International Medical Group is the leading private provider of health care services in Uganda. There are three main divisions in the group and our model is similar to that of HMOs in the USA:
1. IAA Health Care provides Health Schemes to employers for their employees and families and also some personal schemes. These schemes meet the costs of any treatments required. Members can get treatment from IMG, or from a number of other partner health service providers.
2. International Hospital Kampala, the largest private hospital in Uganda, provides care for IAA members, for those with other health insurance and for cash and invoiced patients. IHK has 100 beds for in-patients, plus general outpatient and specialist clinics. It is the country’s first ISO certified hospital.
3. International Medical Centres has 13 community based Health Clinics throughout the country. These provide primary health care and refer patients to IHK as needed. Some of these are stand alone clinics and others are in large Factories and Schools.
IMG employs about 530 people and has more than 100,000 clients.
In recent months we have started to shape our plans for the next 5 years. We want to add to the specialist services available at IHK creating a hospital capable of being a Regional Referral Centre for East Africa. In May we heard that IMG had been awarded a very significant grant to implement a fully fledged Cardio Vascular Centre, which will be the first of its kind in Uganda.
We have a number of strategic discussions underway with other potential investors and business partners. With one of these we are exploring how best to extend the reach of our community based primary care.
Dr. Ian and I are looking for a few good people to join our management team to help develop and implement these new ventures. Ideally we would like those who can work as volunteers or interns or at the very most be content to receive a local wage (for now).
Ideal candidates will be those with a number of years business management experience, perhaps working with or at Board level, now looking for a sabbatical and a new experience to add to their portfolio.
Alternatively you may have just completed a Business related degree and looking for an early opportunity to start building your CV. If that’s you and you have no job to go to yet then get in touch.
Others might have been considering doing an MBA and could see this as a very viable and less expensive alternative.
You must have great communications skills, both verbal and written and also be able to work with numbers, spreadsheets and lots of data.
You must be very driven, ambitious and the type that won’t stop until all objectives are achieved and issues overcome. If, when thrown in the deep-end, you think this is okay, I can do this, I can cope on my own, then this may just be the opportunity you’ve been looking for.
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