Vacancy title:
Director of Health

Jobs at:
Kicukiro District

Deadline of this Job:
29th October 2018

Duty Station:
Kigali, Rwanda

Summary
Date Posted: 24th October 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Company

JOB DETAILS:

Job Description

Main duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinate the identification of the District’s health needs and priorities to facilitate an integrated planning, budgeting, resources mobilization, implementation, monitoring and evaluation reporting related to health at the Unit, Sector and health facilities levels, and instill the practice of knowledge management;
  
• Coordinate a multi stakeholders’ elaboration of actionable strategies or plans meant to localize national policies and the District Council’s decisions pertaining to health and oversee their implementation;
  
• Coordinate the dissemination and monitor the implementation of national guidelines, protocols by health facilities and coordinate campaigns meant to raise local population’s awareness on community health including the benefits of community health insurance schemes;
  
• Maintain an updated consolidated database of health initiatives/interventions implemented within the District and work hand in hand with the Human Resource Unit in the elaboration of capacity building initiatives meant to address capacity gaps in the health sector at the District level;
  
• Serve as a member of the District Technical Coordination Committee and advise the institution on matters pertaining to health.
  

Job Profile

Bachelor’s Degree in Public Health, Community Health, Health Sciences, Clinical Psychology, Social Work with at least 3 years of working experience; Or Master’s Degree in the same fields with 1 year of working experience

Key Technical Skills & Knowledge required:

• Extensive knowledge and skills in Disability Mainstreaming
  
• Good knowledge of government policy making processes;
  
• Analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills.
  
• Organizational Skills;
  
• Communication Skills;
  
• High analytical Skills;
  
• Complex Problem Solving;
  
• Time management Skills;
  
• Team working Skills;
  
• Fluent in Kinyarwanda, English and/ or French; knowledge of all