Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, is implementing The Challenge Initiative (TCI), a project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) through The Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health (GI), Department of Population, Family & Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The Program Lead – Maternal Newborn and Child Health will lead the strategy, planning, budgeting, implementation, and performance management of the 'Healthy Birth Initiative' and contribute to broader maternal, newborn, and child health priorities across Jhpiego.
Responsibilities
- Strategy & Management: Lead strategy, planning, budgeting, implementation, and performance management of the 'Healthy Birth Initiative' and contribute to broader maternal, newborn, and child health priorities across Jhpiego.
- Partnership Building: Build and manage partnerships with global partners, government, donors, professional associations, academia, and implementing partners.
- Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership in maternal and newborn health, quality improvement, and introduction of innovations, including mentoring multi-disciplinary teams.
- Health Systems Strengthening: Strengthen health systems, workforce capacity, referral networks, and data-driven decision making.
- Financial Oversight & Compliance: Oversee financial management, compliance, risk mitigation, and partner performance.
- Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning: Lead monitoring, evaluation, learning, research, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
- Team Leadership: Lead, supervise, and mentor a multidisciplinary team of technical, programmatic, and monitoring and evaluation professionals.
- Resource Mobilization: Support resource mobilization and growth opportunities.
Required Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Public Health, International Development, or a related field.
- Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible experience managing public health programs, including at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.
- At least 5 years in maternal, newborn, and child health programming.
- Demonstrated experience managing large donor-funded programs and multidisciplinary teams.
- Strong experience working with regional, national, and county governments in Kenya.
- Deep familiarity with Kenya’s Maternal, Newborn and Child Health landscape.
- Expertise in health systems strengthening, quality improvement, resource mobilization, and stakeholder engagement.
