Program Officer – Human Resource Management – Kampala – Intra Health International - 2015

About Intra Health:
For over 30 years, in more than 100 countries, IntraHealth International has empowered health workers to better serve communities in need. IntraHealth fosters local solutions to health care challenges by improving health worker performance, strengthening health systems, harnessing technology, and leveraging partnerships. In collaboration with governments, nongovernmental organizations, and private- sector organizations around the world, IntraHealth champions the needs and contributions of health workers—from doctors and nurses to community health workers to health facility managers—and works to ensure they have the tools, supplies, information, training, and support they need to provide communities they serve with the best possible opportunity for health and well-being.

About USAID Intra Health SHRH Project:
The purpose of the Strengthening Human Resources for Health (SHRH) project is to strengthen the capacities of central ministries, districts, health professional councils, PNFP and health training institutions to effectively and efficiently plan, manage and utilize the health workforce; and strengthen systems for sustained health worker performance to improve health outcomes for the people of Uganda.

Job Summary: The Program Officer, Human Resource Management will support the Senior Advisor, Human Resource Management by developing and implementing the human resource management strategy for national, district, and health facility levels. The incumbent will assist the Senior Advisor, Human Resource Management in providing technical assistance to health leaders and managers to implement the human resource management system including recruitment, employment, salaries and benefits, retention to improve health worker performance and productivity at national, district, and health facility levels.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
· Supporting country-level counterparts and stakeholders in the public and private sector in reviewing, designing and strengthening systems such as HRH assessments, recruiting and deployment systems, and performance management systems at the national and regional level.
· Render support to health sector leaders and managers to review HR legislative policies, operational practices and procedures, build capacity and improve systems (such as recruitment, deployment, salaries and benefits, retention, performance management) in order to improve the quality and availability of health services in all parts of Uganda, especially in remote and low resource geographic locations.
· Be responsible for building working relationships with and between stakeholders, conducting assessments to determine the best interventions and approaches to address pressing problems, designing, implementing and monitoring appropriate training activities and interventions and building local capacity in managing their health sector human resources.
· Oversee documenting best practices in technical papers and in analyzing and adapting innovative tools and resources for use by Uganda and other developing country health sector leaders.
· Play a focal role in HRM programming to strengthen the capacity of the MOH HRM and HRD Departments to perform a more strategic role in terms of management and production of health workers. Offer technical leadership in sharing and developing new and improved strategies, tools and interventions for improved human resources availability and productivity and in documenting evidence of success or lack of success for the interventions
· Build capacity in the central and the sub national public health sector to strengthen their HR management systems, especially systems such as recruitment, deployment, retention and motivation, and performance management systems.
· Build local professional capacity and expertise in human resources management and personnel policies and develop innovative strategies for building this local capacity at national and district levels.
· Provide the linkages required within the public health sector and with training institutions to support the development of a pool of HRH experts for the country.
· Identify and utilize best practices for task shifting and advocate for adoption by the MoH and professional councils of task shifting strategies.
· The incumbent will develop MoH and district capacity in application and use of Workload Indicators of Staffing Need (WISN) approaches to determine appropriate staffing patterns at different facility levels, and advocate for the use of WISN as the MoH standard for setting staffing norms.
· Perform any other duties as assigned by the Senior Advisor Human Resource Management.

Key Performance Indicators:
· Supporting country-level counterparts and stakeholders in the public and private sector in reviewing, designing and strengthening systems such as HRH assessments, recruiting and deployment systems, and performance management systems at the national and regional level.
· Support health sector leaders and managers to review HR legislative policies, operational practices and procedures, build capacity and improve systems (such as recruitment, deployment, salaries and benefits, retention, performance management) in order to improve the quality and availability of health services in all parts of Uganda, especially in remote and low resource geographic locations.
· Build capacity in the central and the sub national public health sector to strengthen their HR management systems, especially systems such as recruitment, deployment, retention and motivation, and performance management systems.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
· The applicants should hold an advanced degree in Public Health, Epidemiology, Economics, Biostatistics, or a Social Sciences field related to human resources for health (e.g., management, public policy).
· At least six years’ working experience implementing or managing HRH or related activities in Uganda, including involvement in several of the following areas: National HRH assessment, workforce policy and planning, human resource development and management, development and deployment of human resource information systems, leadership development, workforce projections and costing, performance improvement, delivering or evaluating education for health professionals.
· A minimum of three years’ of the working experience should have been served at a Senior level of Principal Officer in Government or in a reputable organization in the private sector.
· Broad knowledge and experience working with the Uganda health care system, the Ministry of Health, District Government, and other development organizations in Uganda is a plus.
· Significant experience and functional familiarity with HRIS or similar systems, or ability to develop those skills quickly
· Demonstrated ability to carry-out analysis of HRH issues; and sound costing of interventions to motivate resource allocation for HRH.
· Prior experience working on USAID-funded projects highly desirable
· Show commitment and record of achievement to building the capacity of local partners.
· Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
· Computer literacy in MS Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Outlook.

Personal Competencies:
· Innovation: Develops new, better or significantly different ideas, methods, solutions or initiatives within your role that result in improvement of IntraHealth’s performance and meeting objectives, results and global commitments.
· Accountability: Holds self and others accountable for all work activities, research and personal actions and decisions; follows through on commitments and focuses on those activities that have the greatest impact on meeting measurable high quality results for IntraHealth’s success.
· Service Excellence: Knowledge of and ability to put into action customer service concepts, processes and techniques to access internal and/or external client needs and expectations and meet or exceed those needs and expectations through providing excellent service directly or indirectly.
· Planning and Organizing: Develops clear goals that are consistent with agreed upon strategies; identifies priority activities and assignments; adjusts priorities as required; allocates appropriate time and resources for completing work; foresees risks and allows for contingencies when planning; and monitors and adjusts plans and actions as necessary.
· Interpersonal Relationships: Knowledge of and the ability to effectively interact within and across Divisions, Departments/Country Offices in a constructive and collaborative manner.
· Effective Oral and Written Communication: Understands effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, explain complex technical concepts in simple, clear language appropriate to the audience; and receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.

How to Apply:
All candidates are strongly encouraged to send their applications to the HR & Administration Officer including an updated CV, and photocopies of their certificates and testimonials via email to jobs-uganda@intrahealth.org
NB: Total file size of attachments should not exceed 2MB.

Deadline: Friday, 2nd October 2015