Deadline: 21 February, 2021
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Options Consultancy Services is seeking to fill the role of Team Leader.
The organisation is an international development outfit that delivers innovative solutions to some of the most complex health challenges around the world.
Responsibilities
- Oversee programme strategies, technical approaches, workplans, risk management, and budgets
- Ensure the programme delivers against its theory of change and achieves its intended results
- Lead a team of technical, financial and administrative experts to deliver the programme to the highest technical quality
Requirements
- Extensive experience in providing technical, strategic and programme management oversight to similar donor-funded health programmes and/or organisations
- Expertise in planning, budgeting, monitoring, reporting and evaluating
- Expertise and experience working in Kenya’s health sector, with in-depth knowledge of health systems’ strengthening approaches in the context of devolution
- Relevant networks at the county level (desirable)
- Experience and knowledge of working with data and surveillance systems, including Kenyan health information system and maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response, ensuring data inform evidence-based decision making
- Significant experience and a track record of successful leadership and management of teams based in multiple locations
- Experience leading a team of highly skilled, multidisciplinary staff to leverage joint management support, and empowering team members to deliver high quality work
- Experience managing teams in high risk environments (desirable)
- Demonstrable experience of working with the World Bank and familiarity of World Bank practice and protocol with a proven ability to represent organisations and programmes
- Experience of engaging closely with complex partnership setups, and/or multi-donor trust fund arrangements (desirable)
To apply and for more information, click here.
Photo source: Rebekah Morton/Options