Global Health Corps Country Manager Jobs in Uganda
Global Health Corps Country Manager Jobs in Uganda
Global Health Corps (GHC) mobilizes a global community of emerging leaders to build the movement for health equity.
GHC believes young leaders with diverse backgrounds and a deep commitment to collaboration, innovation, and social justice are going to revolutionize how the world tackles its toughest health challenges.
Through a competitive recruitment process, we identify daring and innovative university graduates and early- to mid-career professionals from around the world and pair them with amazing partner organizations and government agencies in the US, East Africa, and Southern Africa.
Our fellows spend a year in their placement devoting their unstoppable energy to making the world a healthier place for all people, everywhere.
Fellows convene throughout the year for additional training, community building, leadership development, and mentorship in order to become audacious, resilient, and highly-networked changemakers. Since its founding in 2009, GHC has supported over 1000 fellows working at various levels of the health system, across issue areas and across continents.
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The Candidate
The Country Manager is responsible for providing dedicated support to our staff, fellows, alumni and partner organizations in Uganda.
The Country Manager oversees all fellow and alumni leadership programming, including the coordination of local, regional and organization-wide training events.
The Country Manager is also responsible for the day-to-day management of the country office, including fiscal oversight, facilities management and other administrative responsibilities.
They will collaborate closely with colleagues across the organization (selection, programs, communications, development, people) in order to effectively manage the country office and programs.
The position reports to the Vice President of Programs.
This position requires exceptional passion for our work and the ability to thrive in a dynamic work environment.
Responsibilities
Fellow Programming and Support
Oversee fellowship logistics (e.g. housing, financial, travel)
Manage recruitment efforts and selection process for new fellows
Oversee fellow on-boarding, including orientation training, communications, logistical support, etc.
Ensure that all fellowship health, safety, and security requirements are met. Manage response to health, safety and security issues and concerns
Conduct regular in-person and phone check-ins with fellows. Facilitate professional and personal development during the fellowship year
Execute and facilitate country-based activities and events, including leadership development workshops and community building events
Placement Organization Relationship Management
Manage annual selection process. Identify and recruit prospective placement organizations
Support placement organizations to develop fellow role descriptions, negotiate cost-shares and contracts, and make logistical preparations for hosting fellows
Communicate regularly with placement organization staff in order to support fellows
Facilitate professional development and networking workshops for placement organization staff
Alumni Programming
Oversee national alumni strategy
Support the alumni committee to implement programming and amplify community building efforts
Oversee GHC-led
professional development and networking events
Office Management
Ensure the office operates in compliance with all relevant laws and regulations
Ensure office operations and procedures align with GHC health, safety and security policies
Develop and monitor the annual budget
Team Management
Hire and manage country team staff and interns. Ensure team thrives through effective management
Regularly facilitate supervisory check-ins and team meetings
Support staff professional development through performance evaluation, coaching, and mentorship
Strategic Partnerships
Represent GHC at networking events and with key stakeholders
Develop strategic partners to advance GHC programming (e.g. curriculum design, strategic advisors, advocacy, fundraising)
Qualifications
5+ years work experience, preferably in non-profit or social sector
Strong public presence; comfortable facilitating discussions and workshops with diverse audiences of different sizes, ability to represent GHC in public settings
Strong project manager; ability to deliver high-quality work products on time under frequent, tight timelines
Demonstrated success coaching others to achieve high results, including in cross-cultural relationships
Ability to travel up to 30% of the time, including in-country, regional and international trips
Prior supervisory experience preferred
Experience with event planning and/or program logistics management preferred
Experience in partnership building and management preferred
Experience and comfort with budget creation and management preferred
Experience in training and facilitation preferred
To be successful in this role, you should also be:
Strategic – you get the big picture. You are talented both at creating a vision and making a clear plan for getting there
Relationship-builder – you are skilled in building productive relationships across diverse communities
Empathetic – you’re good at understanding what makes people tick, and finding ways to comfort, inspire, and push them to be better
Innovative and adaptive – you like a good challenge. You see failure as an opportunity to learn, fix and create
Highly organized – you love building a good project plan and you’re known as a person who doesn’t let things fall through the cracks
Detail-oriented – you pay attention to the small things, making sure that every project plan and email is of the highest quality
Comfortable with technology – you’re not intimidated to adopt new systems in order to make our work more efficient or impactful
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; Global Health Corps Country Manager Jobs in Uganda
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