HRH Management Senior Advisor at Management Sciences for Health (MSH)

The ideal candidate will have technical expertise and prior experience in HRH program implementation, and more specifically HRM, and experience networking with Ministry of Health and other key stakeholders. Previous USAID experience is a plus.

HRH Management Advisor Job Responsibilities

• Planning and project development, implementation and delivery of technical results:
• Conduct HRH assessments and employee satisfaction surveys.
• Strengthen the staff training needs assessment system, enhancing staff management and leadership development and strengthening the link to external pre-service training.
• Design and implement long- and short-term retention schemes that are relevant to the Nakuru and Baringo County contexts, including strategies specifically focused on retention of health workers in hard-to-staff sub-counties.
• Support the overall change management process related to improving HRH management in the context of devolution.
• Strengthen HRH coordination forums.
• Develop leadership and management skills of frontline health workers and managers based on MSH’s Leadership Development
• Program (LDP) to improve service delivery.
• Ensure the alignment of daily HRH activities with project goals, approved workplans and standards for high quality, within-budget, and on-time product delivery.
• Contribute to the development and on-going use of a project monitoring and evaluation plan, including indicators linked to results that meet all MSH and USAID reporting requirements.
• Contribute to and provide appropriate, timely, and accurate monitoring and evaluation of project activities and outcomes, and complete and submit project reports to meet all USAID requirements.
• Contribute to documentation of HRH results, evidence, and lessons learned from this Project and the dissemination of this information within, and beyond, the Project and USAID/Kenya.

Qualifications for the HRH Management Advisor

• Graduate degree in human resource management, public administration, management, social sciences or a related discipline.
• A minimum of 7 years experience in the following areas:
• Designing and implementing HRH quality improvement programs.
• Providing technical leadership to district health offices on HRH quality improvement activities.
• Guiding and providing technical assistance to Project/host country government staff working on HRH.
• Interacting with donors, implementing partners, and host country government in HRH quality improvement issues.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, demonstrated leadership, ability to build synergies across technical disciplines and nurture innovative alliances.
• Fluency in written and spoken English required and fluency in Kiswahili, a plus.
• Willingness to relocate to Baringo and to travel within Kenya required.