Jobs at Malaria Consortium in Uganda - Human Resource Manager

Job Title: Human Resource Manager, Kampala
Closing Date: Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Malaria Consortium is one of the world's leading non-profit organizations dedicated to the comprehensive control of malaria and other communicable diseases in Africa and Southeast Asia. Malaria Consortium works with communities, government and non-government agencies, academic institutions, and local and international organizations , to ensure good evidence supports delivery of effective services, providing technical support for monitoring and evaluation of programmes and activities for evidence-based decision-making and strategic planning. The organization works to improve not only the health of the individual, but also the capacity of national health systems , which helps relieve poverty and support improved economic prosperity.

Malaria Consortium Uganda works with the Ministry of Health and other Non-Governmental Organizations in reducing the burden of childhood illness specifically malaria, pneumonia, diarrhea and other communicable diseases. Our main areas of interventions involve health system strengthening, malaria control through prevention, diagnostics and case management, operational research and advocacy. The organization has continued to strengthen and broaden the scope of its operations in Uganda and has worked in almost every district in the country since its inception in 2004.

As part of the Uganda Management Team the post holder will be accountable for the HR administration, resourcing, succession planning, learning and development, reward and employee relations for the organization, in accordance with Malaria Consortium's Uganda strategic and operational objectives, principles and values. They will also work with the HR Director to roll out Global HR initiatives within Uganda and to ensure head office is kept aware of all HR developments within Uganda.

This is a national position. Only UGANDAN NATIONAL CANDIDATES will be considered for this post.

The successful candidate will have:

    A Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Education or a related discipline
    A post-graduate qualification in Human Resources Management
    At least 4 years' experience working in Human Resources
    Experience in staff training and facilitation
    Experience in general office administration
    Knowledge and experience in international employment, reward and recognition, employee relations and training and development
    A Fluent level in English, excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

    Experience in an NGO environment is not required but will be an advantage.

How to apply:

For more information please visit our website www.malariaconsortium.org where you will have access to the full Job Description. Please send a covering letter outlining how your skills and experience meet the Person Specification along with your CV to Human Resources at HR.Recruitment@malariaconsortium.org. Please quote the position and country in the subject line of your application.

We appreciate your application however, only short listed candidates will be contacted. If you have not been contacted within three weeks of the closing date we regret that your application has been unsuccessful. Please continue, however, to periodically review our website for other suitable opportunities. Thank you for your interest in Malaria Consortium.

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