Health Infrastructure and Equipment Specialist Jobs at Montrose Africa

Job Title: Health Infrastructure and Equipment Specialist

Job Description


Closing date:  14 Jun 2012

MONTROSE (www.montroseafrica.com) is an international development project management and consultancy company. Montrose specialises in the health, education, and enterprise sectors and provides support to private sector and public sector clients in project design, planning and management, monitoring and evaluation.

Health Infrastructure and Equipment Specialist

We are seeking a Health Infrastructure and Equipment Specialist to provide short-term consultancy support to existing and upcoming projects being implemented by Montrose.

Skills and experience

• Minimum Masters Degree in health or a closely related discipline • Demonstrated knowledge of health infrastructure and equipment • Five years plus professional experience working in health field with direct experience in health infrastructure and equipment • Experience working in Africa • Excellent communication and writing skills in English • Fluency in French a strong asset • Able to travel




How to Apply

 

Application procedure

Candidates who fully meet the above requirements should submit a detailed CV together with a covering letter explaining how you are suited for the position. Documents must include a daytime telephone contact and three referees (with telephone and email contacts). Applications should be emailed to hrmontrose@montroseafrica.com by Friday 14 June 2012

Finance Manager Job Vacancy at AMREF in Uganda

Job Title: FINANCE MANAGER



Job Description
AMREF is the largest health development organization based in Africa. Working with and through African communities, health systems and governments, AMREF aims to close the gap that prevents people from accessing their basic right to health. With headquarters in Kenya, AMREF has programs in Ethiopia, Uganda, Somalia, South Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa and West Africa. Employing over 800 staff AMREF is a knowledge resource for donors and partners.  For more information please visit our website www.amref.org.

AMREF is recruiting for the position of Finance Manager AMREF in Uganda.  This position is key and is part of AMREF’s senior management team in Uganda, reporting to the Country Director with a critical role to play in support of the accomplishment of AMREF’s mission and strategy in Uganda.where the incumbent will be responsible for:

•    Establishing programmes’ financial management systems.
•    Coordinating and administering AMREF’S plan for the control, monitoring, compliance and reporting of financial transactions, as well as coordinating financial planning in line with the strategic priorities.
•    Ensuring that the Finance Team is fully integrated with the country team and that they provide technical support to program staff.

Please visit the AMREF website at www.amref.org  to view the full job specification.

If you are looking for growth and new challenges and have a passion for improving the health of disadvantaged communities in Africa, you are welcome to join us.

Qualifications and Experience:

•    First degree in Business Administration, Commerce, Finance or closely related area.
•    Possession of a Professional qualification  CPA  ACCA
•    Relevant Masters degree will be an added advantage
•    Hands on experience in project, financial and management accounting
•    Computer literate, Sun Accounting Systems
•    A minimum of 5 years preferably in an NGO with 3 of these in a senior or managerial role.



How to Apply

  Please send your CV, cover letter, with 3 work-related referees, and copies of certificates/testimonials, to the address or e-mail below. All applications shall be clearly marked: ‘AMREF-Finance Manager. No e-mails must exceed 2MB.

People Performance Group
Plot 8 Kitante Close, Kitante
P.O. Box 12405, Kampala
Uganda

E-mail: application@ppg.co.ug or go to www.kazijobs.com to apply online.

We encourage interested candidates to submit their applications by Friday 15th June 2012 and regret that only short listed candidates will be contacted.

AMREF is an equal opportunity employer and has a non-smoking environment policy.

Grameen Foundation Jobs - Senior Technology Analyst Job Vacancy

Job Title: Senior Technology Analyst



Job Description


Our client Grameen Foundation is a company empowering people, changing lives and innovating for the world’s poor is seeking to recruit result driven and motivated individuals for the Vacancy above;

Job Summary: The Senior Technology Analyst (STA) for Mobile Financial Services is responsible for driving the definition, requirements, and business design of an interface to enable an end-to-end solution for our Financial Institution partners to our Mobile Money Partner. The STA plays a lead role in partnering with all cross functional teams to deliver the approaches and work required for an offering to succeed in the market.

The role will be measured by delivering high quality, innovative solutions which are adopted by the market and competitively differentiated. The ultimate outcomes are a commercially viable solution and end user adoption especially amongst clients earning under $2.50/day. Managing timely deliverables with strong communication and cross functional partnering skills with the ability to gain shared vision on challenging decisions which impact various teams and the offering.  Success will require working closely with stakeholders (Telco, FIs, 3rd party vendors) to define a solution on which relevant pro-poor products can be offered seamlessly.  Candidates must have a ‘can do’ attitude.

Reports to: Project Director of Mobile Financial Services

Duties and Responsibilities:

* Assess the products being reviewed against Financial Partners willingness to develop on their internal systems and what the internal rules are on data sharing with external parties
* Contract and manage 3rd party contractors to ensure timely delivery of agreed outputs
* Collaborate with other program or project managers to ensure that the development plans fit into the overall project plan.
* Oversee product definition and development of product requirements with regards to the middleware platform and services delivered over that platform working with a software architect.
* Research and select the technology solutions best suited to meet long-term project goals, documenting the process.
* Work with the transactional platform company or telecom operator, financial institutions and mobile financial services team to respond to client requests with both requirements as well as ‘product positioning’.
* Work with functional heads at the partnering financial institutions to incorporate their long-term plans into the technology platform.
* Have a disposition toward ‘action’ to make sure things get done.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

* 5 years experience working with product development on CORE Banking Systems
* Knowledge and skills to conduct supporting IT platform security audits.
* Broad knowledge of security-related topics such as authentication, entitlements, identity management, data protection, data leakage prevention, validation checking, encryption, hashing, principle of least privilege, software attack methodologies, secure data transfer, secure data storage etc.
* Knowledge of risk management control frameworks
* Have an understanding of business processes methodologies (BPM)
* Be familiar with the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) styles.
* Knowledge of Mobile Phone customer interfaces in particular mobile money is an added advantage.
* Ability to evaluate technical and functional specifications early within the software development process, identify possible threats or areas of weakness as it relates to impacts on supporting IT platforms.
* Excellent writing, research and communication skills; ability to gather, synthesize and present information in a professional, compelling and practical manner;
* Highly self-motivated, self-directed, and attentive to detail;
* Extensive experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment;
* Excellent organizational, project management and time management skills;
* Fluency in oral and written English.

Education and Experience:

* Bachelor’s Degree required, advanced degree preferred in business administration, international development, or a related field
* At least 1 year of vendor or customer relationship management
* At least 5 years working on technical specifications and product development of CORE Banking systems
* Work experience in international development, preferably in a developing country




How to Apply

 
Please follow the instructions as stated below as failure to do so could lead to disqualification.

1. Send an Application letter and CV/Resume.

2. Merge these two documents into one document in either word or pdf format.

3. Do not attach or send any scanned documents, these are sometimes too large for our inbox.

4. Include the job title and/or reference number in the subject line of the email address and send your application by email to grameenjobs@nftconsult.com

5. Only successful candidates will be contacted. For all other inquiries please contact our offices directly.