Background and Partner Organisation
Nearly one third of all households in Uganda experience financial difficulties every year due to high medical costs. The vision of the Uganda Protestant Medical Bureau (UPMB), a network of Protestant health facilities, is to improve the lives of a large part of the population in Uganda through quality health services.
You are located in Kampala, Uganda.
Your Responsibilities
You will support UPMB in digitalisation to enable the further development of health insurance offerings and the strengthening of alternative health financing options.
In particular, you are responsible for the following:
- Advice on setting up a cost-effective, sustainable digital network system with mobile application programmes
- Capacity building of UPMB staff to maintain the digital network system
- Evaluation of the existing community-based health insurance models and functioning of the existing contracts between health facilities and the health insurance groups
- Improvement of the evaluation tools of the health insurance groups and support for the adaptation of the insurance schemes
- Development of new and affordable health insurance models
- Participation in the establishment of a nationwide network of all health insurance groups and data storage system to improve information processing and support
Your Profile
What you bring to the table:
- You have a task-related university degree (Master’s level, e.g. public health, social science, business informatics) with relevant further training and at least two years of relevant professional experience
- You can adapt the communication of your very good application-oriented knowledge of digitalisation to different needs
- Your enjoyment of flexible and solution-oriented cooperation in a team and your business fluent English qualify you to accompany participatory change processes in an intercultural context
- We are looking for internationally experienced candidates. For this position, a minimum of 5 years proven working and living experience outside of Uganda is required.
Benefits provided by Brot für die Welt and Dienste in Übersee
Brot für die Welt provides a framework in which the professionals of Dienste in Übersee share their knowledge and skills with people of another culture.
Supportive cooperation, mutual learning and intercultural exchange are enabled by:
- Individual preparation
- Three-year contract with benefits in accordance with, or analogous to, the German Development Workers Act
- Coaching
Please submit your application including the following documents:
- Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Motivation letter
- Contact details of two professional references (name and email address)
Only complete applications can be considered in the application process.
Application deadline: February 11, 2026.
Dienste in Übersee gGmbH is a 100% owned subsidiary of the Protestant Agency for Diakonia and Development e.V., operating under the brand Brot für die Welt.
Diversity is important to us. We welcome applications from people regardless of their ethnic, or social origin, gender, disability, age, or sexual identity.
How to apply
Interested?
More Information
- Job City Kampala, Uganda.
