Health Financing and Capacity Building Senior Manager at IntraHealth International

Essential Functions

• Strengthen county financing and accountability by supporting forums to regularly deliberate on the key performance indicators.
• Collaborate with other project staff to support development of costed facility and county annual health work plans.
• Support training of county and sub-county health management teams to use an itemized budget tool and program-based budgeting (PBB) approach to better align resource allocation within MTEF service delivery policy priorities. Further support their mentorship on budget advocacy and data analytics towards improved service delivery.
• In collaboration with a team of OD consultants:
• Lead the technical approach and delivery of the project’s capacity building activities for health system and organizational strengthening for project local partners/grantees including Bungoma and Busia county health departments and consortium local NGOs.
• Coordinate baseline and follow-up organizational assessments using the Non-US Pre-Award Survey (NUPAS) and NUPAS Plus and other tools as necessary with consortium local NGO partners and subgrantees to identify specific technical and organizational capacity development needs to be addressed over the life of the project, strengthening technical and organizational capacity in order to support county health programs at scale.
• Oversee support to local partners in OD areas including leadership, governance, and management; finance management/compliance/audit readiness; human resources staff management, training and development; grant and sub-awardee management; strategic information analysis, management and application; and sustainability and business development.
• Collaborate with the project M&E lead and HRH Manager on metrics, monitoring and measurement of HRH, health financing, and organizational development against benchmarks and support the learning agenda.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or higher in business administration, organizational development, health economics, public health or related field.
• Minimum of 6 years of relevant experience in Kenya managing and implementing health financing strengthening programs with 2 - 3 years of management or supervisory experience.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with government representatives, NGOs, for-profit private sector entities, donors and other stakeholders, particularly at the sub-national level.
• Proven knowledge of health system strengthening/health financing issues and trends, and the ability to integrate HSS/health financing with HIV/FP/RMNCAH services improvement and delivery.
• Deep knowledge of ongoing and emerging issues in relation to capacity development.
• Experience in assessing organizational capacity and providing capacity building activities and interacting with local organizations and government on capacity building.
• Strong interpersonal and team management skills, and accomplishment in strategic visioning, leadership, networking, and problem-solving.
• Proven success in working in or with government and NGOs at national and/or province/county levels.
• Experience with IT and digital health for capacity building.
• Professional level of oral and written fluency in English language.
• Experience with PEPFAR programming and USAID funding strongly preferred.
• Must have legal authorization to work in Kenya.