Management Sciences for Health (MSH) is a nonprofit international health organization with over four decades of experience strengthening health systems, local capacity and institutions.
MSH takes a comprehensive approach to improving health to achieve scalability, lasting impact, and sustainability.
Our mission is to save lives and improve the health of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
MSH would like to invite suitably qualified and experienced candidates to join its project teams in Kenya and South Sudan.
Provincial Human Resources Coordinator and Leadership Advisor - Kenya
The Provincial Human Resources Coordinator and Leadership Advisor will join the team on a project whose goal is to increase the ability of the public health sector to rapidly mobilize additional qualified health workers and also to strengthen long-term human resources for health planning and management.
He / She will represent MSH on the project’s senior leadership team in Kenya and coordinate with the Senior Human Resources Management Systems Advisor to provide assistance to the health sector leaders and managers at national and provincial tiers to review HR legislative policies, operational practices and procedures, build capacity and improve HRM systems in order to improve the quality and availability of health services in all parts of Kenya.
He / She will ensure the delivery of technical activities in developing human resources management capacity and human resources systems in the health sector.
This includes assisting, along with the Senior Human Resources Management Systems Advisor, the country level counterparts and stakeholders in the public and private sector in; reviewing, designing, and strengthening systems such as HRH assessments, human resources information systems, workforce planning and projection systems, recruiting and deployment systems, and performance management systems at the national and provincial level.
The ideal candidate will have attained qualifications at advanced graduate level in; social sciences, public administration, management, or public health.
Candidates will also demonstrate experience in HR policy and strategic planning development and implementation especially in health settings in Kenya. Candidates with previous experience implementing and managing HRM systems and practices will have an added advantage.
Applicants will also have strong analytical, planning, management and communication skills and be able to work in a team set up.
For further detail and to apply for this position, please visit the Employment Opportunities section of our website at www.jobsmsh.icims.com by November 12, 2010.
We regret that for all positions, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you cannot apply online, or have difficulty doing so, please email an explanation of your problem to iRecruiterproblem@msh.org
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Provincial Human Resources Coordinator and Leadership Advisor - Kenya
