Job Summary

The Associate Research Manager will primarily lead the implementation of a cross-country consumer protection survey, with data collection in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. They will oversee end-to-end survey activities—including instrument adaption, field team management in collaboration with IPA Country Office and external survey firm staff, data quality assurance, and analysis and dissemination. The Associate Research Manager will also support other activities under IPA’s Consumer Protection Research Initiative and broader Financial Inclusion program, which may include developing initiative-level outputs and activities, supporting regulatory partnerships and collaborating with external academic researchers on selected projects to strengthen technical research skills. The role will be managed by the Consumer Protection Research Initiative’s Associate Director with support and mentorship by a (Senior) Research Manager and other Financial Inclusion Program staff.

Responsibilities

• Lead survey design, preparation, and data collection for CPRI digital finance consumer protection surveys across 10 countries. Oversee coordination with IPA country offices and survey firms, ensure adherence to standardized instruments and protocols, monitor field progress, and uphold data quality.
• Lead data analysis, synthesis, and dissemination of survey findings. Produce policy-relevant insights, draft reports and briefs, and contribute to cross-country comparative outputs and public goods.
• Coordinate with the broader CPRI team and external researchers. Ensure alignment with strategic goals, provide input into research pipeline development, support cross-project learning and documentation, support regulator engagements, and collaborate with academic PIs on selected research activities to build technical research skills.

Qualifications

• Advanced training in economics, public policy, statistics, data science, international development, or a closely related field (e.g., Master’s or equivalent experience).
• Proven ownership of end-to-end, large-scale survey research: instrument design, sampling/pilots, field team management, and rigorous data quality assurance across multiple countries.
• Strong quantitative skills and coding proficiency (including Stata) to clean, analyze, and document large survey datasets with reproducible workflows.
• Cross-country project coordination and vendor management experience (e.g., survey firms and country offices), delivering on time and to standard.
• Ability to translate evidence into clear, policy-relevant products (reports/briefs) and comparative insights suitable for public dissemination.
• Experience engaging policy stakeholders—ideally financial sector regulators—and co-creating practical tools (e.g., complaints dashboards, pricing monitors) and workshops.
• Excellent planning, communication, and stakeholder management skills; comfortable operating across time zones and cultures and solving field challenges under tight timelines.
• English fluency and ability to travel up to 25%.

Exquisite Solution Limited is hiring a Client Relationship Manager with strong HSE management experience for one of our clients in the manufacturing industry. The ideal candidate will combine excellent customer relationship skills with expertise in health, safety, and environmental management to ensure outstanding service delivery, compliance, and client satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

• Apply health, safety, and environmental (HSE) management expertise to ensure compliance and risk mitigation
• Coordinate with internal teams to deliver exceptional service aligned with client expectations and HSE standards
• Manage and supervise workers to ensure safe practices and high-quality performance on site
• Monitor client satisfaction and address any concerns promptly to maintain strong partnerships
• Support the development and implementation of HSE policies and procedures within the client’s operations
• Prepare reports and documentation related to HSE compliance and client interactions
• Facilitate communication between the client and internal or outsourced teams to ensure seamless service delivery
• Identify opportunities to enhance service quality and contribute to business growth through proactive client engagement

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Occupational Health & Safety, Environmental Science, Business Management, or a related field
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in health, safety, and environmental (HSE) management within a manufacturing or industrial setting
• Strong client relationship management skills with the ability to drive service excellence and client satisfaction
• Proven ability to lead or mentor teams, including support for junior staff development
• Experience working with diverse client portfolios or in multinational project environments is an added advantage
• Solid understanding of safety compliance, risk assessment, and regulatory frameworks
• Familiarity with CRM tools, service delivery processes, and reporting systems
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills across cross-functional teams

Organization Background:

aBi’s Background: The Agricultural Business Initiative (aBi) was jointly founded by the Governments of Denmark & Uganda in 2010 as a social enterprise that channels development cooperation funding to agribusinesses & agricultural service providers. aBi aims at building a competitive, profitable & sustainable agriculture and agribusiness sector in support of equitable wealth creation in Uganda. The aBi consists of two companies; aBi Finance Ltd a company limited by shares and aBi Development Ltd (formerly aBi Trust) limited by guarantee.

aBi Finance Ltd is an impact investor providing sustainable financing solutions in Uganda’s financial services sector. Its mission revolves around enabling access to agribusiness and green finance, achieved through three key strategies: offering competitively priced liquidity through lines of credit (LoC), mitigating agribusiness finance

risks using the agribusiness guarantee (AG), and bolstering the capabilities of financial services providers through Financial Services Development (FSD) and Business Development Services (BDS).

Exquisite Solution Limited is hiring a Business Development Executive to drive growth by identifying new opportunities, building client relationships, and promoting our full suite of services. We are looking for someone who is proactive, goal-oriented, and confident in engaging with clients at all levels.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and pursue new business opportunities to expand the client base for both in-house and BDO services.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with key decision-makers and prospective clients
• Promote and position recruitment, HR, and business development outsourcing (BDO) services to potential partners
• Conduct industry and market research to understand trends and support strategic client targeting
• Prepare and deliver compelling proposals, pitches, and presentations
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure successful service delivery and client satisfaction
• Act as a key point of contact between clients and outsourced BDO teams
• Track sales performance, report on KPIs, and contribute to overall business growth

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business, Marketing, Communications, or a related field
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in business development, sales, or client relationship management
• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on achieving targets and delivering value to clients
• Proven ability to mentor junior team members and support skill development
• Experience working on international projects or with diverse client portfolios is an advantage
• Solid understanding of sales pipelines, lead generation, and B2B partnership development
• Familiarity with CRM tools, proposal writing, and solution selling in service-based industries
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders

Job Purpose: Responsible for driving the compliance independent second line of defence assurance program, ensuring the Department’s activity plan is up to date, handling adhoc reviews based on emerging risks, changes in the legal and regulatory environment, supporting the closure of regulatory audits, external and internal audits compliance observations, KYC reviews and preparing management reports.

Reports to: Chief Compliance Officer (CCO)/Money Laundering Control Officer (MLCO)

Department: Compliance Department

Key Responsibilities:

• Stay abreast of relevant regulatory changes, promptly inform Management and the relevant functions of the Bank and ensure their timely integration into the Bank policies, procedures and practices.
• Ensure timely regulatory reporting and coordinate all preparations and engagements for and during regulatory examinations.
• Conducting compliance assurance activities and testing programs, including identifying compliance risks, assessing their likelihood and impact and ensuring they are properly managed.
• Ensure Bank policies and procedures are promptly updated and kept aligned with all applicable regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate the review, track approval and ensure communication of policy and procedure requirements.
• Maintain and coordinate a Bank-wide training and awareness program on internal and external compliance requirements.
• Offer day-to-day guidance to business units and the rest of the Bank staff on how to comply with relevant requirements in the context of gaps identified from regulatory examinations, audit reviews, from compliance monitoring activities.
• Coordinate management responses to regulatory findings and audit recommendations, and ensure timely and appropriate implementation of corrective action where instances of non-compliance or other problems that need to be addressed have been identified
• Promote a strong culture of compliance across the Bank.
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of all compliance risks and issues affecting the Bank, their implications and how they can be addressed.
• Prepare and present reports to Management on the Bank’s regulatory standing and compliance with internal policies and procedures, and take part in preparations for Board reporting by the compliance department.
• Deputy to the Chief Compliance Officer and MLCO with the responsibility for ensuring seamless continuity of the department in the absence of the CCO/MLCO
• Perform any other duties as assigned by the CCO/MLCO in furthering the Bank’s Compliance agenda in line with CBU’s strategy.

Education.

A Master’s degree is an added advantage.

Bachelor’s degree in Law, Finance, Business, or related field.

A master’s degree or professional certification (e.g., CAMS, CPA, ACCA) is an added advantage.

Minimum 6 – 8 years’ experience in compliance, regulatory affairs, risk management, internal controls or internal audit, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.

Experience.

• At least 3 years’ experience in a similar role in a financial institution.

Skills and competencies.

• Excellent knowledge of financial institutions.
• Understanding KYC requirements
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• An analytical mind, good attention to detail, problem-solving, good time management skills and the ability to multitask work under pressure.
• Proficiency in computer applications

About Stop TB Partnership/UNOPS PULMq-TB Project

The Ministry of Health (MoH)-National TB/Leprosy Division (NTLD) adopted digital X-ray and CAD as a strategy to increase TB case detection and thus facilitate the finding of the missing TB cases that are not usually reached by the health infrastructure in place due to systemic or patient-level factors. IDI received a grant from the Stop TB Partnership/UNOPS introducing new tool project (iNTP), to implement the Ultra-Portable MinXray Impact System with Qure.ai qXR Software for Community TB Screening in Uganda (PULMq- TB Project). PULMq-TB project will conduct community TB screening among the high-risk populations in the urban and peri-urban settings of Kampala metropolitan and other selected districts of Uganda, inclusive of those in the Karamoja region. The project will also integrate supplementary feeding care aimed at preventing TB infection progression to disease in household contacts of diagnosed bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB patients and those households with children diagnosed with TB in three districts of the Karamoja sub-region.

In order to successfully implement the activities for this project, IDI is looking for competent and experienced individuals to fill the positions below.

Purpose: The Nutritionist will provide technical guidance in the implementation of the nutrition supplementation component of the project in line with the current Ministry of Health nutrition guidelines and supervise the Nutrition Assistants. S/he will provide technical guidance on food values and advise patients and the community on nutrition. S/he will ensure that the Project Coordinator is up-to-date with the implementation progress.

Key Responsibilities

1. Support the review of the current health management information systems (HMIS) to inform project M&E needs for the nutrition supplementation component. Advise on the adaptation of the project data capture tool to facilitate profiling of the nutrition status of patients and their contacts in eligible households.
2. Adapt the nutrition health education materials into local languages in collaboration with the relevant stakeholders.
3. Advise on the quantities and composition of food rations that are adequate for targeted households and districts.
4. Coordinate the orientation of the existing community health structures to support community nutrition activities
5. Coordinate the setting up of a structure for the delivery of nutrition-dense rations to the eligible households.
6. Provide safe, quality, nutrition, and care services to patients
7. Evaluate and refer patients for specialized nutrition and care services
8. Oversee successful linkage to available therapeutic nutrition support services for eligible TB patients and their contacts.
9. Strengthen nutrition education/counselling in households affected by TB in the project districts.
10. Develop monthly schedules for the implementation of planned nutrition activities in the supported districts and provide oversight to the implementation of planned nutrition activities
11. Leverage the USAID LPHS-TB Activity regional structures to deliver the nutrition supplementation package as planned.
12. Work closely with the district nutrition structures to ensure a well-coordinated community nutrition program
13. Foster linkages with the district community development structures to facilitate access to available food security community programs.
14. Supervise the nutrition assistants and ensure that they deliver according to set expectations.
15. Work closely with the Project Coordinator to ensure the availability of resources required for the delivery of the nutrition supplementation component.
16. Prepare briefs and participate in update meetings and/or monthly performance review meetings organized by the project management team and key stakeholders.
17. Represent the PULMq-TB Project in various fora in the Karamoja region to provide implementation progress updates.
18. Document the lessons learned from integrating the nutrition supplementation package in TB-affected households.
19. Any other duties assigned from time to time

Academic Qualifications

• • A diploma in Clinical and Community Nutrition or Food Science and Nutrition, or Human Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics from a recognized University/Institution.
• • Registered by Allied Health Professional Council.

Person Specification

• Knowledge in nutrition management
• Planning, organizing, and coordinating nutrition services/programs
• Skills to engage community stakeholders to deliver on set activities.
• Prior experience in implementing Nutrition Programs is desirable.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Demonstrable knowledge of computer packages, e.g., Microsoft (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc)

About Stop TB Partnership/UNOPS PULMq-TB Project

The Ministry of Health (MoH)-National TB/Leprosy Division (NTLD) adopted digital X-ray and CAD as a strategy to increase TB case detection and thus facilitate the finding of the missing TB cases that are not usually reached by the health infrastructure in place due to systemic or patient-level factors. IDI received a grant from the Stop TB Partnership/UNOPS introducing new tool project (iNTP), to implement the Ultra-Portable MinXray Impact System with Qure.ai qXR Software for Community TB Screening in Uganda (PULMq- TB Project). PULMq-TB project will conduct community TB screening among the high-risk populations in the urban and peri-urban settings of Kampala metropolitan and other selected districts of Uganda, inclusive of those in the Karamoja region. The project will also integrate supplementary feeding care aimed at preventing TB infection progression to disease in household contacts of diagnosed bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB patients and those households with children diagnosed with TB in three districts of the Karamoja sub-region.

In order to successfully implement the activities for this project, IDI is looking for competent and experienced individuals to fill the positions below.

Purpose: The Nutritionist will provide technical guidance in the implementation of the nutrition supplementation component of the project in line with the current Ministry of Health nutrition guidelines and supervise the Nutrition Assistants. S/he will provide technical guidance on food values and advise patients and the community on nutrition. S/he will ensure that the Project Coordinator is up-to-date with the implementation progress.