Hospital Director

Professional Profile and Requirement

• Minimum 3 years senior management experience, with a for-profit or sustainable health care facility
• Relevant degree in business or hospital management training
• Working experience in African countries
• Excellent administration skills
• Excellent Management and leadership skills
• Excellent Financial Management skills
• Good working knowledge of English and French language

CBM is an international development organisation, committed to improving the quality of life of persons with disabilities in the poorest countries of the world. Based on its values and over 100 years of professional expertise, CBM addresses poverty as a cause and a consequence of disability, and works in partnership to create a society for all. CBM’s vision is: “an inclusive world in which all persons with disabilities enjoy their human rights and achieve their full potential”.
CBM works with persons with disabilities, their families, local partner organisations, alliance partners including UN agencies, global organisations, and Disabled Persons’ Organisations (DPOs).
CBM has been involved from the outset with "VISION 2020: The Right to Sight", a global initiative with the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) to eliminate avoidable blindness by the year 2020, and other global initiatives such as the provision of affordable hearing aids, education for all and community mental health.
CBM is also recognised as a collaborating organisation by the World Health Organization (WHO) and has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).
Together with its partner organisations, CBM is active in more than 700 projects in 81 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and in 2012, reached more than 31 million people.
CBM’s International Office in Bensheim, Germany, is accepting applications for

Hospital Director

Location: Magrabi ICO Cameroon Eye Institute, African Eye Foundation in Yaoundé, Cameroon

Contract Duration: 2 years (with possible extension of another 2 years)

Contract Start: As soon as possible

Objective:
The position holder represents the hospital at most official meetings and functions, develop and implement hospital management systems for a sustainable high volume, high quality ophthalmic referral and training institute, train and hand over to a competent successor management team to the end of contract. The incumbent reports to the Chair Man of the African Eye Foundation.


Main tasks

• Lead and manage a referral, high volume, high quality sustainable ophthalmic training institute
• Supervise hospital administration and support staff, and alongside the Director of Medical Services, all medical personnel
• Financial Management
• Marketing Activities
• Facility management and procurement
• Fundraising and engaging sponsors for poor patients
• Train and hand over to a successor team

Professional Profile and Requirement

• Minimum 3 years senior management experience, with a for-profit or sustainable health care facility
• Relevant degree in business or hospital management training
• Working experience in African countries
• Excellent administration skills
• Excellent Management and leadership skills
• Excellent Financial Management skills
• Good working knowledge of English and French language

Personal Profile & Competencies

• Good team leader and player
• Good and tactful negotiator and problem solver
• Cultural sensitivity and proven capacity to work in a cross cultural setting
• Social Marketing and PR skills in health care
• Identification with the vision and mission of Inclusive Development of CBM and Magrabi ICO Cameroon Eye Institute

The future job holder adheres to CBM’s values and commits to CBM’s Child Protection Policy.

CBM encourages persons with disabilities to apply for this position.

Candidates with the required profile and proven experiences, who meet these qualifications, are invited to submit, in English via e-mail, a meaningful letter of motivation, stating why he/she wishes to work for CBM, CV, copies of diplomas, three professional references and salary expectations to recruitment@cbm.org 
www.cbm.org.

Application deadline: September 10th, 2014