Organisation: Living Goods
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
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 cookstoves, and solar lights.
Job Summary: The Branch Manager will play a key role in
supporting Community Health Promoters (CHPs) to deliver high quality health
care to their communities and generate sales of critical products. The
incumbent must be able to motivate others, have strong business skills, 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.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:
1. Agent Support and Motivation:
- Actively
motivate agents to achieve health and sales targets. Work to support
strong performers, to increase effectiveness of medium performers, and
increase or remove poor performers. - Ensure
all CHPs are delivering impact in the communities (esp. diagnosis and
treatment) - Implement
marketing and promotional efforts to support CHPs sales goals. - Organize
and lead monthly meeting of agents.
2. Operations Management:
- Manage
Branch team members, ensuring performance - Oversee
the Branch financial operations and ensure that the books balance: cash matches sales on a daily basis. - Manage
and maintain inventory. - Manage
operations to keep costs as low as possible. - Build
and maintain working relations between the implementing partner
organizations.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The
ideal candidate for the Branch Manager should have proven experience as a Community
Health Promoter (CHP), entrepreneur, business manager, or health
professional. - Clinical
health or business related degree or diploma required. - Past
management experience is a requirement. - Past
entrepreneurial spirit and drive for results. - Exceptional
natural leader with strong interpersonal skills. - Excellent
written and verbal communications skills, both in English and Luganda
required. Fluency in Lusoga a plus. - Basic
computer literacy skills. - The
incumbent must be highly flexible and willing to travel across Uganda and
stay for some nights up-country.
All candidates are strongly
encouraged to Apply Online at the web link below.
Deadline: 30th June, 2015
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