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  • Head of Logistics Shared Service Center (SSC) Change Management Specialist – Digital Transformation Projects

    Head of Logistics Shared Service Center (SSC) Change Management Specialist – Digital Transformation Projects

    Role & Responsibilities
    Provide effective and efficient shared business support services by setting up, providing leadership, management and oversight of the running of Logistics function, featured with customer centric and legally compliant for Logistics Shared Service Center based in Nairobi. The Head of Logistics SSC oversees a service delivery team to provide effective and cost-efficient transactional support to all country programs identified in Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and to GSO.
    Project Overview
    GSO Logistics (Global Support Office located at Ecublens, Switzerland) provides operational guidance for country programmes, along with both technical and compassionate support for our relief workers.
    Shared Service Center – Logistics, located in Nairobi (Kenya), provides various logistic services to various country programs or GSO of Medair, including, but not limited to, via collaboration with GSO Logistics Team, manage and provide all the activities related to procurement, supply chain management, infrastructure, fleet, equipment & communication means. And via collaboration with GSO Logistics team, SSC develops and executes the policies and processes related to logistics activities in the field.
    Workplace & Conditions
    Logistics Shared Service Center (SSC) based in Nairobi, Kenya. Average of 8-12 weeks travel per year to country program locations. Only those with a valid work permit for Kenya, can apply.
    Starting Date / Initial Contract Details
    As soon as possible. Full time, open-ended contract.
    Key Activity Areas
    Shared Services Management

    Provide strong leadership, proactive People Management of Logistic SSC & oversight of the running of SSC.
    Effective performance management of all SSC employees, ensuring assessment, development and performance management against objectives and agreed competencies.
    Implement Medair’s relevant organisational standards, ensuring compliance with legal obligations across the transactional SSC. Ensure that the Logistics SSC runs effectively and efficiently.
    Systematically establish measurement and relevant report on service delivery standards for Logistics SSC.
    Ensure measurement, management and achievement of targeted results of the SSC in terms of efficiency and service delivery to a high standard according to the SLAs agreed with the country programs and other parties.
    Promote and instil customer centric culture & effective partnership working with internal stakeholders.
    Timely assess and address “Unresolved” queries and complaints.
    An active contributing member to Medair Logistics global operation to build up overall Logistics capacities.
    Strive to gain economic savings for Medair and increased service levels from suppliers.

    Logistics / Administration

    Ensure cost–effective delivery of SSC transactional logistics support services that effectively support the operations of country programmes identified in the SLAs, including, but not limited to: procurement and facilitation of effective services for conferences, facilities, office management etc.
    Support the GSO Logistics in the implementation of the corporate and divisional logistics strategy.
    Management and reporting of the SSC budget. Accountable for the implementation of the budget plans for the SSC and ensuring cost- effectiveness of the centre.
    Ensure effective co-ordination between the Logistic SSS team, country programme Logistic Managers & observance of specified compliance requirements.

    ERP system

    SuperUser for the ERP system in order to manage the SSC team’s performance in high efficiency level.
    Train field programs or new comers on ERP when necessary to build up overall Medair Logistics capacity.

    Others

    Actively solicit feedback from the fields / GSO and provide feedback to optimize relevant policies / procedures related to Logistics functions via collaboration with GSO if necessary.
    Design and drive other ad-hoc projects to improve the overall SSC Logistics performance and quality.

    Logistics Emergency response

    Coordinate the emergency kit procurements in order to be fully equipped & deployable all year round.

    Team Spiritual Life

    Reflect the values of Medair with staff, beneficiaries, and external contacts.
    Work and pray together in our Christian faith-based team settings. Fully contribute to the rich spiritual life of your team, including team devotions, prayers, and words of encouragement.
    Encouraged to join and contribute to Medair’s international prayer network.

    This job description covers the main tasks that are anticipated. Other tasks may be assigned as necessary.
    Qualifications

    Bachelor’s Degree is preferred, preferably with Supply Chain or Business Operations concentration.
    Professionally qualified in Logistics or other service management framework qualification or decent experience of leading SSC and ensuring continuous improvements in transactional, non- strategic operational services.
    Strong working knowledge of English (spoken and written). French desirable.

    Experience / Competencies

    Professionally qualified SSC Manager, preferably with 7 years’ experience in a large and / or complex organisation, and the ability to lead, influence and support colleagues in appreciating the importance of effective and efficient shared services support standards, Service Level Agreements , processes, procedures and controls; ability to specify, design and use business operations and performance management mechanisms to achieve control and assurance across a complex and diverse business in a similar organizational setting.
    Operational and management experience in Logistics. Expertise in the translation of thought leadership in SSC design into design of effective SSC from the customers’ perspective.
    Experience of leading the implementation of operational improvements through a SSC and the persistence to achieve change in a challenging environment; Maximising resource utilization.
    A strong commitment to Medair’s purpose, a broad understanding of the work culture in the “Humanitarian aid” sector and its impact on key areas of responsibility and a commitment to humanitarian principles.
    Proven strong experience and knowledge of operational logistics and supply chain, policies and procedures.
    Experience of designing and implementing and monitoring and evaluation tools to ensure a high level of customer service according to the Service Level Agreements.
    Knowledge of Humanitarian Essentials, Sphere and HAP Standards and other international humanitarian guidelines and protocols.

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  • Secondary: Learning Support Teacher Kindergarten: Class Teacher Kindergarten: Assistant Teacher (Relief) Prep School: PE Teacher (Relief)

    Secondary: Learning Support Teacher Kindergarten: Class Teacher Kindergarten: Assistant Teacher (Relief) Prep School: PE Teacher (Relief)

    Key Skills:
    British Curriculum Implementation – Pearson,ICT Basic Skills Course,Interpersonal Skills,Organisation Skills,Use of Innovative & Effective Teaching Skills

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  • Senior Functional Analyst / Application Administrator IM Shared Service Centre Team Leader

    Senior Functional Analyst / Application Administrator IM Shared Service Centre Team Leader

    Job Summary
    Support the Enterprise Architect in analysing, exploring and investigating the organisational processes and systems, by designing, transforming and managing Medair’s application landscape, in order to improve, implement and maintain systems and to address changes within Medair through technology. The Senior Functional Analyst role will support in solving technical issues, user administration (including role concepts) and systems configuration. He will also provide technical administration for the implemention of a new ERP based on Microsoft Dynamics 365 technology.
    Qualifications

    Bachelor’s degree required in Computer Sciences, Information Systems, Engineering or similar. Any additional specialisation would be an asset.
    Strong working knowledge of English (spoken and written). French desirable.

    Experience

    Minimum of 5 years professional experience in a relevant field of work.
    Demonstrated experience in business systems analysis, design and system testing. Manage multiple projects.
    Experience handling helpdesk tickets from internal/external users (such as Jira).
    Knowledge of enterprise business systems (ERP) and analytics (preferred), especially in the areas of Finance, Logistics and /or HR. Business Process Mapping (BPMN 2.0, UML, etc).
    System integration and Data Analysis (awareness of APIs, Data Modelling techniques) and skills in the BI tools Qlikview and Qliksense will be considered highly desirable.
    Programming skills desirable: SQL, Perl, VBA, etc. Familiarity with various operating systems and platforms.
    Microsoft Azure, Dynamics AX, and Salesforce experience an advantage.
    Experience in developing processes and creating end-user documentation.
    Basic understanding of Project Management tools and general project steps.
    Self-driven, proactive, disciplined. Challenging others and being challenged in return.
    Excellent communicator with strong interpersonal skills. Flexible team player with positive attitude.

    Responsibilities
    Functional Analysis

    Proactively analyse, document and process improvement opportunities including with regard to governance a range of functional area such as Finance, HR and SCM as well as Donor and Beneficiary oriented processes.
    Proactively engage with department leaders and users to understand how data-driven changes to process, products, services, software and hardware can improve efficiencies and add value.
    Identify and prioritise technical and functional requirements, obtaining feedback and gaining approval to implement changes. Maximise the strategic use of applications/systems used by Medair.
    Manage the product backlog and present sprint proposals and reviews to different stakeholders.
    Documents business requirements and creates detailed functional/technical system specifications.
    Be part of internal and cross-cutting projects to ensure the alignment of business processes and solutions, and manage the integration of systems.

    Application Administration

    Translate business requirements into logical, component-based technical designs.
    Perform administration / configuration / data migration / integration duties on select systems in accordance with project objectives. Create and design technical specification documentation.
    Drive resolution of issues that come up during the deployment phase of projects.
    Implement, coordinating tests and observing initiation of the system to validate performance.

    Data Quality Management
    Ensure accuracy of input data, output data and data migration with special emphasis on using our internal BI/Analytics tools. Evaluate issue patterns and operational functions to plan and recommend process improvement and possible system upgrades.
    User Support and Training

    Stay up to date: use existing trainings, (community) resources, and develop skills and knowledge about the latest features. Train users accordingly. Provide second level support to users.

    Vendor Management

    Work with contracted service providers and other technical groups to resolve system issues.
    Innovation/changes
    Awareness of current developments in the area of technology, methodologies (Agile/Scrum, etc) and the ability to identify gaps in the process and propose improvements within the systems workflow or business processes.

    Team Life
    Reflect the values of Medair with staff, beneficiaries, and external contacts.
    This job description covers the main tasks that are anticipated. Other tasks may be assigned as necessary.

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  • Country Representative, Kenya

    Country Representative, Kenya

    Reports to the Regional Representative, East and Southern Africa

    Department: Global Operations – Africa

    *Must be authorized to work in country of hire*
    Join us!

    PSI is implements cutting edge programming in Kenya to improve women’s access to vital reproductive health services, WASH, HIV prevention and treatment, NCDs and malaria programming. For this position, PSI offers both an opportunity to manage and grow our exciting portfolio in Kenya through our network of partners as well as to further develop innovative and relevant programs in the reproductive health sphere. We are looking for a seasoned leader with solid strategy development, new business development and relationship management skills and has demonstrated success in multiple complex, multi-cultural work environments.

    The Country Representative will act as PSI’s senior representative and has overall responsibility and accountability for PSI’s programs. PSI programs in Kenya are mostly implemented through in-country partners across Kenya. As leader of PSI programs in Kenya, the Country Representative represents PSI to government, key stakeholders and donors, manage and support staff growth and develops and explore new business opportunities. The Representative will also work closely with the PSI Global Operations – Africa, Program Management Team (PMT) and Global Services Office (GSH) in Nairobi to ensure contract compliance, prepare, manage and execute program budgets, support administrative and logistical needs, marketing plans and work plans; ensures adherence to PSI minimum standards; and assures the effective implementation of the program overall.

    Sound like you? Read on.

    Your contribution

    This Includes, But Is Not Limited To

    You will be responsible for the overall development, management (financial, administrative, and programmatic), and representation of PSI’s activities in Kenya.

    Lead institutional development through strategic planning, program development, human resource planning and staff capacity building. Lead on sustainability approaches, market development and private sector engagement activities.
    Ensure compliance of all activities (i.e. financial, minimum standards, program quality assurance, donor regulations) and that all audit recommendations are implemented according to schedule. Proactively perform risk assessments to identify and mitigate risks, including operational, financial, legal, contractual, reputational and safety and ensure mitigation actions are implemented.
    Oversee program budgets, financial and internal controls; assure timely and accurate financial reporting as required by PSI/Washington and donors.
    Fundraise for existing and new activities and expansion of the health program’s portfolio.
    Maintain and foster strong external relations with strategic partners such as government, development partners, implementing partners and UN agencies, among others.
    Develop and enforce field office administrative policies. Promote an ethical environment in line with PSI’s values. Maintain a working culture that fosters diversity, equity and inclusion. Develop and maintain systems that ensure the safety and security of staff and assets in all aspects of work per best practices, PSI operating standards, and field realities.

    What are we looking for?

    The Basics

    Bachelor’s Degree (or international equivalent) in a related field required.
    Master’s Degree (or international equivalent) in a related field (i.e. MBA, MPA, MPH) preferred.
    At least 10 years of related experience managing budgets and international public health programs required.
    At least 5 years of experience managing people required.
    Demonstrated work experience in similar operating environments.
    Demonstrated experience in government and donor relations and collaboration.
    Demonstrated experience in business development.
    Demonstrated fundraising experience.
    Fluency in English with excellent writing skills. Foreign language skills required depending on location.
    Demonstrated leadership and passion for building technical, management and leadership capacity.
    References will be required.
    The successful candidate will be required to pass a background check.

    The candidate we hire will embody PSI’s corporate values:

    Measurement: You use hard evidence to make decisions and guide your work. You set clear goalposts in advance and explain clearly if you need to move them.

    Pragmatism: You’ll strive to deliver the best possible result with the resources available. You won’t be paralyzed by a need to make things perfect.

    Honesty: You own your mistakes and are open about your shortcomings – it’s the only way you’ll learn and improve.

    Collaboration: You’ll quickly establish a mental map of whom you can rely on for what, on your team, at headquarters, and in our country offices – if you try to do it all yourself, you won’t succeed.

    Trust: You accept limits to your sphere of control and give colleagues the benefit of the doubt.

    Commitment: You are in it for the long-haul and want to grow with the organization, just like PSI serves its consumers and partners with host-country governments through thick and thin.

    STATUS

    Exempt

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    careers-psi.icims.com

  • Strategic Communications and Advocacy Manager, DISC

    Strategic Communications and Advocacy Manager, DISC

    We are looking for a Strategic Communications and Advocacy Manager to support the DISC project.
    This position is a key part of the Evidence and Learning team in the DISC project– a $18-million five-year self-care project made possible with the generous support of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF).
    Reporting to EC’s Senior Manager for Advocacy and to DISC’s Project Director, you will collaborate to refine and execute DISC’s content strategy, which includes earned and owned media, digital and traditional outreach, as well as media relations.
    The DISC project is working with consumers, healthcare providers, governments and health systems in Nigeria and Uganda to catalyze voluntary self-injection of DMPA-SC contraceptives and promote additional forms of self-care. The investment aims to better understand the conditions under which consumers and providers will demand self-care interventions, and the feasibility of delivering high quality, cost-effective self-care services at scale.
    As a flagship project of PSI, DISC is part of PSI’s organizational pursuit of universal health coverage through innovative and sustainable solutions that meet the actual health needs of people in low and middle-income countries. We believe all people can and should have control of their sexuality, sexual health, and fertility and that this is best achieved when people have greater voice, choice and agency over the processes and services that most affect them. Our mission is clear: every woman and girl – and every man and boy – should have access to the products, information and services they need to plan for the families, and lives, they desire. Access to quality-assured contraception and safe abortion where it is legal is part of that package.
    Sounds like you? Read on.

     Your contribution
     
    The Strategic Communications and Advocacy Manager will be an integral member of the DISC and EC teams to fine-tune and implement the project’s communication and advocacy strategy. This position will be filled by a highly competent communications professional with sophisticated decision-making abilities and a great attitude while working with a team that really likes each other. You will be open to constructive coaching to stretch and grow your skill set while bringing an important voice to the team that allows for others to grow through your advice and strategies.  Your specific contributions will include:

    Fine-tune, implement and monitor the communication and advocacy strategy for the DISC project, targeting an array of key global and country-level decision makers, to help achieve the team’s goals, and, more broadly, PSI’s strategic goals.
    Work with the DISC team and PSI’s EC team to develop key messaging and content to communicate DISC key insights through all phases of the project. This could include technical content such as digital and conference presentations, briefs and microsite copy; key marketing materials such as fact sheets, sell sheets and marketing brochures; and promotional campaign media such as videos, project blog posts and other digital content.  
    Work with the DISC team to identify and leverage key opportunities, channels and events to advance the DISC project brand and influence DISC’s key external stakeholders and decision-makers.
    Work the EC Advocacy Unit to support and help develop appropriate connections between DISC and Self-Care Trailblazer Group (SCTG) advocacy and communications strategies and activities.
    Develop, manage, and execute asset creation for PSI’s owned media, including blog content, magazine articles, social media, and infographics.
    Oversee the DISC blog to deliver a continuous strategy and content for its editorial calendar. In close coordination with the DISC Technical Communications team and Evidence and Learning Lead:

    Regularly review and consider emerging technical content appropriate for DISC technical blogs and/or social media campaigns
    Ensure timely and consistent repackaging and dissemination of technical communications knowledge products, ensuring a visually compelling and diverse “family” of communications products for each DISC technical knowledge product.
    Play a leading role in development and execution of DISC technical webinars

    Oversee DISC’s microsite, managing the update process for content on PSI.org.
    Develop social media strategy for DISC, and set-up and manage DISC’s social media accounts, in close collaboration with PSI’s Digital Campaigns Manager.  
    Manage content strategy for priority conferences and liaise with EC team members on other conference needs.

    Work closely with Evidence and Learning Lead to ensure clear, cogent technical conference abstract submissions and presentations, for those accepted.
    Support teams in preparing for oral presentations, coordinating dry runs and offering tailored support as needed
    Lead on global media for the project, including maintaining a database of media contacts, building relationships with journalists, setting-up interviews, managing media relations, and more.
    Participate in regular DISC technical meetings to keep up to date on project progress and identify topics for dissemination.
    Support capacity of DISC country teams to:
    Capture and generate stories from the field.
    Generate appropriate local media coverage—considering media monitoring, crisis communications, and brand building for local audience. Survey and respond to media content related to DISC and DISC topics that originates external to the project.
    Develop and prepare for execution of country-specific advocacy strategies.

    Travel internationally to conduct trainings for DISC country teams and partners on storytelling, advocacy planning, message creation, annual communications planning to align with DISC and PSI’s strategic objectives. 

    What are we looking for?
    The Basics:
    A strong interest in public health, women and girls and poverty alleviation.

    A bachelor’s degree in communications, advocacy and policy or related field such as Journalism, English or one where demonstrated expertise in writing is required.
    A minimum of 5 years working in communications, preferably with PR or marketing agency experience and NGO or non-profit in international development.  
    1+ years of experience mentoring or managing junior staff positions.
    Must have excellent writing abilities and experience crafting messages for external audiences in English.
    Has experience managing blogs, crafting newsletters, writing and editing social media, developing content for corporate magazines, fact sheets, and other external materials.
    Extreme attention to detail with an ability to catch errors and grammatical mistakes.  
    Experience managing meetings and planning editorial calendars.
    Proficiency in MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Office 365.
    Able to juggle multiple competing deadlines without getting flustered and with a sense of humor.

    What would get us excited?

    Understanding of international global health desired.
    Demonstrated experience with promotion and communications for global family planning and/or adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive health programs.
    Experience working with large, multinational and intercultural teams.
    A do-er who can get their bearings quickly.
    A background in storytelling for non-profit settings.  
    Ability to communicate in French, Spanish or Portuguese is advantageous.

    PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status.

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  • Evidence and Learning Advisor

    Evidence and Learning Advisor

    Reports to: SRHR with a dotted line to Country Team Lead (Kenya)
    *Must be authorized to work in country of hire.
    Join us!
    PSI supports a wide array of programs across different health areas in Kenya through its in-country partners. Among these projects is a an integrated Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and Gender Based Violence (GBV) program in Kenya. The program seeks to increase access and utilization of comprehensive, inclusive and integrated SRHR/ MCH services, increase access and utilization of comprehensive, inclusive and integrated GBV response and prevention services and strengthen respect for human rights. The program will contribute to reduction of maternal mortality and morbidity, reduction in unmet need for SRHR (including FP) and reduced prevalence of GBV. PSI is seeking a skilled, creative and dynamic candidate with significant diversity of experience and historical success in conducting quality research, using evidence for decision-making and leading and steering program learning. Candidates should have experience in designing and implementing program learning agendas, analyzing rigorous quantitative and qualitative research, have strong communication and technical writing skills, and a record of capacity building.
    The Evidence and Learning Advisor is a key position that will steer the Monitoring, Evidence, Learning (MEL) component of the program. This position will be responsible for providing the vision, technical oversight, management, and quality assurance of the research, learning, evaluation and monitoring activities for this program and other similar
    programs.
    A key function of this position is to strengthen capacity among partners and stakeholders by being a technical resource for information sharing and thought leadership. The Evidence and Learning Advisor will also support additional projects across different health areas.
    Sound like you? Read on.
    Your contribution

    Ensuring technical excellence in research planning and execution
    Providing technical and strategic oversight by ensuring that research, learning and evaluation activities are well planned, strategic, and rigorous. This includes: developing or providing inputs to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) plans and budgets, developing or strengthening evidence inputs during program design, approving and supporting the quality execution of the project’s research plans, engaging with senior country leadership to identify research needs, ensuring ethical and data protection policy compliance in human subjects and high risk program research, and ensuring that study documentation is introduced into PSI’s knowledge management systems. On strategic projects, the Evidence and Learning advisor leads or engages with local teams and external consultants on logical framework development, study design, questionnaire development, data collection, data analysis, report writing or review, dissemination, and data use.
    Supporting data use and thought leadership initiatives
    PSI will support its partners to conduct several research studies and data collection activities to inform, adapt and evaluate PSI programs. The Evidence and Learning Advisor will facilitate and support use and transform research findings into evidence-informed program actions by implementing data to action frameworks, facilitating data use workshops, and developing appropriate formats to communicate research results to different audiences. The Evidence and Learning Advisor will also contribute to the learning agenda and facilitate contributions to thought leadership workstreams, including conducting evidence synthesis review workshops, drafting or reviewing conference abstracts, engaging with and contributing to external communities of practice, and writing and submitting manuscripts for peer review.
    Relationship Management and Capacity Building
    Our work in Kenya relies on the skills, talents, and motivation of our partner teams. Strong MEL teams are built through effective collaboration, camaraderie, identifying opportunities for collaboration and information sharing, encouraging creativity, and investing partner development and through training. The Evidence and Learning Advisor will foster a close relationship with PSI’s Global Evidence and health area evidence and learning teams to ensure that network members receive appropriate technical support, learn from global trends in research, and contribute to PSI’s knowledge base and strategic research agenda with their research products. The Evidence and Learning Advisor will provide mentorship and technical guidance and builds the technical capacity of partners. The Advisor will also act as a coordinator and communicator between in-country partner teams, market group teams, marketing teams, health area researchers, and Global Evidence.
    Serve as Technical Expert
    The Evidence and Learning Advisor will also bring their specialized skillset to the global evidence team at PSI, which could range from expertise in sampling, poverty and equity measurement, cost-effectiveness analysis, pricing, market mapping, digital health research, or health area expertise in HIV, malaria, or family planning / reproductive health.

    What are we looking for?

    Master’s degree (MA, MPH, MSc) in public health, behavioral sciences, population studies, psychology, anthropology, communication, or a related field preferred.
    At least five years of professional experience in applied research, monitoring, learning and evaluation of public health programs, including field experience in Southern or Eastern Africa
    Strong technical writing skills
    Demonstrated ability to design, analyze, disseminate, and manage qualitative and quantitative research.
    Experience analyzing quantitative research in Stata software, including analysis of DHS data and experience analyzing qualitative data using software (e.g., n-Vivo, Atlas TI, Dedoose, or similar program)
    Experience in designing, fielding and monitoring quality of data collected through mobile devices. Experience with SurveyCTO or similar platform.
    Proven experience in successfully building capacity of and mentoring researchers
    Ability to develop partnerships with internal senior management, program and marketing teams, external stakeholders, and donors
    Ability to manage and provide quality assurance to work performed by external research agencies or providers
    Experience managing multiple studies and teams in challenging, resource constrained environments
    Extensive familiarity with research ethics procedures and submission of studies to local and international IRB boards
    Experience developing M&E plans, logical frameworks and contributing to new business development
    Excellent writing and communication skills in English

    Repertoire of desired expertise/skills includes:

    Experience with marketing research and design research
    Experience conducting market landscaping activities
    Experience with data visualization software
    Familiarity with donor-funded international development projects

    Interested applicants should submit a current Curriculum Vitae no later than February 9th 2021 to jobs@psinairobi.org . Subject: Evidence and Learning AdvisorApplications will be screened on a rolling basis until a suitable candidate is identified.PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status.

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    jobs@psinairobi.org

  • Senior Data Analysis Advisor, DISC Project

    Senior Data Analysis Advisor, DISC Project

    Join us!
    PSI seeks an innovative Senior Data Analysis Advisor to provide technical leadership for high quality, relevant, and insightful analyses across an array of data workstreams in Uganda and Nigeria. PSI welcomes both mid-career and senior applicants, and will assign a pay grade based on the successful candidate’s qualifications. This position is a key part of the Evidence and Learning team in the DISC project– a $18-million five-year self care project made possible with the generous support of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF).
    The DISC project is working with consumers, healthcare providers, governments and health systems in Nigeria and Uganda to catalyze voluntary self-injection of DMPA-SC contraceptives and promote additional forms of self-care. The investment aims to better understand the conditions under which consumers and providers will demand self-care interventions, and the feasibility of delivering high quality, cost-effective self-care services at scale.
    As a flagship project of PSI, we are part of PSI’s organizational pursuit of universal health coverage through innovative and sustainable solutions that meet the actual health needs of people in low and middle income countries.    Our mission is clear: every woman and girl – and every man and boy – should have access to the products, information and services they need to plan for the families, and lives, they desire. Access to quality-assured contraception and safe abortion where it is legal is part of that package.
    Our evidence and learning objectives align with this. We’re looking for someone who loves to dig deep into the data and evidence– to triangulate, to understand the technical ‘ahas!’ that are taking shape, and to enable their team members to join them in this dynamic learning journey.
     
    Experience with multi-country projects emphasizing data use for adaptation and learning, familiarity working across public and private sectors, sexual and reproductive health programs, ethics, data visualization, and digital platforms will all be parts of this position. We’re looking for someone who is a data scientist at heart, and is eager to lead in taking evidence use to the ‘next level’ to advance self care as a new, consumer-powered cornerstone of sexual and reproductive health care.
    Sound like you? Read on.
    Your contribution
    You will play the leading data analysis role in the DISC project, while at the same time developing systems for DISC’s routine ongoing data analysis that are:

    Well-understood by DISC in-country program and M&E staff;
    Responsive to established project learning objectives as well as relevant questions that arise over time;
    Acceptable to donors

    You will play a leading role within the DISC Evidence & Learning team to ensure DISC analyses effectively respond to the pressing questions relevant to our Learning Agenda and Theory of Change. Your aim is to build accurate, timely, and compelling analyses that help us understand ‘what it takes’ to advance self care. Your specific contributions will include:
    Lead routine analyses, triangulating relevant data across DISC’s digital, HMIS, and quantitative research. Support the development of data pipelines and data models to layer data from different sources such as DHIS2, social media monitoring, consumer research, marketing, and third party sources for cross-cutting insights.
    As part of this, conduct exploratory analyses and/or build ML-based models to surface insights that others may miss. Lead development of DISC dashboards, analytical products, and real-time decision-support tools for different audiences, applying your deep knowledge of analytical tools such as PowerBI to ensure DISC’s consistent capacity to curate independent sources of data into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights.
    •  As part of this, develop tailored data decision support tools and products for differing DISC audiences, both internal to DISC and external local partners who will ultimately need to carry data analysis and use forward as interventions are sustained beyond the life of the project.

    Lead data analysis capacity building, supporting country staff to ensure quality data and its use to proactively identify trends, and tell a relevant and compelling technical story to internal and external key audiences.
    Support country teams to conduct and use analyses to inform their ongoing performance improvement efforts
    Serve as primary point of contact on use of DISC analyses for Adaptive Implementation.
    Contribute to the completion of DISC M&E deliverables and reporting requirements in accordance with grant agreement terms, ensuring timely and relevant analyses are included in reporting for external audiences including donors and government partners
    Report on and analyze performance against key performance indicators, in collaboration with DISC Monitoring Advisor.
    Ensure timely updating and maintenance of the DISC monitoring dashboard
    Work with PSI’s Strategy and Insights department to support department and organization-level initiatives aligned with PSI’s strategic evidence agenda as relates to self care, UHC, and consumers’ voice, choice, and agency.
    Engage with teams leading cross-cutting initiatives, including costing, quality of care and digital strategies to enhance provider service delivery and client experience.
    Other responsibilities related to the position.

    The position location is flexible with potential for frequent travel (up to 25%).
    What are we looking for?
    The basics:

    5 or more years of advanced data analysis and visualization experience preferred
    Degree in data science, information management statistics, mathematics, analytics, economics, computer science, or related field preferred
    Strong knowledge of statistics and experience using statistical packages for analyzing datasets (R, STATA, SPSS, SAS, etc.)
    Knowledge of programming languages such as SQL, Java, JavaScript, and/or Python
    In depth experience with relational database systems such as SQL and Postgres, as well as non-relational database systems such as MongoDB
    Experience with DHIS2 analytics strongly preferred
    Excellent data visualization skills, preferably in PowerBI, Tableau, and/or MongoCharts
    Experience building analytical models
    Proficient in Google Analytics and Facebook Insights
    Proven ability to lead teams through complex analyses, linking them meaningfully to country-driven inquiry and learning priorities
    Comfortable respectfully challenging internal assumptions, and analyzing internal data through the eyes of an external competitor
    An obsession with finding the insights that matter, and risks in the data, that others have missed
    Creative problem-solving skills
    Very strong personal integrity
    Strong communication and presentation skills
    Strong business analysis skills
    Highly organized and a self-starter
    Extensive experience in determining appropriate knowledge management processes, products and platforms;
    Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including written, verbal and facilitation skills applied within multi-cultural contexts;
    Fluency in written and spoken English
    Ability to work across teams, time zones and matrixed groups to accomplish project goals.
    Demonstrated experience working in the sexual and reproductive health, and adolescent and youth programming.
    Outstanding communication skills.
    Experience and excellence in working with large, multinational and intercultural teams.
    References will be required.
    The successful candidate will be required to pass a background check.
    Must possess valid work authorization.

     
    The candidate we hire will embody PSI’s corporate values:

    Measurement: You use hard evidence to make decisions and guide your work. You set clear goalposts in advance and explain clearly if you need to move them.
    Pragmatism: You’ll strive to deliver the best possible result with the resources available. You won’t be paralyzed by a need to make things perfect.
    Honesty: You own your mistakes and are open about your shortcomings – it’s the only way you’ll learn and improve.
    Collaboration: You’ll quickly establish a mental map of whom you can rely on for what, on your team, at headquarters, and in our country offices – if you try to do it all yourself, you won’t succeed.
    Trust: You accept limits to your sphere of control and give colleagues the benefit of the doubt.
    Commitment:  You are in it for the long-haul and want to grow with the organization, just like PSI serves its consumers and partners with host-country governments through thick and thin

    Apply via :

    www.linkedin.com

  • Production Manager

    Production Manager

    Oversee company production of products and services, according to the specifications involving a factory team executing metal fabrication/welding, vehicle accessories fitment, CKD assembling, plasma AutoCAD cutting, spray painting/powder coating and sandblasting production techniques.
    Ensure seamless production flow within the lead time, cost controls, minimizing waste without compromising quality.
    Responsibilities

    Generate job cards as per job briefs, explain its details to the teams and schedule for job execution by each team.
    Allocate duties to staff and plan manpower, monitor staff attendance, ensure tools and materials are ready in each section for job performance.
    Promptly raise with the Production Director Staff disciplinary issues and other matters affecting work performance in the workshop.
    Review individual and teams work performance, giving timely feedback to the management and submitting/updating the required production reports daily. Involved in induction training of staff.
    Responsible for tools, equipment and machines maintenance and or repair requirements with the Technicians.
    Monitor the quality of work and products, noting issues and taking corrective actions in liaison with the management.
    Ensure staff comply with health and safety requirements in the workshop. Ensure the factory is clean and organised.
    Implement company policies, procedures, processes and practises.
    Undertake other duties as may be assigned by the Management.

    Qualifications

    Bachelor degree in engineering (Mechanical /Manufacturing /Production).
    Over 3 years Managerial /Supervisory hands on work experience with good knowledge of metal fabrication, vehicle parts fitment, welding, CKD assembly, spray painting/powder coating and sandblasting, ROPs and other fabricated accessories.
    Ability to interpret drawings and jobs briefs.
    Computer literacy in use of an ERP system with a Production module.
    Understanding of Kaizen work practises and its implementation.
    Good people management skills with ability to motivate individuals and teams.
    Good communicator, able to give feedback and enable upward/downward communication.
    Ability to meet deadlines with timely updates on progress.

    Apply via :

    www.linkedin.com

  • Research Advisor, DISC Project

    Research Advisor, DISC Project

    Join us!
    PSI seeks an innovative Research Advisor to provide technical leadership for high quality, relevant, and insightful analyses across an array of data workstreams in Uganda and Nigeria. This position is a key part of the Evidence and Learning team in the DISC project– a $18-million five-year self-care project made possible with the generous support of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF). The DISC project is working with consumers, healthcare providers, governments and health systems in Nigeria and Uganda to catalyze voluntary self-injection of DMPA-SC contraceptives and promote additional forms of self-care. The investment aims to better understand the conditions under which consumers and providers will demand self-care interventions, and the feasibility of delivering high quality, cost-effective self-care services at scale.
    As a flagship project of PSI, we are part of PSI’s organizational pursuit of universal health coverage through innovative and sustainable solutions that meet the actual health needs of people in low and middle income countries. We believe all people can and should have control of their sexuality, sexual health and fertility and that this is best achieved when people have greater voice, choice and agency over the processes and services that most affect them. Our mission is clear: every woman and girl – and every man and boy – should have access to the products, information and services they need to plan for the families, and lives, they desire. Access to quality-assured contraception and safe abortion where it is legal is part of that package.
    Our evidence and learning objectives align with this. The DISC project emphasizes a rigorous relationship to evidence generation and use throughout its design and implementation phases, requiring innovation to enable safe and ethical research practices in the current COVID19 scenario. How can we know if we’re reaching – and satisfying – clients and consumers with quality care and products that meet their needs? How can we be sure we’re on the right track to meet our commitments both to innovation as well as sustainable health impact? How can we generate and use evidence to continuously refine our understanding of our clients’ complete user journey, from awareness through continuation and advocacy? How can we see their journey across the diverse points of service on which they rely, both public and private sector? How can we do all of this in a timely way, while ensuring rigor that responds to our technical community? How can we use our evidence to inspire, and achieve even more?
    We’re looking for someone who reads these questions and feels a fire inside to get them answered. With activities evolving rapidly across Uganda and Nigeria, and at our hub locations in Kenya and the US, DISC seeks a Research Advisor who is a skilled quantitative researcher, eager to play a leading role as part of DISC’s Evidence & Learning team, and who is committed to supporting others to join them in this Evidence & Learning journey.
    Experience with multi-country projects emphasizing evidence use for adaptation and learning; familiarity working across public and private sectors; sexual and reproductive health programs; design and execution of diverse research methods including client exit interviews, mystery clients, and pilot assessments of complex interventions, will all be parts of this position. We’re looking for someone who is eager to lead in taking all of this to the ‘next level’ as we learn how to advance self-care as a new, consumer-powered cornerstone of sexual and reproductive health care.
    Sound like you? Read on.
    Your contribution
    As a key role in the DISC Evidence and Learning Team, you will work closely with country-level programmatic and M&E teams in Uganda and Nigeria to develop and optimize high quality, timely, and reliable research in line with the DISC project’s learning agenda, focusing on ensuring research is:

    Feasible and in line with budget requirements
    Responsive to key learning areas for the project—including emerging questions that arise in the course of implementation;
    Well-understood by both the in-country program and Evidence & Learning staff

    Acceptable to donors
    This position will require close coordination and collaboration with the DISC core and country teams, as well as with PSI’s Senior Research Advisor, and the Strategy and Insights department. You will play a leading role within the DISC Evidence and Learning team to ensure DISC country research aligns with protocols and ethical guidelines, and effectively speak to DISC evidence objectives. Our ultimate focus is learn about what it takes to help self-care advance consumer-powered SRH care across private and public sectors. You will play a key role in helping us build this larger body of evidence and learning. Your specific contributions will include:
    Lead on development and execution of DISC key research projects, in close collaboration with the project’s senior research advisors. This will include building out the design of quantitative and some mixed methods research studies. You will serve as Principal Investigator in many instances, develop protocols, ensure smooth coordination of activities, maintain activities within budget, and conduct timely analysis of data. These studies and activities include but are not limited to: o Quantitative willingness to pay study or discrete choice experiment for self-care services in the Uganda and Nigeria private and public sectors
    Whole system’ assessment (pilot study) of the DISC complex intervention

    Continuation research to ensure the project’s ability to routinely measure and track clients’ continuation journey from initiation of self-injection through sustained use
    Client Exit Interviews o Mixed methods study of consumer journeys for self-care services in the Uganda and Nigeria private and public sectors
    Lead quantitative research capacity building efforts and serve as a strong partner to country teams in the execution of research activities, including assisting with IRB applications, preparation of training materials, and study logistics management
    Serve as a key member of DISC’s Design Learning Team to ensure design work effectively responds to and incorporates evidence in prototyping
    Work in tandem with the project’s Monitoring and Data Analysis leads to support the development and the implementation of the M&E measurement system within the project’s EME framework
    Work with DISC project team to identify research needs and gaps as they evolve over the course of project start up and implementation
    Oversee progress of all research deliverables
    Lead in development and submission of peer review journal manuscripts reflecting DISC research findings, synthesizing and packaging results, insights, and learning as relevant
    Collaborate with PSI’s Senior Research Advisor and the Strategy and Insights department to synthesize DISC learnings with broader Strategic Evidence Agenda dissemination efforts
    Represent PSI externally in relevant technical working groups within the broader SRH community of practice, build and identify strategic partnerships

    What are we looking for?
    The basics:
    You have a master’s degree in public health, demography, epidemiology, or another related field, or equivalent experience
    You have 5-7 years of demonstrated leadership in quantitative and mixed methods research projects
    o Ideal candidates have familiarity with human centered design processes
    Fluent in the use of Stata; familiarity with SurveyCTO or other ODK-based platform is highly desirable
    Highly organized; ability to multi-task, meet tight deadlines, and keep teams on track
    Experience in donor-funded organizations or projects, in the following areas:
    o Project/research management;
    o Technical sexual and reproductive health-related roles; and
    o Market development
    Demonstrable technical communications skills, both written and oral
    Professional experience in Sub-Saharan African countries, including Nigeria, Uganda and/or similar contexts is desirable
    Demonstrated understanding of the complexities of public health programming in challenging operating environments
    You are a clear and consistent communicator, able to translate complex research information into technically accurate, understandable synthesis appropriate for a variety of stakeholders
    The position location is flexible with potential for frequent travel (up to 25%). This position will require close coordination and collaboration with many people—good people skills are a must.

    Apply via :

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  • Senior Data Analysis Advisor, DISC Project

    Senior Data Analysis Advisor, DISC Project

    Join us!

    PSI seeks an innovative Senior Data Analysis Advisor to provide technical leadership for high quality, relevant, and insightful analyses across an array of data workstreams in Uganda and Nigeria. PSI welcomes both mid-career and senior applicants, and will assign a pay grade based on the successful candidate’s qualifications. This position is a key part of the Evidence and Learning team in the DISC project– a $18-million five-year self care project made possible with the generous support of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF).

    The DISC project is working with consumers, healthcare providers, governments and health systems in Nigeria and Uganda to catalyze voluntary self-injection of DMPA-SC contraceptives and promote additional forms of self-care. The investment aims to better understand the conditions under which consumers and providers will demand self-care interventions, and the feasibility of delivering high quality, cost-effective self-care services at scale.

    As a flagship project of PSI, we are part of PSI’s organizational pursuit of universal health coverage through innovative and sustainable solutions that meet the actual health needs of people in low and middle income countries.    Our mission is clear: every woman and girl – and every man and boy – should have access to the products, information and services they need to plan for the families, and lives, they desire. Access to quality-assured contraception and safe abortion where it is legal is part of that package.

    Our evidence and learning objectives align with this. We’re looking for someone who loves to dig deep into the data and evidence– to triangulate, to understand the technical ‘ahas!’ that are taking shape, and to enable their team members to join them in this dynamic learning journey.

     

    Experience with multi-country projects emphasizing data use for adaptation and learning, familiarity working across public and private sectors, sexual and reproductive health programs, ethics, data visualization, and digital platforms will all be parts of this position. We’re looking for someone who is a data scientist at heart, and is eager to lead in taking evidence use to the ‘next level’ to advance self care as a new, consumer-powered cornerstone of sexual and reproductive health care.

    Sound like you? Read on.

    Your contribution

    You will play the leading data analysis role in the DISC project, while at the same time developing systems for DISC’s routine ongoing data analysis that are:

    Well-understood by DISC in-country program and M&E staff;
    Responsive to established project learning objectives as well as relevant questions that arise over time;
    Acceptable to donors

    You will play a leading role within the DISC Evidence & Learning team to ensure DISC analyses effectively respond to the pressing questions relevant to our Learning Agenda and Theory of Change. Your aim is to build accurate, timely, and compelling analyses that help us understand ‘what it takes’ to advance self care. Your specific contributions will include:

    Lead routine analyses, triangulating relevant data across DISC’s digital, HMIS, and quantitative research. Support the development of data pipelines and data models to layer data from different sources such as DHIS2, social media monitoring, consumer research, marketing, and third party sources for cross-cutting insights.

    As part of this, conduct exploratory analyses and/or build ML-based models to surface insights that others may miss. Lead development of DISC dashboards, analytical products, and real-time decision-support tools for different audiences, applying your deep knowledge of analytical tools such as PowerBI to ensure DISC’s consistent capacity to curate independent sources of data into coherent, visually immersive, and interactive insights.

    •  As part of this, develop tailored data decision support tools and products for differing DISC audiences, both internal to DISC and external local partners who will ultimately need to carry data analysis and use forward as interventions are sustained beyond the life of the project.

    Lead data analysis capacity building, supporting country staff to ensure quality data and its use to proactively identify trends, and tell a relevant and compelling technical story to internal and external key audiences.
    Support country teams to conduct and use analyses to inform their ongoing performance improvement efforts
    Serve as primary point of contact on use of DISC analyses for Adaptive Implementation.
    Contribute to the completion of DISC M&E deliverables and reporting requirements in accordance with grant agreement terms, ensuring timely and relevant analyses are included in reporting for external audiences including donors and government partners
    Report on and analyze performance against key performance indicators, in collaboration with DISC Monitoring Advisor.
    Ensure timely updating and maintenance of the DISC monitoring dashboard
    Work with PSI’s Strategy and Insights department to support department and organization-level initiatives aligned with PSI’s strategic evidence agenda as relates to self care, UHC, and consumers’ voice, choice, and agency.
    Engage with teams leading cross-cutting initiatives, including costing, quality of care and digital strategies to enhance provider service delivery and client experience.
    Other responsibilities related to the position.

    The position location is flexible with potential for frequent travel (up to 25%).

    What are we looking for?

    The basics:

    5 or more years of advanced data analysis and visualization experience preferred
    Degree in data science, information management statistics, mathematics, analytics, economics, computer science, or related field preferred
    Strong knowledge of statistics and experience using statistical packages for analyzing datasets (R, STATA, SPSS, SAS, etc.)
    Knowledge of programming languages such as SQL, Java, JavaScript, and/or Python
    In depth experience with relational database systems such as SQL and Postgres, as well as non-relational database systems such as MongoDB
    Experience with DHIS2 analytics strongly preferred
    Excellent data visualization skills, preferably in PowerBI, Tableau, and/or MongoCharts
    Experience building analytical models
    Proficient in Google Analytics and Facebook Insights
    Proven ability to lead teams through complex analyses, linking them meaningfully to country-driven inquiry and learning priorities
    Comfortable respectfully challenging internal assumptions, and analyzing internal data through the eyes of an external competitor
    An obsession with finding the insights that matter, and risks in the data, that others have missed
    Creative problem-solving skills
    Very strong personal integrity
    Strong communication and presentation skills
    Strong business analysis skills
    Highly organized and a self-starter
    Extensive experience in determining appropriate knowledge management processes, products and platforms;
    Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including written, verbal and facilitation skills applied within multi-cultural contexts;
    Fluency in written and spoken English
    Ability to work across teams, time zones and matrixed groups to accomplish project goals.
    Demonstrated experience working in the sexual and reproductive health, and adolescent and youth programming.
    Outstanding communication skills.
    Experience and excellence in working with large, multinational and intercultural teams.
    References will be required.
    The successful candidate will be required to pass a background check.
    Must possess valid work authorization.

     

    The candidate we hire will embody PSI’s corporate values:

    Measurement: You use hard evidence to make decisions and guide your work. You set clear goalposts in advance and explain clearly if you need to move them.
    Pragmatism: You’ll strive to deliver the best possible result with the resources available. You won’t be paralyzed by a need to make things perfect.
    Honesty: You own your mistakes and are open about your shortcomings – it’s the only way you’ll learn and improve.
    Collaboration: You’ll quickly establish a mental map of whom you can rely on for what, on your team, at headquarters, and in our country offices – if you try to do it all yourself, you won’t succeed.
    Trust: You accept limits to your sphere of control and give colleagues the benefit of the doubt.
    Commitment:  You are in it for the long-haul and want to grow with the organization, just like PSI serves its consumers and partners with host-country governments through thick and thin

    Apply via :

    www.linkedin.com