Program Lead - Maternal Newborn and Child Health
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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.