Graduate Trainee Job at Infectious Diseases Institute

Infectious Diseases Institute

Graduate Trainee Job Post

Location: Jobs in Uganda 2023 - 2024

Work Hours: Full-time, 08 hours per day

Salary: UGX

No. of vacancies: 01

Deadline: May 28 2024

Hiring Organization: Infectious Diseases Institute

Job Details:

General Summary
The Business Development Graduate Trainee will support acquisition of new business, further development of existing business, and monitoring programmatic compliance across all the IDI main programs. The Business Development Graduate Trainee will be working under the direct supervision of, and be evaluated by the IDI Manager (Strategic Information and Business Development).

Key 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 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 Manager (Strategic Information and Business Development).

Academic Qualification
• Bachelor Degree in Health, Social / Behavioral Sciences, Statistics, Finance, Business or Commerce.

Specific Experience
• Field experience

Person Specification
• 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.