Medical Director/ Chief Executive Officer at the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa

Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, invites applications from suitably qualified and experienced candidates for the post of:

Job Title: Medical Director/Chief Executive Officer

Location: Yenagoa, Bayelsa State

Duties

• Serves as the Chief Executive/Accounting Officer of the hospital
• Charged with responsibility for execution of the policies and matters affecting the day-to-day management of the affairs of the hospital.
• Exercise the power, authority and discipline over all staff subject to the general control of the Board of Management and Federal Ministry of Health.

Qualifications
Candidates for the post must possess the following academic qualifications and personal qualities:

• Be a medical doctor with not less than 15 years cognate medical experience and who is medically fit.
• Possess a Postgraduate qualification duly registered with the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria
• Must have been a Medical Consultant for at least five (5) years.
• Be of proven good character.
• Any qualification/recognition in Management Studies and experience will be an added advantage.

Terms and Conditions of Service

• The terms and conditions of service is as applicable within the Federal Civil Service.

Tenure of Office

• The appointment is for a term of four (4) years in the first instance, and maybe renewed subject to satisfactory performance and discretion of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Application Closing Date
9th January, 2015

Method of Application
Applicants are to forward fifteen (15) copies of their application and detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV) with attached current passport photograph. CV should be presented in the following order.

• Full Name
• Date and Place of Birth
• Nationality
• State of Origin
• Local Government of Origin
• Marital Status
• Names and ages of children
• Current postal address including telephone numbers and e-mail
• Schools attended with academic/professional qualifications obtained with dates
• Previous employment(s) indicating post(s) held with dates.
• Present employment indicating post with date and salary.
• Administrative managerial positions held with dates
• Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations
• A statement of his/her own vision for the hospital in the next four (4) years in not more than one (1) page.
• A statement of the candidate’s own self appraisal describing his suitability for the job in not more than (2) full pages. (Approximately 700words)
• Other activities outside current employment.
• Name and addresses of three (3) referees who are to forward confidential report on them directly to the Head of Administration and Secretary to the Board. Such referees should be able to attest to the candidate’s academic, professional and managerial abilities as well as moral character and uprightness.
• Applicants must be ready to support every claim with documentary evidence (where required) and bring the originals of all the credentials if invited for interview.

Interested and suitably qualified candidates should submit their applications in a sealed envelope marked "Application of the post of "Medical Director" on top right hand corner addressed to:

Deputy Director of Administration,
Federal Medical Centre,
PMB 502, Yenagoa,
Bayelsa State