{"id":102533,"date":"2026-07-18T04:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/uncategorized\/program-lead-maternal-newborn-and-child-health\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T04:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:49:10","slug":"program-lead-maternal-newborn-and-child-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/jobs\/nairobi\/program-lead-maternal-newborn-and-child-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Program Lead \u2013 Maternal Newborn and Child Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\/\", \"@type\": \"JobPosting\", \"title\": \"Program Lead \u2013 Maternal Newborn and Child Health\", \"description\": \"Responsibilities\\nLead strategy, planning, budgeting, implementation, and performance management of Healthy Birth Initiative\u2019 and contribute to broader maternal, newborn, and child health priorities across Jhpiego.\\nBuild and manage partnerships with global partners, government, donors, professional associations, academia, and implementing partners.\\nProvide technical leadership in maternal and newborn health, quality improvement, and introduction of innovations, including mentoring multi-disciplinary teams\\nStrengthen health systems, workforce capacity, referral networks, and data-driven decision making.\\nOversee financial management, compliance, risk mitigation, and partner performance\\nLead monitoring, evaluation, learning, research, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.\\nLead, supervise and mentor a multidisciplinary team of technical, programmatic, and monitoring and evaluation professionals.\\nSupport resource mobilization and growth opportunities.\\nRequired Qualifications\\nMaster\u2019s degree in Public Health, International Development or a related field\\nMinimum 10 years of progressively responsible experience managing public health programs, including at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.\\nAt least 5 years in maternal, newborn, and child health programming.\\nDemonstrated experience managing large donor-funded programs and multidisciplinary teams.\\nStrong experience working with regional, national and county governments in Kenya.\\nDeep familiarity with Kenya\u2019s Maternal, Newborn and Child Health landscape\\nExpertise in health systems strengthening, quality improvement, resource mobilization and stakeholder engagement.\", \"datePosted\": \"2026-07-17\", \"hiringOrganization\": {\"@type\": \"Organization\", \"name\": \"Jhpiego\"}, \"jobLocation\": {\"@type\": \"Place\", \"address\": {\"@type\": \"PostalAddress\", \"addressLocality\": \"Nairobi\", \"addressCountry\": \"KE\"}}, \"directApply\": true, \"validThrough\": \"2026-07-31T23:59:59\", \"employmentType\": \"FULL_TIME\"}<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Company:<\/strong> Jhpiego<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Nairobi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Type:<\/strong> Full Time<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apply Before:<\/strong> 2026-07-31<\/p>\n<h3>Job Description<\/h3>\n<p>Responsibilities<br \/>Lead strategy, planning, budgeting, implementation, and performance management of Healthy Birth Initiative\u2019 and contribute to broader maternal, newborn, and child health priorities across Jhpiego.<br \/>Build and manage partnerships with global partners, government, donors, professional associations, academia, and implementing partners.<br \/>Provide technical leadership in maternal and newborn health, quality improvement, and introduction of innovations, including mentoring multi-disciplinary teams<br \/>Strengthen health systems, workforce capacity, referral networks, and data-driven decision making.<br \/>Oversee financial management, compliance, risk mitigation, and partner performance<br \/>Lead monitoring, evaluation, learning, research, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.<br \/>Lead, supervise and mentor a multidisciplinary team of technical, programmatic, and monitoring and evaluation professionals.<br \/>Support resource mobilization and growth opportunities.<br \/>Required Qualifications<br \/>Master\u2019s degree in Public Health, International Development or a related field<br \/>Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible experience managing public health programs, including at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.<br \/>At least 5 years in maternal, newborn, and child health programming.<br \/>Demonstrated experience managing large donor-funded programs and multidisciplinary teams.<br \/>Strong experience working with regional, national and county governments in Kenya.<br \/>Deep familiarity with Kenya\u2019s Maternal, Newborn and Child Health landscape<br \/>Expertise in health systems strengthening, quality improvement, resource mobilization and stakeholder engagement.<\/p>\n<h3>How to Apply<\/h3>\n<p>Interested and qualified? Go to Jhpiego on jobs-jhpiego.icims.com to apply<br \/>Build your CV for free. Download in different templates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjobmag.co.ke\/apply-now\/1282519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;padding:10px 20px;background:#2271b1;color:#fff;text-decoration:none;border-radius:4px;\">Apply Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Source: MyJobMag<\/small><\/p>\n<p><!-- job-expiry: 2026-07-31 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company: Jhpiego Location: Nairobi Job Type: Full Time Apply Before: 2026-07-31 Job Description ResponsibilitiesLead strategy, planning, budgeting, implementation, and performance management of Healthy Birth Initiative\u2019 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1408,1409],"tags":[1425,2304,1413,1412],"class_list":["post-102533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jobs","category-nairobi","tag-full-time","tag-jhpiego","tag-job-listing","tag-myjobmag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/kenya\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}