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  • Posted: Feb 22, 2018
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    At Living Goods we empower people to improve the health of their families, friends and communities. Living Goods supports networks of 'Avon-like’ health entrepreneurs who go door to door to teach families how to improve their health and wealth and sell life-changing products such as simple treatments for malaria and diarrhea, safe delivery kits, fortif...
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    Strategic Partnerships Manager

    Job description

    Location: Team members will be based in Nairobi, Kenya and in Kampala, Uganda.

    The Opportunity

    We are recruiting for several new senior Partnership Management roles to join our growing Community Health Strenthening team (CHST) in identifying, developing and managing partnerships in new and existing countries. This role involves a range of activities including cultivating new opportunities aligned with government priorities, building relationships with potential implementing partners including technology providers and designing Living Goods’ interventions in new countries. You will lay the groundwork for Living Goods to support community health systems strengthening in new countries, and will typically oversee a handover to our start-up operations team and in some cases, help with the start-up of new country operations. This is a flexible, exciting role and one that is squarely positioned both at the heart of Living Goods’ strategy, and at the leading edge of our drive towards transformative change. As Living Goods is growing rapidly, this role will continue to evolve and we are open to shaping roles to fit people’s strengths and interests.

    The ideal candidate is an accomplished, results-focused professional with vision and entrepreneurial spirit. This is a full-time role, based in either Nairobi, Kenya or Kampala, Uganda. You will be part of the Community Health Strengthen Team, but will also have a dotted line to the Country Director for any work based in our current countries, and can expect up to 50% travel.

    Responsibilities

    • Identify and target new opportunities to work with Governments and other implementing partners including mHealth service providers.
    • Develop and maintain a strong network, of NGOs and Governments, to build a pipeline of opportunities.
    • Conduct research on potential opportunities to expand operations or provide technical assistance to the public sector or other implementing partners.
    • Manage and prioritise the pipeline of opportunities.
    • Develop and manage opportunities for Living Goods to expand operations in existing countries through new partners and into new countries.
    • Ensure engagement and support for new opportunities through the management of internal and external stakeholders.
    • Carry out in-country scoping trips.
    • Undertake program design and budgeting work in conjunction with operations teams.
    • Where relevant, lead the initial set-up of operations or structures to deliver technical assistance in existing and new countries or successfully transition to a set up team or Operations team.
    • Collaborate with Living Goods’ Business Development team to support the preparation of bids and proposals in response to Government, Foundation or other Donor solicitations that support the strategic partnerships objectives
    • Work with the Advocacy team to further any partnership opportunities or build relationships with relevant organisations.
    • Remain up to date on trends and developments in community health, health financing and mHealth solutions; innovations in community health work and work closely with business development teams to understand bilateral funding opportunities (i.e.USAID, DFID).
    • Represent the organization in external high-level meetings, workshops and conferences

    Qualifications And Experience

    • A minimum of 5 years of experience, interacting at the senior management level, in scoping new opportunities, strategic partnerships
    • Relevant experience scoping partnerships with Governments and NGOs in the health sector, preferably in Sub Saharan Africa
    • Emerging markets experience, preferably in Sub Saharan Africa
    • Proven Experience of working strategically and in developing organizational strategy
    • Superior quantitative and qualitative analytical skills
    • Project leadership and management experience.
    • Proven ability in driving initiatives with minimal support
    • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively at a senior level of Government and diverse spectrum of stakeholders
    • Master’s degree preferable in Public Health, Public Policy, Public Administration, Business Administration or equivalent experience.
    • Experience in management consulting and public health, a plus

    Compensation

    A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity. The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.

    Life at Living Goods

    Living Goods is aiming to make disruptive changes, dramatically improving the lives of underserved communities. We think big, but we operate small and nimble. At Living Goods, you will have the chance to use your creativity and work with your teammates to conceive and test new ideas every day. If you work well in a dynamic, highly collaborative culture, if you set high standards for yourself and your colleagues, if you know how to fail fast and learn fast, if you meet challenges with calm determination and a sense of humor, you will thrive at Living Goods. See www.livinggoods.org/principles.

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    Health Trainer

    Job description

    Are you looking to use your health knowledge in a high impact training career?
    If you are a natural public speaker and health professional who loves working with people you could be the right fit to join Living Goods as a Health Trainer!

    Responsibilities

    • Prepare and deliver technical modules trainings in Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) focusing on Malaria, diarrhea, pneumonia and malnutrition as well as MNCH, RH and HIV to
    • Community Health Volunteers (CHVs).
    • Provide ongoing training to all LG Branch team members on health topics keeping abreast of new health information and changing trends.
    • Offer technical assistance in RH, MNCH and HIV to LG research agenda.
    • Assist in ensuring all LG agents are in compliance with regulations set by health authorities and professional bodies including compliance with standard service provision guidelines.
    • Coach the Community Health Volunteers in the field on case identification and management as needed.
    • Conduct support supervision to CHVs in the field after training in the first month of operations.
    • Certify and recertify CHV during base training and annually respectively to ensure quality of CHVs.

    Qualifications

    • BSc degree in Nursing or Diploma in Clinical Medicine
    • Certificate training in HIV/AIDS management, RH and MNCH
    • Minimum 3 years’ post-graduation experience in RH, MNCH, HIV patient management and/or research.
    • Technical expert in RH, MNCH and HIV areas.
    • Excellent written and verbal communications skills, both in English and Swahili.
    • Self- motivated and an avid reader.
    • Well organized and attentive to details.
    • Team player – supportive, collaborative and encouraging of team mates.
    • Charismatic and enthusiastic; a natural leader.
    • Creativity and problem solving skills.

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