Uganda: E-Learning Officer - Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation Uganda

About Global Health Corps

Global Health Corps (GHC) is a leadership development organization focused on building the next generation of diverse, disruptive global health leaders. Founded in 2009, we competitively recruit talented professionals (ages 21-30) from a range of sectors and backgrounds and place them in high-impact roles within partner organizations — including Clinton Health Access Initiative, Partners in Health, Planned Parenthood Global, and Government Ministries in Zambia, Rwanda, and Uganda — working on the front lines of health equity in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, the US, and Zambia.

GHC is seeking fellows from a wide range of backgrounds, geographies, and expertise. Through a one-year paid fellowship program, fellows provide the expertise and leadership potential needed to fill capacity gaps in global health.

About Placement Organization

Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation Uganda (Baylor-Uganda) is a national non-profit child health and development organization providing family-centered pediatric HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment service. Baylor-Uganda also provides health professional training and clinical research.

Baylor-Uganda is committed to providing high quality, high impact and highly ethical pediatric and family-centered health care, health professional training, and clinical research focused on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, malnutrition, and other conditions impacting the health and wellbeing of children and families worldwide.

Baylor-Uganda’s current priority areas include:

• HIV/AIDS prevention


• Care and treatment services


• Health professional training and capacity building


• Clinical research


• Maternal and child illnesses

Position Overview

The E-Learning Officer will be based in Kampala to develop and monitor the functionality of Baylor-Uganda’s e-learning system for staff development. The Officer will also develop learning objectives and provide e-learning support services to Baylor-Uganda staff.

Responsibilities

• Develop an e-learning platform to provide in-house training activities across the various units of the organization


• Develop work plans, budgets and reports for human resources information system (HRIS) staff across all Baylor-Uganda regions


• Maintain content on e-learning system and disseminate to staff to promote staff learning


• Create a database of e-learning trainers and institutions both locally and according to the different professions and training needs within the organization


• Maintain integrated talent development management system running on the Baylor-Uganda HRIS platform


• Monitor the implementation of a mentorship and coaching program between supervisors and staff


• Develop course and impact evaluations and process resulting data


• Develop an e-library management system that will allow staff to borrow books online and link the library to other e-libraries to broaden the scoop of readily available articles, journals and books


• Conduct HRIS usage audit to establish compliance with HRIS usage guidelines


• Prepare system-generated awards to all learners at end of course

Required Skills and Experience

• Analytical and decision making skills


• Ability to work under pressure


• Proficiency in MS office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint), data collection, validation and analysis


• Demonstrable skills in programming


• Experience in system installation and management


• Experience and/or understanding of network design, management and security, and monitoring


• Skills in documentation and information management

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Degree in computer science, IT, or library science majoring in programming or business computing


• Professional qualifications in CCNA, Microsoft MCSE 2000, MCP, MCSA, MCDBA, CWNA, and CCIP or other relevant qualifications


• Two years of work experience in IT and HRIS management

Fellowship Logistics

During the fellowship year, all fellows are provided with:

• A living stipend of $550/month


• Housing and utilities


• Health insurance


• A professional development grant of $600


• An award of $1500 upon successful completion of the fellowship year


• Travel costs covered to and from placement site, training and retreats

*Note: The living stipend and the completion award may be paid out in USD or local currency, as determined by the placement organization.

Living and Working in Uganda: Fellows are provided with housing and utilities during the fellowship year. Housing arrangements vary based on the placement organization and location within the country. Fellows placed at Baylor-Uganda will be provided with housing in Kampala, an urban center and capital of Uganda.

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