News
HST collects relevant news from a variety of sources, for your convenience and thus has no control over the content of these news articles. Select a story from below, or use our search feature to find stories of interest.

Director: Healthlink
HST
2006-09-06

Closing date: 15 September 2006
The Health Systems Trust is a non-government organisation (NGO) that supports the development of an equitable and comprehensive health system that provides quality health care. We a senior vacancy, Healthlink Director, in the organization.

Two year performance-based contract

A central activity of HST through its Healthlink Cluster is information dissemination, communication and advocacy with a particular focus on equity issues.

Requirements

• Post-graduate qualification in Public Health or Social Sciences (or equivalent) and management qualifications and experience
• At least ten years' experience in public health and/or communications in the public health sector or NGO environment.

Key Responsibility Areas

• To provide leadership to Healthlink with the design, resourcing and implementation of projects
• Overall leadership and management of the cluster including
• Planning and budgeting
• Fundraising, including proposal development
• Management of relationships with funders and stakeholders
• Management of project managers and staff
• Manage electronic information dissemination activities and HST publications including the South African Health Review
• Manage Healthlink Projects including Support for the National Health Information System, Monitoring and Evaluation projects, the District Health Barometer and the South African Equity Gauge
• Support knowledge management in HST, and ensure collaboration with other HST clusters
• Represent HST in public forums/meetings/conferences
• Contribute to the overall leadership of HST as a member of the Executive Team.

Remuneration: A salary package commensurate with experience and qualifications and in line with HST's Job Grading will be offered to the successful candidate. Prospective applicants should be prepared to travel throughout South Africa and preferably be based in Durban .

Applications/ Enquiries: A detailed CV with names and contact details of at least three references (with email addresses) should be sent to the:

Human Resources Officer, Jurie Thaver at the Durban Head Office, PO Box 808 , Durban , 4000.
Fax: 031-304 0775 e-mail: jurie@hst.org.za

Closing date for applications:15 September 2006

Should you not hear from us within 30 days of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful. HST reserves the right not to make an appointment.

The Health Systems Trust supports Employment Equity

Keywords	This Item is associated with the Following Keywords: job opportunities.
You Can Comment on this Item, or View other people's Comments
Easy Print  Email to a friend

	Related News
	Director: Healthlink (2006-02-10) Director: Healthlink (2006-12-06) HST: Chief Executive Officer (2007-07-23) Senior Researcher (2008-12-12) Manager: Support Services (2006-09-06)

	Related Publications
	South African Health Review 2003/04 (2004-07-28) Annual Report 2005/06 (2007-06-04) The Outbreak Manual (2000-06-19) Equity Gauge: An approach to Monitoring Equity in Health and Health Care in Developing Countries: International Meeting 17-20 August 2000 (2000-09-03) HealthLink - Information, Interaction, Innovation for Health Care in South Africa (2000-05-18)

	Related Health Statistics
	Per capita expenditure (non-hospital PHC) (2007-08-17) Health systems performance rank (2002-02-09) Total number of health professional posts (0000-00-00) Healthy life expectancy (HALE) (2002-12-02) Public sector dependent population (2004-10-11)

	Related Events
	Annual Sexuality Leadership Development Fellowship (SLDF) Programme (2006-07-10) The Third Public Health Association of South Africa Conference: Making the Health System Work (2006-05-16) Understanding Human Sexuality Seminar (2005-11-18) Health Sector Reform and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: MPH/MSc Module and Short Course (2007-11-26) 11th ISfTeH International Conference (2006-11-26)

	Related links
	The South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) Network for Equity in Health in Southern Africa Centre for HIV/AIDS Networking (HIVAN) Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC) CommUnity: Unity for communities through communication

	Related Content
	Programmes of HST (2004-02-09) HMIS Intern Orientation / Development Program (2006-10-03) The HealthLink Programme (2004-04-08) HST Staff (2004-03-10) Board of Trustees (2004-04-06)