Branch Management Training Program

If you are a natural entrepreneur and leader who loves working with people, apply to join the Living Goods Branch Management Training Program!

Living Goods supports a network of over 600 micro-entrepreneurs in Uganda who teach families in their communities how to improve health and well-being while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook-stoves, and solar lights.

We are offering a 6-week Branch Management Training Program for potential new team members to be immersed in our community health care model. Successful graduates may have the opportunity to gain a full time role as part of the Living Goods team.

The Branch Management Training Program – a paid program – provides training on branch management, stock management, community health care focusing on diarrhoea, pneumonia, malaria prevention and treatment, as well as nutrition and maternal/newborn care.

To be successful in this role you must be able to motivate others, have strong business skills, be committed to improving the lives of mothers/children in the community, and want to be part of a cutting edge team that is setting the mark for a how a social enterprise can improve health impacts in a sustainable way.

Responsibilities

Agent Support and Motivation
• Motivate agents to achieve health and sales targets.
• Ensure all agents are maintaining target inventory levels month to month.
• Ensure all agents know and follow health protocols.
• Implement marketing and promotional efforts to support agents sales goals.
• Assist in ensuring all agents are in compliance with regulations set by health authorities including compliance with standard treatment guidelines.

Financial Management
• Manage branch financial operations

Operations
• Ensure branch is clean, neat and welcoming to CHPs.
• Manage inventory.
• Ensure all inventory is received with appropriate Delivery Notes.
• Ensure inventory is managed on a First in/First Out basis.
• Ensure no stock-outs occur at the branch for key products.
• Manage operations to keep costs as low as possible.
• Manage relations between the implementing partner organizations.

Qualifications

• Diploma or Degree in health, and/or business required.
• Proven success as a CHP, entrepreneur, business manager, or health professional.
• Management experience a strong plus.
• Entrepreneurial spirit and drive for results.
• Exceptional natural leader with strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, both in English and Luganda.
• You should be flexible and willing to travel across Uganda and periodically stay up-country.
• Basic computer skills.

Life at Living Goods

Living Goods is aiming to make disruptive changes, dramatically improving the lives of underserved communities. We think big, but we operate small and nimble. At Living Goods, you will have the chance to use your creativity and work with your teammates to conceive and test new ideas every day. If you work well in a dynamic, highly collaborative culture, if you set high standards for yourself and your colleagues, if you know how to fail fast and learn fast, if you meet challenges with calm determination and a sense of humor, you will thrive at Living Goods. See www.livinggoods.org/principles.