Table 5 Categories of Work and Related Roles Performed by HN/HND Professionals Practicing in Uganda
Categories of Work | Identified Work/Job Roles | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Category of Work Domain | N | Graduates whose work relates to domain n(%) | Work roles | N | Graduates performing mentioned role n(%)* |
Organizational Leadership and Management | 115 | 80(69.6) | Leadership | 80 | 60(75) |
Project planning, management, & implementation | 43(53.8) | ||||
Project monitoring and evaluation | 79 | 24(30.4) | |||
Budgeting and accountability | 80 | 18(22.5) | |||
Human resources management | 15(18.8) | ||||
Organizational representation and networking | 13(16.3) | ||||
Proposal/report writing | 79 | 5(6.3) | |||
Resource mobilization | 80 | 3(3.8) | |||
Technical support/guidance | 79 | 3(3.8) | |||
Management of Nutrition Conditions at Health Facility and or Community level | 115 | 68(59.1) | Nutrition screening or assessment | 67 | 51(76.1) |
Inpatient therapeutic care | 39(58.2) | ||||
Outpatient therapeutic care | 39(58.2) | ||||
Supplementary feeding | 35(52.2) | ||||
Nutrition education and counselling | 66 | 26(39.4) | |||
Nutrition supplies management/procurement | 67 | 14(20.9) | |||
Monitoring, supervision, and QI | 13(19.4) | ||||
Community nutrition work | 11(16.4) | ||||
Management of other nutrition-related disease conditions | 66 | 5(7.6) | |||
Emergency nutrition | 66 | 4(6.1) | |||
MIYCAN | 67 | 4(6.0) | |||
Nutrition and health promotion | 115 | 66(57.4) | Nutrition and health education | 66 | 41(62.1) |
Capacity building | 65 | 34(52.3) | |||
Technical support | 12(18.5) | ||||
Growth monitoring and promotion | 66 | 2(3) | |||
Research and documentation | 115 | 61(53) | Dissemination | 61 | 61(100) |
Report writing | 45(73.8) | ||||
Undertaking research | 28(45.9) | ||||
Data entry and analysis | 5(8.2) | ||||
Proposal writing | 4(6.6) | ||||
Advocacy, Communication, and Awareness | 113 | 26(23) | Community/stakeholder engagements | 26 | 20(76.9) |
Stakeholder orientation | 2(7.7) | ||||
Networking | 2(7.7) | ||||
Resource mobilization | 1(3.8) | ||||
Coordinating advocacy events | 1(3.8) | ||||
Academia | 112 | 8(7.1) | Lecturing and student supervision | 8 | 87.5 |
Research | 8 | 12.5 | |||
Business/Industry | 112 | 4(3.6) | Product development | 4 | 1(25) |
Product marketing | 4 | 1(25) | |||
Technical Assistance | 4 | 1(25) | |||
Product certification | 4 | 1(25) | |||