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Friday, 28 March 2014

Principal Internal Auditor - The Parliamentary Commission of Uganda

Vacancy: Principal Internal Auditor
Recruiting Organisation: The Parliamentary Commission of Uganda
Duty Station: Kampala,
Country: Uganda

Job Summary: The Principal Internal Auditor will mainly be responsible for independent and objective evaluation of the Parliamentary Commission’s operations and processes for conformity with relevant statutory regulations

 Responsibilities:
Participate in developing up to date audit frameworks and tools
Carry out and follow up on all internal audits, including preliminary surveys.
Prepare written post audit reports for submission to the Parliamentary Commission
Ensure compliance and adherence to acceptable audit practices, procedures and standards
Carry out special and forensic investigations and audits.
Conduct audits of computerized accounting systems.
Carry-out risk assessment and propose mitigation strategies
Prepare periodic audit reports.
Supervise and manage performance of subordinate staff.
Perform any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Specialist – Internal Medicine - Nakasero Hospital Limited Uganda

Job Title: Specialist – Internal Medicine
Organisation: Nakasero Hospital Limited (NHL)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Country Uganda
Reports to: Head of Medical Services

About NHL:
Nakasero Hospital Limited (NHL) is a private hospital in Kampala that opened its doors to outpatient treatment in March 2009 and inpatient treatment, the same year. Our mission is to provide quality medical care to patients, to fill the gap which is created by lack of adequate medical facilities in the country.

Key Duties:
Manage all Internal medicine referrals
Run regular outpatient clinics in Internal Medicine
Look after inpatients admitted under their care
Actively collaborate with other Physicians in ensuring 24hr daily coverage of the Department
Review consults coming from other clinical departments and advise the referring clinicians accordingly
Oversee Medical officers, SHOs and other junior staff under their care
Carry out regular chart and mortality audits and advise management on how to improve quality of care
Coordinate CMEs in the department

Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist - International Justice Mission Uganda

Vacancy: Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist
Recruiting Organisation: International Justice Mission (IJM)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Country Uganda

About IJM:
International Justice Mission (IJM) is working to eliminate property grabbing in Uganda by bringing rescue and restoration to individual victims, accountability to their perpetrators, and transformation to the public justice system as a whole.  As Monitoring & Evaluation Specialist, you will help ensure that IJM’s programs have high-quality monitoring and evaluation in order to produce evidence of IJM’s performance and impact. This position is based in Kampala, Uganda with periodic domestic travel, reports to the Field Office Director and collaborates with Monitoring and Evaluation staff based in Washington, DC.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Implement comprehensive and realistic monitoring and evaluation plans complete with appropriate data sources, collection methods, analysis plans, dissemination and use plans, quality controls and resources requirements;
Routinely engage in the development and implementation of baseline, mid-line and end-line evaluations;
Advise program leadership on the development and improvement of core implementation tools (e.g., detailed implementation plans, dashboards, risk management plans, budgets, etc.;
Develop and embed systems to track the collection, review and use of monitoring data;
Coordinate and participate in the collection, reporting and analysis of monitoring data;
Oversee the dissemination of key program monitoring data (organizational dashboard, etc.) to internal and external audiences;


Thursday, 27 March 2014

Learning and Information Management Volunteer - Educate Uganda

Job Title: Learning and Information Management Volunteer

Organisation: Educate!

Duty Station: Kampala,

Country: Uganda



About Educate!:

Educate! is seeking an enthusiastic and passionate Learning and Information Management Volunteer to lead and facilitate the internal research and learning process at Educate! Uganda. Educate! is scaling up to work in 10 new districts and over 200 new schools in Uganda. To effectively inform program design at the stage of scale-up, methodological as well as technical research is of ever increasing importance.



Job Summary: This Learning and Information Management volunteership is a challenging opportunity to get engaged into promoting organizational learning processes as well as developing sustainable information management solutions for a thriving and growing youth development NGO.



Key Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Learning and Research Design:

·         Carry out Learning and Research Needs Assessment on technical or methodological topics within Educate!

·         Design and structure internal learning and research cycles within the M&E Team

·         Propose and design continuous learning and research agenda for the M&E Team

IT Risk & Assurance Staff - Ernst & Young (EY)

Vacancy: IT Risk & Assurance Staff - UGA00008
Organisation: Ernst & Young (EY)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda


Job Summary: The IT Risk & Assurance Staff will be part of the Risk and Assurance team and contribute technically to IT Risk and Assurance client engagements and internal projects. The incumbent will be to actively participating in establishing internal and external relationships. The candidate must also identify potential business opportunities for Ernst & Young within existing engagements, and escalate these as appropriate. Similarly, you'll anticipate and identify risks within engagements and raise any issues with senior members of the team.

 Responsibilities:

Actively participate in IT Risk and Assurance engagements
Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication, and updating senior team members on progress
Participate and assist in preparing for meetings with target management teams
Help prepare reports and schedules that will be delivered to clients and other parties
Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel
Build strong internal relationships within Ernst & Young Advisory Services and with other services across the organization
Actively contribute to people-related initiatives including recruiting and retaining IT Risk and Assurance professionals

Technical Specialist (Global Pulse Lab) - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Vacancy: Technical Specialist (Global Pulse Lab)
Recruiting Organisation: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Project: Global Pulse
Duty Station: Kampala,
Country: Uganda
Reports to: Lab Operations Manager

About Pulse Lab Kampala:
Global Pulse is establishing an innovation hub for real-time monitoring in Kampala. The Lab will function as an open innovation space where policy experts together with UN development practitioners and other partners experiment with new types of data and emerging technologies to evaluate their potential to enhance both public policy decision-making and community resilience. Following the development of useful approaches, Pulse Lab Kampala will support institutional adoption of these innovations into policy and practice.

Job Summary: The Technical Specialist will apply data mining techniques (anomaly detection, association learning, cluster detection, classification, and predictive modeling) to create actionable insights from a broad range of structured and unstructured data that is growing rapidly in scale. The UNDP Data Scientist will be responsible for the acquisition, analysis and visualization of data from a variety of sources in order to i) help understand emerging human vulnerabilities to socio-economic shocks, ii) detect and highlight patterns that could indicate how people are coping with emerging hardship, and iii) gather evidence of changes in behavior and perception correlated with public sector policies and programmes.

Compliance Monitoring Officer - Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited

Vacancy: Compliance Monitoring Officer (CMO)
Recruiting Organization: Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Country: Uganda
Reports to: Principal Investments and Compliance Officer (PICO)

About UEDCL:
Uganda Electricity Distribution Company Limited (UEDCL) is a limited liability company incorporated in Uganda under the Companies Act. UEDCL owns the 33KV and below voltage Electricity distribution network and all the operational assets associated with the business currently leased to Umeme Ltd. The company monitors Umeme Ltd investment, generation and distribution of thermal power in the districts of Moroto, Moyo, Adjumani and Kalangala, operation of the pole plant at Lugogo and execution of some rural electrification schemes and projects on behalf of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources.

Job Summary: The Compliance Monitoring Officer will conduct monitoring and evaluation of UEDCL assets in the concession in accordance with requirements in the Lease and Assignment Agreement

Key Duties:
Carry out scheduled and unscheduled inspections and report on the state of the leased assets and others owned or introduced by UEDCL, hence assess compliance with the Lease and Assignment Agreement (LAA);
Work in liaison with Concessionaire to collect data on a continuous basis and assist in building and monitoring the asset inventory in the Distribution System in line with the asset management policy;
Perform system studies as and when required;