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Data FI Kenya Deputy Director / Health Financing & Policy Lead
Provide technical and strategic direction for health-financing and policy-related activities under Data.FI Kenya.
Provide Health Financing leadership for Data.FI Kenya to advance bilateral cooperation between the Government of Kenya and the United States under the America First Global Health Strategy.
Maintain close and deliberate collaboration with the relevant government agencies such as DHA and SHA, ensuring harmonized implementation of health financing components, aligned workplans, cost-effective implementation, and a unified USG presence in support of Kenya’s digital health priorities.
Lead the design and implementation of health-financing, analytics, costing, and resource-tracking studies.
Coordinate digital integration of financial systems within DHA, MoH, and the Social Health Authority (SHA).
Support policy dialogue on sustainable financing and evidence-based decision making.
Collaborate with DHA and KeHMIS technical teams to align financial-data systems with national digital-health architecture.
Represent Data.FI Kenya in national and partner coordination forums related to health financing and UHC.
Provide technical supervision to health-financing and policy staff and ensure quality of deliverables.
Contribute to learning, documentation, and dissemination of health-financing innovations.
Required Qualifications:
Doctorate degree in economics and health economics, Econometrics, statistics and public health/finance, health policy, or a related discipline.
At least 10 years of experience in health financing, resource tracking, or economic evaluation within government or donor-funded programs.
Experience working with national health-financing reforms, UHC strategies, or financial-data systems.
Deep experience with Kenya’s Digital Health Act, Social Health Insurance framework, and national financing architecture.
Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder-engagement skills.
Experience in team management, policy dialogue, and technical representation.
Experience in managing USG funded project in health financing and policy.
Knowledge of using any statistical software such as R, STATA, Python
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