Nursing Manager (x1 – Permanent)

Job description

ZAMBIA SUGAR PLC. — JOB ADVERTISEMENT 📢
An ABF Sugar Company | Estate Support Services Department

Zambia Sugar Plc. is an ABF Sugar Company and is the leading sugar producer in Zambia. Its main activities are the growing of sugar cane, the production and marketing of sugar and other sugar downstream products.

The company invites applications from suitably qualified and experienced individuals to fill the permanent position of Nursing Manager (x1) in the Estate Support Services Department at Nakambala Estate, Mazabuka. This position reports directly to the Chief Medical Officer.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Patient Care & Clinical Governance:

• Ensure that nursing care is carried out as directed and treatment is administered strictly in accordance with doctors’ instructions.
• Minimize hospital-acquired infections across all medical and clinical facilities.
• Provide professional nurse leadership to ensure the delivery of safe, high-quality, cost-effective, and compassionate patient services.
• Contribute to clinical governance within Nursing Services, investigating clinical incidents as requested and identifying audit topics for nursing issues.
• Work collaboratively with kitchen facilities and patients’ relatives to ensure patients’ nutritional needs are met.

2. Management of Operations & Administration:

• Design and implement procedures, rules, and regulations to ensure good administrative and support services for the hospital/clinics, supporting high standards of care through excellent housekeeping and cleanliness.
• Provide operational oversight and supervision of Occupational Health nursing services, ensuring quality service delivery, employee wellbeing, and compliance with statutory requirements.
• Manage and supervise nursing care operational issues across the hospital and clinics (outpatients, wards, wellness clinic, doctors’ consultation rooms, emergency rooms, etc.).
• Manage the nursing staff duty roster to optimize fair workloads while ensuring nursing staffing is appropriate to patient needs.
• Monitor resource allocation (linen, consumables, medicine, oxygen, etc.) between hospital, clinic units, and ambulances, and be accountable for equipment used in nursing areas.
• Verify emergency equipment availability, facilitate equipment inventories, and schedule maintenance.
• Support the Chief Medical Officer in the selection, recruitment, onboarding, and training of new nurses.
• Initiate the recruitment of locum staff to ensure availability of temporary staff when necessary for continuous quality healthcare.
• Monitor satellite clinics’ daily operations.

3. Communication & Stakeholder Relationships:

• Act as an expert resource, providing advice on nursing issues in relation to clinical interventions, policies and protocols, service delivery, and service development.
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with all stakeholders, including the Ministry of Health, implementing partners, and community leaders.
• Proactively seek patient feedback to ensure concerns are valued and acted upon; resolve conflicts between patients and nursing staff or among nursing staff.
• Conduct presentations, facilitate workshops, and participate in planning community health initiatives.
• Support the Chief Medical Officer in developing and implementing an annual Medical Outreach Plan (World AIDS Day, World Malaria Day, Wellness days, International Nurses Day, etc.).

4. Staff Development, Financial & Inventory Management:

• Identify and support continuous improvement, learning, and development opportunities for nursing staff in consultation with the Chief Medical Officer.
• Set performance objectives for nursing staff, routinely monitor performance, and conduct performance appraisals.
• Contribute to the hospital/clinic budget setting process on nursing care consumables, staff uniforms, and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
• Manage operating budgets by monitoring overtime and standby expenditure monthly.
• Maintain nursing supplies inventory by studying usage reports, identifying trends, anticipating needed supplies, and approving requisitions.

5. Governance, Reporting & Compliance:

• Maintain documentation of patient care by auditing patients’ and hospital/clinic department records and reports.
• Ensure effective medicines management processes are established and regulatory requirements for controlled drugs are strictly maintained across all medical facilities.
• Participate actively in hospital committees, such as Infection Prevention and Control, and Drugs and Therapeutics Committee.
• Ensure compliance with the code of nursing and medical ethics.
• Promote and adhere to ABF’s policies, including SHERQ, Competition Law, and Anti-Bribery and Corruption (ABC).

Minimum Requirements & Qualifications:

• Full Grade 12 School Certificate.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Registered Nursing.
• Diploma in Occupational Health.
• Advanced Diploma in Midwifery is an added advantage.
• Preferably 7 years of relevant managerial/supervisory work experience in a hospital or large clinical setting.
• Current registration and valid practicing license with the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Zambia (NMCZ) or relevant professional health body.
• Basic computer literacy.
• Sound knowledge of nurse/practitioner-led initiatives and national health policies.
• Strong leadership abilities, excellent written and verbal communication, and customer care skills.
• Enthusiastic, conscientious, reliable, and able to inspire multidisciplinary teams.
• ZAQA Verification: Suitably qualified applicants must provide certificates verified by the Zambia Qualifications Authority (ZAQA).

How to Apply:

Should you be interested in applying for this role, please submit your detailed CV, copies of relevant qualifications, registrations, and ID/Passport as a single PDF document for the attention of the HR Business Partner via email:

📩 Email: careers@zamsugar.zm

* Please indicate “Application – Nursing Manager” in the subject line of your email.

Application Details:

• Closing Date: 19th October 2026
• Note: Internal employees are required to complete the Internal Application Form and obtain relevant signatures when applying.
• Applicants may be required to complete pre-employment checks (qualification, credit, security, background, and medical assessments).
• Should you not hear from us within 4 weeks after the closing date, please accept that your application was unsuccessful.