Non-clinical managers: the key to a successful eye programme

• Planning and organising clinic-based and outreach activities. • Receiving and issuing supplies, including for operating theatre, the outpatient department, and refractive error services. • Making regular inventory reports and reordering when necessary to ensure that supplies are in stock. • Keeping track of accounting for the hospital or overall eye care programme and producing reports, including a cost recovery report. • Preparing and submitting reports to donors and partner organisations. • Ensuring that the programme vehicle is maintained properly. • Identifying and liaising with potential donors/ sponsors who can support the hospital and/or VISION 2020 activities in the region • Managing human resource issues, including recruitment, annual leave/ vacations and deployment.