Careers at Amref Kenya

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategy and Thought Leadership:

• Contribute to ICD’s strategy as a member of the Senior Leadership Team, and lead its translation into operational strategies and plans, and its implementation.
• Provide leadership and vision for all existing and new programmatic initiatives to drive impact and cost efficiency and be responsive to a rapidly evolving environment.
• Serve as a thought partner to the ICD Director and other internal stakeholders to continuously re-imagine ICD´s vision, mandate, and strategy in driving cost-effective impact across Africa.
• Lead ICD’s programmatic expansion strategy, including engaging key internal and external stakeholders on strategic programmatic discourse.
• Explore opportunities for collaboration and partnership to enhance programme reach and sustainability.

Programme Development and Management:

• Oversee the design, development, and timely performance of programmes, including setting budgets, annual goals and targets.
• Embed data-driven adaptive programming approaches that identify continuous improvement opportunities and drive timely course-correction and improve programme effectiveness, efficiency and impact.
• Ensure robust monitoring and evaluation frameworks are in place to assess programme effectiveness.
• Ensure programmes are evidence-based and address the specific needs of the target population.
• Drive ICD’s learning agenda, ensuring programmes are evidence-based and documented through programmatic stories that resonate with a wide range of audiences.

Business Development:

• Work closely with programme leads, corporate and ICD’s business development teams to identify, pursue and secure funding opportunities.
• Lead programme design for proposals and concept notes engaging with relevant internal and external partners and stakeholders

Talent Management and Leadership:

• Develop ICD’s programme teams and build a culture of high performance, and an engaged workforce in line with the Amref's values.
• Shape and nurture organizational culture by embodying and championing Amref values of ubuntu, integrity and quality.
• Champion team motivation and wellbeing by supporting recruitment, retention, recognition and career growth.
• Support the building of cross-country and cross-entity effectiveness and efficiencies, making strong operational and strategic linkages for multi-country and multi-entity programmes in the organisation.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and Professional Qualifications:

• Masters and professional qualification in relevant areas such as business administration, public health and international development.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

• 10+ years’ experience leading complex multi-country programmes in Sub-Sahara Africa, preferably in the health and/or international development sector, with 5+ years in a senior leadership role.
• Demonstrable strategic thinking skills with the ability to rally people and teams behind ambitious goals.
• Ability to inspire, motivate and guide a diverse and geographically dispersed teams of technical and non-technical staff who are direct or indirect reports.
• Experience using data and evidence to drive programme performance and sustainable impact.
• Demonstratable success in creating clear and compelling programme strategies with internal and external stakeholders.
• Solid track record and achievement in overseeing large scale multi-year, multi-country grants.
• Excellent communication and public speaking skills.
• Candidates with both English and French language capabilities will have an added advantage.

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SCOPE OF WORK

USAID Imarisha Jamii is a USAID Kenya and East Africa funded activity that aims to increase the use of quality county-led health and social services in Turkana County, Kenya. It is an integrated health and social services program that focuses in areas of HIV; Family Planning, Reproductive, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health (FP/RMNCAH); Nutrition; and Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) program.

The PMTCT Lead will focus on:

•  To provide technical leadership in the development and implementation of an ambitious, elimination of mother to child transmission (eMTCT) program aimed at improving the quality and effectiveness
• of high-impact evidence-based HIV and AIDS interventions and ending of triple threat.
•  This will be accomplished by scaling up new and emerging research findings on evidenced-based, interventions; providing technical assistance and organizational capacity building to the county
• government and civil society partners, clinical teams; and disseminating research findings and sharing lessons learned
•  Improving the delivery of care and treatment services for Positive PBFW and HIV-infected Children in line with the 95-95-95 strategy

KEY AREA KEY TASKS

Technical  

• Provide leadership in designing, and implementation of PMTCT work plans and budgets
•  Oversee the capacity building of project technical officers and health care providers at USAID-Imarisha Jamii supported facilities on PMTCT national guidelines and protocols
•  Coordinate and innovate collaborative activities and strategies targeted to achieving elimination of Mother to Child Transmission
•  Oversee follow-up of HIV infected pregnant and breastfeeding women and HIV exposed infants in USAID-Imarisha Jamii supported facilities and ensure optimal outcomes for the mother and infant
•  Liaise with Ministry of Health officials and other stakeholders in the implementation of the program in line with MOH guidelines and priorities
•  Take part in the drafting of monthly, quarterly and annual reports and other written materials such as lessons learned, case studies and other materials as required
•  Assist in program monitoring and evaluation and use of data to inform program planning and continuous improvement
•  Participate in the county, regional and national PMTCT technical working groups/Meetings
•  Develop job aids, SOPs, tools and materials as needed including CMEs for use at the facility level to support health care workers to provide PMTCT services
•  Any other duties assigned by the supervision

Required Qualifications and Experience

•  At least a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine, Clinical Medicine, Nursing, Public Health, or other healthrelated courses, Master of Public Health is an added advantage.
•  At least five (5) years of experience in HIV and AIDS prevention, Care and Treatment experience
• with a particular focus on PMTCT or Pediatric programming preferred.

Skills, Knowledge and Competencies

•  Good knowledge of practical delivery of HIV/AIDS clinical care and ART including patient-centered management and family support.
•  Training on Kenya EMR and the ability to use EMR for reporting.
•  Advanced training in antiretroviral management is an added advantage.
•  Good use of MS Office packages and office automation solutions
•  Sensitivity to cultural differences and understanding of the political and ethical issues surrounding HIV infection
•  Excellent management abilities within a multi-disciplinary team, support, training and mentoring.
•  Ability to work and deliver results with minimum supervision
•  Demonstrated ability to work as a team player.
•  Excellent interpersonal and supervisory skills, capable of directing and managing change, effective delegation, inspiring teamwork and motivating staff and partners to achieve results.
•  Communication skills: Excellent written and oral presentation skills, able to write well and adapt report style to different target audiences.
•  Technical knowledge of HIV Care and Treatment and PMTCT service delivery.
•  Leadership: Able to maintain a broad perspective of project needs and priorities, and the resultsbased objectives and strategies being pursued.
•  Interpersonal and Negotiation skills: Proven ability to work successfully within a team of professionals (including from external partner organizations) and with members of the public; wide exposure to people from different cultures and sections of society. Able to support new partnership development, both bilaterally and in complex consortia formation.
•  Programme Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E): Knowledge in M&E systems, including results-based management.
•  Organizational skills: Ability to manage time efficiently and meet deadlines, keep careful records.
   

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Key Responsibilities:

• Assist the CoP with strategic and operational planning, including work planning, and ensure project compliance with all contractual reporting and financial requirements of USAID and Amref Health Africa in Kenya.
• Assist the CoP in creating and maintaining good working relationships with USAID, civil society organizations, media, and other program partners.
• Manage staff, partners, and operations ensuring close coordination and collaboration between the project’s various teams.
• Manage deadlines, draft reports, maintain records, and monitor achievement of benchmarks in the agreement.
• Serve as acting CoP in their absence.
• Oversee the grants management process, specifically support the design and management of an open, transparent, and competitive grants making process.
• Work closely with appropriate project personnel to develop solicitations approved by Amref in Kenya and USAID; publicize and promote the solicitations through various media channels: process and prepare all necessary documentation, in collaboration with project personnel; follow-through and complete all approval processes.
• Supervise the implementation of sub awards.
• Mentor and manage staff in a respectful and transparent manner, working with local staff to build their technical and administrative capacity.

Qualifications and Competencies:

• Eight years of experience in a senior role managing, complex technical service delivery programs of similar scope and dollar value.
• A Master’s degree in social sciences, public health, medicine, management, business administration, or a related field.
• Five years’ experience in partnership building, especially with the government representatives, donors, the private sector, and local community organizations.
• Working knowledge of USAID policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of administration, human resources (HR) practices, budget management.
• Experience recruiting, forming, and successfully managing teams and ensuring the quality of their products.
• Demonstrated success in multicultural environments is required.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English required.