Current Vacancies at Amref Kenya

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic Learning & Impact Leadership

• Lead the development and implementation of a programme-wide Learning, Impact and Adaptation Framework, aligned with programme objectives and donor requirements.
• Ensure learning is systematically embedded across the programme lifecycle - from design and implementation to scale.
• Guide the use of evidence to inform decision-making, course correction, and innovation across countries.
• Lead the design and application of gender-transformative and inclusion-focused analytical tools, including a Gender Transformative Marker, to track and strengthen gender integration across the programme lifecycle.

MEL Oversight & Quality Assurance

• Provide technical oversight to country-level MEL systems to ensure consistency, quality, and comparability across countries.
• Provide technical oversight for baseline, mid-term, and end-term evaluations, including coordination with government counterparts, independent evaluators, External Reference Groups, and country teams.
• Guide the design and implementation of participatory institutional, service mapping, and facility readiness assessments to identify gaps and inform targeted capacity strengthening and service improvements.
• Set standards for data quality, ethics, inclusion, and safeguarding in data collection and use.
• Support the design and implementation of impact assessments, evaluations, and learning studies.

Data Use, Sense-Making & Knowledge Translation

• Lead structured learning and reflection processes e.g. learning reviews, after-action reviews, pause-and-reflect sessions.
• Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for diverse audiences, including programme teams, partners, and donors.
• Ensure insights are effectively communicated through appropriate knowledge products such as dashboards, publications, briefs, presentations and learning notes.
• Guides the strategic use of evidence to inform decision-making, course correction, and innovation across countries.

Stakeholder Engagement & Influence

• Engage donors, government counterparts, and partners to align learning priorities and manage expectations and strengthen the use of evidence for decision making.
• Facilitate cross-country and cross-partner learning communities to promote knowledge exchange and shared problem-solving.
• Promote co-creation of learning with implementing partners and communities, ensuring that learning processes are inclusive and contextually grounded.

Capacity Strengthening

• Strengthen MEL and learning capacity across partners and country teams through coaching, practical tools, and ongoing technical guidance.
• Foster a culture of learning, reflection, and accountability across the programme.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Master’s degree in Epidemiology, Public Health, Development Studies, Data Science, or related field.
• Minimum 8-10 years’ experience in learning, impact measurement, MEL, or adaptive management in complex programmes.
• Proven experience leading MEL/learning across multi-country or multi-partner programmes.
• Strong understanding of complex systems, adaptive programming, and data-informed decision-making.
• Experience working with diverse stakeholders, including donors, governments, NGOs, and communities.

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The Project Associate - Community Engagement will provide technical support in the implementation of demand creation activities in collaboration with the technical officers.  The job holder will be based in Narok County and will provide hands on technical support to County Health Management Team (CHMT) and other actors to increase utilization of RMNCAH services in Narok county.

RESPONSIBILITIES; 

Technical Support and Project Implementation

• Organize targeted community mobilization and awareness sessions to ensure uptake of RMNCAH services and ensure targets are met in the targeted facilities.          
• Engage community members, adolescents and youths and ensure their RMNCAH service delivery gaps/challenges are identified and addressed to increase uptake.
• Support CHVs to organize community dialogue sessions with local leaders, cultural leaders, TBAs youth to address barriers to RMNCAH services uptake.
• Organize media and radio programmes to discuss issues of RMNCAH and promote RMNCAH services uptake
• Work with identified youth champions to promote RMNCAH services uptake among the youth using peer led approaches. 
• Support in the identification and segmentation of community groups for targeted behavior change interventions.
• Participate in RMNCAH related stakeholders’ meetings, including TWGs and Task force meetings
• Collaborate with other demand creation agents including TBAs, religious leaders and community champions to promote demand for RMNCAH services.
• Organize and facilitate trainings for various community groups to facilitate demand for products and make the products accessible to the consumers in Narok County especially the poor

Capacity Building

• Support capacity building of CHVs, TBAs, Community Champions and other demand creation agents on effective Social mobilization for increased uptake of RMNCAH Services.

Monitoring and Evaluation Documentation

• Support in monitoring and evaluation of project activities to ensure quality and compliance to standards.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual reports relating to the project.
• Support in preparation of annual work plans and progress reports as per donor requirements.
• Support in documentation and dissemination of best practices and lessons learnt.

Partnership and Networking

• Liaise with relevant partners, stakeholders and collaborators to facilitate activities at community level.
• Maintain a good working relationship between Amref, ministry of health and other partners/stakeholders

Admin and financial management

• Support in day to day management of activity budgets including processing field imprests and other financial transactions.
• Ensure timely accounting for the use of project resources by stakeholders and communities in liaison with finance teams.

Program Development

• Participate in writing of new concepts and proposals for fundraising.

Qualifications

Education and knowledge:

• Bachelor’s Degree in public health, community health, sociology or any other relevant field

Experience:

• At least 3 years’ the implementation of public health, community development programmes or behavior change programmes at community level in coastal Region.
• Experience in demand creation activities for RMNCAH programmes is desirable.