No Experience Project Intern USAID Project Jobs – Uganda Healthcare Federation

Job: Project Intern (No Experience Jobs)

Organisation: Uganda Healthcare Federation

Project Title: USAID Maternal Neonatal Child Health & Nutrition Activity

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About US:

Uganda Healthcare Federation (UHF) is a non-profit umbrella organization affiliated to the East Africa Healthcare Federation. The organization is a professional association representing the private health sector in Uganda. The Federation’s purpose includes advocating and supporting its members in policy and other decision making forums, representing its members at both the national and country levels, providing networking and training opportunities to improve quality of health services delivered, strengthen business skills and enhance market opportunities in healthcare, and provide an annual conference for the education of its members and exchange of information on issues essential to the quality and business of healthcare in Uganda.

About USAID Project:

Together with FHI360, Save the Children, EnCompass LLC and Makerere University School of Public Health, UHF is participating in the implementation of USAID’s Maternal Child Health and Nutrition (MCHN) Activity. The intervention is a five-year program designed and funded by USAID/Uganda to improve maternal, newborn, child health and nutrition outcomes in Uganda through strengthening leadership and governance, the rollout of national strategies and programs, and coordination and cooperation across stakeholders. The MCHN Activity seeks to enhance learning and sharing of lessons and best practices, facilitate improvements to governance and cooperation processes and structures, build leadership capacity, and enhance private sector engagement. The Activity will advance new models for MCHN services and systems for urban settings, particularly Kampala. The MCHN Activity will collaborate closely with the Government of Uganda (GoU), Ugandan private sector entities, other USAID-supported activities, and other development partners to both support and leverage their efforts to improve MCHN outcomes in Uganda.

Job Summary:  The overall purpose of the Project Intern is to provide administrative support to the USAID MCHN Activity through participating in designated project activities from time to time for the six months of this agreement.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Attend project meetings and note key issues of interest to guide improvement in status of MCH and Nutrition service delivery at private health facilities.
• Participate in mobilization of stakeholders (including private health providers, KCCA, civil society organizations, government representatives) to participate in designated MCHN activities targeting the private sector.
• Support UHF MCHN team with document write-up including concept papers and project proposals, activity reports with guidance from the assigned supervisor.
• Support arrangements for meetings, presentations, seminars and trainings being organized under the MCHN Activity.
• The project intern shall support the collaboration with other USAID programs as assigned to support outcomes key to the MCHN Activity.
• Participate in data collection and information gathering assignments aimed at enriching planning of MCHN project activities.
• Keep records of all information related to the MCHN Activity for documentation, clarification and presentation to management.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

The ideal candidate should hold relevant qualifications

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested individuals should send their soft copy application and Curriculum Vitae to info@uhfug.com. Only the successful applicant will be contacted for further discussions.

Deadline: 4^th December 2020