Showing posts with label Health and Medical Services. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health and Medical Services. Show all posts

Friday, 26 April 2013

Kenya Red Cross Society Regional Program Coordinator Job in Upper Eastern & Central Kenya

Kenya Red Cross Society is one of the largest humanitarian organisations in Kenya. 
Its vision is to be the most effective, trusted and self-sustaining humanitarian organisation in Kenya.
 
The Society is looking for a qualified person to fill the following position:
 
Position Title: Regional Program Coordinator 
(1 Position)
 
Reporting to: Assistant Secretary General
 
Job Location: Upper Eastern & Central
 
Overall Purpose
 
Reporting to the Head of Programmes, the Regional Programme Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating and providing strategic and visionary leadership with full operational responsibility in the development, implementation and evaluation of strategies to effectively address emerging issues, risks and opportunities related to the Global Fund programme in their respective Regions. 
S/He will spearheading the implementation of strategic capacity enhancement processes as well as reviewing the PR and the Sub recipients’ performance to ensure effective utilisation of physical, financial and human resources allocated for the Non State Actors.

Duties & Responsibilities
  • Provide strategic leadership and direction to staff in the Region to design, implement and evaluate strategic action plans and budgets in line with approved Global Fund (GF) policies and international best practices aimed at ensuring effective and efficient use of resources.
  • Direct and exercise overall control of the GF’s operations in the Region to ensure that its activities are managed in a professional and efficient manner in order to meet its strategic objectives
  • Implement effective Grants management policies and systems for monitoring and reporting financial performance of Non State Actors to ensure proper management and accountability of funds in line with financial and budgetary policies and procedures of GF in the Region.
  • Oversee the implementation of resource allocation, efficient program implementation, and competent program monitoring and reporting in the Region.
Minimum Qualifications
  • Relevant post-graduate qualification in Business Management (MBA) or MSc in Public Health (MPH) or equivalent qualifications with certificate in project management
  • Over five (5) years experience in Grants and Programme Management.
  • Previous work in HIV and or Health grant programs will be an added advantage.
Key Competencies
  • Broad knowledge of HIV management, trends and goals at national, regional and international levels aimed at preventing and alleviating HIV related human suffering
  • Ability to initiate and manage change and to recognise and adjust to rapidly changing conditions in order to align programmes to the GF strategic plan.
  • Demonstrated technical expertise in strategic management, project planning and budgeting, resource management, implementation ability as well as programme monitoring and evaluation
  • Ability to develop and implement accountability and performance management systems as well as linking the pay system to performance and results
  • Demonstrated proficiency in computer applications such as Accounting Software, word processing, spread sheets, data-base, email and utilization of the internet
Applications must contain: Letter of application, curriculum vitae, copies of relevant certificates, address and contacts of two referees.
 
All applications should be sent to:
 
The Secretary General
Kenya Red Cross Society
P. O. Box 40712-00100
Nairobi
 
So as to reach him not later than Wednesday, 10th May 2012.

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Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Marie Stopes Kenya Medical Officer Job Vacancy (KShs 180K)

Role: Medical Officer
 
Duty Station: Mombasa Nursing Home, Nairobi.
 
Reporting To: Center Manager
 
Salary: Kshs. 180,000 Gross
 
Purpose of the role
 
Medical Officer’s main role is to perform medical procedures at the Nursing Home and to maintain the high clinical standards expected by Marie Stopes Kenya.

Key responsibilities
  • Overall quality inputs into service delivery, including running full out-patient clinic/ obstetric unit and providing surgical procedures as laid down in the protocols.
  • Taking calls at the nursing home as might be required.
  • Proper use of medical equipments and supplies and for notifying the centre manager of needs for repair, maintenance or replacements etc.
  • Ensuring that team members provide effective health care.
  • Actively following organizational criteria for assessment of medical/ client care.
  • Carry out medical audit as frequently as possible.
  • Relating to other departments as required by medical inputs e.g. laboratory, pharmacy etc.
  • Proper counseling of clients and being responsive to their needs.
  • Recognition potential medical problems and dealing with or refer them as appropriate.
  • Responsible for reporting all complications in writing within or before the end of the day.
  • On-Job-Training of other service providers and team members.
  • Preparing and participating fully in Continuous Medical Education (C.M.E.)
  • Responsible for follow-up and treatment of client in regard to any minor or major complications
Job Requirements
  • Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery
  • Must have completed 1 year of internship in a busy hospital
  • Must be registered with the Medical Practitioners and dentists board.
  • Must be computer literate.
Applications quoting the position title with detailed CVs with contact details of 3 referees should be submitted to:
 People and Development Dept using pd@mariestopes.or.ke
 
On or before 30th April, 2013
 
NB: Please clearly indicate on the subject the position applying for ‘Medical Officer-Mombasa’
 
Marie Stopes Kenya is an equal opportunity Employer

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Thursday, 18 April 2013

Hospital Operations Manager Job in Kenya

Our client is in need of a Hospital Operations Manager and are looking for a seasoned individual who would like to join a very progressive and forward thinking organisation

Minimum Requirements
  • Relevant business or healthcare degree is essential
  • Post graduate qualification will be an advantage
  • Proven leadership and general business management experience
  • Knowledge of the private healthcare environment or services industry
  • Effective implementation of marketing strategy (including growth)
  • Develop a marketing strategy for the hospital aligned to the business plan and marketing strategy and drive the marketing of the hospital by understanding, identifying and addressing the needs of the target market and local community including understanding competitor strategies.
  • Maintain quality patient care standards.
  • Achievement of hospital financial targets
  • Areas of focus include Budget, special projects, activity, revenue, cost of sales, overheads and working capital.
  • In all of the above identify trends, using root cause analysis, and implement remedial action where necessary through effective use of heads of department and enabling functions as required.
  • Effective hospital operations management
  • Drive the optimal functioning of hospital operations, identify and monitor gaps and risks and implement corrective action accordingly.
  • Effective relationship management with doctors
  • Establish effective relationships and have experience drawing up proposals for donor funding
  • Drive doctor attraction and retention and co-ordinate and participate, where applicable, in the optimal functioning of the Medical Advisory Committee.
  • Effective quality systems management
  • Drive improvement of quality metrics and implementation of standardized complaints management system.
  • Drive retention of ISO certification and ensure compliance to clinical benchmarking.
  • Actively lead and market quality as it relates to staff, doctors and other stakeholders.
  • Effective people management
  • Demonstrate visible leadership in respect of values, operating model and strategy.
  • Actively sponsor initiatives and projects as it relates to hospital.
  • Provide direction and inspire positive work behaviour in hospital.
  • Recruit, retain, motivate and develop staff
  • Governance and risk management
  • Ensure and drive optimal management of business governance to achieve sound business ethics, risk management and control with appropriate transparency and controls.
The individual must be open to travelling to Mombasa occasionally

If you believe you qualify for this position, please send your CV and details of your current and expected remuneration to resume@interviewupconsulting.com
 
Only qualified candidates will be contacted.

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Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Futures Group Clinical Consultant Job in Kenya

Position: Clinical Consultant
 
Reports To: HMIS Chief of Party
 
Project Description:
 
Established in 1971, Futures Group develops and delivers innovative, locally relevant, evidence-based solutions to improve the health and well- being of people around the world. 
We have assisted governmental and nongovernmental agencies, foundations, and the private sector by designing, implementing and evaluating programs in HIV, sexual and reproductive health, population and family planning, maternal and child health, infectious diseases, and gender. 
Futures Group has deep expertise in policy and advocacy, research and strategic information, health markets and private sector engagement, modeling and economic analysis, patient monitoring and management/HMIS, strategic consulting, and program management.

Futures Group provides HMIS support to the Government of Kenya (GoK) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 
Under a new contract, the Futures team provides a range of technical assistance including: support for the continued development and implementation of the national HMIS strategy; improving information flow to guide policy and program decisions; facilitating interoperability between disparate HMIS including specific efforts to harmonize and integrate laboratory, pharmacy, and electronic medical records (EMR) sub-systems; and developing a data warehouse.

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Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi Jobs in Kenya: Instructor (Registrar) & Senior House Officer and Finance Manager

The Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, (AKUH,N) a premier tertiary teaching hospital, is fast growing with a network of over 30 multi-site medical centers in East Africa and a state-of-the-art Heart and Cancer Centre in Nairobi.
 
Applications are invited for the following positions:
 
Instructor (Registrar) & Senior House Officer
 
Instructors (Registrars) in Intensive Care Unit (ICU)/Coronary Care Unit (CCU)/Cardiothoracic ICU (CTICU) and Senior House Officers in Paediatrics, Accident & Emergency, ICU and Internal Medicine. These clinicians will partner with us in provision of high quality healthcare in the region.

Instructor (Registrar) positions are fundamentally training positions for individuals awaiting specialist recognition by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board (KMPDB). 
The incumbents will provide clinical care to ensure timely and optimal delivery of quality patient care and supervise junior doctors.
 
Senior House Officers will be responsible for the effective management and care of patients. 
They will work with a team of medical staff to ensure optimal delivery of quality patient care.
 
Applicants for the position of Instructor (Registrar) must have a Master of Medicine Degree while applicants for the position of Senior House Officer must have a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB ChB) or equivalent with at least two years relevant experience. 
All applicants should be registered with the KMPDB.
Preference will be given to candidates with ACLS, ATLS or PALS/EPLS training.
 

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Tuesday, 28 August 2012

Pharmacy Consultant Job in Kenya

Pharmacy Consultant:

Terms: Part time/Fulltime

Key Responsibilities
  • Implement a Pharmacy Management System in a busy retail chemist.
  • Provide formal and informal training to other health personnel in the pharmacy.
  • Advise on the setup and strategy for pharmacy operations.
  • Determine the key product offerings required.
  • Develop a detailed operations manual for pharmacy
  • Monitor and ensure proper documentation of prescriptions.
  • Liaise with doctors, nurses on availability of required drugs.
  • Advise management on expansion strategy.
  • Advise management on stock levels, re-order levels e.t.c

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Saturday, 23 June 2012

Abt Associates Technical Specialist (Chief of Party) Job in Nairobi Kenya

The Strengthening Health Outcomes through the Private Sector (SHOPS) project is USAID's flagship project in private sector health. 
It works to involve nongovernmental organizations and for-profit entities in addressing the many health needs of people in developing countries.
Abt Associates is seeking to hire a Technical Specialist (Chief of Party) to manage and lead its activities for SHOPS/Kenya.

A Technical Specialist at this level has direct project management responsibility for a project (or one or several component(s) of a large project) that is large, highly complex, highly visible, and well-funded.  
The TS has an expert role and the technical input is crucial to the project. 
This is a supervisory position.

General Job Description:

As a recognized expert in the professional field, performs important and complex analytical, evaluative, and consultative work.
  1. Development and implementation of the project/project component’s technical aspects.
  2. Management, and ongoing assessment of the project/project component’s technical aspects. Advises changes and improvements to Project Director and takes responsibility for implementation.
  3. Can serve as a Technical Advisor to the Project Director and other Technical Specialists to provide research, analysis, and advisory services on project planning, implementation, training, monitoring and/or evaluation.  
  4. Supervisory responsibility over a unit consisting of two or more staff members in situations where the role is operational.  But if the main role is an advisory role the supervisory role is not necessary.  
  5. If the main role is primarily an advisory role, the incumbent collaborates at the highest levels of the government and serves as principal project advisor in identifying and networking with key stakeholders.  Nationally recognized expert in the field and the use of the expertise is crucial to project success.
 

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Friday, 20 January 2012

Glaxosmithkline Compliance Officer East Africa Pharmaceuticals Job in Kenya

Compliance Officer East Africa Pharmaceuticals

GSK is one of the world’s leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies.

An exciting career opportunity has risen for a highly motivated and enterprising individual to join the organization as a Compliance Officer East Africa Pharmaceuticals in the pharmaceutical Department reporting to the General Manager.

The successful candidates’ principal purpose is to promote a value-based compliance culture within the business, support the development of an effective and pragmatic compliance culture in East Africa and ensures a sound system of internal controls and legal compliance is in place within the East Africa operating units in line with Corporate and Emerging Market Pharmaceutical requirements

Essential Job Responsibilities:
  • Managing early and proactive identification of risks affecting the Kenya and East Africa business units’ strategies and activities and regular reviews and update of the East Africa operating units Risk Register
  • Ensure proper internal controls are in place and that appropriate standards are in place governing high risk business activities.
  • Chairs the East Africa countries Risk Management and Compliance Board.
  • Implement training and education programmes which encompass all staff from when they join the company through the normal development and career progression cycle.
  • Initiates a communications programme that ensures clear understanding of compliance standards required in conducting high risk activities in the business.
  • Supports and advises the operating units on preparations required for internal audits, reviews audit findings with line management and support implementation of recommendations / remedial actions and provide reports on implementation to the General Manager.
  • Ensures that confidential internal reporting processes are effective and that reported concerns are correctly and promptly investigated with suitable corrective action.
  • Responsible for Back End Monitoring and for ensuring that issues of improvement identified are escalated to the General Manager, departmental heads and the Area Risk and Compliance Head.
  • Responsible for the Preparation of timely quarterly Risk Management and Compliance Board reports for Kenya and the Developing Countries Markets and any other risk reporting as may be requested from time to time.
  • A member of the Medical Governance committee

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Aga Khan Health Service Nutritionist, Data Clerk and Administrative Assistant Jobs in Mombasa

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Feed The Children (K) Project Coordinator,HIV Prevention Officer and Social Support Officer Jobs in Kenya

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The Mater Hospital Medical Officer and Clinical Nurse Jobs in Kenya

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M.P. Shah Hospital Director of Medical Services Job in Kenya

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Wednesday, 12 October 2011

Regional Sales Manager Kenya Job

Category: Healthcare, Medicine

Location: Nairobi Kenya

Employment Type: Permanent

Summary: The Organization

Adcock Ingram East Africa is a leading pharmaceutical company registered in Kenya whose mission is to be recognized as a leading world class branded healthcare company.


For more information visit www.adcock.com.

Description:

Position title: Regional Sales Manager

The position exists to effectively develop, execute and manage Adcock Ingram East Africa Sales & Marketing strategies in Kenya.

The Regional Sales Manager will be responsible for all the Sales and Marketing targets and activities in line with Adcock Ingram vision, mission, core values, strategy and established processes, policies and procedures.

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Sunday, 2 October 2011

The Aga Khan University Hospital Jobs Kenya Surgeon, Accounts

The Aga Khan University invites applications from suitably qualified individuals for the following position:
Full Time Faculty - ENT Surgeon

Reporting to the Chair, Department of Surgery and working with the Section Head of Otolaryngology, the Full Time Faculty, ENT Surgeon will participate in the provision of otolaryngology services.


S/he will work within a multi-disciplinary team of doctors and other health professionals to provide efficient and effective Surgical Services. As part of the faculty team, s/he will participate in the teaching and research activities of the Postgraduate Medical Education Program (PGME) in the Department of Surgery.
Applicants for the position should have a Master of Medicine or equivalent medical qualification and be registered with the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board.

S/he should have or be eligible for KMP&D Board recognition in ENT Surgery. The successful candidate should be eligible for appropriate surgical privileges in ENT surgery and have teaching and research experience or activities to reflect a strong interest in teaching and research.

Sub-specialty training or a strong demonstrated interest in oncology and/or reconstruction area of ENT is desirable.
Accountant

Reporting to the Manager Finance, the Accountant will be responsible for maintaining the general ledger for AKU entities and ensuring its timely closing.

S/he will also be responsible for grants accounting, monitoring of fixed assets, preparing of various audit schedules and coordination of annual external audit as well as internal and grants audit as and when required. In addition, the incumbent will maintain student fee accounting function for the various AKU entities.

To qualify, you will be a holder of a Bachelors degree in the relevant field, have professional training in ACCA or CPA (K) and a minimum of three years working experience.

You will be required to have excellent communication skills and interpersonal relations as well as good computer accounting skills.
To Apply:

Applications together with detailed Curriculum Vitae, names of three referees, telephone contact, e-mail address and copies of certificates and testimonials should be sent to,

the Manager, Recruitment,
Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi.
P. O. Box 30270-00100,
Nairobi

or by email to hr.recruitment@aku.edu

so as to reach not later than 22nd October 2011.
Applications by email are preferred.

Visit our website www.aku.edu for more information.
Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

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Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network Part Time Pharmacist Job in Kenya

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Friday, 16 September 2011

Christian Aid Programme Impact Advisor - Community Health & HIV Job in Kenya

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Wednesday, 14 September 2011

Merlin Field Officer – Malaria Job Vacancy in Kenya

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Merlin Project Officer – IEC/SBCC Job Vacancy in Kenya

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Tuesday, 13 September 2011

CDC Kenya Monitoring and Evaluation Advisor Job Vacancy

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Kenya Red Cross Grants Manager, Accountants, M&E Manager, Programme Quality Manager and Data Management Officer Jobs

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