Summary
Date Posted: Friday, July 01, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
MAJOR TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES
Program Leadership
• In collaboration with CD, develop a donor relationship score card for close monitoring of engagements with current and potential donors and partners.
• Be proactive and use critical thinking skills to navigate through tricky or ambiguous issues. By remaining objective, analyze the facts, evaluate options without bias and be able to solve complex problems for the organization while delivering results on time and within budget.
• Business Development: With the support of the CD and HQ, the APD holds a pivotal position in ensuring programs growth and development and should make it a team sport. He / she ensures program growth and targets scanning of opportunities for business development to build a robust grant pipeline
• Financial Management: In collaboration with the Associate Director for Finance and Administration, implement systems that ensure accurate budgeting and sound fiscal management of projects.
Team Leadership
• Implement objective performance measurements across all sites, to ensure consistent, high-quality evaluation and goal setting for all employees. Conduct regular Performance Appraisals with program team members, providing constructive feedback and direction for improvement.
• Provide strong leadership to the team, build trust, develop effective coaching skills, guiding, and motivating co-workers and manage team conflict to help move projects forward and deliver positive outcome.
• Provide positive leadership to all staff and communicate effectively and continuously and create meaningful relationships with co-workers, and articulate a clearly established vision of what is to be achieved to ensure all are aware of what is expected of them.
• Direct, plan and coordinate the work of the program staff including supervision and evaluation, training and team building.
• Actively participate in the Senior Management Team, attending meetings regularly and bringing forward issues for discussion and decision related to programming
• In liaison with HR Recruit, hire, and oversee training and orientation of all project staff members.
Operations Management
• Ensure timely and quality donor reporting. Be conversant with reports review and donor report formats. Guide project managers on report drafting.
• Establish clear, time-bound performance metrics and monitor and evaluate the projects start-up and closure processes and inform the CD whenever there are any identified or potential risks.
• Scheduling and Time Management: support in the creation of well-defined project plans (costed work plans), capturing business requirements and project scope, while sequencing activities and resources.
• Ensure appropriate data management and MEARL systems for data monitoring, analysis, utilization, and reporting.
External Relations
• Grow HealthRight’s visibility in Kenya through strategic communications, publications, and conference presentations
• Cultivate relationships with external partners including donors, civil society and government in furtherance of organizational mission
• Prepare HealthRight Kenya’s Annual Report and relevant program brochures, working with the rest of the senior management team and staff members
• Represent the organization at relevant meetings, technical working groups, conferences, and events with key stakeholders

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
• An advanced degree in a related field (public health, human rights, medicine, nursing etc.) is required
• Understanding and commitment to equity, human rights, and intersectional approaches to health.
• Seasoned experience building, mentoring and developing a happy, motivated and productive team.
• Demonstrated expertise implementing public health programs in Kenya with at least 5 years of team management experience, including financial management
• Proven track record of writing/leading winning grant proposals and partnering with donors, MOH institutions, NGOs, communities and health development partners
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail
• Fluency in spoken and written English, Kiswahili

HIGHLY DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Values flexibility and creativity and teamwork in the workplace
• Experience in at least one of HealthRight’s focal health issues
• Demonstrated experience in cultivating academic partnerships (research, grants, learning) and research in LMICs and/or low-resource settings


Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
All applicants should send their CVs and cover letters to hrkenya@healthright.org 
The salary expectations should be indicated on the cover letter.
Deadline for application: The applications will be on a rolling basis until the position is filled
At HealthRight diversity is a core value, and we welcome applications from qualified individuals regardless of race, ethnicity, age, religion/belief or any other background. HealthRight is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at HealthRight are based on organizational needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, ethnicity, age, religion or belief or any other background or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.


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