Dragnet Solutions Limited - Our client is a growing multi-specialist healthcare group, operating hospital facilities that deliver quality clinical and diagnostic services to patients. Backed by a strong governance structure and a strategy of expansion and service excellence, the organisation combines modern clinical operations with centralised corporate functions spanning finance, supply chain, human capital, ICT, legal, and strategy.
As part of its next phase of growth, the organization is seeking talented professionals to join it in the capacity below:
Job Title: Head of Hospital Administration
Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full-time
What’s the role
- The Head of Hospital Administration is responsible for leading the hospital's non-clinical administration functions, including facilities management, support services, regulatory compliance, and interdepartmental coordination. The role ensures that the clinical enterprise operates in a safe, compliant, and uninterrupted environment.
What you’ll be doing
- Direct the non-clinical administration function, including administrative services, health records, front office, catering, housekeeping, laundry, security, transport and general services.
- Own hospital facility and estate management: planned preventive maintenance, biomedical equipment servicing schedules, critical utilities (power, water, medical gases, HVAC), waste management, and building upkeep.
- Hold accountability for facility regulatory compliance — hospital registration and licensing, statutory inspections, professional-council facility requirements, fire safety, environmental and occupational health obligations — maintaining the compliance register and closing out findings to deadline.
- Design and govern interdepartmental workflows between clinical and non-clinical units, resolving handoff failures that disrupt patient flow or service delivery.
- Lead service contract and vendor management — scoping, service-level agreements, performance review, and renewal — in conjunction with procurement.
- Oversee environmental services and medical waste handling in conjunction with the infection prevention and control lead.
- Prepare and control the non-clinical operating and capital budget, and authorise expenditure within delegated limits.
- Lead emergency preparedness, business continuity, and disaster response planning for the facility, including the drill programme and corrective actions arising.
- Supervise, develop, and appraise administrative and support-services staff, and manage establishment levels against approved structure.
- Report facility, compliance, and support-service performance to executive management with improvement recommendations.
Requirements
- A relevant first degree in health administration, hospital management, business administration, public health, estate or facility management, or a related discipline. Completion of NYSC, or a valid exemption where applicable.
- Minimum of 10 years' relevant experience in hospital or healthcare administration, of which at least 4 years at senior or managerial level with responsibility for multiple support functions.
- Demonstrated experience of facility and estate management in a healthcare setting, including biomedical equipment and critical utilities. Experience of facility regulatory compliance and of preparing for and responding to statutory inspection.
- Experience of service contract and vendor management.
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary administrative teams and managing operating budgets.