Entry Level Business Development Assistant Non-profit Jobs – Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI)
Job Title: Business Development Assistant
Organisation: Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Senior Manager Strategic Information & Business Development
Vacancy Code: BDASPDT(X1)
About US:
The Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) is an international non-profit organization which is a partnership of infectious diseases and public health specialists. The overall objective of the IDI is to strengthen health systems with strong emphasis on Infectious Diseases, through Research and Capacity Development. IDI has five operational areas through which it works to achieve its mission: Prevention, Care and Treatment; Training, Research and Laboratory services (provided through a partnership with the Makerere University – John Hopkins University Core Lab) and Outreach.
Job Summary: The Business Development Assistant will support acquisition of new business, further development of existing business, and monitoring programmatic compliance across all the IDI main programmes.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support identifying opportunities for funding, in line with IDI strategy, across a broad range of funding agencies; and share such information with senior staff.
- Support the development of proposals for funding new projects (primarily non-research) and extensions to existing projects.
- Provide support in tracking compliance to proposal requests and reporting practices.
- Monitor programmatic compliance on selected projects through processing institutional key performance indicators (KPI) reports.
- Schedule team meetings, attend, take minutes and oversee meeting logistics.
- Establish and maintain a manual & electronic filing record keeping system for Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) and Business Development data. For easy storage and retrieval of documents, reports and correspondence related to M&E and Business Development.
- May be required to work closely with the team to support project staff to prepare various reports that will reflect the status of indicators outlined in the M&E plan.
- Any other duties specified by the Senior Manager (Strategic Information and Business Development).
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the Infectious Diseases Institute (IDI) Business Development Assistant job must hold a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Health, Social / Behavioural Sciences, Statistics, Finance, Business or Commerce.
- One year of experience in proposal development and resource generation in the health sector.
- Good organization skills including ability to track / monitor multiple funding prospects simultaneously.
- Good interpersonal skills including strong verbal and written communication skills.
- High proficiency in the use of Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and spreadsheets.
- Ability to work in a pro-active manner with little supervision.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should E-mail their updated CVs, which should include details of email address (if any), present position, current remuneration, Certificate/testimonials and address of three (3) Referees plus telephone contact to the following address. Please make sure that your application letter, updated CV and certificates are attached as one document and indicate the Vacancy code as the subject for your email
The Senior Human Resource Manager,
Infectious Diseases Institute — IDI Knowledge Centre,
Makerere University Main Campus College of Health Sciences, Makerere University,
P.O. Box 22418, Kampala, Uganda.
Email to: hr@idi.co.ug
Deadline: 4th January 2019
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