Institutional Management

1. Internal Audit Unit

Role

  • Overseeing that the undertaking of internal Audit operations in order to facilitate internal controls are adhered to and safe guard Council assets.

Responsibilities

  • Internal Audit reports: oversees timely preparation of internal audit reports in order to facilitate decision making.
  • Audit assignments: manages effectively and timely audit assignments in order to ensure adherence to internal controls.
  • Risk management: undertake timely implementation of risk management programme in order to facilitate identification of risks and implementation of interventions
  • Systems controls: undertakes effectively the monitoring system controls under various departments in order to enhance adherence and accountability.

 

2. Public Relations Unit

Role

  • Supervises and assesses public attitudes, and maintaining mutual relations and understanding between the Local Authority and its public.

Responsibilities

  • Designing communications campaigns.
  • Writing press releases and other content for news.
  • Working with the press.
  • Arranging interviews for company spokespeople.
  • Writing speeches for company leaders.
  • Acting as an organization's spokesperson.
  • Preparing clients for press conferences and media.

 

3. Procurement Unit

Role

  • The procurement department serves its customers internally by negotiating costs with the vendors, preparing the contracts, and issuing vendor's purchase orders.

Responsibilities

  • Supervises and undertakes efficiently the procurement of goods and services in order to ensure availability of materials for operational and maintenance requirements.
  • Supervises and undertakes effectively the provision of secretarial services to the Procurement Committee in order to facilitate implementation of procurement decisions.

Roles of the Department

  • To coordinate spatial, socio-economic and environmental planning, institutional annual budgeting, inter-departmental programmes and projects in order to ensure their effective and efficient implementation.  It also coordinates the formulation and review of relevant policies and legislation in order to provide appropriate guidance.

Responsibilities

  • Mainstream cross-cutting issues such as gender, HIV/AIDS, poverty alleviation in order to ensure equity and overall inclusion
  • Coordinate planning, implementation and review of the Local Authority Strategic Plan.
  • Formulating, developing and coordinating District development strategies, plans and budgets.
  • Coordinate the formulation and review of Ministerial polices.
  • Monitoring and coordinating sub-district community planning activities and evaluating completed projects.

Roles

  • To facilitate the construction and maintenance of public infrastructure on behalf of the local Authority while abiding to international and approved standards.

Responsibilities

  • Facilitate the construction, repair and maintenance of Feeder roads and drainages in the district as well as public buildings and structures.
  • Assist to prepare tender documents for all works and works related supply of goods and technical services to be undertaken by the Local Authority through contracts or community-initiated projects.
  • The provision of community water and sanitation systems in the district.

Role

  • To collect and administer money on behalf of Luwingu Town Council.

Responsibilities

  • To administer finances that are generated from several revenue sources such as property rate, general revenue, personal levy, licenses, billboards etc.
  • Preparation of payrolls and making of various payments pertaining to council operations, quarterly financial reports, maintenance of general ledger, etc.

Roles of the Department

  • The Department of Human Resource and Administration plays a major role in dealing with all staff matters (recruitment, training and development, discipline and grievances) and providing functional civic responsibilities to the community of Luwingu.

         Responsibilities

  • Servicing Committees and Council meetings and relaying Council resolutions to departments for implementation.
  • Enforcement of Council By-Laws.
  • Registration of Marriages.
  • Dissemination of information about Luwingu Town Council.
  • Effectively ensuring the availability of transport in order to facilitate mobility of staff, materials and equipment in the local Authority.