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Post Title:
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Administrative Assistant – Stores
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Investment Executive -Legal (1 post)
3.
Investment Executive (2 post)
Organisation: Uganda
Investment Authority (UIA),
Background:
Uganda Investment Authority (UIA), set up under the
investment Code 1991 is a statutory agency mandated to initiate and support
measures that enhance investment in Uganda and to advise Government on
appropriate policies conducive for investment promotion and growth.
Applications are invited from suitably qualified candidates
to fill the following vacant positions.
1. Job Title Investment Executive -Legal (1 post)
Reporting to:
Director- Lands Development Division
Main duties and
responsibilities:
• Draft and review Industrial and Business Parks legal
documents to ensure compliance to the Laws and Regulations of Uganda.
• Liaise and consult with the office of the Solicitor
General on legal matters affecting Industrial and Business Parks of the
Authority
• Provide Legal advice regarding actual or potential legal
issues affecting the national plan for the development of Industrial and
Business Parks, and any land related matters.
• Handle all land transactions of the Authority including
registration of leases for Industrial and Business Parks developers.
• Work with stakeholders to simplify all administrative
procedures to facilitate new investments in Industrial and Business Parks.
• Monitor compliance of contracted obligations under lease
and concession agreements, and handle Park legal issues as they may arise;
• Participate in negotiations with investors,
concessionaires, service providers etc
• Institute and defend Legal suits for and against the
Authority.
Critical outputs:
• Legal opinions
• Agreements, Memoranda of Understanding, Contracts
• Legal representation of UIA
• Secured Solicitor General’s approvals
• Processed Certificates of titles in the names of UIA and
UIA’s lessees
• Reports
Qualifications and
experience:
a) Minimum of an LLB (Hons) degree from a recognised
Institution
b) A post graduate diploma in legal practice
c) Must be an enrolled advocate of the High Court.
d) 3 years legal working experience preferably in a
commercial environment and/or Government parastatal.
e) Proficiency in Micro office Suite.
2. Job Title: Investment
Executive (2 post)
Division: Investment
Facilitation and Aftercare.
Reporting to: Director
Investment Facilitation and Aftercare
Main duties and
responsibilities:
a) Licensing and facilitation
• Appraise the investment license applications in sectors
assigned.
• Mobilize and sensitize unlicensed investors.
• Hand all facilitation inquiries from the sectors.
• Facilitate existing investors with work permits.
• Facilitate existing investors with secondary licenses.
b) Aftercare services
• Identify existing companies with potential to expand.
• Monitor licensed projects within the allocated sectors to
ascertain their actual investment, employment levels and any other related
investment issues.
• Share published information with companies (newsletters,
sector profiles etc)
• Ensure participation of licensed investors in the
allocated sectors in UIA organized workshops.
• Invite companies to participate in both inward and outward
mission.
• Provide aftercare services to existing investors.
c) Project Monitoring
• Conduct regular project monitoring in the sectors with a
view of establishing the actual investments, employment etc
• Prepare monthly and quarterly monitoring reports
• Updating the UIA data base using ACT software.
• Participate in the Privates Sector Investor Surveys and
any other related survey.
d) Networking
• Attend key institutional workshops, seminars for capacity
building.
• Prepare and conduct sector meetings.
• Conduct Regional/ district workshops and train district
leaders.
• Coordinate and conduct regional workshops.
• Participate in planning annual investor survey.
e) Presidential Investors Round Table (PIRT)
• Be a Secretary to PIRT Technical Working Group (TWG).
• Organize and attend PIRT TWG meetings.
• Prepare presentations and follow up on PIRT issues with
key stakeholders.
Critical Outputs:
• Projects licensed
• Work permits issued
• Secondary licenses handled
• Infrastructure issues attended to.
• After care services provided to existing investors.
• Licensed projects monitored.
• Annual investor surveys conducted and reports prepared.
• Meetings/workshops held and reports prepared.
Person Specification:
a) Bachelors’ degree in Economics or BBA or B.Com.
b) Masters degree in Econ, Business Admin will be an added
advantage
c) 5 years experience in a Private sector or Government
Institutions
d) Proficiency in Micro office Suite.
3. Job Title: Administrative
Assistant – Stores
Reporting to: Director
Finance and Administration
Main duties and
responsibilities:
• Inspecting all items delivered to the store and
ascertaining that they are of the right specification, quantity and quality as
indicated in the local purchase order.
• Receiving all goods procured in the stores.
• Issuing goods received note to suppliers for all delivered
goods.
• Recording all items in the appropriate stores books and
maintaining an up to date stock ledgers.
• Issuing items from the store against duly authorized and
approved store requisition forms.
• Conducting monthly stock checks and submitting a report to
Director Finance and Administration.
• Ensuring that the stores are clean, all items are neatly
arranged and prohibiting entry of unauthorized persons in the store.
• Ensuring safety of goods while in the store.
Critical Outputs:
• Zero issuing of items from the store without proper
authorization
• Bin cards and stock cards maintained.
• Stock taking Reports
Person Specifications
a) A Diploma in Stores Management or the equivalent from a recognized
institution.
b) At least three years’ experience in Stores and Inventory
management.
c) Proficiency in Micro office Suite
How to Apply:
Applications with comprehensive CV, copies of certificates
and/or
testimonials together with the applicant’s telephone
contact, names,
addresses and telephone numbers of three referees should be
sent to;
The Executive Director
Uganda Investment Authority
P. O. Box 7418, Kampala.
Not later than two weeks from the date of this
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UIA accepts no liability for incomplete submission, late or
misdirected
transmission of applications.
Note:
• Only short listed applicants will be contacted for
interviews
• Any form of canvassing will lead to automatic
disqualification.
• Uganda Investment Authority is an equal opportunity
employer.
