Senior Manager, Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health

Senior Manager Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health

Entity

Aga Khan University

Location

Pakistan

Introduction

The Aga Khan University is a private international university committed to international standards of excellence in teaching research and service. Its teaching hospital the Aga Khan University Hospital has been accredited by the prestigious Joint Commission International for achieving the highest international healthcare standards.

As an equal opportunity employer AKU believes in promoting a diverse and inclusive culture and is committed to adopt appropriate standards for safeguarding and promoting a respectful relationship with and between diverse workforce of its faculty staff trainees volunteers beneficiaries wider communities and other stakeholders with whom it works including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees/trainees and partners to share this commitment.

This is a grant-funded contractual position.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible to supervise project activities related to field and data management to ensure quality control while maintaining good working relationship with staff community and various stakeholders involved. Specific responsibilities include to:

• Overseeing the selection and establishment of outreach (Field) sites for various research projects this includes project management coordination with AKUs support departments for timely execution and ensuring compliance with Housing and Construction Department guidelines;
• develop and improve operational procedures; supervise outreach and administrative teams; coach junior staff for development;
• monitor evaluate and improve operating procedures of all administrative functions of the Division;
• supervise and develop Administrative Teams of Outreach and Research Admin team. This includes on-job coaching of juniors for capacity development;
• developing and implementing a more robust and user-friendly system to ensure greater facilitation to the faculty and investigators;
• lead the fleet management of AKU-owned and rented vehicles as per project requirements across the country;
• coordinate with support department of AKU to complete the requirement of the project within the required timelines;
• this also involved the overall supervision of drivers and their duties;
• spearheading national and international travel arrangements for research staff including accommodation hotel bookings and transport (road and air travel);
• leading the organization of national and international events such as meetings conferences seminars visits and webinars while ensuring proper budgeting logistics finance and cost management;
• strengthening strategic relationships with key stakeholders at national and international levels including government bodies community representatives granting agencies and research administration societies;

• conducting monitoring visits to field sites nationwide to ensure adherence to university policies and guidelines.

Requirements

You should have:

• Masters degree in business/economics/administrative sciences.
• international certifications will add weight to the application;
• minimum of 8 to 10 years of relevant experience in operations management preferably within research or healthcare settings;
• strong networking and interpersonal skills;
• excellent organizational and time management skills;
• effective leadership and team management capabilities;
• outstanding communication (oral and written) skills;
• resilience to work under pressure and meet stringent deadlines;
• proficiency in MS Word Excel and other operational management tools;
• willingness to travel frequently including to remote rural areas.

Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted.