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Position Overview

• The goal of CHAI’s Health Financing program in Kenya is to support the government to progressively move towards universal health coverage by ensuring that scarce resources are distributed and utilized equitably, efficiently and effectively for the delivery of high-quality health services. The CHAI Kenya Health Financing team works closely with departments across the Ministry of Health (MoH to provide technical assistance, develop analytical tools, and strengthen capacity to manage spending in Kenya’s health sector.
• CHAI Kenya seeks an Analyst, Health Financing based in Nairobi, Kenya. The Analyst will work closely with the MoH Kenya and CHAI leadership to support the design and implementation of analytical and strategic initiatives aimed at improving health financing systems, resource mobilization and allocation. The Analyst will report to the Senior Program Manager, Infectious Diseases.

Responsibilities

• Support the Ministry of Health and other stakeholders in advancing health financing reforms, including planning, budgeting, resource tracking, and expenditure analysis.
• Conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses to inform resource mobilization, allocation, and efficiency improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of costed strategic and operational plans, health accounts, investment cases, and financing strategies that promote sustainability, equity, and efficiency in health service delivery.
• Collaborate with government teams to strengthen systems for evidence-based decision-making, including data management, reporting, and use of information for planning and performance monitoring.
• Prepare high-quality presentations, reports, and policy briefs for internal and external dissemination.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with government counterparts, development partners, and other stakeholders to drive coordination, operational improvements, and policy dialogue.
• Support capacity building of government counterparts in health financing, financial management, and use of data for decision-making.
• Contribute to program work planning, budgeting, monitoring, and reporting for both internal and external audiences.
• Provide technical and coordination support to fundraising and resource mobilization efforts, including proposal development.
• Oversee activity logistics in collaboration with CHAI’s Finance and Operations teams, including preparation of budgets, disbursement of allowances, and ensuring timely liquidation and adherence to CHAI and donor financial policies.
• Ensure effective documentation of lessons learned and best practices, and contribute to continuous program improvement.
• Perform any other related duties and support day-to-day implementation of activities as assigned.

Qualifications

• A degree in health economics, public health, health sciences, public policy, or a health Finance, commerce or related field.
• Years of experience notwithstanding, understanding and contact with subjects the following subject or themes during times of work or training:  health systems strengthening, health financing, health economics, health workforce, public health, public policy, public sector finance and consulting, will be preferred.
• Outstanding analytical skills and advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint and use of AI
• Strategically minded and able to think creatively about long-term program goals and objectives, and the detailed steps necessary to achieve these goals
• Structured thinker with experience analysing and interpreting complex datasets to identify key trends and to translate them into actionable options for decision-makers
• Strong diplomatic and interpersonal skills and ability to build strategic relationships with government partners, donors, and other stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to deliver excellence in high-pressure situations, set priorities, and adapt to rapidly changing environments
• Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills without the need for extensive structural or operational support
• Strong writer, facilitator, and oral communicator, able to distil and explain complex concepts to varied audiences, with demonstrated skills in report and proposal writing
• Self-motivated and able to lead workstreams with a high degree of independence and autonomy
• Team player with the desire and capacity to effectively coach others, based on the team’s professional development needs and as assigned by the supervisor

Advantages

• Experience with programming/coding, including VBA coding and/or Stata
• Experience working in resource-limited settings and a multicultural environment

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Position Summary

• The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is seeking a highly motivated Program Analyst to provide programmatic leadership, supervision, coordination, performance monitoring and stakeholder engagement for the Key Population (KP) Peer Navigators Program. The program supports the identification, tracing, re-engagement, and linkage to HIV prevention and treatment services of female sex workers (FSW) and men who have sex with men (MSM) who were lost from Kenya Health Information System (KHIS) records following the 2025 donor funding transition across the six project counties following the 2025 donor funding transitions.
• This is a program supervision, coordination, and engagement role. It does not include direct client tracing, peer education, or case management, which are carried out by community-based peer educators under the supervision of Ministry of Health Community Health Assistants (CHAs). The Program Analyst instead provides programmatic oversight of the peer educator cadre through the CHA supervisory structure, coordinates with county and national stakeholders, and ensures activities are delivered efficiently, on schedule, within budget, and in compliance with Ministry of Health and donor requirements.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day programmatic oversight of the KP Peer Navigators Program across the six project counties, ensuring activities are delivered on time, within budget, and in line with the approved work plan and cost-effectiveness (BOTEC) targets.
• Coordinate with the Community Health Assistants (CHAs) supervising peer educators to track progress against monthly tracing and linkage targets, monthly facility-level micro-planning meetings including biannual supervision and mentorship visits.
• Monitor program performance, identify underperformance, bottlenecks, and county-specific risks such as political will for peer educator absorption, KHIS reporting gaps, and facility readiness, and escalate them to the Senior Director, Infectious Diseases, with recommended solutions.
• Serve as CHAI's primary liaison with the County Health Management Teams (CHMTs) in the six project counties, leading county entry meetings and working with county KP coordinators and facility in-charges to resolve linkage barriers raised in biweekly joint review meetings.
• Support county-level advocacy for the recognition and absorption of well-performing peer educators as special community health promoters within county community health systems.
• Represent CHAI with NASCOP, the Ministry of Health, and other national KP stakeholders, including the program inception meeting and technical working groups, and liaise with other implementing partners and donors such as the Global Fund GC8 program and PEPFAR-supported partners to avoid duplication.
• Coordinate with NASCOP's data and KHIS teams to secure facility-level lost-client lists and support restoration of KP reporting in the six project counties.
• Oversee data quality and program tracking, including monthly data-quality audits comparing peer educator registers against KHIS and facility records, and maintenance of the cohort loss, implementation timeline, and budget tracking tools.
• Track monitoring and evaluation indicators, including ART and prevention re-engagement, KHIS report rate, facility dataset activation, and retention by service-delivery model; prepare monthly and quarterly reports; and support the end-of-grant evaluation of which service-delivery model best retains each KP group under domestic financing.
• Ensure adherence to ethical standards, safeguarding principles, data protection requirements, and confidentiality protocols in all program activities involving key population clients and health records.
• Support operational research, assessments, and evaluations aimed at identifying effective service-delivery approaches for re-engagement and retention of key populations under domestic financing models.
• Support budget tracking for peer educator stipends, training, supervision, and micro-planning cost lines, and prepare disbursement requests and expenditure reconciliation with CHAI finance in line with donor requirements.
• Perform any other duty as assigned by the supervisor

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in public health, social sciences, monitoring and evaluation, or a related field.
• At least one year of experience coordinating or supervising HIV or public health programs in Kenya, including experience with key population programming.
• Demonstrated experience engaging county and national government stakeholders, particularly County Health Management Teams and NASCOP or similar national programs.
• Working knowledge of the Kenya Health Information System (KHIS), the Community Health Strategy, and key population service-delivery models.
• Experience with program monitoring and evaluation, including data quality assurance and indicator tracking.
• Experience supporting budget tracking and donor reporting is an advantage.
• Cultural competence and sensitivity in working with key population communities, and awareness of the ethical and confidentiality considerations involved.

Skills and competencies

• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills, particularly with county and national government counterparts.
• Data analysis and reporting skills, including familiarity with KHIS or similar health information systems.
• Program and project coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple county-level workstreams at once.
• Sound judgment and problem-solving ability, with the capacity to work independently.
• A high degree of discretion and confidentiality.