Matsiko Mutungwire Abert

Mr. Matsiko serves as the University Secretary for Busitema University. In recent years, he has worked with public enterprises in the areas of institutional development, human resource management, general administration, and budget supply support.

His areas of expertise are staff recruitment and selection, administration of entitlements/benefits, and providing policy advice and guidance to both staff and management. He supports workforce planning, budgeting, staff training and development, performance and management, employee relationships, administration of justice, human resources information systems, planning, organizing, and providing oversight responsibility to timely delivery outputs with clear performance indicators linked to the strategic direction of Busitema University.

Mr. Matsiko has a Master’s degree in Human Resources Management which provides him with thorough knowledge and understanding of theories and practices related to human resources management, strategy, administration and organizational development, planning, and staff organizations, recruitment, and selection, communication, and competency specifications for personnel among others.

Relative to his practical experience with public sector organizations, he has also worked as an institutional development officer with the decentralization secretariat under the funding arrangement of DANIDA(Danish International Development Agency) from 1998-2002. He performed strategic human resource and administrative functions besides planning, organizing, and identifying priority activities and assignments which lead to the proper location of the appropriate amount of time and resources for work completion assignments. He prepared special reports, standard operating procedures, and information circulars and led special human resources projects entailing research, client surveys, training and development, and salary benefits. He also administered entitlements for staff and handed workforce planning, identification of staffing gaps in conjunction with hiring managers, job advertisements, shortlisting, interviewing, offering contracts as well as training and induction. He coordinated performance management, supervised junior staff, managed record-data bases, and collaborated with government bodies for comprehensive service delivery to clients.

Mr. Matsiko undertook a number of training such as job evaluation, performance management, managing difficult interactions, financial management, effective facilitation skills as well as strategic human resources management, among others which better equipped him as a solid human resource and administration manager professional.

From 2009 to 2017, he benefited from international training sessions regarding human resources management, administration, and governance. He has completed training in workforce planning, recruitment in the field, the delegation of human resources management authority, handling disputes and complaints, client orientation, competency-based interviewing skills for interviewers, leadership to supervise staff, complex reporting for management, monitoring of support services, cost-effective utilization of program resources, maintaining a set of sound policies, procedures, standards and tools to ensure proper accounting, management, and control.

Regarding his work, he carries out his duties passionately because he loves what he does and his performance evaluation ratings are always excellent. His interpersonal skills are loyal and efficient. He is a proactive administrative officer who forecasts ahead of time so as to prevent or solve problems within his jurisdiction. From his past experiences, he has developed excellent emotional maturity and intelligence to handle all manner of human resources management, budget and finance, general administration, planning and organizing, and accountability. He has excellent verbal and written communication skills, analytical and evaluation skills to conduct independent research and analysis, ability to identify issues, formulate opinions, and make conclusions and recommendations. He shows pride in work and achievements, demonstrates professional competence and mastery of subject matter, conscious and efficient in meeting commitments, observing deadlines, and achieving results. He is a motivated professional who shows persistence when faced with difficult problems or challenges and remains calm in stressful situations. He takes responsibility in cooperating with gender perspectives and ensuring the equal participation of women and men in all areas of work. He is a team player with a developed ability to foster and manage efficient working relationships with a wide range of colleagues as well as internal and external clients.
His major contribution is in the areas of leadership, supervision, support, human resource development, management, and planning systems. While working with public sector management organizations he managed to review and reorganize staff records of 40,000 staff members within 6 months. He was also in charge of conducting training of local government leaders in the cluster of 10 pieces of training together with a team of ten other training institutions. The team trained over 10,000 human resources successfully while in the finance grant service line, he headed the client support team and ensured that the team mobilized resources from the development partners to cater to 115 local governments worth 1 million US dollars. He was also part of the team that participated in the client global visits to streamline liaison office operations at the Ministry of Local Government and Finance in Uganda. The meetings entailed not only medium-level staff but also high-ranked officials of the high echelon category and he was part of the team that steered it successfully. 
Further, he has supported administrative human resources and financial workshops in public organizations from 2010-2017 which improved his understanding of business functionality at the public service organizational level and gave him more insight on how to develop goals that are consistent with agreed strategies, identification of priority activities and assignments, allocation of the appropriate amount of time and resources for completing assignments.