SUMMARY: Makerere University is seeking a Technician for its Department of Surgery to support skills laboratory operations and practical training. The role focuses on preparing training facilities, maintaining and testing equipment, managing laboratory resources, supporting academic staff, and ensuring quality assurance and safety.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Set up the skills laboratory for training sessions and coordinate schedules to avoid programme clashes.

• Clean, maintain, calibrate, and test laboratory equipment.

• Prepare reports, inventories, orders, budgets, and resource-accounting records.

• Manage laboratory equipment, facilities, and financial and other resources.

• Prepare and supervise student practicals and support academic staff in teaching.

• Implement quality assurance, quality control, and safety procedures, and mentor junior staff in technical skills.

SUMMARY: Makerere University is seeking a Technician for its Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology to support surgical skills training and practical teaching. The role focuses on supervising simulation-based training, managing laboratory equipment and resources, supporting academic staff, and maintaining quality assurance and safety standards.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Supervise and assist students and staff in obstetric and gynaecological simulation and surgical skills training, including operating theatre activities.

• Maintain the surgical skills training laboratory.

• Prepare reports, inventories, orders, and budgets, and account for unit resources.

• Manage laboratory equipment, facilities, and financial and other resources.

• Prepare and supervise student practicals and support academic staff in teaching.

• Implement quality assurance, control, and safety procedures, and mentor junior staff in technical skills.

SUMMARY: Makerere University is seeking a Laboratory Assistant (Post Mortem Attendant) for the Department of Veterinary Pharmacy, Clinical and Comparative Medicine. The role focuses on maintaining post-mortem facilities, preparing and cleaning equipment, assisting with carcass examinations, managing specimens, and supporting practical teaching.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Clean and disinfect post-mortem tables, floors, equipment, and instruments.

• Prepare and arrange tools for post-mortem examinations and maintain equipment.

• Receive carcasses, maintain case logs, and assist with carcass dissection.

• Dispose of carcass remains through incineration and empty the incinerator.

• Assist with curation and archiving of teaching specimens and preparation of practicals and examinations.

• Maintain cleanliness of the premises and assist students with assignments within the facilities.

SUMMARY: Makerere University is seeking a Technician in Allied Health Sciences to support practical and clinical skills teaching in optometry and laboratory activities. The role focuses on preparing teaching facilities, maintaining equipment, implementing standard operating procedures, supporting research activities, and mentoring junior staff.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Prepare instruments and facilities for practical and clinical skills teaching.

• Support optical laboratory activities, practical demonstrations, and student competency development.

• Maintain equipment and facilities, report faults, and identify maintenance requirements.

• Implement approved standard operating procedures and maintain a safe, clean working environment.

• Maintain equipment, consumables, practical-session records, and inventories.

• Support research, innovation, consultancy, fieldwork, community outreach, and junior staff supervision.

SUMMARY: Makerere University is seeking a Technician for its Department of Dentistry to support the operation and maintenance of dental equipment. The role focuses on equipment installation, troubleshooting, user support, servicing, and inventory management.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure dental equipment is operational.

• Identify and resolve technical faults in dental equipment.

• Provide technical support to users of dental equipment.

• Inspect and install dental machines.

• Maintain and service dental equipment.

• Maintain an inventory of equipment.

SUMMARY: Makerere University is seeking a Technician for its Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics to support laboratory operations and experimental pharmacology activities. The role focuses on preclinical testing, solution preparation, technical support, laboratory safety, and research data documentation.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Execute experiments and preclinical testing in pharmacology.

• Prepare solutions and provide technical support for laboratory activities.

• Maintain laboratory equipment and facilities and ensure safety and regulatory compliance.

• Manage research data and maintain accurate documentation.

• Perform other duties assigned by the Head of Department.

SUMMARY: Makerere University is seeking a Technician for its Department of Pathology to support laboratory operations and practical training. The role focuses on laboratory equipment management, preparation and supervision of student practicals, quality assurance, safety compliance, and technical staff mentoring.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Generate reports, inventories, and orders for the unit.

• Manage the use of laboratory equipment and facilities.

• Prepare and supervise student practicals.

• Support academic staff in teaching practical sessions.

• Implement quality assurance, quality control, and laboratory safety guidelines.

• Induct and mentor junior staff in technical skills.

SUMMARY: Makerere University is seeking a Technician for its Department of Pharmacy to support laboratory practicals, equipment management, and laboratory operations. The role focuses on demonstrating and assessing practical work, managing laboratory supplies, assessing procured materials, and maintaining pharmacy laboratory equipment and facilities.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Set up, demonstrate, guide, teach, and assess practicals in microbiology, biotechnology, pharmacognosy, and pharmaceutical analysis.

• Manage inventory of consumables and equipment used in practicals.

• Conduct market surveys for laboratory consumables and equipment.

• Assess the quality of procured laboratory consumables and equipment.

• Maintain laboratory cleanliness and safeguard pharmacy laboratory equipment.

• Ensure the proper care and functionality of laboratory facilities and equipment.

SUMMARY: MU-JHU is recruiting three Quantitative Research Assistants to support data quality, data management, and field coordination for the BD/LEN study. The roles focus on health facility record abstraction, electronic data monitoring, data validation, data cleaning, and research reporting.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Coordinate scheduling, facility access, and logistics for data abstraction rounds at selected study facilities.

• Support health facility record abstraction from Integrated ANC/PNC registers, PrEP registers, and the Prevention Tracker.

• Monitor daily data entry and synchronisation through the REDCap Mobile App and run data-quality checks.

• Review data for completeness, validity, and consistency; raise, track, and resolve data queries.

• Clean data, harmonise facility identifiers and variable definitions, and maintain records of LEN introduction dates.

• Support consent documentation, confidentiality and data security, administrative duties, and study reporting.

SUMMARY: MU-JHU is recruiting five Qualitative Research Assistants to support participant recruitment and follow-up for the BD/LEN study. The roles focus on participant consent, data collection, data quality control, data cleaning, and research documentation.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support recruitment, consent, and follow-up of study participants.

• Collect data from designated health centres, hospitals, and participants' homes.

• Review collected data for completeness and validity, provide feedback on queries, and perform ongoing data cleaning.

• Identify documentation errors and protocol deviations and suggest corrective or preventive actions.

• Review consent documents and facilitate their submission to the regulatory affairs office for safe custody.

• Assist with study reports, administrative duties, and coordination of data collection activities.

SUMMARY: Makerere University School of Public Health is seeking qualified medical doctors, nurses, and midwives for temporary Research Assistant positions under the Wellcome Trust-supported NETOMA study. The roles focus on quantitative and qualitative data collection, participant recruitment, research documentation, data management, and analysis

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support research preparation, literature reviews, research tool development, piloting, and training.

• Conduct quantitative surveys, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews.

• Recruit participants, obtain informed consent, and maintain confidentiality and research ethics standards.

• Conduct electronic data collection, transcription, validation, and fieldwork documentation.

• Support data cleaning, qualitative and quantitative analysis, report preparation, and dissemination.

• Maintain research equipment and records, submit progress updates, and participate in study team activities.

SUMMARY: Makerere University School of Public Health is seeking a part-time Research Officer to coordinate the Wellcome Trust-supported NETOMA study on health workforce employment, professional identities, and labour markets in Africa. The role focuses on longitudinal study coordination, quantitative data collection and analysis, data management, quality assurance, and research dissemination.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Coordinate longitudinal study implementation, survey development, field teams, and research activities across multiple sites.

• Oversee quantitative data collection, participant recruitment, retention, and follow-up.

• Manage secure research databases, data storage, documentation, and data sharing across participating countries.

• Develop dashboards, GIS mapping tools, and data-quality monitoring systems.

• Conduct statistical analysis of longitudinal data and contribute to scientific reports, publications, and dissemination.

• Support research ethics compliance, regulatory approvals, and collaboration with international research partners.

SUMMARY: Makerere University School of Public Health is seeking a Policy Scientist to support the Wellcome Trust-funded NETOMA study on health workforce employment and labour markets in Africa. The role focuses on health policy research, evidence synthesis, qualitative analysis, and translating research findings into policy briefs, scientific publications, and recommendations for practice.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Conduct health workforce policy research, systematic reviews, literature searches, and evidence synthesis.

• Review health workforce policies, strategies, and regulatory frameworks.

• Conduct qualitative interviews, focus groups, and data analysis.

• Coordinate research activities, work plans, deliverables, and collaboration across research teams.

• Prepare policy briefs, technical reports, scientific manuscripts, and other research outputs.

• Support research documentation, mentorship, stakeholder engagement, and knowledge translation.

SUMMARY: Spectrum Real Estate Solutions & Property Management is recruiting Property Inspectors (2 positions) and a Maintenance Supervisor (1 position) to support its property management operations. The roles involve property inspection and maintenance supervision.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Property inspection.

• Property maintenance supervision..

SUMMARY: The IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) is seeking a National Early Warning and Data Officer to support the UNDRR–Water at Heart (W@H) project in Uganda. The role focuses on geospatial and early warning information systems, spatial databases, hazard data management, system monitoring, and technical support for warning services.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Operate, administer, and support geospatial, meteorological, and emergency information systems.

• Administer and query spatial databases, particularly PostgreSQL with PostGIS.

• Support geospatial service publication and troubleshoot OGC services, including WMS, WFS, WCS, and OGC API.

• Manage early warning messages using the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), including validation and geographic targeting.

• Use QGIS, GeoServer, GDAL, and Python scripts for data handling, automated checks, and reporting.

• Monitor system status, inspect logs, troubleshoot incidents, and communicate warning information to institutional users and decision-makers.

SUMMARY: Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is seeking a Technical Advisor II to support its climate change and landscape restoration programmes in Uganda. The role focuses on technical leadership, programme design, proposal development, implementation oversight, partnerships, and evidence-based programming.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and implement strategies, standards, tools, and best practices for climate change adaptation, mitigation, and landscape restoration.

• Provide technical guidance to programme teams and partners on planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and adaptive management.

• Lead technical design of proposals, develop theories of change, and support fundraising and resource mobilisation.

• Oversee strategic initiatives and investments that generate evidence and demonstrate programme impact.

• Strengthen staff and partner capacity through training, mentoring, coaching, and knowledge sharing.

• Build relationships with donors, government institutions, research organisations, and other partners.

SUMMARY: Soroti University is seeking a Senior Lecturer in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering to teach, supervise, conduct research, disseminate research findings, and participate in community service. The position requires postgraduate qualifications in structural engineering, an honours bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, scholarly publications, teaching or research experience, and graduate supervision experience.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Teach and supervise students in the relevant discipline.

• Conduct research and disseminate research findings.

• Supervise graduate students.

• Participate in community service.

SUMMARY: Soroti University is seeking a Professor in Electronics and Computer Engineering to provide academic leadership and lead research development and publication in the discipline. The role requires advanced qualifications in electronics engineering, a substantial record of scholarly publications, graduate student supervision, and community service.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide academic leadership and knowledge in electronics and computer engineering.

• Lead the development and implementation of research.

• Produce and disseminate scholarly publications.

• Supervise graduate students.

• Contribute to community service.

SUMMARY: Soroti University is seeking an Assistant Lecturer in Psychiatry to teach, supervise, conduct research, disseminate research findings, and participate in community service. The position requires postgraduate medical training in psychiatry, an appropriate first degree, computer and communication skills, and professional registration.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Teach and supervise students in psychiatry.

• Conduct research and disseminate research findings.

• Participate in community service.

SUMMARY: Soroti University is seeking an Assistant Lecturer in Physiotherapy to support teaching, examination of undergraduate students, practical sessions, and research activities. The position requires postgraduate training in physiotherapy, an appropriate undergraduate qualification, computer and communication skills, and professional registration.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Assist senior academic staff in teaching undergraduate students.

• Assist with examining undergraduate students.

• Support practical sessions and research activities.

SUMMARY: Soroti University is seeking a Lecturer in Radiology to teach, supervise, conduct research, disseminate research findings, and participate in community service. The role requires specialist medical training in radiology, academic or clinical experience, research publications, and professional registration.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Teach and supervise students in radiology.

• Conduct research and disseminate research findings.

• Participate in community service.

SUMMARY: Reproductive Health Uganda is seeking an individual consultant, consulting firm, or consortium to assess how funding cuts and restrictive policies affect access to sexual and reproductive health and rights services in Uganda. The assignment focuses on research, policy analysis, assessment of SRHR outcomes, and evidence-based recommendations to strengthen service delivery and advocacy.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Review literature on Uganda’s SRHR funding and policy landscape.

• Develop the research methodology and data collection tools, including surveys, key informant interviews, and focus group discussions.

• Collect and analyse primary and secondary data from government officials, healthcare providers, civil society organisations, and beneficiaries.

• Identify funding cuts affecting SRHR programmes and assess how restrictive policies affect service availability, accessibility, affordability, and quality.

• Examine implications for maternal health, family planning uptake, adolescent sexual health, and gender-based violence prevention.

• Prepare a comprehensive research report with findings and actionable recommendations, and present the results to RHU and key stakeholders.

SUMMARY: IITA is seeking a Banana Breeding Lead to provide strategic leadership and coordinate banana and plantain breeding programmes across Africa. The role focuses on developing high-yielding, climate-resilient, and nutritionally enhanced varieties, modernising breeding systems, strengthening partnerships, and advancing research outputs.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead interdisciplinary banana and plantain breeding research and implement strategies for developing elite breeding material and candidate varieties.

• Modernise crop improvement programmes and align breeding priorities with IITA’s Breeding for Tomorrow framework.

• Strengthen breeding research through molecular and metabolomic tools, bioassays, germplasm development, and multi-location variety testing.

• Coordinate breeding programmes and infrastructure development in Uganda, Tanzania, and Nigeria, including integration with NARO’s banana breeding programme at Kawanda.

• Build partnerships with national breeding programmes, researchers, industry stakeholders, farmers, and regional crop networks.

• Manage breeding teams, budgets, capacity-building activities, resource mobilisation, scientific publications, and programme reporting.

SUMMARY: UNEP is seeking a Developer to support the modernisation, enhancement, and maintenance of its corporate website and related digital platforms. The role focuses on Drupal development, website migrations, reusable web components, enterprise search, AI-supported content discovery, multilingual functionality, and secure platform integrations.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop, maintain, and enhance Drupal websites, including modules, themes, configurations, content models, and custom functionality.

• Implement reusable templates and components and support migration of child, campaign, and project websites to common UNEP technical standards.

• Develop hybrid or decoupled Drupal functionality using React, Next.js, and related technologies where appropriate.

• Build and maintain APIs, integrations, multilingual functionality, and CMS translation workflows.

• Develop and optimise search and content discovery using OpenSearch or similar technologies, including indexing, ranking, relevance configuration, semantic search, and AI-supported functionality.

• Maintain website security and performance, apply updates, follow Git and CI/CD workflows, test releases, troubleshoot technical issues, and maintain documentation.

SUMMARY: UNEP is seeking a Senior Developer to provide technical support for the modernization of its corporate website and associated digital platforms. The role focuses on Drupal architecture, complex technical troubleshooting, platform migrations, developer mentoring and knowledge transfer.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Troubleshoot complex technical issues affecting UNEP’s corporate website, Starter Kit and priority website migrations.

• Review architecture, code and configurations for significant or high-risk changes.

• Support technical readiness for major releases and migrations, including security, performance, integrations and rollback planning.

• Provide specialist support for Drupal, reusable components, React/Next.js integrations, APIs and OpenSearch.

• Coach the designated replacement and develop technical training materials and an operations manual.

• Maintain comprehensive technical documentation covering architecture, configurations, integrations, deployment, maintenance and troubleshooting.

SUMMARY: Kampala Nile Resort is seeking a Hotel Electrician to maintain and repair the resort’s electrical systems and equipment. The role focuses on electrical installation, fault diagnosis, routine inspections, safety compliance, and emergency repairs.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Install, maintain, and repair electrical wiring, equipment, and fixtures.

• Troubleshoot electrical faults and carry out necessary repairs.

• Ensure electrical work complies with safety regulations and building codes.

• Conduct routine inspections of electrical systems.

• Respond to emergency electrical situations.

SUMMARY: UNICEF is seeking a National Consultant to oversee and coordinate implementation of the Community Health Workforce Programme (CHWP) in Uganda. The role focuses on programme monitoring, quality assurance, workforce training and deployment, digital health systems, and coordination with the Ministry of Health, district local governments, and implementing partners.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide strategic and operational oversight of CHWP implementation, ensuring delivery of outputs against approved work plans, budgets, and programme targets.

• Monitor the quality and timely implementation of community health worker training, recruitment, and deployment activities.

• Coordinate programme implementation among UNICEF, the implementing institution, the Ministry of Health, district local governments, and other stakeholders.

• Support implementation monitoring and coordination by designated focal point staff.

• Monitor programme performance and support quality assurance across community health workforce strengthening activities.

• Support improved supervision systems and digital health solutions, including eCHIS, to strengthen community health service delivery.

SUMMARY: FHI 360 is seeking a Project Director to provide strategic leadership and oversee implementation of its America First Global Health Strategy (AFGHS-FHI 360) project in Uganda. The role focuses on HIV and global health security programmes, project delivery, financial management, donor relations, stakeholder coordination, and achievement of contractual targets.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead project design, planning, implementation, and delivery within approved timelines, budgets, and contractual requirements.

• Oversee work plans, budgets, milestones, performance monitoring, risk management, and donor compliance.

• Manage project staff, including recruitment coordination, performance management, professional development, and accountability for results.

• Build and maintain partnerships with government institutions, implementing partners, local organisations, donors, and other stakeholders.

• Serve as the primary liaison with FHI 360 headquarters and relevant US government representatives in Uganda.

• Oversee monitoring and evaluation, technical reviews, capacity building, reporting, and identification of opportunities for collaboration and funding.

SUMMARY: NASECO Seeds is seeking a Seed Quality Controller to conduct field inspections, seed certification, and quality monitoring throughout the seed production cycle. The role focuses on compliance with seed quality standards, field performance records, seed sampling, farmer training, and coordination with agricultural regulators.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Organise planting returns from out-grower supervisors for submission to the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF).

• Inspect out-grower fields and commercial seed farms in accordance with quality assurance standards and protocols.

• Collect field performance data and maintain inspection records to ensure traceability.

• Certify crops in the field against internal and external seed certification standards.

• Collect and prepare seed samples for testing, grow-out planting, and evaluation during pre-harvest or harvest inspections.

• Train out-grower farmers in best agronomic practices, report quality problems, and coordinate with Ministry of Agriculture inspectors.

SUMMARY: NASECO Seeds is seeking a Quality Assurance Supervisor to implement quality standards throughout seed production and processing cycles. The role focuses on seed inspection and testing, field and factory quality control, stock management, compliance monitoring, and reporting.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop and implement quality standards in liaison with the Quality Assurance Lead.

• Conduct quality inspections, sampling, and seed testing in the field and factory; maintain relevant records and manage stock receipt and dispatch.

• Participate in grow-out activities, including post-control sampling, plot layout, testing, evaluation, and reporting.

• Monitor seed shelling, varietal crop sorting, moisture content, seed treatment quality, and random sampling.

• Verify stock dispatches, conduct stocktakes, reconcile balances, and update processed product records.

• Prepare weekly and monthly reports, participate in weekly meetings, and perform other assigned duties.