Uganda: Director of Health Systems Strengthening - (1) position) - Karamoja

EXCITING CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

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.

Save the Children seeks to fill the following vacant positions and applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced Persons for the operations.

Director of Health Systems Strengthening - (1) position) - Karamoja

Job Purpose:

The Director, Health Systems Strengthening will work with Save the Children’s existing country office in Uganda, and will work closely with the senior leadership to support the management of the USAID Cooperative Agreement for the anticipated five-year $20M Health and HIV/AIDS Integrated Program. S/he will provide tactical direction and implementation in order to achieve the three key objectives: a) supporting health systems critical for service delivery, b) increasing availability and access to quality HIV and key health services; and c) improving health seeking behaviors and demand for quality services among the people living in the Karamoja region.

Academic back ground and Experience;

General specifications applicable to all positions;

Application information;

Application letters with detailed CVs indicating 3 referees, two of whom should have been direct supervisors should be submitted to:

The Director of Human Resources & Administration

Save the Children

Plot68/70, Kira Road

P O Box 12018

Kampala

Or on email:uganda.recruitment@savethechildren.org

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