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...

Responsibilities

Provide overall TCI Kenya program management and leadership to ensure the effective and successful program implementation, and alignment with TCI Global standards.

Provide strategic oversight and coordination to support counties to operationalize approved FP/MNCH high impact interventions and best practices, ensuring alignment with national policies and goals.

Lead and oversee capacity strengthening strategies, including the design, coordination, and quality assurance of training, coaching, and mentorship approaches.

Provide leadership in data use for adaptive management through routine data literacy forums, supporting data quality assurance (DQA) processes, and promoting the use of performance data to guide programmatic decisions.

Oversee documentation and learning processes, ensuring systematic capture of implementation progress, challenges, innovations, and lessons learned to inform reporting, learning, and scale-up.

Provide strategic oversight of FP commodity security by supporting counties to monitor availability, identify systemic supply chain gaps, and strengthen forecasting and quantification processes.

Coordinate engagement with county and national supply chain stakeholders to address bottlenecks in FP commodity distribution

Advocate and guide counties in strengthening FP/MNCH financing mechanisms

Provide leadership support to CHMTs to strengthen governance, coordination, accountability, and stewardship for FP/MNCH programming.

Provide coaching and technical assistance to support county HMTs on implementation of FP/MNCH interventions and best practices, innovations scale-up, and sustainability.

Ensure strategic documentation and dissemination of best practices and success stories, positioning county experiences to inform national dialogue and intra + cross-county learning, TCI University and Communities of Practice.

Provide oversight and final review of routine program reports, activity summaries, and progress updates to ensure quality, coherence, and alignment with donor and TCI requirements.

Represent TCI East Africa Hub at national, regional, and technical forums, ensuring effective dissemination and use of program data and learning.

Provide technical review and strategic input into the design, adaptation, and improvement of key TCI components.

Support the preparation and monitoring of country monthly, quarterly and annual program reports, annual work plans and budgets.

All staff members of Jhpiego, regardless of the level of their responsibilities are expected to:

• model the mission and values stated above
• participate in the business development processes
• contribute to the knowledge sharing and transfer process
• make responsible decisions that result in time and cost containment and clear accountability
• participate in multiple teams, adopt team spirit, take responsibility for action items assigned and provide feedback as needed
• multitask, be able to manage competing priorities and be able to prioritize in order to meet program and/or organizational objectives

Required Qualifications

Master’s degree in Public Health, Population Studies, Development Studies, Health Systems Management, or a related field.

Minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible senior experience in FP, AYSRH, MNCH, preferably within international NGOs or donor-funded projects.

Demonstrated experience providing technical assistance and managing large-scale, multi-stakeholder health programs at national and sub-national levels.

Strong understanding of Kenya’s health system, FP/RH policy environment, and county-level governance structures and health financing.

Proven experience in stakeholder engagement, partnership management, and advocacy with government and development partners.

Experience in proposal development, work planning, budgeting, and donor reporting.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; proficiency in Kiswahili is an asset.

• Provide overall TCI Kenya program management and leadership to ensure the effective and successful program implementation, and alignment with TCI Global standards.
• Provide strategic oversight and coordination to support counties to operationalize approved FP/MNCH high impact interventions and best practices, ensuring alignment with national policies and goals.
• Lead and oversee capacity strengthening strategies, including the design, coordination, and quality assurance of training, coaching, and mentorship approaches.
• Provide leadership in data use for adaptive management through routine data literacy forums, supporting data quality assurance (DQA) processes, and promoting the use of performance data to guide programmatic decisions.
• Oversee documentation and learning processes, ensuring systematic capture of implementation progress, challenges, innovations, and lessons learned to inform reporting, learning, and scale-up.
• Provide strategic oversight of FP commodity security by supporting counties to monitor availability, identify systemic supply chain gaps, and strengthen forecasting and quantification processes.
• Coordinate engagement with county and national supply chain stakeholders to address bottlenecks in FP commodity distribution
• Advocate and guide counties in strengthening FP/MNCH financing mechanisms
• Provide leadership support to CHMTs to strengthen governance, coordination, accountability, and stewardship for FP/MNCH programming.
• Provide coaching and technical assistance to support county HMTs on implementation of FP/MNCH interventions and best practices, innovations scale-up, and sustainability.
• Ensure strategic documentation and dissemination of best practices and success stories, positioning county experiences to inform national dialogue and intra + cross-county learning, TCI University and Communities of Practice.
• Provide oversight and final review of routine program reports, activity summaries, and progress updates to ensure quality, coherence, and alignment with donor and TCI requirements.
• Represent TCI East Africa Hub at national, regional, and technical forums, ensuring effective dissemination and use of program data and learning.
• Provide technical review and strategic input into the design, adaptation, and improvement of key TCI components.
• Support the preparation and monitoring of country monthly, quarterly and annual program reports, annual work plans and budgets.
• model the mission and values stated above
• participate in the business development processes
• contribute to the knowledge sharing and transfer process
• make responsible decisions that result in time and cost containment and clear accountability
• participate in multiple teams, adopt team spirit, take responsibility for action items assigned and provide feedback as needed
• multitask, be able to manage competing priorities and be able to prioritize in order to meet program and/or organizational objectives

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; proficiency in Kiswahili is an asset.

• Master’s degree in Public Health, Population Studies, Development Studies, Health Systems Management, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible senior experience in FP, AYSRH, MNCH, preferably within international NGOs or donor-funded projects.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical assistance and managing large-scale, multi-stakeholder health programs at national and sub-national levels.
• Strong understanding of Kenya’s health system, FP/RH policy environment, and county-level governance structures and health financing.
• Proven experience in stakeholder engagement, partnership management, and advocacy with government and development partners.
• Experience in proposal development, work planning, budgeting, and donor reporting.