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Digital Outreach Officer

Your Charge
We are looking for a Digital Outreach Officer to take lead on growing our online brand presence. You will play a key role in distilling, messaging, and positioning the complex community health work that Living Goods and its partners engage in for diverse audiences (primarily philanthropic and bilateral/multilateral donors, governments, policymakers, and partners)—in support of fundraising, advocacy, and thought leadership. You’ll draw on your background with nonprofits or African governments to craft a wide range of messages and materials from our quarterly stakeholder reports, blogs, case studies, fact sheets, articles, and more. Importantly, with the support of others in the communications department, you will personally serve as the lead for digital outreach across all of Living Goods’ communications platforms. You’ll collaborate closely with key internal and external stakeholders to calendar out and measure the impact of strategic online content for key audiences and will lead regular posting on social media, website updates, and the development of monthly e-newsletters.

Develop and execute a Digital Media Strategy. With support from other members of the communications team, you will create a comprehensive digital media strategy and lead its implementation across all of Living Goods’ electronic communications platforms.
Lead digital (website and social media). You will serve as the primary voice for Living Goods on our organizational social media platforms (mainly Twitter, LinkedIn, and Meta-Facebook), by regularly creating and sharing content from our countries of operation in Kenya, Burkina Faso, and Uganda to position Living Goods as a thought leader in the community health space. You will take lead on developing email and social media campaigns and will regularly update our WordPress website with the latest content to increase site traffic and drive leads for our partnerships.
Additionally, you will take the lead on digital media monitoring and use analytics to develop concrete measurement goals to ensure the elevation of strategic messages, while gathering insights that will inform priorities for future content creation.
In close coordination with the Senior Global Communications Manager and Communications Director, you will support Living Goods staff with training on social media etiquette and use. Where necessary, you will support some senior staff to create content for their personal social media platforms.
Writer extraordinaire. Working with a high degree of autonomy, you’ll develop content and serve as the editor of our internal and external e-newsletters to ensure our key audiences are regularly updated about our work and to drive interest in and funding for community health.
Brand building and management. You will work with others on the communications team and external consultants to support the development and design of graphics, capture and edit short phone videos for use on online platforms and ensure brand compliance for digital content.
Promote us. For global health conferences and other events, you will help develop tools, graphics, and materials to promote Living Goods and ensure our robust participation in virtual campaigns; for campaigns around key moments in global health (e.g., World Health Worker Week, UN General Assembly), you will develop content aimed at mobilizing decisionmakers, donors, and partners to support LG’s positions.

Your background

Write well and simply. You can distill complex information and data into key and easy-to-read messages. You know how to hook people’s attention and tell a good story, have a love of good grammar, pay strong attention to detail, and are comfortable working in multiple mediums.
Communication creds. You have at least 4+ years of experience in communications roles focusing on digital content creation and website management. You have 1-2 years of experience working on international development issues, and ideally some expertise in communicating about public health and issues in sub-Saharan Africa. You are highly savvy with social media and have a strong understanding of how to drive and measure engagement. You must be comfortable writing for Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social media forums in ways that optimally target key audiences. You must pay strong attention to detail and organization.
You have a strong design sense and expert-level skills in Canva, PowerPoint, and email marketing (Mailchimp). Experience working with the Adobe Creative Suite (particularly InDesign, Photoshop, and Premiere) is a plus.
Create a solid, measurable plan. You understand web and social media analytics and can use them to generate insights and drive engagement. You have experience creating outreach plans that align strategic operations, fundraising, and advocacy teams and provide a path to achieving goals. You also must have a good understanding of SEO practices and Google Analytics.
You are fluent in English. Competency in French is a bonus. We’re headquartered in East Africa but are expanding in West Africa, so we seek someone with written and spoken fluency in English. Competency in French is a plus. We value diversity, equity, and inclusion, and welcome people from different cultures and sectors.
Team player: You play well with others and enjoy seeing the impact of our work as a team. A good sense of humor and easygoing personality is essential. We have a great team spirit and love to laugh.
Collaborator: You have experience working in matrix organizations/collaborating across many diverse teams throughout an organization.
Multitasker: You’re able to juggle multiple tasks at once while ‘keeping calm and carrying on.’ You think strategically, handle ambiguity and work well in a multicultural environment.
Educational background: A bachelor’s degree or equivalent in communications, digital media, or any other relevant field.

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October 29, 2024
Community Health Services Technical Officer Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Officer

The opportunity
USAID’s Health System Strengthening (HSS) Vision 2030 draws upon the progress over the past decade and the new challenges that have arisen, while reaffirming USAID’s longer-term goal of worldwide resilient health systems. The vision recognizes that integrated, systems-based approaches for strengthening health systems are now more critical than ever due to COVID-19 and other pandemics and asserts that:

All people and institutions including communities, health workers, leaders and policy makers should be engaged in HSS efforts.
Reliable links between the public and private sectors, including communities, lead to stronger health systems.
Health systems are resilient when they are able to adjust resources, policy and focus to varying degrees to respond to challenges.
Locally led, inclusive HSS efforts that account for social and behavior change lead to more sustainable results and greater self-reliance.
Locally designed approaches take into account the unique conditions of country conditions and often result in higher quality health care reaching the most disadvantaged and vulnerable.

Living Goods is undertaking a USAID HSS project, and is seeking to fill the position of Community Health Services Technical Officers (2)
Community Health Services Technical Officer
Available Positions: 2 (Full-time)
Summary of the Position
Reporting to the Deputy Chief of Party, the incumbent will drive implementation of community health system strengthening operations. S/He will provide technical assistance and capacity-building of the county health management team on service delivery, supply chain management, quality improvement and management of community health workforce.
Duties and Responsibilities

Ensure execution of community health component of the Afya Imara project at allocated clusters
Advocate for adoption of DESC
Ensure community health systems strengthening blocks is fully deployed in partnership with the county and other community health implementing partners.
Implement the Afya Imara project workplan and collaborate with the CHMT to develop project cascade workplan.
Ensure dissemination of the CHS polices strategies and guidelines to the CHMT.
Advocate for the adoption and implementation of the CHS polices, strategies and guidelines at the county.
Ensure community health supportive supervision is conducted.
Organise and coordinate meeting with CHMT and key stakeholders.
Advocate for CH health financing and frameworks at county level
Advocate for set and operalization of Community Health Committees and County Budget Economic Forums
Collaborate with CHMTs to ensure project targets are delivered against set KPIs
Ensure quarterly performance review meetings are held in every county
Work closely with the county pharmacist to strengthen and advocate for community commodity allocation – forecasting.
Ensure establishment/ strengthened CHS governance structures – TWGs and CHCs.
Represent the project at the county TWGs.
Work with relevant National MoH Health Programs to build the capacity of the county ToTs on community technical modules based on needs.
Advocate use of data for decision making
Support in the implementation of KQMH and the development of QIPs
Advocate and support uptake of e-learning platform by counties
Support sensitization of CHMTs on CHV training and certification guidelines
Document project learnings and activity progress reports

Key Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Community Health, Public Health, Nursing, Health Systems Strengthening, Social Sciences or related field. Advanced degree will be considered an advantage.

Key Requirements

Minimum of Five (5) years’ relevant experience in implementation of community health program
Exposure to community health policies, strategies, and guidelines
Project management skills
Solid grasp of DESC
Relationship building skills and day to day alignment with key stakeholders at the county MOH teams to ensure successful project delivery
Ability and willingness to travel (at least 70%) across counties
Ability to analyse, comprehend and articulate operational goals
Ability to synthesise community health data and use to inform decision making
Good grasp of government operations, especially under the devolved system of governance
Stakeholder management and engagement
Conversant with USAID rules and regulations, including project implementation guidelines
Excellent communication and presentation skills
A sound understanding of the Kenya Health System and prior technical assistance work experience with and/or involving close association with county governments is a definite plus.
Experience working with community health workers and driving performance.
Strong interpersonal, communication and writing skills
Good computer and analytical skills a must
Able to manage priorities, take initiative, and work without constant supervision.
Collaborative team player.

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October 29, 2024
Senior HR Business Partner

Purpose of role:
We are looking for top-caliber candidates to fill the exciting role of Senior HR Business Partner – Kenya. This role will drive the translation of Living Goods Kenya’s Business Strategy into periodic People & Culture Operating Plans while providing advisory services to the Country Leadership team, as well as the Global People & Culture teams in implementing world-class, integrated Human resources solutions. This role will report functionally to the Chief People & Culture Officer and Operationally to the Country Director – KE.
Top Accountabilities:
Strategy Development & Implementation:

Partner with the Kenya Country Director, Senior Leadership Team, Country Management Teams, and Chief People and Culture Officer to design Kenya’s short and long-term business strategy. Enable the effective implementation of the Country Strategy through fit-for-purpose annual human resource operating plans.
Provide proactive advice and coaching to the Country’s Senior Leadership Team and Line Managers in the delivery of the Country’s Operating Plans through effective teams.
Lead the organization design and organization effectiveness imperatives through defined global processes and practices
Lead organizational change and coach Line Managers as well as their teams to navigate different change initiatives for organizational relevance, impact, and sustainability.
Assessing and implementing continuous improvements in People and Culture Policies and processes in line with global trends and market best practices.

Talent Management:

Partner with the Talent Management Centre of Excellence to identify, acquire, assess, and hire candidates to fill open positions at the country level.
Lead the Country’s Employee life cycle strategy implementation; Acquisition, Onboarding, Engagement Development, Retention, and Offboarding.

Employee Experience:

Advise and support Kenya’s Functional leadership to build a Great-Place-To-Work and a culture that is built on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion norms.
Build a high-performance culture that is strongly linked to Living Good’s Purpose, Mission, and core values.
Respond to complex People and Culture employee relations matters escalated by the HR Shared Services team.
Be a thought leader for the country in designing the hybrid workplace of the future that is safe, secure, and exciting.
Stewarding staff compliance to Living Goods’ Code of Conduct and Safeguarding policies.

Policies, Processes, Systems & Administration:

Review, design, and communicate people and culture policies as well as processes and procedures, ensuring compliance with employment law and alignment with global best practices.
Provide oversight for Staff Master data management and leverage the HR Information system to generate useful HR analytics for management reporting and decision-making.

Others:

Support the HR shared service process standardization and improvement by providing continuous feedback.
Provide support in the preparation for HR audits and subsequent action plans while safeguarding employee data in line with Living Goods compliance & Data privacy standards
Undertake specific HR-related projects with the larger global HR team as appropriate.

Qualifications & Experience Required
Qualifications:

First degree in Social Sciences plus a Postgraduate qualification in HR management.
Membership with an accredited HR professional body.
A relevant master’s degree will be an added advantage.

Experience

7-10 years of Experience working in a multi-national environment, NGO, or international development sector.
Keen analytical, organization, and problem-solving skills that support and enable sound decision-making.
Proven strength in building and sustaining supportive relationships and persuasively communicating institutional goals and needs.
Strong human resource management experience: the ability to supervise, mentor, and engage staff members and inspire credibility, and confidence and build consensus.
Demonstrated capacity to think strategically with expertise in complex problem solving, decision making, and critical thinking skills, displays good judgment.

Skills & Competencies:

HR Skill Areas: Has a good balance of depth and breadth across the following HR Competencies; HR Strategy design, Organization Design, and Effectiveness, Talent Management, and Total Rewards.
Business Acumen: Applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals. For example, clearly understands how own activities related to critical business drivers.
Inspire Through Purpose: Creates a climate where people are motivated to do their best to help the organization achieve its objectives. For example, sharing insight into the purpose of the work involves others appropriately and gives them credit for their contributions. Praises the successes of others.
Decision Quality: Makes good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward. For example, knows when to act independently and when to escalate issues. Integrates various inputs, decision criteria, and trade-offs to make effective decisions. Typically makes good independent decisions.
Conflict Resolution: Handles conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise. For example, seeks out a variety of opinions and options; maintains an open mind; takes steps to ensure conflict remains constructive; avoids polarized or unilateral decisions; seeks agreement on critical issues.
Performance Enablement: Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments. For example, tracks performance and strives to remain effective, learning from both successes and failures. Readily takes on challenges or difficult tasks and has reputation for delivering on commitments.
Effective Communication: Develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. For example, listens attentively and takes an interest. Keeps others well informed; conveys information clearly, concisely, and professionally when speaking or writing.

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October 29, 2024
Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Advisor Senior Manager, Business Development (Fundraising & Donor Relations)

Summary Of The Position
The Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Advisor will be responsible for leading the design and implementation of the project monitoring and evaluation framework and information system to track delivery against targets, outcomes, and impacts. They will lead the analysis of data collected for assessment of progress and areas of improvement, and overall data management, including health systems audit, monitoring, and learning.
The candidate will guide reporting processes amongst Technical Staff and consolidate project reports, and promote learning and knowledge sharing of best practices and lessons learned. S/He will support all the technical staff in MEL functions and will manage any other staff working in the project. Actual hiring is contingent upon successful activity award and USAID approval.
Duties And Responsibilities

Work with Chief of Party (COP) and the project team to ensure that MEL deliverables as per donor requirements are met
Oversee the baseline, midline and final project evaluation
Lead the project research and learning agenda and ensure dissemination of generated research findings
Oversee the MEL framework (including reporting) development and implementation
Ensure data quality assessments and audits are done
Conduct regular visits to project sites to provide technical assistance and ensure proper monitoring of project activities
Provide direct coaching and reinforcing capacity of all staff under MEL section including documentation
Represent the project at national and county including technical working groups, communities of practice, conferences, workshops, and meetings.
Ensure gender transformative approaches are incorporated in the project

Key Qualifications:

A Master’s degree in a relevant discipline, such as mathematics, statistics, informatics, biostatistics, information systems or a related field with knowledge/skills of Geographical Information Systems and information technology
At least ten years of experience leading monitoring and evaluating activities for complex projects in developing countries.
Demonstrated experience in providing technical support, setting up and managing M&E systems that track performance as per the objectives of this activity (e.g., performance against each result area) and in the application of statistical methods and database management.
Demonstrated experience developing performance indicators, assessing and tracking data quality, data management, and/or training in performance management topics.
Demonstrated experience training/facilitating workshops with several types of stakeholders on M&E topics; proven ability to distill complex information down to useable and understandable information for stakeholders.
Experience developing and implementing performance monitoring plans.
Strong knowledge of USAID rules and regulations around M&E and familiarity with USAID’s approach to project management.
Exceptional technical skills in data management, MEL, survey design, mapping and/or assessment required.
Exceptional skills in Excel, Word, and other Microsoft Office software and data analysis software, such as SPSS or Stata.
Effective communication and interpersonal skills and ability.
Must be professionally proficient and fluent in written and spoken English
Nationals of Kenya and especially women are strongly encouraged to apply.

Key Requirements

Complete and current resume demonstrating the candidate’s qualifications and experience
Minimum of three current references (provide name and contact information of each reference).

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October 29, 2024
Global Senior Manager- Accounting Services

Key Responsibilities:
Accounting, Reporting, and Internal Controls:

Maintain accounting, financial reporting, financial controls, and information systems to ensure adequate records, appropriate authorizations of transactions, and safeguard assets.
Works with the Director of Accounting Services to ensure compliance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other relevant governance acts or regulations in the respective jurisdictions of LG.
Interpret and implement Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and other standards applicable to LGs operational jurisdictions.
Provides compliance guidance on all accounting issues.
Initiates process improvements.
Coordinate and lead all local and international audits and proper filing of statutory and tax returns; prepare for and coordinate all external audits.
Research and resolve technical accounting issues, including consultation with external auditors, and country accounting teams.
Ensure legal and regulatory compliance regarding all financial functions across all LG operations and jurisdictions.
Assume a key role in collaboration with the Financial and Grant reporting teams in annual planning, budgeting, and monitoring revenue and expenditure against budget.
Provide shared accounting services to all global operations including new country expansion.
Oversee balance sheet reconciliations and month-end close procedures across all operations.

Accounting oversight of Kenya Country Office:

Oversee the accounting function and staff and ensure compliance with organizational policies and procedures and statutory regulations.
Ensure the hiring and talent pipeline management of quality engaged staff.
Provide coaching, mentoring, and development of staff.
Monitoring performance and initiating timely action to strengthen staff and staff engagement.
Translating organizational goals into functional and individual goals and ensuring proper task and functional divisions.
Oversee the timely submission of statutory filings including tax returns, company registrar filings, insurance submissions, etc, and ensure compliance with country financial, tax reporting, and regulatory requirements.
Ensure accounting processes and workflows are fit for operational purposes to maximize the use of digital platforms and compliance with an organizationally approved delegation of authority.
Coordinate and lead the annual auditing process including liaising with external auditors and liaising with the Global Director Accounting Services and the local Board of Directors.
Managing the country’s cash flow and forecasting and providing oversight of all bank accounts.

Treasury Management:

Supports the treasury function with the Global controller.
Ensure compliance with banking regulations and treasury policy.
Ensures that Countries have appropriate cash flow.

Management and Advisory services:

Guide the countries and operations teams to understand the implications and complexities of transactions and other matters by providing expertise and accounting guidance.
Advise management and accounting teams about complex financial accounting and reporting issues and transaction structuring, and current technical accounting developments.
Support general accounting and financial reporting teams, and interactions with accounting shared service organizations including account reconciliations, closing processes, general ledger & financial systems maintenance, and accounting compliance.
Maintain an environment of excellence and a “can do” culture that facilitates the success of LG.

Qualifications & Experience Required
Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.

Professional Qualifications / Membership in professional bodies

CPA or ACCA required.

Experience:

Minimum of 10 to 12 years of working Experience.

Competencies & Attributes:

In-depth knowledge of nonprofit accounting (fund accounting principles), including sophisticated fund and grant accounting, compliance, and reporting.
Broad experience with multiple funding sources, including the US government, other country governments, other bi-and multilateral donors, and corporates and foundations.
Evidence of partnering with executive staff, resulting in the development and implementation of creative financial management strategies.
Experience streamlining, refining, and automating financial processes, including the development of user-friendly tools and training programs, and deploying suitable technology.
Track record of working with technology leaders to manage critical financial management and reporting systems.
Mission-driven, articulate professional with substantial finance and administrative management experience.
Keen analytical, organization, and problem-solving skills that support and enable sound decision-making.
Proven strength in building and sustaining supportive relationships and persuasively communicating institutional goals and needs.
Strong human resource management experience: the ability to supervise, mentor, and engage staff members and inspire credibility, and confidence and build consensus.
Technology savvy and specific knowledge of accounting and reporting software.
Demonstrated capacity to think strategically with expertise in complex problem solving, decision making, and critical thinking skills, displays good judgment.
Advanced Excel skills.
Bilingual in French is a plus.

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October 29, 2024
Senior Manager: Digital Health Partnerships Director, Digital Health and Government Partnerships

Roles and responsibilities:
Strategy and Thought Leadership:

Partnering with the CDHO, create a vision for Digital Health partnerships and relationships that align with LG’s strategic priorities. The role acts as an external interface to the voice of partners, learning from partners’ experiences, successes, and failures, assessing partner priorities and focus areas, and mapping with LG program and organizational priorities.
Review, design, develop, and periodically refine the Digital Health Strategy in line with the overall organization strategy, applying lessons from work done in our existing countries, emerging technology trends, and best practices emanating from the global and local digital health and technology ecosystem.
Strengthen LG’s thought leadership role in the DH ecosystem by bringing to life our digital health impact through careful, accurate, and clear articulation of our voice, evidence, and impact in the external forums and partner landscape.
Contribute and lead the development of global digital health deployment models and plans in close partnership with different partners.
Design digital health models (design, implementation, and rollout) for various scenarios as LG scales into new countries including internal and external partnerships models.
Determine optimal digital health platforms and technology products for different programs and geographic contexts for realizing LG’s organizational priorities and strategic objectives.

Digital Health Delivery:

Lead the development and implementation of processes, policies, and systems to support operational effectiveness and compliance with DH interventions.
Provide leadership support for the delivery of the grant-related deliverable through close coordination of various internal and external teams as well as mapping of overall scope, timelines, and committed plan. Negotiate, set up, and manage expectations, reporting structures, communication channels, payment mechanisms, etc. for any external digital or technology partnerships.
Monitor, evaluate, and develop corrective action plans ensuring programs/projects are delivered within the plan and aligned to goals.
Lead/support scoping trips and research, and where opportunities turn to implementation; lead the design of the new / revised digital solutions and technical requirements.

External Relations, Partnerships, and Advocacy:

Develop and maintain strong relationships and partnerships with external partners including technology providers, innovators, implementing partners, policymakers, and donors in the local and global digital health and technology ecosystems.
Stakeholder management for advocacy – helping the advocacy team to establish stronger relationships with digital health advocacy targets, including co-developing / co-implementing stakeholder engagement plans.
Represent LG in external meetings, workshops, and conferences and showcase our digital health impact in the local and global ecosystems; support the engagement of other team members in forums on digital health (e.g., reviewing/developing talking points, prepping speakers).
Provide regular insights and updates on digital health and technology-related trends and work closely with CDHO for mapping the opportunities and risks from the ecosystem trends to LG programs and advocacy priorities.
Develop and inculcate strong partnerships internally with various LG departments and units (within the Digital Health department as well as with other departments and units such as Programs, Innovations, BDAC, Country teams, etc.) to ensure close alignment and collaboration to realize LG’s mission.
Lead the periodic review, refinement, and adoption of the internal DH partnership framework and co-lead the evolution of our digital health work in a new era of scale technology while balancing the innovation focus involving emerging technology trends (data and digital)
Identifying opportunities to influence digital health policies with multilateral/bilateral advocacy targets, including scanning of the digital health policy landscape.
Providing technical assistance in the development of digital health policy recommendations
Developing / co-developing collateral for advocacy – policy / technical briefs, white papers, technical guidance documents, and blogs.

Business Development (BD)

Support with business development and fundraising efforts with bids, proposals, concept notes, presentations, etc. in response to government and other donor/partner solicitations which are aligned with LG objectives and mission.
Act as the in-house DH interface to support BD activities, including coordinating and owning the end-to-end process for ensuring timely support for bid responses and proposal preparation; support includes strategic alignment, scope estimation, execution dependencies, risk mitigation, etc.
Identify and develop funding opportunities to further the digital health strategic agenda.
Develop, maintain, and communicate digital health-related content including any grant-related reporting requirements.
Identify and target new opportunities to work with partners (including governments), manage and prioritize the pipeline of opportunities, engaging internal and external stakeholders.
Work with the BD team to develop concept notes, presentations, and thought papers including proposals and bids for identified opportunities with DH components and scope.

Skills, Competencies, And Experience

The candidate should have 10+ years’ experience or more in identifying and implementing digital health/technology, ideally in the development space.
The candidate must have prior professional work experience in Africa.
Prior experience in matrix reporting in a large global organization is desirable.
Prior experience working in a diverse team is desirable.
The candidate must have a strong understanding of the technology systems, platforms, frameworks, and digital ecosystems including the software development lifecycle.
Deep understanding of evolving digital health and community health landscape, particularly in Africa, including opportunities and challenges and commonly adopted digital health solutions and platforms used in low-resource settings.
Innovation and creative thinking with exceptional problem-solving skills. Broad understanding of digital technical frameworks, their current limitations, future trends, and industry requirements
Experience initiating change processes of technical solutions and proactively involved in managing innovation and change related to the implementation.
Ability to continuously identify, file and follow up on new features and issue requests during implementation.
Ability to understand client and partner requirements and design future state workflow for effective solutions.
Team and Organizational Leadership

Should have hands-on leadership and management experience.
Ability to lead organization design, communicate a vision, manage performance and change, build common understanding, and align resources to accomplish departmental objectives as work evolves.
Experience in managing talent – hire, onboard, motivate and inspire others to be the best they can be.

The candidate should have a track record for identifying opportunities and bringing ideas to fruition. The candidate should have successfully started projects or initiatives in developing countries before, preferably in the development space such as health.
The candidate must possess strong interpersonal skills that establish and maintain rapport with diverse global audiences and a willingness to work in a dynamic work environment.
The candidate should understand what it takes to successfully work and build lasting relationships with external partners including technology providers, implementation organizations, donors, etc., and have the ability to serve as an external ambassador of the organization, including leading both formal and informal presentations such as speaking at conferences.
Strong experience in advocacy and policy development around digital interventions.
The candidate must possess excellent communication skills, both oral and written (MS Word Suite including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint tools).

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree (or more) in Business Administration, IT / Computer Science, or a relevant field.
Certification / Diploma in Project Management, Digital /Technology, or Data Aspects is desirable.

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October 29, 2024
Director – Electronic Community Health Information System (eCHIS)

We are looking for someone who can:

Be a part of the Core Digital Health Leadership Group and work closely with the Chief Digital Health Officer (CDHO), Chief Programs Officer (CPO), and respective Country Directors (Kenya, Uganda, Burkina Faso) to oversee the implementation and provide advisory support for Government led digital health interventions focused at community health transformation, such as Electronic Community Health Information System (eCHIS), in our core countries for maximizing the health impact as well as sustainable scaleup across various regions as per organizational priorities.
Develop and execute a clear and holistic blueprint for interventions such as eCHIS from a digital perspective in close collaboration and alignment with various departmental units including DH, Programs, and respective Country Teams for supporting the eCHIS program.
Establish and inculcate a strong partner ecosystem with external partners (Government, Technology, and Implementing partner) involved with interventions such as eCHIS including design, development, implementation, and scaleup workstreams.
Represent LG in external forums and provide clear, effective, and strategic thought leadership for the Government led digital health initiatives in community health where LG is providing support such as this.
Lead and manage the development, work planning/resourcing, mentorship, and upskilling of the team.
Be a leader who has built effective teams that deliver results, technical experts, managers, and future leaders.
Ability to influence at strategic levels with important stakeholder groups – Gov, Partners, Bi & Multilaterals (Understanding and relations of how these work).
Broad understanding of digital health systems including platforms& deployments of the same.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy and Thought Leadership:

Develop the global strategy for our digital health interventions for Government led programs including design, development, implementation, and scaleup as per organizational priorities and technology readiness.
Develop global and country-level assessment criteria and success framework for government-led digital health programs such as eCHIS so as to ensure full integration and the service of more efficient and high-impact community health programs.
Provide guidance and supervisory support to country program leads through the solution development process, project management backstopping, stakeholder and vendors management (along with partnerships and product manager)
Develop standardized global toolkits for digital health program delivery which are further evolved and contextualized for our core countries (Kenya, Uganda, and Burkina Faso).
Provide digital thought leadership and active representation/participation for LG in external forums to realize the vision of national scaleup of digital health programs such as eCHIS in our core countries while maintaining the focus on generating high impact.
Undertake regular SWOT reviews and risk assessments for identifying gaps and areas of support from a Government led digital health programs implementation and scaleup standpoint.

Operational Excellence:

Collaborate with country digital health program leads to build systems and processes that ensure robust support of the technology implemented and reinforce SOPs established for organizational effectiveness.
Lead and advise on budgets, and resource planning for the digital health components and overall project execution.
Ensure cross-functional collaboration to drive synergies at various levels ensuring that all functional partners are aligned and working together to drive government-led programs such as eCHIS in the right direction of impact generation at scale. This would entail effective communication, coordination, and project management while working with internal and external stakeholders.
Organize and coordinate meetings and discussions with key stakeholders including external partners to eliminate blockers and ensure efficient project delivery. This would include collaboration with senior management stakeholders in an external environment (Government, Partners).
Ensure collaboration with the Global Software Engineering (GSE) team in LG and external Tech partners to design, develop and implement reliable, robust, scalable, efficient, and secure systems for interventions such as eCHIS.
Provide regular and periodic reports, updates, and insights to CDHO for necessary decision-making and owning the risk register on the eCHIS roadmap.

Advocacy:

Catalyze cross-learnings within the organization’s digital health programs and teams and develop methods to document learnings and generate thoughtful discussion and insights to inform continuous improvement of processes, systems, and tools internally as well as generate materials for external thought leadership and advocacy.
Set project structures, and teams and establish alignment with key stakeholders within LG while providing the strategic direction on digital health programs such as eCHIS on technology roadmap while working closely with external stakeholders specifically the government stakeholders.
Partner with LG’s Programs and Advocacy team for generating awareness and seeking support from key stakeholders in the system on important ecosystem aspects related to eCHIS implementation and scaleup.
Contribute to the organization’s digital health advocacy goals through panels, blogs, and videos based on learnings from LG’s digital health programs.
Provide subject matter input to BD for proposal development stages for digital health opportunities and identify new partnership opportunities in digital health to add value to existing digital health global vision and programs.
Contribute to policy guidance as it relates to digital health with global, regional, and country-level digital health working groups and networks.

Qualifications

BS/MS in Computer Science Engineering / ICT / Public Health, or related field.
12+ years of professional experience across the ICT domain and/or management consulting domain with a specific focus on public health programs.
Prior experience of engagement with Government agencies and stakeholders for national scale program design and implementation would be accorded a higher weightage.
The candidate must possess at least 5+ years of leadership experience including hands-on experience in one of the following:
Program Management Support and/or Implementation of 03-05 large-scale digital / ICT programs involving service delivery, beneficiary coverage/outreach, process automation/workflow digitalization in any sector with direct government engagement. Or
Program Management Support and/or Implementation of 02 large-scale digital / ICT programs involving service delivery, beneficiary coverage /outreach, process automation/workflow digitalization in any sector, and 02 small-scale / pilot digital health projects with direct government engagement. Or
Program Management Support and/or Implementation of 01-03 large-scale Digital Health program in the space of Community Health with direct government engagement.
Prior professional work experience in Africa.
Prior experience working in the development sector is desirable.
Prior experience in a matrix reporting in a large global organization is desirable.
Prior experience in managing a team of at least 3-5 team members is desirable.

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October 29, 2024
Finance Intern

To provide support to the Finance Department. The intern will gain experience in recording transactions, analyzing financial information, keeping financial records, and reporting. The position will be based in Nairobi.
Roles and Responsibilities:

Assist with documentation review, for completeness, before processing (necessary for expense reimbursements and accounting for advances).
Assist with managing staff receivables and following up on outstanding balances, including communicating with staff on remarkable advances.
Ensure all due payments are processed and disbursed on time.
Manage petty cash and ensure monthly petty cash counts and certificates are filed.
Reconcile processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances.
Manage recurring vendor relationships.
Filing of withholding tax/value-added tax.
Reconcile processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports balancing.

Qualifications & Experience:
Qualifications:

Degree in Business Administration (Accounting/Finance Option) or any other relevant field.
CPA is an added advantage.

Experience, Skills & Competencies:

At least 0-1 year of experience working in a Finance department.
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and participate as a team member in accomplishing duties.
Ability to prioritize, organize workload and take the initiative.
Strong interpersonal communication skills.
Ability to work in a multicultural environment.
Strong analytical skills and competency in computer use is mandatory.
Honest, reliable, diplomatic, and well-organized.

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October 29, 2024
Finance Associate

Purpose of role
To support the growth and operation of Living Goods by managing cash flow, timely return of account balances and supplier’s relationships to ensure smooth business operation.
Key Responsibilities

Prepare month and quarterly cash flow projections.
Acting as a bank agent.
Manage petty cash and ensure monthly petty cash counts and issuance of at all branches/location.
Prepare weekly cash flow reports and ensure enough funding at all times.
On a weekly basis, book all the transactions for the week into the QuickBooks/ERP accounting system ensuring accuracy and completeness.
Prepare weekly and monthly KPI as directed by supervisor.
Assist in preparation of other reports as requested from time to time.
Reconciles processed work by verifying entries and comparing system reports to balances.
Maintain the fixed asset register ensuring its fully updated.
Reconcile fixed asset register to the general ledger on monthly basis.
Compute the monthly depreciation and post the depreciation journal in the accounting system.
Process non-field related payments for authorization ensuring all requisite supporting documentation.
Ensure payments are allocated to the correct project/budget.
Update cashbook to capture all payments processed.
Ensure all due payments are processed and disbursed in a timely manner.

Qualifications & Experience Required
Qualifications:

Diploma in Accounting, Finance or a related field.
Relevant professional qualification.

Professional Qualifications / Membership To Professional Bodies

CPA or ACCA

Work Experience Required

Minimum of (1) year relevant experience for degree holders and (2) years relevant experience for diploma holders.

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October 29, 2024
Supply Chain Coordinator – Vihiga

Key Responsibilities / Duties / Tasks
Government Relations

Ensure health facilities and CHVs are always in stock of essential medicine.
Work closely with the County and Sub County pharmacists and other relevant government officers to ensure CHVs are in stock.
Train county and sub county pharmacists on medicine forecasting and track sub-county pharmacist forecast submissions.
Engage relevant county and sub-county personnel to ensure medicine is set aside for CHVs at health facility level.
Ensure CHVs are restocked in a timely manner, and follow-up with relevant personnel when not. Escalate concerns to the Government Relations team.

CHP support

At assigned branches or sub-counties, monitor the dispensing of medicines by CHVs in the field to ensure compliance of all treatment and dispensing protocols and undertake pharmacovigilance.
Support the branch and sub-county team in the delivery of health training during CU trainings and support the training teams during base trainings within their county.
Provide support in-field to assigned CHAs / CHEWs, when necessary, as identified by supervisor coaches.

Staff and CHA training and coaching

Deliver continuous skills training on relevant health topics and coach staff and CHAs within their county to deliver high quality community health work. Advise the Pharmaceutical and Procurement Manager on areas where additional support is needed.
Gather and share best practice in health and pharmaceutical management within their branches or sub-counties and more widely across Living Goods.

Pharmacovigilance / adverse effect reactions / compliance to treatments

Ensure all adverse effect reactions are consigned and reported by sub-county pharmacists as per expectations.
Ensure county and sub-county pharmacists focus on compliance to treatments by CHVs, and keenly follow-up on any potential challenge identified by the QC teams.

Academic Qualifications
Job Competencies (Knowledge, Experience and Attributes / Skills)

Diploma in Pharmaceutical Technology required (NOTE: must be registered with Pharmacy and Poison Board) and have your license available for use.

Professional Qualifications / Membership To Professional Bodies

Pharmaceutical professional trainings.

Work Experience Required.

Minimum 2 years’ experience in health or community related work.

Competencies/Attributes

Ability and willingness to work extensively in the field.
Ability to interact with community elders, Community Health Volunteers, and clients.
Team player with drive for results.
Ability to work under minimum supervision.
Ability to test new innovations and learn fast.
Honest, reliable, diplomatic, and well organized.
Collaborative team player.

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October 29, 2024