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Thursday, 6 October 2016

UN jobs Operations Manager - United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

 Job Title: 
Operations Manager
Organization:
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nations’ global development network.  UNDP advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. The UNDP provides expert advice, training, grant support to developing countries including Uganda with increasing emphasis on assistance to the least developed countries.

Job Summary: The Operations Manager provides advice on all aspects of the CO operations. The Operations Manager assists the DCD-O in the effective management and oversight of all operational activities by directly supervising Finance, Human Resource, Procurement & Logistics, ICT, and general administrative services as well as contributing to the planning and management of common services. The main role is to monitor and coordinate the day to day business of the Operations section, ensuring coherent functioning of the various units while at the same time contributing ideas to the redesign of existing systems to take into account changes in the operating environment as and when needed. The Operations Manager works with information from programme and project teams in the Country Office (CO), operations staff in other UN Agencies, UNDP HQ’s staff and Government officials to successfully deliver operations services

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Contributing to the strategic planning of operations focusing on achievement of the following results:
·         Ensure compliance of operations with UN/UNDP rules, regulations and policies, implementation of corporate operational strategies, establishment of management targets and monitoring of achievement of results;
·         CO business processes mapping and establishment of internal Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in Finance, Human Resources Management, Procurement, Logistical and ICT services;
·         In charge of constant monitoring and analysis of the operating environment, timely readjustment of the operations, advice on legal considerations and risk assessment;
·         Knowledge building and sharing with regards to management and operations in the CO, organization of the operations staff trainings, synthesis of lessons learnt/best practices, and sound contributions to UNDP knowledge networks and communities of practice.
Effective supervision of the Finance function focusing on achievement of the following results:
·         In charge of the proper planning, expenditure tracking and audit of financial resources, including extra-budgetary income in accordance with UNDP rules and regulations;
·         Organization of cost-recovery mechanisms for the CO services provided to projects and UN Agencies, including ensuring preparation of proforma invoices for UN agencies;
·         Responsible for the organization and oversight of the CO cash management processes, including liquidity management, recommendation of imprest level, risk assessment, bank relationship management; timely accounting and reconciliation of all transactions, security for cash assets on site;
·         Member of bank signatory panel;
·         Transaction and stop payment approval on internet banking system.
Effective supervision of the HR function focusing on achievement of the following results:
·         Ensure CO compliance with corporate human resources policies and strategies;
·         Optimal staffing of the office and projects;
·         Management of recruitment processes in accordance with UNDP rules and regulations, appropriate use of different contractual modalities, contracts management, OM performing the function of HR Manager in Atlas (UNDP ERP system);

Administrative Assistant (Station and Region) - Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA)

 Job Title: 
Administrative Assistant (Station and Region)
Organisation:
Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA)
Duty Station: 
Kampala, Uganda

The Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) was established by an Act of Parliament; The Uganda National Authority Act, No. 15 of 2006. UNRA became operational on 1st July 2008.  The mandate of UNRA is to develop and maintain the national roads network, advise Government on general roads policy and contribute to addressing of transport concerns, among others.

Job Summary: The Administrative Assistant (Stations and Regions) will perform administrative duties at Stations and Regions. Some of the key responsibilities will include receiving and screening calls; managing calendars; meeting and event arrangements; preparing reports, filing of documents, customer relations. The Administrative Assistant will also be responsible for drafting, typing, routing and following up on correspondences; providing historical reference by developing and utilizing filing and retrieval systems including recording meeting discussions and managing and accounting for imprest at Stations.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

    Conduct administrative functions at regions and stations and serve as the primary point of administrative contact at the station and liaise with other offices, individuals, and institutions on operational and programmatic matters concerning the office.
    Organize and facilitate meetings, conferences, workshops and other special events and participate in the preparation of documents for the same as and when requested;

(100 Jobs) Business Consultants - IAA-Resolution

 Job Title: 
 Business Consultant (100 Jobs)
Organisation:
  IAA-Resolution
Duty Station:
 Kampala, Uganda

IAA-Resolution, which is a new division of IAA Healthcare in partnership with Resolution Health East Africa, provides new health insurance products that give access to over 750 hospitals and clinics across East Africa, backed by global standard healthcare expertise and the best quality service in the industry.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

The Business Consultants will be responsible for the following:
·         In charge of the planning and prioritizing personal sales activities geared towards achieving agreed business targets
·         Build and maintain working relationships with clients on behalf of the company by providing fast and quality service.
·         Conserve and develop new customers through appropriate prospecting sales methods, and relevant internal liaison, to optimize quality of service, business growth, and customer satisfaction;
·         Provide financial advice to clients according to their requirements and risk profile, as well as the performance of the specific portfolios
·         Quickly respond to and follow up sales inquiries
·         Regularly report on weekly sales according to organization requirements.

World Bank Program Officer Job

World Bank Program Officer Job Careers - Makerere University Regional Center for Crop Improvement (MaRCCI)
Job Title: 
Program Officer
Organization:
Makerere University Regional Center for Crop Improvement (MaRCCI)
Duty Station:
Kampala, Uganda

About Us:
The World Bank is funding a USD 6-million Makerere University Regional Center For Crop Improvement (MaRCCI). The goal of MaRCCI is to strengthen Makerere University to deliver quality post-graduate education in Crop Improvement and build collaborative research capacity in the regional priority areas.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
·         Ensure good communication between the stockholders and the smooth running of the administration.
·         The Program Officer will ensure the production and presentation of detailed Progress and Technical Reports for each of the projects of the Center of Excellence.
·         Participating in the formation of Strategic Management Plans, including development of annual work plans and budgets.
·         Coordinating, scheduling and conducting all field and station activities, events and meetings of the Center of Excellence including minute taking.
·         In charge of participating in national and regional meetings and workshops.
·         Responsible for Logistics and operationalisation of all travel plans of all staff of the Center and collaborators.
·         Ensure that office equipment like computers, printers, faxes, photocopiers, scanners are services and maintained in good working condition.
·         Taking a pro-active approach in identifying and reporting any problems at the Center of Excellence to the Team Leader/Director, MaRCCI.
·         Work closely with the Team Leader/Director, Center of Excellence, the Collaborators and the public.
·         Serves as a Secretary to the Center of Excellence meetings and to follow up on agreed decisions.
·         Perform any other duty as assigned by the Team Leader/ Director, MaRCCI.

Thursday, 29 September 2016

Easy Job Finder Uganda: 645 Fresher Sales Officer Jobs - SolarNow

Easy Job Finder Uganda: 645 Fresher Sales Officer Jobs - SolarNow:                          SALES OFFICERS NEEDED - SOLARNOW Organisation: SolarNow Duty Station: Arua, Bugiri, Busia, Bukwo, Bundibugyo, Fortp...

Friday, 30 May 2014

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

Treasury Analyst - Hima Cement Limited Uganda

Job Title: Treasury Analyst
Organisation: Hima Cement Limited
Duty Station:  Kampala,
Country: Uganda
Reports to: Treasury Manager
                                                                                                         
About Hima:
NFT Consult, a leading HR Consultancy firm, seeks to recruit for it valuable client,
Hima Cement Limited (HCL) is a cement manufacturer in Uganda. Hima Cement Limited is 70% owned by LaFarge, the construction materials manufacturer based in France. Hima Cement Limited is the second-largest manufacturer of cement in Uganda, producing an estimated 850,000 metric tonnes annually. The leading cement manufacturer in the country, Tororo Cement Limited, has a production capacity of over 1 million metric tonnes annually.

Job Summary: The Treasury Analyst will be responsible for activities such as forecasting & reporting on Hima treasury positions (liquidity, interest, foreign exchange, off balance sheet and so on) to support the process of decision making in the treasury function, as well as the posting and reconciliation of Hima bank accounts and actioning any accompanying transactions

Operations Data Analyst - Hima Cement Limited Uganda

Vacancy: Operations Data Analyst
Organisation: Hima Cement Limited
Duty Station:  Kasese,
Country Uganda
Reports to: Plant Controller

About Hima:
NFT Consult, a leading HR Consultancy firm, seeks to recruit for it valuable client,
Hima Cement Limited (HCL) is a cement manufacturer in Uganda. Hima Cement Limited is 70% owned by LaFarge, the construction materials manufacturer based in France. Hima Cement Limited is the second-largest manufacturer of cement in Uganda, producing an estimated 850,000 metric tonnes annually. The leading cement manufacturer in the country, Tororo Cement Limited, has a production capacity of over 1 million metric tonnes annually.

Job Summary: The Operations Data Analyst is responsible for analyzing plant performance, supporting the overall plant production efficiency and cost optimization. The role is the plant’s focal point on supporting the effectiveness of performance analysis, forecasting, budgeting and strategic planning (including Performance Improvement Plans)

Regional Logistics Manager - NFT Consult Uganda

Vacancy: Regional Logistics Manager
Organisation: NFT Consult
Duty Station:  Kampala,
Country Uganda

About Us:
NFT Consult, a leading HR Consultancy firm, seeks to recruit for it valuable client, a value added timber products business with operations in Mozambique, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda and the largest commercial timber species planter in East Africa. The business is growing rapidly and there is a large focus on diversifying product streams, broadening the customer base, and ratcheting the commercial side of the business and the organization's market positioning.

Job Summary: The incumbent will primarily be responsible for all regional logistics across the East African Region.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Offer a coherent understanding of the logistics industry in the EAC region – transporter networks, rates, shipping across Lake Victoria, clearing across borders, etc
To provide a rolling transport forecast based on supporting the sales plan
To instill documented processes into the business per transport lane
Execute the relevant logistics plan within cost and service parameters and through liaising with the various HoDs

Anti-Money Laundering Analyst - Barclays Bank Uganda

Vacancy:  Anti-Money Laundering Analyst (BA2) - 00159734
Organisation: Barclays Bank
Duty Station:  Kampala,
Country: Uganda

About Barclays:
Barclays moves, lends, invests and protects money for customers and clients worldwide.  With over 300 years of history and expertise in banking, we operate in over 50 countries and employ over 140,000 people.

Barclays Bank provides large corporate, government and institutional clients with a full spectrum of solutions to their strategic advisory, financing and risk management needs.
We provide corporate banking solutions to businesses with an annual turnover of more than £5 million in the UK, and to large local companies, financial institutions and multinationals in non-UK markets. We support the success and growth of our clients by providing lending, risk management, cash and liquidity management, trade finance, and asset and sales financing loans, financing, risk management, strategic advice and transactional payments support corporate clients to achieve growth and job creation in the real economy, governments to deliver their stability and growth plans, and institutions to meet the long-term investment needs of their clients.

Job Summary: The Anti-Money Laundering Analyst will primarily;
Support the Country MLRO in implementing a robust AML/ KYC, ABC and Sanctions Regime.
Implement AML compliance processes and methodology as prescribed in the group policy and Country CIPP.
Enforce strong KYC standards, commensurate with the country’s local conditions
Take lead in the review and monitoring of suspicious transactions and AML Alerts in accordance with the requirements of Barclays Africa framework and local standards.

Head of Operations - NC Bank Uganda

Vacancy: Head of Operations
Recruiting Organisation: NC Bank
Duty Station: Kampala,
Country: Uganda
Reports to: Managing Director

About NC Bank:
NC Bank Uganda Limited was incorporated in Uganda on 8th August 2011 and approved as a Commercial Bank (Class 1) by Bank of Uganda on 8th February 2012. The Bank is authorized to carry out financial services business as defined in the FI Act 2004 and Finance and Operating Leases. NIC Bank started operations on 1st June 2012 and its authorized place of business is plot 4/6 Nakasero Road on Rwenzori Towers. The Bank is a fully owned by NIC Bank Limited in Kenya.

Job Summary: The incumbent will be primarily responsible for the strategic direction and management of the branches and Bank’s operations function.

Responsibilities:
Drive, develop and motivate high performance in the branch (s) and ensure that the teams are committed to achieving success throughout the Branch (s).
Provide strategic leadership to the operations department and guide all its activities to support the Bank's growth strategies and achieve projected business results.
Design the operational risk management framework for the operations department and supervise activities to ensure that the risks associated with the Bank's operational activities are acceptable and well mitigated.

Wireline Repair and Maintenance Technician - Electro Mechanical - Baker Hughes

vacancy : Wireline Repair and Maintenance Technician - Electro Mechanical
Organisation: Baker Hughes
Duty Station:  Kampala, Uganda
Job Number: 1414046

About Baker Hughes:
Baker Hughes is a leading supplier of oilfield services, products, technology and systems to the worldwide oil and natural gas industry. By being the service company that best anticipates, understands and exceeds our customers' expectations, Baker Hughes Advances Reservoir Performance. The company's 60,000-plus employees work in more than 80 countries in geomarket teams that help customers find, evaluate, drill, produce, transport and process hydrocarbon resources. Baker Hughes' technology centers in the world's leading energy markets are pushing the boundaries to overcome progressively more complex challenges. Baker Hughes develops solutions designed to help manage operating expenses, maximize reserve recovery and boost overall return on investment through the entire life cycle of an oil or gas asset. Collaboration is the foundation upon which Baker Hughes builds our business and develops next-generation products and services for drilling and evaluation, completions and production and fluids and chemicals.

Finance Assistant - United Nations Regional Service Centre

Vacancy: Finance Assistant
Recruiting Organization: United Nations Regional Service Centre Entebbe (RSCE)
Duty Station: Entebbe,
Country Uganda
Grade: GL-4
Vacancy Announcement Number: RSCE-2014-GS-HRS-003
Reports to: Service Line Manager

About RSCE:
The Regional Service Centre Steering Committee is the decision-making body for RSCE, in compliance with General Assembly resolutions, United Nations Secretariat rules and regulations, strategic guidance from United Nations Headquarters and oversight bodies. The Steering Committee consults with the Global Field Support Strategy Implementation Coordination Team, as required.

The Regional Service Centre, as approved by the Member States, is owned, managed and staffed by the regional missions it serves. This framework reinforces the existing missions’ chain of command structures and lines of authority in a manner that does not create an additional layer between Headquarters and the regional missions. It also ensures that staffing for RSCE will be achieved through the redeployment of resources from the regional missions it serves.

Thursday, 29 May 2014

Sales and Marketing Manager - NFT Consult Uganda

Job Title: Sales and Marketing Manager
Organisation: NFT Consult
Duty Station:  Kampala,
Country: Uganda

About Us:
NFT Consult, a leading HR Consultancy firm, seeks to recruit for it valuable client, a value added timber products business with operations in Mozambique, Tanzania, Rwanda and Uganda and the largest commercial timber species planter in East Africa. The business is growing rapidly and there is a large focus on diversifying product streams, broadening the customer base, and ratcheting the commercial side of the business and the organization's market positioning.

Job Summary: The Sales and Marketing manager is responsible for developing, implementing and maintaining the sales and marketing plan that includes branding and communications, products and services in addition to pricing to ensure the company achieves its KPIs in a cost efficient manner.

 Responsibilities:
Offer a coherent understanding of the sawn lumber and charcoal and biomass markets in Uganda
To maximize sales of both product streams
To provide in depth pricing and competitor intelligence and related market analysis
To draw up and implement a marketing plan for the product lines
Contribute and implement the Go to Market and channel strategies for the East African region.
Propose and deliver sales targets based on current strategy and business plans.
Develop campaign plans and Key Account plans, including channels, influencers and other demand creators.

Human Resources Management Team Leader - IntraHealth International

Vacancy: Human Resources Management Team Leader
Recruiting Organisation: IntraHealth International
Project Funding Source: United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Country: Uganda
Reports to: Deputy Chief of Party
Job Requisition Number: 14-0034

About IntraHealth:
For over 30 years, in more than 90 countries, IntraHealth International has empowered health workers to better serve communities in need. IntraHealth fosters local solutions to health care challenges by improving health worker performance, strengthening health systems, harnessing technology, and leveraging partnerships.

In collaboration with governments, nongovernmental organizations, and private-sector organizations around the world, IntraHealth champions the needs and contributions of health workers—from doctors and nurses to community health workers to health facility managers—and works to ensure they have the tools, supplies, information, training, and support they need to provide communities they serve with the best possible opportunity for health and well-being.

 Responsibilities:
Support the national and regional country-level counterparts and stakeholders in reviewing, designing and strengthening systems such as HRH assessments, recruiting, deployment and performance management systems .

Assistant Environment Officer - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Uganda

Vacancy: Assistant Environment Officer
Recruiting Organisation: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Position No.: 10022185
Reports to: Associate Field Officer
Vacancy Notice: 11/2014
Duty Station: Adjumani,
Country: Uganda
Post Grade: NOA

About UNHCR:
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. UNHCR’s mandate under the Statute of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is to lead and co-ordinate action for international protection to refugees; seek permanent solutions for the problems of refugees and safeguard refugee rights and well-being. UNHCR has an additional mandate concerning issues of statelessness, as it is given a designated role under Article 11 of the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

Job Summary: The Assistant Environment Officer will primarily;
Offer technical guidance to UNHCR offices in establishing partnerships with government ministries, NGOs, other UN agencies donors and coordinate responses to refugee-related environmental damages in the country.
Technically guide and develop project proposals and to support programme implementation of environmental and self-reliance projects.
UNHCR management is assisted in establishing coordination, monitoring and evaluation systems, including information sharing mechanisms regarding environment, energy sources and livelihood.

 Responsibilities:
Work closely with the relevant stakeholders, support the office in undertaking regular assessments on environmental conditions in refugee- hosting areas and measure the extent to which those conditions are affected by the presence of refugee camps; collect and update data on main areas of environment, energy, livelihood and shelters and identify means to mitigate the impact on natural resources. Define main areas of environmental concern (e.g. deforestation, rangeland degradation, soil erosion, water conservation, etc.).
Conduct an assessment of the current domestic energy situation in the refugee camps together with the concerned persons.

Project Manager - United Nations Development Programme Uganda

Vacancy: Project Manager
Recruiting Organisation: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Country: Uganda
Post Level:  SC-4

About UNDP:
As the UN system's development programme and a GEF Implementing Agency since 1991, UNDP supports countries in addressing development, climate, and ecosystem sustainability in an integrated manner.  As a GEF Implementing Agency, UNDP-GEF further offers countries highly specialized technical services for programme/project formulation, due diligence, mobilization of required co-financing, project implementation oversight, results management and evaluation, performance-based payments and knowledge management. UNDP-GEF’s Green, Low-emission, Climate-resilient Development Strategies team works to support countries to attract and direct public and private investment towards catalyzing and supporting sustainable economic growth through initiatives focused on integrated Climate Change Strategies, Advancing Cross-sectoral Climate Resilient Livelihoods and Strengthening Climate Information and addressing barriers to Climate Resilient Development.

Programme Support Assistant - GOAL Uganda

Vacancy: Programme Support Assistant
Recruiting Organisation: GOAL Uganda
Duty Station:  Kampala,
Country: Uganda
Reports to: Assistant Country Director - Programmes

About GOAL:
GOAL Uganda is currently implementing Livelihoods, WASH and ACT Health programmes across several districts in Uganda. We are seeking a highly motivated assistant to support the Assistant Country Director (Programmes) in the administration of programme implementation.

Job Summary: The Programme Support Assistant will be primarily responsible for overseeing the change management processes and collating change requests from programme staff for presentation to SMT, and recording and communicating decision outcomes on any Change Requests. The Programme Support Assistant will also be responsible for tracking donor/logframe report development to ensure reports are compiled according to the agreed schedule and will conduct the first review to check formatting and data accuracy. The incumbent will also maintain the overall programme schedule and undertake any other administrative duties requested of them by the ACD-Programmes.

 Responsibilities:
Actively monitor and review the progress of projects within the overall programme, developing and maintaining the overall programme schedule ensuring updates from the field teams are incorporated.
Coordinate change control processes within GOAL Uganda for the purpose of an integrated working programme
Making sure there is an accurate log of change requests is maintained and that requests and decisions on requests are communicated to the appropriate audiences.
Maintain and monitor the donor report tracker and follow up report development progress with the field teams to ensure that they are delivered on time

Senior Roving Logistics Officer - Save the Children Uganda

Vacancy: Senior Roving Logistics Officer
Recruiting Organisation: Save the Children
Duty Station: Kampala,
Country: Uganda

About Us:
Save the Children is the world’s leading independent organization for children and has program presence in over 120 countries in the world. Save the Children envisions a Uganda in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives. We strive to create impact for children by delivering our Programmes through partnerships, by being innovative, by acting as the voice for and of children, and by achieving results at scale.  In Uganda, we implement programmes in six thematic programme areas of Child Protection, Child Rights Governance, Education, Livelihoods & Food Security, Health, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS in development and emergency contexts. Save the Children delivers programs in over 36 districts in the North, Rwenzori, North-Eastern and Central regions of Uganda, Currently, Save the Children has a staff complement of over 200 persons. We save children’s lives. We fight for their rights. We help them fulfil their potential. In 2013, we reached over 143 million children through our work around 52m directly and 91 million indirectly around the world.

Job Summary: The Senior Roving Logistics Officer will support the Fleet and Logistics Manager to develop the overall capacity and performance of the logistics function. The position holder travels extensively and is responsible for providing technical support to head office and field teams in areas of procurement, fleet management and warehousing on a need basis. The Senior Officer may be called upon as and when necessary to support the emergency team in cases of humanitarian crisis.

Administrative Assistant - United Nations Regional Service Centre Entebbe Uganda

Vacancy: Administrative Assistant
Recruiting Organization: United Nations Regional Service Centre Entebbe (RSCE)
Duty Station: Entebbe,
Country: Uganda
Grade: GL-4
Vacancy Announcement Number: RSCE-2014-GS-HRS-002

About RSCE:
The Regional Service Centre Steering Committee is the decision-making body for RSCE, in compliance with General Assembly resolutions, United Nations Secretariat rules and regulations, strategic guidance from United Nations Headquarters and oversight bodies. The Steering Committee consults with the Global Field Support Strategy Implementation Coordination Team, as required.

The Regional Service Centre, as approved by the Member States, is owned, managed and staffed by the regional missions it serves. This framework reinforces the existing missions’ chain of command structures and lines of authority in a manner that does not create an additional layer between Headquarters and the regional missions. It also ensures that staffing for RSCE will be achieved through the redeployment of resources from the regional missions it serves.

Responsibilities:
1. Budget and Finance:
Assists in the preparation and review of financial and human resource proposals/requirements.
Assist in the monitoring of expenditures and compares with approved budget; review adjustments as necessary.
Supports managers in the elaboration of resource requirements for budget submissions.
Pro-actively co-ordinates with other finance and budget staff on related issues during preparation of budget reports.