Latest Recruitment at Palladium International

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Technical Expertise:

• Participate in development life cycle activities such as design, coding, testing, and production release, delivering high-quality code in an agile team environment
• Advocate for the adoption of new technologies, enforce best development patterns and practices, with a specific focus on applications integration and API development
• Provide technical guidance for designing and developing digital solutions with a strong emphasis on applications integration best practices
• Develop best practices for digital solutions, maintenance, reporting and security
• Develop and execute manual and automated tests to validate software functionality, reliability, and performance
• Collaborate with other developers to ensure that software products are built with testability in mind
• Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code
• Adhere to high-quality less rework development principles while delivering on time and on scope
• Responsible for maintaining UpToDate repositories of the assigned systems
• Leverage knowledge and contribute to proper knowledge management within the team
• Keep abreast with emerging technologies in software engineering
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed

Business Development

•  Contribute to active proposals through contributions to strategy and preparation of technical approach and capability statements

Key Competencies Required:

•  Experience developing scalable and secure web and mobile applications with a strong focus on applications integration and API development
• Experience designing and optimizing database schemas
• Well documented relevant experience in multiple roles in the Information systems domain (application development, data engineering, Data Warehousing, ETL etc.)
• A firm understanding and practical experience in tools and processes to ensure software quality, such as Unit Tests, TDD and Test Automation
• Excellent understanding and deployment of virtualization and containerization technologies, with a specific focus on facilitating applications integration
• Experience in designing solutions incorporating cloud components, including PaaS and SaaS solutions
• Understanding of DevOps pipeline impact on product management and user experience (UX)
• Experience in development and implementation of data analytics and visualization solutions
• Experience with Agile development methodologies and tools such as JIRA and Confluence

Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred:

• Proficiency in programming languages, libraries, and frameworks such as C#, Java, Python, PHP, Android, React, Node.js, Angular, Vue, and others commonly used for web and mobile applications, APIs, and microservices
• Proven ability to architect and develop solutions for complex applications integration scenarios, ensuring efficient data flow and interoperability
• Experience with Selenium, WebDriver, TestNG, JUnit, or other automated testing tools and frameworks
• Should have strong knowledge and experience in CI/CD tools like ANT, Maven and Jenkins

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Primary Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead technical activities related to ensuring sustainable access to and appropriate use of quality-assured and affordable health commodities and improved pharmaceutical regulatory services.
• Provide TA to the Government of Kenya to strengthen management capacity and regulatory functions and activities related to the pharmaceutical sector.
• Design and lead the implementation of technical workplans related to pharmaceutical management and regulatory strengthening while ensuring collaboration with key govt.vernment and other stakeholders
• Provide support to government of Kenya to strengthen capacity for pharmaceutical management
• Support the creation of a cascaded technical oversight system of the public health pharmaceutical sector to all levels.
• Interface with USAID and other project stakeholders to plan, implement, review, and report on projects and deliverables or products as needed.

Key Competencies Required:

• At least 7-10 years of experience in pharmaceutical management and/or public healthin Kenya
• Experience in international development working with donors (including USAID) is required.
• Experience in a senior leadership position of a project that required the assembling, managing, and supervising complex teams.
• Experience with global health programs with a focus on pharmacy services and rational use of medicine.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating and collaborating with stakeholders including government agencies, host country governments and counterparts, and international donor agencies.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Ability to exercise leadership, build teams, maintain effective communication, motivate, and generate commitment within a team.
• Excellent written and spoken English and ability to communicate across technical disciplines and non-technical audience required.
• Proficiency in Swahili and other local languages is beneficial.
• Master’s degree in global public health, medicine, pharmacy,, supply chain management, healthcare administration, or a related field.

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Primary Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead technical activities related to improving the maturity of Kenya’s health supply chain functions and operations such as quantification, procurement, warehouse management, route optimization, inventory management and others.
• Support the development of a locally informed project strategic plan that reflects global priorities.
• Design and lead the implementation of quality workplans while ensuring effective use of data, project performance, and risk management.
• Support the creation of a cascaded technical oversight system of the public health pharmaceutical and supply chain sector to all levels.
• Provide technical assistance to improve leadership and governance for health supply chains at all levels.
• Support stakeholders to design standardized supply chain coordination platforms.
• Interface with clients and project stakeholders, to plan, implement, review, and report on projects and deliverables or products as needed.
• Ensure staff compliance with project guidelines and SOPs.

Key Competencies Required:

• 7-10 years of experience working in supply chain management for global health projects desirable
• Experience in international development working with donors (including USAID) is required.
• Experience in a project senior leadership position that required the assembling, managing, and supervising complex teams.
• Experience with global health or health supply chain programs with significant experience in one of the following areas: supply chain management, procurement, warehousing, or logistics
• Demonstrated knowledge of supply chain, 4PL, and 3PL logistics, including experience with LMIS, WMIS, TMIS, and control tower software.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating and collaborating with stakeholders including government agencies, government and counterparts, and international donor agencies.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Experience in project monitoring and evaluation, data analysis, generation of project reports, logical models and outcomes.
• Ability to exercise leadership, build teams, maintain effective communication, motivate, and generate commitment within a team.
• Excellent written and spoken English and ability to communicate across technical disciplines and non-technical audience required.
• Proficiency in Swahili and other local languages is beneficial.
• Master’s degree in global public health, business, supply chain management, public administration, healthcare administration, or a related field.