Career Opportunities at PATH

The Technical Program Manager will be a member of the Kenya Country Program reporting to the Senior Strategic Information and M&E Advisor, as well as a member of PATH’s Global Digital Health Solutions program. His/her job will be to work with the HIGDA project team to execute the Kenya Health Enterprise Architecture and increase the capacity for the country to sustain the health information system components. The successful candidate will foster relationships and demonstrate success working through government of Kenya systems and structures to build and strengthen leadership, governance, management and institutional capacity.

This position is a blend of hands-on systems analyst, methodology developer, and teacher/mentor requiring applied skills in systems thinking, learning systems, systems analysis, and multicultural group facilitation. This position, based in Nairobi, Kenya requires the ability to travel at least 30% of the time, with continuous periods of up to three weeks possible.

Duties And Responsibilities Include

Leadership & Governance. Actively support intra-government convening to establish guidelines, review data systems, and oversee adherence to eHealth strategies and standards.

Infrastructure. Maintain landscape of national and county level infrastructure regarding availability of existing systems, electricity, connectivity, server hosting capabilities, IT development capacity, and maintenance support for various levels of the health system.

Strategy & Investment. Articulate vision for digital health for the country, building a case for action, and align donor investments through technical contribution to concepts and proposals.

Policy & Processes. Assist national policymakers in adoption of evidence-based policies that strengthen eHealth and data use systems.

Standards & Interoperability. Foster harmonization of national M&E framework, interoperability architecture, and technology standards to improve health system performance

Services & Applications. Promote PATH’s user-centric design methodologies for service and applications. Ensure endorsed data platforms have strong technical project management and change management support.

Workforce. Catalyze efforts to grow qualified technical staff in the region (e.g. software design, development, project management, and ICT support). Build capacity for data use at each level of the health system through the establishment of peer-networking, mentoring, and other methods. Build capacity for data use at each level of the health system through the establishment of peer-networking, mentoring, and other methods.

The selected individual will also be expected to work closely with the global Digital Health Solutions program and country/regional leadership to respond to ministerial, donor, and PATH requirements; provide regular human interest stories; and assist with communication in general as to demonstrate PATH’s contribution to better health.

Required Skills

• Capable leader who has worked extensively in multi-national, multi-cultural environments bringing diverse groups together to achieve a common purpose across the East Africa region.
• Excellent English oral, written, and presentation skills including evidence of quality proposal development, report writing, and presentations. Fluency in Swahili is strongly desired.
• Advanced document creation, collaboration and management skills including the use of Microsoft Office, Visio or equivalent business process modeling notation (BPMN) skills. Graphic design, modeling, and visualization skills.
• Demonstrably strong analytical skills, including qualitative and quantitative analysis, IT architecture and systems analysis, and excellent deductive and inductive reasoning skills.
• Must be able to communicate effectively with both ICT professionals and health sector professionals and be able to facilitate communication between these communities.
• Understanding of the global health context including international health architecture.
• Superior project management skills of virtual teams with demonstrated ability to manage vendors, collaborate with partners, and coordinate implementation activities.

Required Experience

Master’s degree in public administration, business administration, management information systems, or computer science; Ph.D. degree preferred. At least ten years of combined professional experience in at least two of the following industries: IT management consulting, corporate IT, or equivalent information system design, development, and administration

• Capable leader who has worked extensively in multi-national, multi-cultural environments bringing diverse groups together to achieve a common purpose across the East Africa region.
• Excellent English oral, written, and presentation skills including evidence of quality proposal development, report writing, and presentations. Fluency in Swahili is strongly desired.
• Advanced document creation, collaboration and management skills including the use of Microsoft Office, Visio or equivalent business process modeling notation (BPMN) skills. Graphic design, modeling, and visualization skills.
• Demonstrably strong analytical skills, including qualitative and quantitative analysis, IT architecture and systems analysis, and excellent deductive and inductive reasoning skills.
• Must be able to communicate effectively with both ICT professionals and health sector professionals and be able to facilitate communication between these communities.
• Understanding of the global health context including international health architecture.
• Superior project management skills of virtual teams with demonstrated ability to manage vendors, collaborate with partners, and coordinate implementation activities.

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We seek to recruit a Nutrition Associate for a period of six months. The Nutrition Associate will assist with development of budgets, liaising with Ministry staff and MCSP supervisor regarding implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programs, continue, improve and expand Nutrition services in all sites for high-quality standards and efficient services, ensure successful transfer of mentoring and service delivery of Nutrition to the MOH, on collection of nutrition indicators, and skills on MIYCN, ensure appropriate linkage between Nutrition and MNCH services with other health and non-health activities within the project. The Nutrition Associate will be based in Kisumu.

• Input to Nutrition service delivery at both facility and community.
• Continue, improve and expand Nutrition services in all sites for high-quality standards and efficient services.
• Ensure successful transfer of mentoring and service delivery of Nutrition to the MOH, on collection of nutrition indicators, and skills on MIYCN.
• Ensure appropriate linkage between Nutrition and MNCH services with other health and non-health activities within the project.
• Assist with development of budgets, liaising with Ministry staff and MCSP supervisor regarding implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programs.
• Implement nutrition services working with other members of the MNCH team to ensure maximum integration of all activities. These are:Continuous Medical Education on MIYCNIMAM scale up to selected facilities,trainings on Micronutrient and CHANIS, BFCI trainings of CHVs, follow up at facility and community for implementation of BFCI, BFCI self-assessment, vitamin A supplementation in ECD/Community, focused supportive supervision, data quality self-assessment integrated with supportive supervision

Required Skills

• Strong Programming, management and technical skills.
• Has sensitivity and understanding of the beneficiary population.
• Computer literacy, particularly in the use of MS word, Excel and Power Point.
• High integrity, good stewardship and ability to cultivate constructive relationships.
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform.
• High level English oral and written communication skills, including representation and liaison skills; spoken fluency of local languages a plus.
• Strong analytical skills, sound judgement and the capacity to think and plan strategically, including the ability to produce high quality policy materials and advice for program implementation, monitoring and evaluation.

Required Experience

Advanced degree in one of the disciplines relevant to the following areas: Public Health & Nutrition, Health Sciences, International Health & Nutrition, Family Health & Nutrition, Nutritional Epidemiology, Health & Nutrition Education, Health & Nutrition Promotion and Disease Prevention, Public Health, Health Emergency Preparedness, or other relevant discipline(s), sound knowledge of nutrition and human development, gender-responsive programming, integrated approaches to achieve nutrition outcomes, public systems and service improvement and the experience in working with a broad range of development partners involved in nutrition work, at least 8 years working experience in successful leadership and implementation of a nutrition program or a program with nutrition components either as a nutrition Advisor or nutrition program manager, preferably in Kenya, experience working with Nutrition partners, experience collaborating with local NGOs preferred, technical competency in nutrition-specific and nutrition-sensitive programming.

You must currently have legal authorization to work in Kenya.

PATH is dedicated to diversity and is an equal opportunity employer

• Strong Programming, management and technical skills.
• Has sensitivity and understanding of the beneficiary population.
• Computer literacy, particularly in the use of MS word, Excel and Power Point.
• High integrity, good stewardship and ability to cultivate constructive relationships.
• Ability to work in a complex environment with multiple tasks, short deadlines and intense pressure to perform.
• High level English oral and written communication skills, including representation and liaison skills; spoken fluency of local languages a plus.
• Strong analytical skills, sound judgement and the capacity to think and plan strategically, including the ability to produce high quality policy materials and advice for program implementation, monitoring and evaluation.