Chief Innovation Officer at Jacaranda Health

Responsibilities:

• Play a key leadership role in setting vision for building influence in the maternal health landscape.
• Manage and expand our portfolio of innovation and research projects, encompassing global best practices in continuous quality improvement, mobile health, and behavioral economics.
• Manage, mentor, and build our team of project managers, research managers, quality improvement and data specialists.
• Contribute Jacaranda’s insights into maternal health-seeking behavior, behavioral economics, human centered design, and demand generation.

• Help coordinate our partnerships with government facilities and other implementing partners – and insights into build health systems, and use our evidence to influence local policy and practice.
• Coordinate strategic planning around Jacaranda’s research activities, identifying and securing partnerships and funding for implementation science research.
• Support our capacity for technology innovation (our creative customer-facing SMS and WhatsApp programs)
• Expand Jacaranda’s influence in the maternal and child health landscape through publication of academic papers and presentation at conferences

Qualifications and Experience

• Relevant advanced degree preferred, and 10+ years of experience
• Proven experience building partnerships and securing resources:
• Experience leading and building diverse, high-performing teams
• Exceptional communication and project management skills
• Success securing grants and contract partnerships
• Strong grasp of maternal health challenges and opportunities
• Strong data, analytical and decision-making skills
• Experience working with academic partners and liaising with researchers: you don’t have to be a researcher but should be comfortable managing them.
• Desired: experience with Kenyan government partners at the county or ministry level.
• Two-year minimum commitment required

Logistics: 

The position is based full-time in Nairobi, Kenya