Do you want your work to matter? Do you want to use your skills to make a difference, not just a living? Do you want to improve millions of lives, including your own?

Living Goods works to reinvent how we improve the lives of the under-served. We think big, relentlessly innovate to ensure both impact & health system strengthening.  At Living Goods, you will have the opportunity to apply your ideas and creativity at work every day.  If you work well in a dynamic collaborative environment, set high standards, and meet challenges with determination and a sense of humor, you’ll thrive here at Living Goods.

Your Charge

To lead the planning, learning, and designing of approaches, methodologies, and tools for community health systems strengthening to ensure LG’s support strengthens the impact, sustainability, resiliency, and cost-efficiency of community health systems.

Roles and Responsibilities

Strategy             

• Support the Director Program Strategy and Excellence to design high impact, evidence-based, and context responsive CHSS programs focusing on the institutionalization of efficient Community Health best practices including digitalization and data-driven approaches and clear KPIs to measure success.
• Coordinate work across countries to support all delivery teams (KE, UG, and new countries) in designing, and planning high-impact Government leads approaches and programs.

Technical support         

• Develop/ refine frameworks, systems, processes, and best practice tools to ensure a standardized coherent approach to partnering with Government.
• Provide technical input and/or bring technical experts to strengthen countries' enabling environment and ensure CH system become more sustainable. This will include policies, guidelines, supply chain, and costing. 
• Partner with countries leads to ensure Government programs and partnerships deliver against set KPIs, as per negotiated co-financing arrangements, roadmaps, and timelines
• Advice on Government partnership and programs course correction if not working
• Build and strengthen the capacity of country teams to ensure a standardized, coherent approach to delivering Government partnership.

Documentation, Thought Leadership & Learning            

• Ensure learnings across partnerships are well documented and collated to influence quality implementation internally and influence policy and practice externally
• Work hand in hand with the advocacy team and communication team to transform documentation into powerful external tools
• Represent Living Goods as a thought leader in CHSS, with funders, coalitions, partners and other global or country stakeholders

Business Development 

• Provide technical input into relevant proposals and partnerships

People management    

• Recruit and manage team members and/or consultants and ensure strong coordination of different technical workstreams
• Bring out the best in people and build a culture of high performance and engagement in line with the organization’s values

Skills and Competencies

• Over 8 years and above of experience in management and programs design, health policy development, and/or working in health system strengthening efforts.
• Ability to analyze, comprehend, and articulate the operational goals and strategic plan of the organization.
• Builds commitment through collaboration, consultation, and consideration of the stakeholders and the teams.
• Strong interpersonal and facilitation skills.
• Engagement with various African Governments.
• Management of skilled technical teams.
• Dealing with ambiguity.
• Influencing skills.
• Policy writing.

Minimum Qualifications 

• Master’s degree in Public Health; Health Systems Strengthening; Health Leadership and Management; Public Policy and Administration; Global Health.
• Bachelor’s degree in medical, Public Health, or related field;
• Professional qualification in i.e. Adult learning, Coaching, etc preferred.

Compensation

A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and annual performance bonus pay opportunity.  This is an opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.

Living Goods is an equal opportunity employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.

Our current job openings are displayed on our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly.  Living Goods does not offer any positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money.  If you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do not send money or personal information.

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