Riders for Health
Position : Admin Manager
Work station : Maseru (Riders Main Office)
Responsible : Country Director
Type: Short-Term Renewable Contract
Job Summary
The successful candidate is responsible for ensuring compliance with Riders’ policies, legal and statutory requirements. Preserve integrity of the organisation and making sure that the right processes and procedures are followed at all times.
Specific Duties
- Ensure adherence to governance processes and procedures
- Record keeping for administration, HR and Procurement documents
- Processing of all insurance documentation for staff and assets/equipment, including claims
- Compilation of partner reports in collaboration with the M&E officer
- Coordinate staff and board meetings and compile minutes
- Respond to legal actions against the organisation and oversee administrative procedures and negotiations.
Skills, qualifications and qualities:
- Must hold a valid Degree in Business Administration
- A minimum of five years working experience working with Donor funded projects
- Must have experience with HR and procurement processes and procedures
- Good communication and people skills.
- Willingness to travel to all areas where Riders operate, within and outside the country
- Independent and make unbiased decisions
Riders for Health International (Riders) is a non-profit organisation registered as such in the United States as Riders for Health 11, US 501 (c) 3. Registered office: William Becker, Attorney, 260 East Jefferson Street, Rockville, MD, USA. Riders’ US Admin office, C/o Frank Hirth LLC, 100 Wall Street, NY 10005. The administrative branch for Riders International is currently in London, C/o Frank, Hirth, 1st Floor, 236 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8HB. Riders’ vision is a world in which health care reaches everyone, everywhere. Riders is also registered locally in seven African countries including Lesotho. The mission is to make the ‘last mile’ the most important mile in health care delivery: creating, showing and sharing the solutions for achieving truly equitable health care. Riders achieves this by managing vehicles on a reliable, predictable and cost-effective basis, to support the work of health partners whose remit is to reach rural communities with health care and other vital services, as well as transportation of medical samples, results.., emergency medical supplies, reports etc, between the health centres, district hospital and the DHMT.
Riders’ facilitates acquisition of vehicles, setting up systems for preventive maintenance of vehicles including motorbikes, management of vehicles used for health care delivery and training of health workers and drivers on basic motorbike riding, defensive and off-road riding/driving as the case may be. Globally, Riders for Health has enabled health workers to reach hitherto hard to reach areas, and conduct more outreach visits, attend more patients by cutting down walking time and facilitated transport of patient specimen to laboratories as well as feedback results. Reliable, accessible, well-functioning, well managed and cost-effective transportation is essential for optimal health care delivery and preventive maintenance of all diagnostic equipment used at health facilities.
Interested candidates should send their Curriculum Vitae and cover letters to:
The Manager
Riders for Health
Ministry of Health Building
PO Box 514
Maseru
Lesotho
Closing date: 13th September 2019.