Openings at Palladium International

Primary Duties And Responsibilities

Support the Data.FI Technical Director and Country Teams to:

• Create high-level solution designs to meet business requirements by exploiting functionality available in systems already in use by Data.FI, or by filling missing gaps with appropriate new systems, in accordance with USAID’s principles for digital development
• Architect solutions that are built for scale, reusability, and sustainability
• Assess and provide technical guidance to ensure Data.FI solutions and infrastructure align with industry best-practice for privacy and security
• Assess and provide technical guidance on adoption of open source, open standards, and open innovation for all Data.FI solutions
• Assess and document system architectures of existing products and work with country technical staff to recommend improvements
• Provide supervision and guidance to country and regional development teams
• Continually research current and emerging technologies and propose changes and/or adoption where needed
• Inform stakeholders about any problems with current technical solutions being implemented
• Work with Palladiums information security officer, or a third-party organization to complete systems cyber-security audits across the project implementations
• Interface with Data.FI’s Data Analytics, Data Use, MEL, and Communications teams to ensure that platforms supporting data visualization and use are well designed and optimal for their needs

Key Competencies Required

• Experience in implementing health information management systems at the national and subnational level, including HMIS, LMIS, EMRs, and mobile data collection products
• Familiarity with industry standard approaches and standards for health information exchange and interoperability
• Strong project management skills and experience using digital tools to manage projects, such as Microsoft Teams, Planner, and/or Jira
• Proven ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team and to build consensus
• Working knowledge of and interest in health information systems and data analysis and use
• Professional verbal and written fluency in English required

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Key Responsibilities

• Provides overall management of administrative operations, including logistics, procurement, budgeting, finances, human resources, information technology, property, and security.
• Oversees sound and effective systems for project administration and operations, including grants, subcontracts, procurement, and compliance.
• Support COP to maintain effective working relationships with donors and key government officials related to finance and operations.
• Support the annual workplan process and other strategic planning processes.
• Coordinate budgeting processes for program activities and conduct continual analysis and planning of operating, staff, and external project expenditures.
• Manage the procurement process, including negotiating competitive prices and documenting decision-making processes in accordance with USAID and Palladium’s regulations.
• Monitor salaries and benefits to ensure they are in line with agreed budget plans and competitive compensation structure benchmarking studies.
• Ensure contractual obligations are sound and appropriate for project.
• Supervises financial operations and monitoring of obligations, budgets, and expenditures.
• Prepares budgets for annual work plans and financial reports for USAID.
• Coordinates and manages the mobilization of short-term and long-term technical assistance and administrative staff.
• Develops internal control measures to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting at the headquarters and field levels.
• Conducts internal and coordinates external financial audits.
• Fluent writing, reporting, and presentational skills in English.

Candidate Requirements

• Master’s degree or higher in accounting, finance, business management or a related field is required.
• Extensive senior-level experience managing finance, administration, grants management, and operations activities for complex and large-scale donor funded programs, particularly with subcontractors. At least 3 years’ experience in the management of programs of the same complexity and size.
• In-depth knowledge of USAID financial management rules and regulations, and reporting requirements
• Demonstrated experience with supervision and oversight of subgrants and subcontracts
• Demonstrated experience in management, supervision, and coordination of a team of senior finance, HR, and operations professionals
• Excellent knowledge of local labor laws and policy interpretation
• Advanced skills in budgeting and financial reporting with USAID programs and projects
• Knowledge of basic accounting software packages, advanced proficiency in Word and Excel
• Superior attention to detail: organizational skills, planning skills, problem solving skills, analytical skills, and critical thinking.
• Fluency in English.

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Key Responsibilities

• Analyze demand for and challenges of increasing selected health services and provider behavior in responding to unmet needs through the private sector
• Works with project team to provide strategic guidance on demand generation in the project focus provinces and oversees technical approach to advocacy for the project.
• Leads the design and implementation of communication strategies and demand generation interventions to increase uptake of health services offered by private sector
• Identify challenges and bottlenecks, effective prioritization of established or innovative solutions to demand generation and proactively addressing any delays/breakdowns/impediments to enhanced demand generation
• Formulate locally appropriate demand generation strategies and tools using a mix of effective communication channels based on national models, templates, and standards, based on local analyses, or developed by other relevant projects
• Develop and implement a capacity building plan for local partners to apply BCC strategies for FP/MNCH services
• Supervise the design and development of qualitative and formative research including the establishment of performance indicators and measures to monitoring and record outcome and impact data
• Establish a robust monitoring and evaluation framework for demand generation, with effective metrics that can be adapted according to country priorities and needs
• Identify, develop, and sustain partnerships for innovative demand generation with the potential to increase coverage in an equitable and sustainable fashion at national and provincial levels
• Support innovation in the areas of demand generation by building partnerships and promoting testing, learning, and scaling of innovative approaches, sharing learnings with partners to achieve broader scale up
• Initiates and participates in evaluation of targeted demand generation strategies and assessment activities with the goal of improving project outcomes.
• Identify technical assistance needs and training resources among project staff, partners, government counterparts and beneficiaries and coordinate technical assistance provision
• Oversees the development, testing, and implementation of training curricula and tools related to demand generation.
• Works closely with stakeholders, IPs, and the project team to identify and address challenges in private sector health service delivery.
• Supervise/support local partners promoting community participation as part of integrated community interventions
• Contribute to annual work planning process in close collaboration with project team.
• Ensure compliance with USAID operational policies and regulations.
• Excellent writing, reporting, and presentation skills in English.

Candidate Requirements

• Master’s Degree in public health, social sciences, international development, or in a related field.
• Extensive professional experience working in the areas of demand generation, behavioral science or communication for development, providing technical assistance in generating demand to improve the effectiveness of public health services
• Extensive experience in the areas of private sector health service delivery, focused on demand generation.
• Demonstrated experience providing capacity building and training at individual and organizational levels.
• Demonstrated strong understanding of Kenyan healthcare system, with experience living and working in Kenya preferred.
• Experience in development and implementing demand generation interventions with a demonstrated track record of achieving results
• Demonstrated experience with collaboration, learning, and adapting (CLA), with specific experience identifying and adapting best practices to specific project contexts.
• Promote sustainability of project activities with effective networking, coordination, and linkages to other programs, partners and counterparts, capacity building of project staff, and institutional strengthening of IPs and private health care providers.
• Familiarity and experience with USAID guidelines and regulations.
• Fluency in English.

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Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to capture and communicate program results, as well as ensure high-quality, timely, valid, and verifiable data collection, reporting and analysis.
• Develop and implements framework for project results measurement, accountability, learning and development effectiveness to measure and report project success, including articulation of Theories of Change (ToC).
• Using a CLA framework, ensures that lessons learned, and best practices are captured, synthesized, reported, and disseminated.
• Review and update the project’s M&E plan on an on-going basis.
• Supports prioritization and regular use of health information by project partners at national and subnational levels, , leveraging routine information systems to the extent possible, and supports prioritization of indicators and strengthening of data for effective governance, coordination, and accountability of health services.
• Provides leadership and technical oversight, support, and direction on performance monitoring across all operational components of project.
• Coordinate and manage all monitoring, evaluation, and research and deliverables for the project and ensure that all required reports and documentation for the project’s internal management systems and for external reporting are produces according to USAID guidelines.
• Responsible for report requirements on project delivery to USAID.
• Ensures that the MEL system adheres to USAID guidelines and meets the needs of the program for learning, analysis, and reporting.
• Leads efforts to develop and implement an effective knowledge management system to ensure lessons and best practices are incorporated into ongoing interventions and innovative approaches.
• Leads development, selection, and application of M&E processes and tools.
• Lead and manage staff professional development to build their capacity and strengthen competency and professional development.
• Provide technical staff training where necessary (i.e. On- the- job -training, through coaching or formal short courses facilitated by managers themselves to develop to skills and knowledge).
• Provides strategic guidance on MEL activities and oversees MEL activities across the project, including indicator selection, baseline assessments, and setting targets.
• Guides team efforts to use data and research to inform evidence-based program design and adaptive management.
• Oversees and advises on information management processes by reviewing data collection efforts, overall data reliability, consistency, quality, and reporting.
• Fluent writing, reporting, and presentational skills in English.

Candidate Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in M&E, Statistics, Economics, or related field; Master's degree preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in gathering, organizing, and analyzing large amounts of data as well as the ability to design manageable, transparent M&E systems that report progress against indicators throughout the life
• Prior experience developing, implementing, and managing performance monitoring plans (PMPs).
• Demonstrated experience with complex donor-funded development projects
• Experience with USAID rules and regulations, as well as best practices in M&E
• Proficiency in data analysis software, Excel, Word, and other MS Office software
• Experience in leading and oversight of qualitative and quantitative research and demonstrated experience managing data collection teams
• Excellent organizational and management skills to manage MEL teams and activities
• Extensive experience in a senior management role on a donor funded program.
• Extensive supervisory experience.
• Strong understanding of USAID regulations and M&E reporting requirements, preferably in the health sector.
• Fluency in English.

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Roles and Responsibilities

• Assist the Project Director in the implementation of health financing activities, that includes but is not limited to budgeting, resources allocation and projections, and budget efficiencies.
• Provides direct supervision to health financing program staff.
• When required, serve as the interface between the project and USG stakeholders and Palladium senior management.
• Manages local partners that work in the health financing space. This includes but is not limited to ensuring that all partners are engaged, and produce the required results.
• If requested to do so by the Project Director, assumes responsibility for overseeing project budget and finances including financial performance reporting, budget projections and project spending in the health financing technical area.
• Works with the project monitoring evaluation team to develop and track project indicators related to health financing.
• When requested, represents the project at relevant professional meetings, working groups and seminars.
• Prepare analyses, recommendations, briefing notes, white papers, and assessments for internal and client use.

Position Requirements

• Significant progressively increasing responsibility work in health financing, host country budgeting, resource allocation and budget projections and other financing approaches.
• Familiarity with public financing management in Kenya.
• Demonstrated oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated health financing analytical skills.
• Demonstrated experience in health financing capacity building in public sector.
• Demonstrated management and supervisory experience of a relevant scope and scale.
• Experience working with local partners.
• Experience in interacting with host country agencies, including national and county governments, development partners, civil society and community-based organizations is essential.
• Prior experience developing strategic plans, workplans, and/or activity plans for large technical assistance programs that have a health financing component.
• Ability to communicate effectively and high comfort level writing and presenting data and information in a compelling way to difference audiences.
• Excellent written and spoken English and ability to communicate across technical disciplines and non-technical audience required.

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Primary Duties And Responsibilities

Define Kenya’s PSDI strategy to deliver innovative, alternative financial products/services, and expand growth of financial institutions related to Kenya’s agricultural sector.

Provide technical leadership to increase access to tailored financial products and stimulate the local market for private equity and blended finance instruments. This may include overseeing the provision of technical assistance to financial services providers (banks and non-bank intermediaries) to enhance their products and services, and private equity funds to help them mobilize capital from local and international financial institutions and investors

• Represent PSDI’s FI activities in meetings with public and private sector actors including GoK, non-governmental organizations, business associations, among others
• Supervise implementing partners, sub-contractors, and grantees as they undertake tasks relating to expanding and supporting FIs
• Travel to various regions of Kenya as needed
• Any and all other project-related tasks as required by the Chief of Party and Palladium HQ

Required Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of the financial sector and financial institution interventions in Kenya, including key stakeholders and existing products and services
• Robust networks within the Kenyan financial sector
• Proven track record working with financial institutions and private equity funds to enhance their products and services, and to increase enterprises’ private equity funds’ access to capital from local and international institutions and investors
• Experience working on USAID or other donor-funded programs of a similar size
• Excellent communications, organizational, and interpersonal skills

Knowledge Of USAID Policies, Procedures, And Reporting Requirements Preferred

• Experience working for large donor organizations such as USAID preferred
• Written and oral proficiency in English required

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Roles and Responsibilities

• Assumes overall responsibility for the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of project activities.
• Provide technical leadership in health workforce management, quality improvement, HRH information systems, health financing, or community health services.
• Serves as the main interface between the project and USG, host government stakeholders and Palladium senior management.
• Assume responsibility for partner management ensuring that partners are fully engaged and participate in the project.
• Responsible for overseeing completion and submission of quality technical deliverables and reports
• Responsible for overseeing project budget and finances including timely financial performance reporting, budget projections and project spending.
• Represent the project at relevant professional meetings, working groups and seminars.
• Prepare analyses, recommendations, briefing notes, white papers, and assessments for internal and client use.

Position Requirements

• Extensive progressively increasing responsibility in public health with at least 5 years’ experience in a senior leadership position on a project that focuses on health workforce in Kenya or similar settings.
• Previous chief of party or senior health project experience.
• Recognized leader in health workforce development and management.
• Demonstrated oral and written communication abilities are essential as the Project Director will hold ultimate responsibility for the quality and timeliness of project reporting and communication efforts.
• Demonstrated organizational and analytical skills, and ability to build synergies across technical disciplines and teams.
• Demonstrated management and supervisory experience of a relevant scope and scale.
• Oversight of local capacity development efforts, including working with local partners to ensure adherence to all sub-award and grant-management requirements.
• Experience in interacting with host country agencies, including national and county government, development partners, civil society and community-based organizations is essential.
• Knowledge of country-led development approaches and stakeholder engagement models
• Knowledge of USG regulations and administrative procedures.
• Experience building a creative and talented team and leading toward a unified vision.
• Prior experience developing strategic plans, workplans, and/or activity plans for large workforce development programs.
• Ability to communicate effectively and high comfort level writing and presenting data and information in a compelling way to different audiences.
• Excellent written and spoken English and ability to communicate across technical disciplines and non-technical audience required.

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Roles and Responsibilities

• Assist the Project Director in the implementation of project activities, including work planning, budgeting, and reporting requirements.
• Provides direct supervision to project component leaders.
• When required, serve as the interface between the project and USG and host government stakeholders and Palladium senior management.
• Manages local partners that work in the health financing space. This includes but is not limited to ensuring that all partners are engaged and produce the required results.
• If requested to do so by the Project Director, assumes responsibility for overseeing project budget and finances including financial performance reporting, budget projections and project spending.
• When requested, represents the project at relevant professional meetings, working groups and seminars.
• Prepare analyses, recommendations, briefing notes, white papers, and assessments for internal and client use.

Position Requirements

• Significant progressively increasing project management responsibility with at least 3 years’ in a senior leadership position on an HRH project that is implemented in Kenya or similar setting.
• Demonstrated oral and written communication are essential as the Deputy Project Director will assist the Project Director for the development and submission of project reporting and communication efforts.
• Demonstrated organizational and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated management and supervisory experience of a relevant scope and scale, and leading multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience working with local partners to ensure adherence to all sub-award requirements.
• Experience in interacting with host country agencies, including central and local government, development partners, civil society and community-based organizations is essential.
• Knowledge of USG regulations.
• Prior experience developing strategic plans, workplans, and/or activity plans for large service delivery programs.
• Ability to communicate effectively and high comfort level writing and presenting data and information in a compelling way to difference audiences.
• Excellent written and spoken English and ability to communicate across technical disciplines and non-technical audience required.