Africa
DIY Manager
Location: Nairobi, Kenya; travel to DIY user sites across Africa will be required as demanded by the job responsibilities
Background: Medic Mobile builds mobile and web tools that help health workers provide better care that reaches everyone. We are focused on identifying and addressing the highest-impact mobile use cases, currently: antenatal and postnatal care, childhood immunizations, stock monitoring for essential medicines, and disease surveillance.
Location: Nairobi, Kenya; travel to DIY user sites across Africa will be required as demanded by the job responsibilities
Background: Medic Mobile builds mobile and web tools that help health workers provide better care that reaches everyone. We are focused on identifying and addressing the highest-impact mobile use cases, currently: antenatal and postnatal care, childhood immunizations, stock monitoring for essential medicines, and disease surveillance.
Medic Mobile’s DIY package includes free, easy-to-install, and simple-to-use mobile and web applications which can be deployed by even the smallest organizations and clinics working in the most challenging settings.
The
package also includes design tools, implementation guides, reference guides for
users, and an impact monitoring framework.
Africa DIY Manager: We are searching for a DIY Manager to support the deployment of Medic Mobile’s DIY package in Africa.
Africa DIY Manager: We are searching for a DIY Manager to support the deployment of Medic Mobile’s DIY package in Africa.
The
DIY Manager will join a growing team, including a DIY Product Lead, marketing
lead, senior designer, software developers, and regional manager in Africa.
The Africa DIY Manager will be based in Nairobi. The position will report to the DIY Product Lead.
The Africa DIY Manager will be based in Nairobi. The position will report to the DIY Product Lead.
The
DIY team is in “startup mode” and the Africa DIY manager will need to work
independently to contribute to daily and weekly milestones.
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Champion
Medic Mobile's DIY toolkit in Africa, managing outreach to grassroots
organizations
- Provide
feedback on the DIY toolkit based on testing and user experiences
- Contribute
to overall goals for DIY delivery and impact
- Assist
with localization of tools, resources and workflows
- Serve
as community manager, providing programmatic and basic technical support
to DIY users in Africa
- Run
local and regional workshops on the DIY toolkit; provide individual remote
training sessions where needed
- Support
monitoring and evaluation of DIY use in Africa, including, but not limited
to, site visits and qualitative data collection and/or analysis
- Support
product direction and priorities by gathering insights from users in
Africa
- Provide
input on marketing and communications strategies to ensure local
engagement
- Provide
input for DIY funding proposals, where needed
- Work
with the Africa Regional Director to guide partners to the right package
of support and tools
- Represent
the DIY team publicly at events in Africa, where needed
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s
degree in public health, social sciences or management with experience in
field implementation of public health or other social development programs
- Tech
savvy; ability to learn to use new technology proficiently
- Start-up
experience
- Excellent
oral and written communication skills
- Ability
to collaborate with a distributed team on a self-directed work schedule
- Ability
to work under high pressure, meet deadlines, monitor and follow-up on
pending matters with minimal supervision
- Work
in global health and/or community health systems
- Solutions-oriented
approach to challenges
- Fluent
in English and Kiswahili, both speaking and reading/writing; other local
language skills a plus; French language skills a plus
- Must
have current, valid permit to work in Kenya
Medic Mobile’s DIY package represents a new approach to reaching
last-mile clinics with tools they can use.
We
expect our tools to lead to improved services at the community and facility
level, improving access, adherence, and quality of care for people in
under-served communities.
If this role inspires you, please get in touch.
If this role inspires you, please get in touch.
Send
through a copy of your current CV, along with a cover letter, to Sharon
Langevin at sharon@medicmobile.org as soon as your materials are ready.
Please
include “Africa DIY Manager” in the subject line of your email.
Interviews
will be scheduled on a rolling basis, and we aim to bring someone on board very
soon.
