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Technical Advisor - Maternal and Newborn Health and Nutrition (MNHN)
CDI7 days ago
Job Description
Kenya
CDI
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Program Lead – Maternal Newborn and Child Health
Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, is implementing The Challenge Initiative (TCI), a project funded by 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.
Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: MBA/MSc/MA
Location: Project and Program Management
Responsibilities:
Lead strategy, planning, budgeting, implementation, and performance management of Healthy Birth Initiative and contribute to broader maternal, newborn, and child health priorities across Jhpiego.
Build and manage partnerships with global partners, government, donors, professional associations, academia, and implementing partners.
Provide technical leadership in maternal and newborn health, quality improvement, and introduction of innovations, including mentoring multi-disciplinary teams.
Strengthen health systems, workforce capacity, referral networks, and data-driven decision making.
Oversee financial management, compliance, risk mitigation, and partner performance.
Lead monitoring, evaluation, learning, research, and knowledge-sharing initiatives.
Lead, supervise and mentor a multidisciplinary team of technical, programmatic, and monitoring and evaluation professionals.
Support resource mobilization and growth opportunities.
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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.
Method of Application:
Interested and qualified? Go to Jhpiego on jobs-jhpiego.icims.com to apply.
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