Chief Operating Officer at Deloitte Consulting

Our client, Jumuia Hospitals Limited, is a start-up business and an integrated healthcare initiative of the National Council of Churches of Kenya - a faith-based multicultural and multi-denominational Christian organisation. Jumuia Hospitals seeks to employ leading physicians and professionals to provide globally competitive healthcare facilities and quality healthcare services.

Jumuia Hospital Huruma (the Hospital) is seeking to recruit an agile, highly skilled, experienced and results oriented professionals, able to implement and quickly adopt turn around strategies and can report immediately to fill the following vacant post of Chief Operating Officer.

Overall Objective

Reporting to the General Secretary and will be responsible for providing strategic leadership in the attainment of strategic, operational and business plans, effectively and efficiently running the business, and ensuring growth and the actualisation of corporate strategic goals and objectives. The COO will also offer oversight to the support departments.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Develop a strategic financial plan and financial operating model for the Hospital;
• Provide leadership in innovations to boost the revenues of the hospital in collaboration with other departments;
• Provide technical support and supervision to all Jumuia Hospitals;
• Monitor the daily/weekly business report of the Jumuia hospitals and communicate it to the management;
• Provide support to new centres – setting up the facilities, coordinating all aspects of implementation from personnel to medical and other non-medical equipment;
• Promote a holistic approach in Jumuia hospitals, in line with strategy and business plans;
• Ensure that revenue and cost strategies are achieved in line with the set down implementation plan and business plan;
• As and when necessary, provide technical representation with relevant stakeholders including the Ministry of Health (MOH), National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF), etc;
• Plan and control overall budget estimates and budget compliance in consultation with the finance teams;
• Advise the General Secretary regarding the technical aspects such as registration of the hospitals and other statutory requirements to be fulfilled for effective operationalisation;
• Participate in meetings to review the progress made on the Hospitals establishment front;
• Oversee and interpret any feasibility studies carried out to gauge the suitability of various new hospital facilities;
• Prepare board reports and, in consultation with the Board Secretary, ensure board minutes are ready soon after the meeting and matters arising lifted and acted on to report closure where possible at next meeting; and
• Perform any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor from time to time.

Requirements

• Holder of a Master’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Healthcare Management or other related field from a recognised university;
• Have not less than ten (10) years’ relevant working experience of which five (5) years should be at a senior management position preferably in the service industry. Health sector knowledge with good understanding of business dynamics of the industry will be an added advantage;
• Strong corporate planning and budgeting skills;
• Results oriented with entrepreneurial and innovative approach to business and business solutions, project development, implementation and evaluation;
• Good leadership skills and experience in problem solving, negotiation and turnaround management;
• Highly developed analytical and reporting skills with excellent communication and presentation skills; and
• Effective working relationship with staff and other stakeholders.