Company: Jhpiego
Location: Nairobi
Job Type: Full Time
Apply Before: 2026-07-31
Job Description
Responsibilities
Lead strategy, planning, budgeting, implementation, and performance management of Healthy Birth Initiative’ and contribute to broader maternal, newborn, and child health priorities across Jhpiego.
Build and manage partnerships with global partners, government, donors, professional associations, academia, and implementing partners.
Provide technical leadership in maternal and newborn health, quality improvement, and introduction of innovations, including mentoring multi-disciplinary teams
Strengthen health systems, workforce capacity, referral networks, and data-driven decision making.
Oversee financial management, compliance, risk mitigation, and partner performance
Lead monitoring, evaluation, learning, research, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
Lead, supervise and mentor a multidisciplinary team of technical, programmatic, and monitoring and evaluation professionals.
Support resource mobilization and growth opportunities.
Required Qualifications
Master’s degree in Public Health, International Development or a related field
Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible experience managing public health programs, including at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.
At least 5 years in maternal, newborn, and child health programming.
Demonstrated experience managing large donor-funded programs and multidisciplinary teams.
Strong experience working with regional, national and county governments in Kenya.
Deep familiarity with Kenya’s Maternal, Newborn and Child Health landscape
Expertise in health systems strengthening, quality improvement, resource mobilization and stakeholder engagement.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified? Go to Jhpiego on jobs-jhpiego.icims.com to apply
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Source: MyJobMag