Admin Jobs at UNABCEC; Executive Director

Job Title:        Executive Director
Job Ref.:    REF UNC001
Job Location:   Kampala, Uganda
Employer:    Uganda National Association of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors (UNABCEC)

About UNABCEC:
UNABCEC is a non profit, non political, member-driven association bringing together building and civil engineering contractors as well as construction-related materials manufacturers and/or suppliers to promote their mutual interest. KSK Associates Financial Consultants is an audit firm that was incorporated in 2004 and provides industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services for public and private clients. The firm employs professional staff with vast experience in providing Assurance and Business Advisory service We provide solutions that enhance value for clients and their stakeholders.

Job Overview:
The ExecutiveDirector will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for UNABCEC’s secretariat staff, programs, expansion, and execution of its mission. S/he will develop deep knowledge of field, core programs, operations, and business plans from the strategic plan 2014-2018.

Job Requirements:
The ED will be thoroughly committed to UNABCEC mission. All candidates should have proven leadership, coaching, and relationship management experience. Concrete demonstrable experience and other qualifications include:

•     An advanced degree, ideally an MBA, with at least 10 years of senior management experience; track record of effectively leading and regionally and/or nationally scaling a performance- and outcomes-based organization and staff; ability to point to specific examples of having developed and operationalized strategies that have taken an organization to the next stage of growth
•     Unwavering commitment to quality programs and data-driven program evaluation
•     Excellence in organizational management with the ability to coach staff, manage, and develop high-performance teams, set and achieve strategic objectives, and manage a budget
•     Past success working with a Board of Directors with the ability to cultivate existing board member relationships
•     Strong marketing, public relations, and fundraising experience with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders and cultures
•     Strong written and verbal communication skills; a persuasive and passionate communicator with excellent interpersonal and multidisciplinary project skills
•     Action-oriented, entrepreneurial, adaptable, and innovative approach to business planning
•     Ability to work effectively in collaboration with diverse groups of people
•     Passion, idealism, integrity, positive attitude, mission-driven, and self-directed

Job Duties:
 1. Leadership & Management:

•     Ensure ongoing projects programmatic excellence, rigorous program evaluation, and consistent quality of finance and administration, fundraising, communications, and systems; recommend timelines and resources needed to achieve the strategic goals
•     Actively engage and energize newly established secretariat staff, marketing teams, board members, local chapter committees, partnering organizations, and funders
•     Develop, maintain, and support a strong Board of Directors: serve as ex-officio of each committee, seek and build board involvement with strategic direction for both ongoing local operations as well as for the national rollout
•     Take lead, coach, develop, and retain UNABCEC high-performance Secretariat team
•     Ensure effective systems to track scaling progress, and regularly evaluate program components, so as to measure successes that can be effectively communicated to the board, funders, and other constituents

2. Fundraising & Communications:

•     Expand local revenue generating and fundraising activities to support existing program operations and regional expansion while simultaneously retiring building debt
•     Deepen and refine all aspects of communications—from web presence to external relations with the goal of creating a stronger brand
•     Use external presence and relationships to garner new opportunities

3. Planning & New Business:

•     Design the national expansion and complete the strategic business planning process for the program expansion into all regions of Uganda.
•     Begin to build partnerships in new markets, establishing relationships with the funders, and political and community leaders at each expansion site
•     Be an external local and national presence that publishes and communicates program results with an emphasis on the successes of the local program as a model for regional and national replication;
•     Perform any other duties that may be allocated to you from time to time.

Deadline Date: 28/04/2014

How to Apply:
Please send your applications attached with:

•     Attached copies of all academic qualifications (transcripts and certificates);
•     Updated detailed CVs and contact telephone numbers;
•     Three professional references and or/academic references

To:
E-mail; recruitment@kskassociates.net

Or

You can physically deliver your application to any of our offices in East Africa.

The Recruitment Director,
KSK Associates Financial Consultants,
Annex Ruth Towers, Plot 15 A, Clement Hill
P.O Box 70434 Kampala – Uganda.