate for the position shall be a professional in the Nursing profession having M.Sc. (Nursing) Degree with a Diploma in Medical Education, He/She should have good communication and leadership skills and should be able to demonstrate professional competence and administrative ability in handling examinations matters.
,He/She should possess a minimum of at least five years experience at management level in a nurse or midwifery training institution, and at least five years at senior level in managing the nurses and midwifery final national examinations.

Duties and responsibilities:
The duties and responsibilities of the position are to;
• coordinate the setting, conduct, and compilation of results of examination for Nurses and midwives
• coordinate the processes of award and release of results;
• communicate examination processes and results to stakeholders;
• set up and maintain a nurses and midwifery examinations question data bank;
• ensure past nurses and midwifery examination papers are published; and
• perform any other duty assigned by supervisors published; and perform any other duty assigned by supervisors.

Remuneration:
UNMEB offers attractive packages to its employees.
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Instructions for Applying

Interested candidates should submit hand written applications attaching detailed curriculum vitae, also indicating their day time telephone contacts and three referees and their contacts to the address below not later than- 10th September 2010:

The Executive Secretary,
Uganda Nurses and Midwives Examinations Board,
Development House,
Parliament Avenue, Floor 3, Room,
P. O. Box 7063,
KAMPALA.

Candidates may also hand deliver applications to the above address.

N.B: Applicants, who will not have been contacted by 1st October 2010, should consider their applications unsuccessful. UNMEB will not contact unsuccessful candidates after the selection exercise.