Ndera Neuropsychiatric Teaching Hospital (Ndera Hospital) has announced a new employment opportunity for a professional to coordinate and manage Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities at the institution.
The successful candidate will coordinate staff training programmes, assess professional development needs, facilitate accredited learning activities, monitor staff participation, and evaluate the impact of training on healthcare service delivery.
The position is classified under Level 4.III, with one available post. Applicants must meet the specified academic qualifications, professional experience requirements, and licensing conditions.
Job Purpose
The purpose of this position is to coordinate, facilitate, monitor, and evaluate Continuing Professional Development activities at Ndera Neuropsychiatric Teaching Hospital.
The role ensures that healthcare professionals and other staff have access to relevant, accredited, and continuous learning opportunities that strengthen professional competencies, improve clinical practice, and promote evidence-based service delivery.
The position also supports the Hospital’s responsibilities as a specialized teaching and research institution.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
The selected candidate will perform the following duties:
1. CPD Planning and Coordination
- Develop, coordinate, and implement the Hospital’s annual Continuing Professional Development plan in consultation with clinical departments, units, and relevant stakeholders.
- Conduct regular training needs assessments to identify knowledge and skills gaps among healthcare professionals and other staff.
- Coordinate the development of departmental and individual CPD plans in line with institutional priorities and professional requirements.
- Organize and facilitate seminars, workshops, conferences, scientific meetings, clinical discussions, case presentations, journal clubs, and other professional learning activities.
- Coordinate the accreditation and recognition of CPD activities with relevant professional councils and regulatory authorities.
2. Partnerships and Training Facilitation
- Work with professional councils, universities, training institutions, professional associations, development partners, and other stakeholders to facilitate CPD opportunities.
- Identify and mobilize qualified facilitators, trainers, resource persons, and subject-matter experts.
- Coordinate the preparation of training materials, programmes, schedules, learning objectives, and other educational resources.
- Facilitate staff registration and participation in accredited CPD programmes and other professional development opportunities.
- Identify opportunities for collaboration, sponsorship, and partnerships to strengthen institutional CPD programmes.
3. Staff Participation and Professional Development Records
- Monitor staff participation in CPD activities and maintain updated records of attendance, training hours, credits, certificates, and professional development achievements.
- Monitor compliance with mandatory CPD requirements established by professional councils and regulatory authorities.
- Coordinate face-to-face training, online learning, blended learning, and workplace-based learning.
- Promote continuous learning, knowledge sharing, mentorship, and professional development across clinical and administrative departments.
- Maintain an updated database of CPD activities, participating staff, training providers, accredited programmes, and professional development records.
4. Clinical Learning and Institutional Capacity Building
- Collaborate with clinical departments to identify emerging clinical practices, technological developments, and service delivery challenges requiring professional development interventions.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary learning activities in specialized mental health care, neurological services, patient safety, quality improvement, rehabilitation, and other relevant clinical areas.
- Support training programmes addressing new clinical services, medical technologies, and updated clinical protocols.
- Support the orientation and induction of newly recruited healthcare professionals and other staff in collaboration with the Human Resources and Administration Unit and relevant departments.
- Coordinate mentorship and coaching initiatives to facilitate knowledge transfer, professional growth, and clinical competency development.
5. Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting
- Evaluate CPD activities through participant feedback, learning assessments, and follow-up evaluations of workplace application.
- Assess how CPD activities contribute to improved professional competencies, clinical practice, quality of care, and institutional performance.
- Prepare periodic reports covering CPD implementation, staff participation, accredited training activities, achievements, challenges, and recommendations.
- Coordinate the preparation and submission of reports and supporting documents required by professional councils and other regulatory authorities.
- Participate in institutional quality improvement, accreditation, and performance management activities related to professional development and capacity building.
6. Budgeting and Resource Management
- Support the preparation of CPD budgets, annual work plans, resource requirements, and training proposals in collaboration with relevant departments.
- Monitor the use of resources allocated to CPD activities and ensure accountability for training-related expenditures.
- Participate in developing, reviewing, and implementing institutional policies, guidelines, and procedures governing professional development and staff capacity building.
- Keep up to date with developments in professional education, CPD accreditation requirements, clinical practice, and emerging learning technologies.
- Perform any other related duties assigned by the immediate supervisor.
Expected Outputs and Deliverables
The successful candidate is expected to produce the following:
- An annual institutional CPD plan developed and implemented.
- Training needs assessment reports.
- Accredited CPD programmes and documented learning activities.
- An updated CPD database and individual staff training records.
- CPD participation, attendance, and professional credit reports.
- Training materials, programmes, and learning schedules.
- CPD activity evaluation and effectiveness reports.
- Documented partnerships with professional councils, universities, and training institutions.
- Periodic reports on CPD implementation and performance.
- Recommendations for strengthening staff competencies and professional development.
Required Academic Qualifications and Experience
Applicants must hold one of the following qualifications:
| Academic qualification | Required relevant experience |
|---|---|
| Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing | 3 years |
| Master’s Degree in Nursing | 1 year |
| Bachelor’s Degree in Allied Science | 3 years |
| Master’s Degree in Allied Science | 1 year |
| Bachelor’s Degree in Mental Health Nursing | 3 years |
| Master’s Degree in Mental Health Nursing | 1 year |
Required Professional Certificate
Applicants must possess:
- A valid licence to practise issued by the relevant professional council in Rwanda.
Required Competencies and Technical Skills
Candidates should demonstrate the following competencies and skills:
- Analytical skills.
- Fluency in Kinyarwanda, English and/or French. Knowledge of Swahili is an added advantage.
- Communication skills.
- Resource management skills.
- Problem-solving skills.
- Decision-making skills.
- Mentoring and coaching skills.
- Time management skills.
- Risk management skills.
- Results-oriented approach.
- Digital literacy skills.
- Planning and organisational skills.
- Interpersonal skills.
- Good knowledge of the Rwandan health system.
- Knowledge of clinical services policies and procedures.
Application Deadline
Interested and qualified candidates should take note of the following deadline:
<text weight=”semibold” color=”default”>November 11, 2026</text>
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