Associate Programs Director at HealthRight International

Team Leadership

• Implement objective performance measurements across all sites, to ensure consistent, high-quality evaluation and goal setting for all employees. Conduct regular Performance Appraisals with program team members, providing constructive feedback and direction for improvement.
• Provide strong leadership to the team, build trust, develop effective coaching skills, guiding, and motivating co-workers and manage team conflict to help move projects forward and deliver positive outcome.
• Provide positive leadership to all staff and communicate effectively and continuously and create meaningful relationships with co-workers, and articulate a clearly established vision of what is to be achieved to ensure all are aware of what is expected of them.
• Direct, plan and coordinate the work of the program staff including supervision and evaluation, training and team building.
• Actively participate in the Senior Management Team, attending meetings regularly and bringing forward issues for discussion and decision related to programming
• In liaison with HR Recruit, hire, and oversee training and orientation of all project staff members.

Operations Management

• Ensure timely and quality donor reporting. Be conversant with reports review and donor report formats. Guide project managers on report drafting.
• Establish clear, time-bound performance metrics and monitor and evaluate the projects start-up and closure processes and inform the CD whenever there are any identified or potential risks.
• Scheduling and Time Management: support in the creation of well-defined project plans (costed work plans), capturing business requirements and project scope, while sequencing activities and resources.
• Ensure appropriate data management and MEARL systems for data monitoring, analysis, utilization, and reporting.

External Relations

• Grow HealthRight’s visibility in Kenya through strategic communications, publications, and conference presentations
• Cultivate relationships with external partners including donors, civil society and government in furtherance of organizational mission
• Prepare HealthRight Kenya’s Annual Report and relevant program brochures, working with the rest of the senior management team and staff members
• Represent the organization at relevant meetings, technical working groups, conferences, and events with key stakeholders

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• An advanced degree in a related field (public health, human rights, medicine, nursing etc.) is required
• Understanding and commitment to equity, human rights, and intersectional approaches to health.
• Seasoned experience building, mentoring and developing a happy, motivated and productive team.
• Demonstrated expertise implementing public health programs in Kenya with at least 5 years of team management experience, including financial management
• Proven track record of writing/leading winning grant proposals and partnering with donors, MOH institutions, NGOs, communities and health development partners
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail
• Fluency in spoken and written English, Kiswahili