Roles and responsibilities
This core role of the position holder will entail coordinating the entire
Health Informatics (HI) Track of the Uganda Public Health Fellowship
Program(UPHFP). The coordinator will assist the Program Director in
the day-to-day management, planning, monitoring, and implementation
of planned activities of of the HI program. Specifically, the position holder
will follow the following
key roles;
A)Program Management, coordination, and monitoring
1. Use appropriate project management tools to plan, review, and track
progress on HI fellowship implementation
utilization of program resources.
2. Provide leadership for HI fellowship program administration,
budgeting, resource allocation, and reporting.
3. Coordinate the recruitment process of highly qualified candidates for
the fellowship program.
4. Represent the fellowship program partner and UNIPH meetings.
5. Serve as a link fort here, MOH, and UNIPH to identify desired project
activities, and ensure adequate mentorship, and learning
resources(including) from hosting departments/institutions.
6. Develop/review and implement a system of ongoing evaluation of
outputs and field activities.
7. Participate in grant applications writing for the UNIPH, to ensure
program sustainability.
8. Participate in review of UNIPH strategies
fellowship program in alignment with UNIPH goals.
MINISTRY OF HEALTH
B)Content development and delivery
9. Support the development of the UPHFP-HI curriculum in the
accreditation of the program’s relevant institutions.
10.IdentifyHIsubject matter experts to facilitate the delivery of content
per the UPHFP-HI curriculum.
11. Coordinate the delivery of HI fellowship sessions, workshops,
seminars, boot camps, and field excursions for fellows.
12. Attend presentations conducted by Fellows as and whenever they are
arranged and participated in providing feedback to Fellows.
13. Participate in the review and approval of Fellows’ scientific products
including abstracts, manuscripts, proposals, and reports of special studies
14. Allocate mentors to Fellows and evaluate their performance.
C)Program mentorship and support
15. Participate in quarterly visits to Fellows at the host’s sites and
evaluation of progress through reviewing quarterly host mentor
evaluations; quarterly reports and attending the joint quarterly review
meetings
16. Directly  supervise the field Supervisor for the program
17. Carry out any other duties that may be assigned to you from time to
time by the Program Director
Education Qualification and Other Requirements:
Master’s degree in any of the following disciplines: Health Informatics,
Health Sciences, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics,
Statisticsoranycomputing-relateddisciplines.Additionalqualificationin
Project management is an added advantage.
Atleast5-7yearsofexperienceinprojectmanagement, preferably in
a healthcare setting.
Excellent leadership, organizational, communication, time
management and interpersonal skills.