Program Lead - Maternal Newborn and Child Health

• Lead the strategy, planning, budgeting, and implementation of the Healthy Birth Initiative and contribute to broader maternal, newborn, and child health goals at Jhpiego.
• Build and manage partnerships with global partners, government bodies, donors, professional associations, academic institutions, and implementing partners.
• Provide technical leadership in maternal and newborn health, quality improvement, and innovation introduction, including mentoring multidisciplinary teams.
• Strengthen health systems, workforce capacity, referral networks, and promote data-driven decision making.
• Oversee financial management, ensure compliance, mitigate risks, and monitor partner performance.
• Lead monitoring, evaluation, learning, research, and knowledge-sharing activities.
• Supervise and mentor a multidisciplinary team of technical, programmatic, and monitoring and evaluation professionals.
• Support resource mobilization and identify growth opportunities.

• Hold a Master's degree in Public Health, International Development, or a related field.
• Have at least 10 years of progressively responsible experience managing public health programs, including a minimum of 5 years in senior leadership roles.
• Possess at least 5 years of experience in maternal, newborn, and child health programming.
• Demonstrate experience managing large donor-funded programs and leading multidisciplinary teams.
• Have strong experience collaborating with regional, national, and county governments in Kenya.
• Be deeply familiar with Kenya's Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health landscape.
• Have expertise in health systems strengthening, quality improvement, resource mobilization, and stakeholder engagement.

Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package.

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