Position:
Government Relations Manager
Location: Kenya (Frequent in country field travel)
Type: Full Time
Role: Living Goods Kenya is scaling up its operations in Kenya working closely with the national and county governments to strengthen the community health system through its entrepreneur community health platform.
Location: Kenya (Frequent in country field travel)
Type: Full Time
Role: Living Goods Kenya is scaling up its operations in Kenya working closely with the national and county governments to strengthen the community health system through its entrepreneur community health platform.
Responsibilities
- Support
driving the Kenya advocacy and influencing plan of Living Goods through
organizing and managing a variety of stakeholder’s engagement
activities.
- Maintain
a stakeholder database and manage the day to day relationships with all key
influencers and other partners especially at county level.
- Support
in the initial engagement with a new county and sub county, helping to
establish new ways of working and support the branch staff in stakeholder
engagement and ensuring the county and sub county government are fully
engaged and supportive of our operations.
- Represent
Living Goods in national technical engagements through the technical
working groups and inter agency coordinating committees and organize and
support Living Goods technical engagements.
- Represent
and offer support in county and sub county technical meetings and
engagements and actively seek out, identify, advise upon and implement
opportunities for collaborative work across the sector.
- Prepare
and present reports and key insights as necessary to national and county
groups and individuals.
- Track
and update the Director for Health and Government Relations on the status
of all LG obligations to the county governments.
Qualifications
and Person Specifications
- Degree
in health sciences.
- Post-graduate
training in Management or Public Health an added advantage.
- 5
years or more experience bringing a sound understanding of the Kenya
Health System and prior work experience with and/or involving close
association with national and county governments.
- Entrepreneurial
spirit and drive for results.
- Exceptional
natural leader with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- Should
be flexible and willing to travel across Kenya and periodically stay
up-country.
- Good
computer and analytical skills a must.
Please
note that only candidates meeting the minimum qualifications will be
considered.
Compensation: A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity.
Compensation: A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity.
The
opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.
What is Living Goods?
Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro-entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook stoves, and solar lights.
What is Living Goods?
Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro-entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook stoves, and solar lights.
Living
Goods seeks nothing less than a disruptive reinvention of distribution in
emerging markets, through networks of franchised micro-entrepreneurs who
leverage Living Goods’ brand, buying power and mobile marketing tools to
deliver vital products at accessible prices to the people who need them
most.
By
combining the best practices from the worlds of micro-enterprise, franchising
and public health,
Living
Goods is creating a fully sustainable system to improve the health, and wealth,
of underserved communities.
Living Goods has been featured in The New York Times, NBC News, The Economist, and The Huffington Post. Check out these articles and more on our press page.
Life at Living Goods: Living Goods is aiming to make disruptive changes, dramatically improving the lives of underserved communities. We think big, but we operate small and nimble. At Living Goods, you will have the chance to use your creativity and work with your teammates to conceive and test new ideas every day.
Living Goods has been featured in The New York Times, NBC News, The Economist, and The Huffington Post. Check out these articles and more on our press page.
Life at Living Goods: Living Goods is aiming to make disruptive changes, dramatically improving the lives of underserved communities. We think big, but we operate small and nimble. At Living Goods, you will have the chance to use your creativity and work with your teammates to conceive and test new ideas every day.
If you
work well in a dynamic, highly collaborative culture, if you set high standards
for yourself and your colleagues, if you know how to fail fast and learn fast,
if you meet challenges with calm determination and a sense of humor, you will
thrive at Living Goods.
See
www.livinggoods.org/principles.
How to Apply
To apply for this position please visit our career page and apply forGovernment Relations Manager through our applicant tracking system. Successful applicants will be contacted for an interview.
For more information about Living Goods, please visit: www.livinggoods.org
follow us @Living_Goods
How to Apply
To apply for this position please visit our career page and apply forGovernment Relations Manager through our applicant tracking system. Successful applicants will be contacted for an interview.
For more information about Living Goods, please visit: www.livinggoods.org
follow us @Living_Goods