Job Vacancies in Uganda at National Medical Stores

Job Title: Risk Management and Compliance Officer

Reports to General Manager

Purpose of the Job
The office bearer shall work with functional managers in establishing effective risk management in their areas of responsibility. The officer shall have the resources to effect enterprise risk management across departments, functions and activities of the cooperation. He/she shall have the responsibility for monitoring progress and assisting managers in reporting relevant risk information up, down and across NMS.

Key Accountabilities/Key Result Areas;

• Establishing enterprise risk management policies including defining roles and responsibilities and participating in setting goals for implementation

• Framing accountability and authority for enterprise risk management in functional units

• Promoting an enterprise risk management competence through out the organization, including facilitating development of technical enterprise risk management expertise and helping managers align risk responses with NMS risk tolerance.

Qualification and experience
An honors degree in commerce or business Administration, or Bachelor of Science in Finance and Accounting, and a full professional qualification of ACCA, CPA, CIMA or an equivalent.

Experience and Technical skills:

• An understanding of corporate governance requirements
• Project planning and management skills
• Analytical and facilitation skills
• A healthy balance of risk rather than extreme risk taking or avoidance behaviors.

Job Title: Procurement Assistant
Reports to: Procurement Officer

Purpose of the Job
To perform procurement related activities to ensure that the corporation has adequate non trading stock that support execution of the core mandate of the cooperation. Non trading stock is stock other than medicines and other medical supplies

Key accountabilities/ key Result areas

• To prepare standard bidding documents and PPDA submission forms for procurement activities.
• To prepare notifications of award and contract documents for review and approval
• To work closely with the managers in tracking delivery schedules of supplies , works, and services in order to enforce compliance with contract term

Qualifications and Experience

• A diploma of pharmacy from a reorganized University
• 2 years Experience in procurement from reputable organization
  
• Must be conversant with computer applications
  

Job Title: Research Assistant
Reports to: Research and Development Officer

Key Result Areas/ Key Accountabilities

• To develop research proposals
• To conduct research on relevant subjects to enable management to take appropriate and informed decisions
• To develop data collection instruments
• To collect/ participate in data collection

Personal Specification( Skills and Qualifications)

• An honors degree with specialization in statistics from a recognized Institution.
• A minimum of two years work experience in conducting research
• Ability to analyze and interpret primary raw data.
• Ability to work independently with minimum supervision
• computer literate in SPSS/ STATA soft ware packages

Job Title: Driver/ Dispatch Assistant
Reports to Transport and Logistics Assistant

Purpose of the Job
To ensure that medicines and medical supplies are safely delivered to the health facilities

Key Result areas/ Accountabilities

• To transport and safely deliver medicines and other medical supplies to customers as per the set dispatch procedures.
• To receive, register supplies from stores into dispatch warehouse and arrange for their dispatch in accordance with NMS recommended ware house lay out.
• To supervise the loading of supplies in line with the set departmental guidelines

Required Competence

• Able to read a map/ route guide
• Excellent knowledge of traffic laws
• Requires knowledge of vehicle maintenance and operation
• Must have a positive and upbeat attitude, even in heavy traffic and unusual driving conditions
• Must be hard working and self motivated

• Must have excellent verbal and communication skills

Qualification and Experience

• A minimum of Uganda Certificate of Education
• A valid driving permit of class CH
• Minimum of three (3) years clean driving experience including heavy commercial vehicles.

How to Apply
Interested candidates should submit their CVs with written applications specifying the position one is applying for and giving three referees with their full time telephone contacts and postal addresses indicated on the application letter. Photocopies of academic documents should be attached.

All applications should be addressed to the
Head of Human Resource and Support Services,
National Medical Stores,
P.O Box 16, Entebbe

Deadline 5:00pm on Friday ,29th August, 2011.