Openings at Aga Khan University (AKU)

Responsibilities

• Lead the operational and strategic planning of the Undergraduate Educational Programmes of the Medical College in the Faculty of Health Sciences through an Office of Undergraduate Medical Education and participates in strategic planning activities of the Faculty of Health Sciences and AKU more broadly.
• Provide supervision and mentorship to faculty who have taken on specific educational leadership roles within the Medical College.
• Support the Office of the Dean in recruitment of all educational leadership roles within the College and specific responsibility for recruitment and performance review of Directors and Assistant Deans within the Undergraduate Medical Education portfolio.
• Support the development, implementation and quality review of all programs, including undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing education programs of the College.
• Establish strong working relationship with the leadership of other entities within AKU to ensure coordinated planning, implementation and quality control of common programmes.
• Establish liaison with the Registrar’s Office, Examination Board and other AKU and AKDN entities to coordinate student intake, teaching, examinations, and overall experience  
• Develop the budget for Undergraduate programmes and has overall responsibility for the financial resources dedicated to undergraduate medical programmes.
• Contribute to and provides leadership in educational scholarship.
• Provide liaison to the AKUHN and other AKHS facilities in relation to educational goals and activities.
• Provide academic liaison to AKU-wide activities and to the AKDN.  
• Provide liaison to local, regional and international government, university and professional bodies related to education.

Requirements

• Master of Medicine or its equivalent.
• Registration by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council.
• Advanced training in medical education and/or educational leadership preferred.
• The individual will be at or appointable as an Associate Professor or Professor.
• Demonstrated track record in positions of increasing responsibility.
• Possess a record of scholarly achievement in medical education.
• Demonstrated scholarly activity in medical education and teaching and will be a mentor to other leaders within the education portfolio.
• Strong organizational administrative skills.  Understands internal processes in a university and can work to make them more effective and efficient.
• Possesses the ability to work with Faculty to choose initiatives with both strategic and tactical focus in the context of this vision.
• Ability to build teams, providing leadership within a horizontal structure.
• Leads with a collegial, open and transparent approach while also able to make difficult decisions and move the Faculty forward.  Is fair and consistent, strategic and inspirational to the collective.

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Responsibilities

Reporting to the Dean of the Medical College, the Chair will provide dynamic leadership to the department and will have overall responsibility for the conduct of its academic and research mandate, consistent with mission and policies of AKU.

S/he will foster a research culture in the department, teach, supervise and be an active participant in the student mentoring/advising process, as well as focus on attraction, retention and succession planning of faculty and on procuring extramural funding.

Requirements

• Candidates must have a doctorate in a biological science discipline preferably with a medical degree with substantial experience in a university setting and a proven track record of internationally recognized research, teaching at graduate/ post graduate level, supervising students, conducting translational research and procuring extramural funding.
• S/he should have experience of academic administration and demonstrable commitment to scholarly activity with an understanding of the opportunities and challenges in the local environment.

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Responsibilities

To develop curricula and course content for a new course whose focus will be Inclusive Early Childhood Development (ECD)

The course will be targeted at frontline workers in early childhood development. The purpose of the course will be to build their skills in identifying children with disability, developing programmes to include them in ECD programmes and implementing inclusive ECD programmes within communities, especially those in Low and Middle Income Countries.

Contractual Stipulations

The Consultant will work closely with the project team to execute the following objectives:

• Develop a curriculum with teaching guidelines for new courses on ‘Inclusive ECD’
• Conduct a technical review and avail the content for review by other experts and develop content incorporating reviewer feedback.
• Develop course documents, including course outline and schedule, checklists, presentations, digital products such as videos, assessment tools, assignment guidelines and rubrics, and evaluation forms.
• Develop facilitator and participant manuals or online content
• Pre-test the courses on a small sample of learners and ensure that it is appropriately designed and can run smoothly from start to end.
• Train facilitators to conduct the courses

Deliverables

• Curriculum structure and materials for the courses ‘Inclusive ECD’
• Training of facilitators for the course
• Final report on the development of the courses including any recommendations for their rollout

Requirements

• Should be an individual or organization with solid expertise in developing curricula for early childhood development with a strong background in childhood disability.

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Responsibilities

Successful applicant will be committed to advancing best practice in their discipline, meet the quality and patient safety standards of an internationally accredited university hospital, Successful applicants besides providing tertiary care clinical services will develop their academic career in teaching and research. In education the focus will remain on undergraduate and post graduate medical education. 

Requirements

• Applicants must have a completion certificate of specialty training in Breast Surgery with a qualification of Masters of Medicine or FRCS or Equivalent specialty qualification. Applicant should also have done subspecialty training/fellowship 
• S/he must have 5 years post specialty training experience in the field. 
• Teaching and research experience is desirable.
• S/he be registered or eligible for registration with Kenya Medical Practitioners’ & Dentists Board as a specialist. 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a multi-disciplinary team

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Responsibilities

Successful applicants will join a growing and dynamic department committed to advancing best practice in their discipline, expanding services that meet quality and patient service needs within an internationally accredited university hospital with outstanding diagnostic services. Successful applicants will develop their academic career in teaching and research. In education there is a focus on resident training and fellowship programmes training and planned introduction of undergraduate training.

Requirements

• Applicants must have a completion certificate of specialty training in Urology Surgery with a qualification of Masters of Medicine or FRCS or Equivalent specialty qualification. Applicant should also have done subspecialty training/fellowship 
• S/he must have 5 years post specialty training experience in the field. 
• Teaching and research experience is desirable.
• S/he be registered or eligible for registration with Kenya Medical Practitioners’ & Dentists Board as a specialist. 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a multi-disciplinary team.

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Responsibilities

We are looking for technical expertise with focus on the key thematic areas including: 

Population Health; Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health; Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health; Communicable and Non-communicable Diseases; Nutrition; and Mental Health.

Within these key areas, consultants/experts shall demonstrate high level of expertise in the following major subject areas: 

• Evidence based health policy development; 
• Epidemiology; 
• Biostatistics including clinical and field data analysis; 
• Health information and surveillance systems and health informatics; 
• Health systems-strengthening with focus on access to quality of care; 
• Health workforce capacity building and institutional development; 
• Health service management; 
• Community-based health care and strengthening of the interface between the levels of care; 
• E-health and el-earning; 
• Health education and behavior change communication; 
• Health care financing. 

Requirements

Applicants should have minimum of Masters level degree with 10 years of continuous work experience or PhD degree with minimum of 3 years work experience. Experience should be within selected thematic field.

If you are interested to be short-listed and become part of the University’s consultant/expert pool, please submit your EoI along with the most recent curriculum vitae as per the instructions below.

Responsibilities

We are looking for technical expertise with focus on the key thematic areas including: 

Population Health; Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health; Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health; Communicable and Non-communicable Diseases; Nutrition; and Mental Health.

Within these key areas, consultants/experts shall demonstrate high level of expertise in the following major subject areas: 

• Evidence based health policy development; 
• Epidemiology; 
• Biostatistics including clinical and field data analysis; 
• Health information and surveillance systems and health informatics; 
• Health systems-strengthening with focus on access to quality of care; 
• Health workforce capacity building and institutional development; 
• Health service management; 
• Community-based health care and strengthening of the interface between the levels of care; 
• E-health and el-earning; 
• Health education and behavior change communication; 
• Health care financing. 

Requirements

• Applicants should have minimum of Masters level degree with 10 years of continuous work experience or PhD degree with minimum of 3 years work experience. Experience should be within selected thematic field.
• If you are interested to be short-listed and become part of the University’s consultant/expert pool, please submit your EoI along with the most recent curriculum vitae as per the instructions below.