Senior Manager – Community Health Systems Strengthening (CHSS). at Living Goods

Job Description (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); At Living Goods we empower people to improve the health of their families, friends and communities. Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ health entrepreneurs who go door to door to teach families how to improve their health and wealth and sell life-changing products such as simple treatments for malaria and diarrhea, safe delivery kits, fortified foods, clean cook stoves, water filters, and solar lights. By combining the best practices from business and public health, we are dramatically lowering child mortality AND creating livelihoods for thousands of enterprising women. Living Goods supports a network of over 2, micro-entrepreneurs in Uganda and Kenya who teach families in their communities how to improve health and well-being while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook-stoves, and solar lights. As part of the Branch Team, you will play a key role in supporting Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) to deliver high quality health care to their communities and generate sales of critical products. Purpose of the role: LG Kenya seeks to recruit a Senior Manager, Community Health Systems Strengthening who will oversee the scoping and scaling into new implementation support sites, lead and support advocacy and relations on strategic engagements with Key stakeholders towards adoption & scaling of DESC with a focus on sustainability. The incumbent will drive LGK partnership strategy operationalization Key Responsibilities: Develop & oversee overall Country scaling strategy: both Direct & Indirect Implementation support – scoping, negotiations, validation of the enabling environment, contracting, resourcing requirements, and investments and transition in line with desired DESC maturity frameworks.Continuously refine framework Country Implementation support blueprint inform County roadmap and broader LG new Country blueprint. Based on maturity and overall change of contextMap, establish & nurture relations with strategic stakeholders to drive the adoption of DESC with sustainable financing frameworks; Senior MOH officials Bilateral, Multilateral & Influential implementing partners.Define and drive the health financing as a strategic pillar Country’s sustainability framework– Landscaping, donor intel, influence Govt budgetary allocation etc – Guide teams on Spearhead the cost validation and resource mobilization initiatives at the Country level (including unlocking of government financing) – Bills, operationalization of CHS acts, budgeting, etc.Coordinate all HF initiatives with County governments – e.g., proposal responses in coordination with Business Development (BD) teams.Provide strategic technical input in relevant policy formulation & resource mobilization at the National and county level.Support with catalyzing adoption / scale up of e-CHIS NationallyLead demand and coverage of digitization and digital tools to drive impact within the community health space.Develop and implement project plans with the involvement of all relevant stakeholders.Outline objectives, expectations, plans, resource requirements, and budgets and coordinate resources with LG and partners/stakeholders.Offer technical support in the development of strategic and operational plans at the national level.Lead and develop the Community Health System Strengthening organization (Managers, officers & other roles as required) .Support documentation of learnings to inform New Country blue print and dissemination at strategic foraOversee coordination & implementation of USAID HSS project Qualifications and Experience Required:Academic Qualifications Masters in health, social sciences, Information Technology, Health economics or related field. Work Experience Minimum of 10 years’ experience working in public health programs/research/ Strategic advocacy/ Health economics or related fieldsExperience in Health programming, partnerships, co-design, innovative health financing, championing policy change/ advocacy as well as working directly or indirectly with bilateral/multilateral projects. Competencies/Attributes: Managerial experience in a senior position.Health system strengthening orientation & experience in working with Government at Strategic levels.Interpersonal and leadership skills and high levels of integrity.Builds commitment through collaboration, consultation, and consideration of the stakeholders and the teams.Excellent Communication and advocacy skills.Results-driven and ability to deliver through the teams.Influencing skills and ability to build relationships.People Management skills.