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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 He...

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• 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.

• Health systems strengthening
• Quality improvement
• Resource mobilization
• Stakeholder engagement

• 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.