Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Reporting directly to the Executive Director, the Country Director is responsible for the day-to-day management of the rural health clinic and coordination of the outreach teams (malaria education, family planning, and malnutrition) – helping to manage a team of 34 staff (clinic health workers, outreach workers, and general clinic staff). You will have two direct reports: the Clinic Manager, currently Dr. Charles Kalumuna (who in turn is responsible for the direct line management of the clinic, outreach and general staff); and, the Management Assistant.
Responsibilities:
- Working alongside the Clinic Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the clinic has the appropriate levels of medicine, lab supplies, vaccines, family planning supplies, and office supplies.
- Working with the nursing staff to coordinate the family planning schedules, and quarterly Marie Stopes family planning sessions at our clinic.
- Liaising with the malaria outreach team to schedule malaria education sessions and follow-up visits, including fielding emails and phone calls from other organizations/community leaders requesting malaria education.
- Liaising with the malaria outreach team to ensure that follow-up data is input and kept up to date.
- Working alongside Clinic Manager to ensure that monthly/quarterly reports are completed and sent to Executive Director on a timely basis.
- Keeping track of field patients and their medical progress. Working with the Clinic Manager to agree on which patients are to receive further treatment outside of the clinic capabilities.
- Paying bills, processing payroll, filing monthly payroll taxes, doing general accounting for the NGO, and filing the annual audit in Uganda.
- Working alongside the Clinic Manager to resolve any personnel or disciplinary issues.
Qualifications/ Work Experience:
- A minimum of five years’ work experience in a professional environment, including two years’ management experience.
- Proven people-management skills, ideally (but not essential) in a medical environment.
- Experience working for NGOs in developing countries.
- Some proven knowledge of book keeping/accounting.
- Educated to University level, desired but not essential.
Job Specific Skills:
- Must be adept in use of MS Office 2000 or later, particularly Excel and Word, and also Internet and email.
- Able to understand restrictions in funding as an NGO and to be aware of financial implications of spending, at all times.
- Able to balance accounts – money coming in against money going out.
- Able to keep financial records of all bank accounts, clinic accounts, and staff (where appropriate) expenditure
Personal Attributes:
- Self-driven, results-oriented with a positive outlook, and a clear focus on a high quality health service, whilst being constantly aware of budgetary restrictions.
- A natural forward planner who is able to take, and give, constructive criticism.
- Mature, fair, and comfortable in dealing with all staff, and able to adjust management style in accordance to different personalities on the team.
- Reliable, tolerant, determined and thorough.
A good communicator, and able to see things from the other person’s point of view. Must be an excellent face-to-face and telephone communicator.
Soft Power Mukagwa Allan Stone Community Health
About Soft Power Health
Soft Power Health was founded in 2004 by Dr. Jessie Stone. A member of the US Freestyle Kayak Team and a medical doctor, Jessie founded Soft Power Health to provide malaria education, prevention and control for the people of Uganda.
The Clinic
The Allan Stone Community Health Clinic in Kyabirwa, Uganda on the banks of the Nile River, opened its doors on January 19th, 2006 and has been growing ever since. Soft Power Health Doctors and Nurses give care to isolated communities throughout Uganda. Clinic Staff see upwards of 50 people a day and malaria is the number one disease we treat. We have seen the numbers increase steadily over the last few years, so that on busy days we see over 100 patients. In February 2011 we opened the Mother and Child Wellness Center to provide all methods of family planning, vaccinations and treatment of malnutrition. In addition, we often send patients that we cannot treat at our clinic, for further medical attention to clinics in Jinja and Kampala.
Outreach Programs
Malaria Education – Our malaria program offers education and prevention to rural Ugandan communities, helping people to help themselves reduce the incidence of malaria in their lives. This program provides basic education about malaria, the sale of subsidized mosquito nets, and follow-up visits to net buyers’ homes.
Family Planning - Our three family planning teams work in 40 villages. The teams consist of nurses and local educators and provide education on family planning and administration of family planning services in the field. The teams follow up in these same villages every three months. At our Mother and Child Wellness Center next to our primary health clinic, we also offer women all methods of birth control from permanent to short-term.
Malnutrition - Our malnutrition education and prevention program provides basic education to local communities about nutrition and malnutrition. The program goal is to help combat the underappreciated problem of malnutrition as a serious and life-threatening condition.
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