Do you want your work to matter? Do
you want to use your skills to make a difference, not just a living? Do you
want to improve millions of lives, including your own?
We also help governments transform
community health through mobile phones. Using the disruptive power of
mobile technology, we’ve equipped and deployed 7,500 community health workers
across Africa. These community health workers treat common illnesses like
pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria focusing on children and mothers. They
also provide primary healthcare to 6 million people at a fraction of the cost
of doctors and nurses. And they’ve reduced child mortality by 27 percent.
Global Senior Analyst
Software Engineering Director
Senior Manager, Digital Health Partnerships
Global Research & Learning Senior Manager
Health Trainer
Living Goods works to reinvent how we
improve the lives of the under-served. We think big, but operate lean and
nimble. We believe community health is critical to deliver universal health
coverage and that community health workers are essential because they bring
health services to people’s doorsteps.
The secret to our success is a
winning team. One that enables people to bring their ideas and creativity
to work every day. If you work well in a dynamic collaborative culture,
set high standards, meet challenges with determination and a have a sense of humor,
come work for Living Goods!
Committed to Evidence
Living Goods is growing! We’ve
grown 30 percent every year for the past 5 years. We now have 400 Living Goods
staff and 8,200 community health workers working in four countries. In three
years, we will have 1,000 staff across Africa and work with 30,000 community
health workers.
We’re growing because we have a
winning model and mission: to ensure that every family has high quality health
care in their community. No matter how dense the neighbourhood or how
remote the village.
We’re also growing because we measure
what matters. We continuously analyze community health data and use it to hone
programs and protocols. Four years ago, researchers conducted a randomized
control trial of our work, validating our impact on child mortality reduction
and helping us recalibrate programs to better achieve health targets.
Global Senior Analyst
Committed to Evidence
Living Goods is growing! We’ve
grown 30 percent every year for the past 5 years. We now have over 400 Living Goods
staff and over 8000 community health workers working in Uganda and Kenya. In
three years, we will have 1,000 staff across Africa and work with 30,000
community health workers.
We are growing because we have a
winning model and mission: to ensure that every family has high quality health
care in their community. No matter how dense the neighborhood or how
remote the village.
We’re also growing because we measure
what matters. We continuously analyze community health data and use it to hone
programs and protocols. Four years ago, researchers conducted a randomized
control trial of our work, validating our impact on child mortality reduction
and helping us recalibrate programs to better achieve health targets.
Responsibilities
Our strategic plan for growth has 3
objectives: to scale, spread, and strengthen. The Global Senior Analyst is
a newly created role to build and strengthen analytics and learning across the
organization. We have an enormous amount of data that is only partially tapped
for insights and evidence generation today. There is a huge opportunity to more
strategically and effectively use and analyze our data, together with other
partner and publically available data to drive impact, cost efficiency,
learning and advocacy in community health.
·
Lead
Analytics. You will proactively identify
and conduct high quality, insightful and actionable analytical deep dives
aligned with strategic, operational and advocacy related priorities. You will
synthesize key data and insights into relevant deliverables for internal and
external audiences. You will work closely with a team of analysts in our
country offices to do the same.
·
Leverage
a range of statistical and analytical tools. You will leverage a range of analytical and statistical
tools to use for different projects. Examples include: costing and
cost-effectiveness analyses, analyzing baseline household survey for a new
country, analyzing programmatic data across our countries to build evidence of
which CHW supervision strategies are most effective, using GIS data to analyze
the extent to which we reach households furthest from health facilities, or
building a predictive analytics model to target the highest risk children in
the areas we work.
·
Support
Business Development, Advocacy and Communications. You will contribute regularly to proposals, reporting,
advocacy briefs and other external communications that rely on robust analysis,
visualization and interpretation of data.
·
Build
and strengthen tools and systems for analysis. Our teams rely on live dashboards to monitor and
improve performance across our supported CHW networks. You will work with
colleagues on the tech team, and external vendors to strengthen dashboards and
build other analytical tools and systems to further strengthen our data driven
culture and processes.
·
Build
analytical capacity. You
will create best practice analytical systems and tools across the organization.
You will work closely with colleagues in other teams including analysts in our
country offices to strengthen their capacity to conduct proactive, strategic,
rigorous and insightful analyses.
Qualifications
·
Technical
chops. You have at least 7+ years’
experience in analytical roles with some experience working for an
impact-focused organization. You have a master’s degree, PhD or equivalent in
related field such as public health, economics, or data science.
·
Demonstrated
experience in using data to drive impactful, scalable and cost-effective
solutions. You love data and are passionate
about using data to make decisions that can save and improve lives at large
scale. You have demonstrated experience in the same.
·
Strong
analytical skills. You have
experience in a range of analytical tools, types of analyses
(cost-effectiveness, impact modeling, regression analyses, etc.), and proficiency
in a variety of commercial and open source statistical software packages and
data visualization tools (Tableau, STATA, SAS, SPSS, GIS, power Bi, R and
others).
·
Strategy
and Learning. You think
strategically and can adeptly structure robust analyses to answer priority
questions that you or others have identified. You have a track record of
using data to drive strategic, operational and programmatic decisions. You can
creatively and effectively bring together data from different sources.
·
Writing
& presentation skills. You
have demonstrated experience translating complex data into insights and
actionable recommendations, presenting complex information to a variety of
stakeholders in a clear, concise and inspiring manner, and writing white
papers and other internal briefs based on analyses you have conducted.
·
Curiosity. You stay current on new research and analytical
tools. You love the opportunity to dig into an interesting question, to come up
with creative approaches to data use and analysis to derive important insights.
You’re eager to learn from others and try new approaches.
·
Project
and Team Management. You are
organized, have strong project management skills and are able to effectively
manage multiple projects and work with different teams simultaneously and
prioritize accordingly. You enjoy mentoring and coaching colleagues, and have
experience building team capabilities in analytics and using data to inform
strategy.
·
Systems
builder. You like creating strong
systems, processes and tools for collecting, using and analyzing data. When you
see a need for a better way, you keen to roll up your sleeves and make it
happen!
·
Collaborative
spirit. You actively listen and
communicate. You connect easily with your colleagues internally and
externally. You are keen to help others out and proactively look for ways
to contribute.
·
Lives
our values. You can thrive
in our culture – you can demonstrate inclusion, integrity, innovation, quick
footedness, collaboration, and accountability.
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.
Living Goods is an equal opportunity
employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living
Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin,
ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
Living Goods does not offer any
positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If
you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do
not send money or personal information.
Software Engineering Director
The opportunity
mHealth is the biggest health
transformation of our lifetime. All around the globe, mobile phones are
making a difference between life and death. They allow families to call
for medical help in emergencies, help rural pharmacists locate lifesaving drugs
during stock outs, and enable health workers to track potential pandemics.
In developing countries, mobile phones have also transformed community
health at the grassroots level.
Living Goods is rapidly transforming
into a digitally-led business in order to better serve our communities and
other stakeholders. Our belief in the power of technology, mobile phones
and phone apps is not unique. Nowadays, everywhere you look healthcare
executives and Ministry of Health leaders are talking about mobile
health. But at Living Goods, we’ve done more than talk. We have
created tools, fine-tuned them, and used them to equip over 9000 Community
Health Workers and hundreds of supervisors to deliver high impact, low-cost
community health services.We truly believe using data for decision making is
transformative.
We now want to take it a notch higher
by strengthening our Technology team to enable us to customize and build high
performance and scalable mHealth systems. As such, this is an excellent
opportunity for a driven candidate to take on a leadership role where you would
be committed to building and maintaining a highly productive software
engineering team instilled with the ethos of delivering quality solutions. In
return, you will enjoy an exciting, innovative environment that supports
flexible and agile working. You will lead the engineering team and work closely
with operational managers and high-level staff in multiple countries. You will
support the CTO in developing and delivering the overarching technology
strategy and setting the direction for the software engineering and operational
teams within the organization. Since technology is central to what Living Goods
does, you will contribute to the global organizational strategy and contribute
to the technology team transformation strategy and future direction.
Responsibilities
·
Provide leadership oversight of 10+
software engineers, including employees, contractors, and third-party partners.
·
Participate in strategy conversations
the organization in general and technology in particular.
·
Develop an understanding of
organizational goals and requirements, and develop a vision to translate those
requirements to the technical end-product.
·
Work in alignment with project
leadership and internal & external stakeholders to deliver projects on
time, with high quality, and that meet client needs.
·
Partner with cross functional teams,
stakeholders, product owners, and operational managers to deliver software
solutions in alignment with organizational objectives.
·
Be the team’s representative among
senior and project leadership, effectively managing upwards and downwards.
·
Develop and deliver regular
communication including software delivery status and risks to senior
management.
·
Determine appropriate work load for
engineers and develop engineer’s skills in alignment with their career goals
and organizational future needs.
·
Has a strong Software Engineering
background and deep knowledge of agile development practices, TDD/BDD,
automated builds, continuous integration, Cloud & container infrastructure.
·
Has experience across the entire
software development life-cycle from inception, through build to production.
·
Is an experienced leader who has
built effective teams that deliver results across the organization; technical
experts, managers and future leaders.
·
Has confidence to express own
opinions, and pragmatic about modifying them when appropriate.
·
Has the desire to learn and evaluate
new technologies for cutting-edge solutions.
Key responsibilities
·
Collaborate with senior engineering
staff to define and implement reliable, scalable, efficient and secure
architectures operating in a cloud environment.
·
Create and execute key strategies to
meet business outcomes and manage strategic relationships.
·
The ability to lead and influence
C-level stakeholders.
·
Deliver high quality, high
availability, highly reliable, scalable, and secure systems.
·
Lead the architecture, design,
implementation and deployment of products, working with project teams to ensure
effective translation of requirements into technical specifications, delivery
of products to schedule with high quality.
·
Define and manage the entire software
development lifecycle in an agile delivery environment focusing on continuous
deployment at pace while maintaining quality and performance of software
systems including supporting systems in production, responding to production
incidents and managing unplanned work.
·
Grow, mentor, manage and inspire a
growing team of software engineers, providing clear and constructive feedback
and creating opportunities for learning and growth.
·
Strategic collaboration with senior
management and stakeholders (e.g. Health, Operations, Innovation, Business
Development, CHST, etc.) to define and build new features and products
Qualifications
·
BS/MS in Computer Science,
Engineering, or related field
·
12+ years of software engineering
experience with a focus on high performing, innovative/creative and
consumer-facing application and platforms.
·
7+ years of leadership experience of
which 5 should be direct management experience of a medium-size team i.e. 15+,
·
Previous hands-on experience
developing web/mobile applications, transactional platforms from requirements
gathering to delivery and support.
·
Proven ability to efficiently manage
all aspects of the software development lifecycle in an Agile environment
particularly multi-tier data-driven applications.
·
Preferably experience in Java,
Android, Node, Javascript, React, Python and Linux.
·
Comfortable with integration,
extension and modification of open-source tools.
The ultimate success
The ultimate measure of success is
working software in production fit for now and the future, and a team that is
continually challenged, motivated, mentored and supported where necessary. So,
if being at the cutting edge of technology for development in health appeals
and you have the background and skills, we are looking for then get in touch,
we would be keen to hear from you.
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.
Living Goods is an equal opportunity
employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living
Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin,
ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
Living Goods does not offer any
positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If
you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do
not send money or personal information.
Senior Manager, Digital Health Partnerships
Digital health is transforming the
face of healthcare. All around the globe, access to a mobile phone can
mean the difference between life and death. Mobile phones allow families to
call for medical help in emergencies. They help rural pharmacists locate
lifesaving drugs during stockouts. And they enable health workers to track
disease outbreaks, so they can respond quickly and prevent disease from
spreading.
At Living Goods, every community
health worker we work with gets a smartphone on day one. Using our SmartHealth
app, community health workers register households, track maternal health,
monitor infant growth, and diagnose and treat common childhood ailments like
pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria. Living Goods’-supported supervisors also use
smartphones to monitor the performance and target their supervision of
community health workers. And our Ministry of Health partners use the data
collected by these community health workers and supervisors to measure results
and recommend program improvements.
mHealth is at the heart of how we
drive impact, enabling Living Goods and government to gather reliable data,
provide consistent and accurate diagnoses, and deliver high-quality,
cost-effective community health care. However, we do not think that any single
technology is the solution for all contexts. Instead we want to support
partners and governments identify the right solution for them among the growing
number of platforms targeted at CHWs.
The Team
Although this role will sit in LGs
Global Technology Team, it will work closely with the Community Health Strengthening
Team (CHST) Team. CHST is a group of smart and innovative professionals who
seek to transform community healthcare across the developing world. They help
large-scale implementing partners and Ministries of Health design policies,
develop innovative ways to finance healthcare, and co-design programs to
deliver high impact, low-cost community healthcare.
Key to achieving this will be to get
governments to adopt digital health solutions that will enable these
Governments to more efficiently and effectively manage their community health
programs. That’s where you come in. As Senior Manager for Digital Health
Partnerships, you will work with the rest of the CHST to identify and pursue
opportunities to support government in existing and potential expansion countries,
and, to design context-appropriate solutions and lead implementation of the
same.
Responsibilities
·
Make
it happen. We are increasingly being asked
to support governments to use digital health to improve the performance of
their community health programs. You will lead the design of our approach to
providing mHealth technical assistance to governments and partners, and you
will deliver it. You will support program design, training and technical
assistance to build the capacity of governments and partners to implement and
their own digital solutions for community health.
·
Build
and strengthen our digital health rep. You will help build and strengthen LG’s reputation as a
key, tech-agnostic digital health partner and implementers. Develop and
maintain strong relationships with solution providers, implementing partners
and innovators.
·
Scope
new opportunities. Using
your knowledge of the digital health landscape, in conjunction with the CHS
team you will identify opportunities to partner with country governments and
other organizations working in community health to support the design and/or
implementation of digital solutions for community health.
·
Stay
on top of it.You will keep up to date on trends,
developments and innovations in digital health in our current and potential
expansion countries.
·
Using your Tech Project
Management skills, you will develop detailed project goals, plans, resources,
and budgets for digital health projects, lead project implementation, and
manage and monitor project risks. You will coordinate internal resources and
third parties/vendors for execution of projects; and create and maintain
comprehensive project documentation.
Qualifications
·
Technical
creds. You have a
university degree in public health, international development, or information
and communication technology or computer science. You have 5+ years of
experience implementing digital health projects in low-income countries, and
providing technical assistance to government.
·
Plays
nice with others.You have
experience working and collaborating with people from all different sectors:
government, non-profit and private sector. You know how to build trust and
relationships with people from different backgrounds and with different
interests to get things done.
·
Self-starting. You are highly organized, self-motivated and able to work
independently without much guidance. You can handle multiple priorities while
remaining flexible and professional.
·
You are intellectually curious and
not afraid to propose new solutions, new ideas, or challenge the way things are
done.
·
Lives
our values.You can thrive in the Living Goods
culture: you are a model of inclusion, integrity, innovation, quick footedness,
collaboration, and accountability in your work.
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.
Living Goods is an equal opportunity
employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living
Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin,
ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
Living Goods does not offer any
positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If
you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do
not send money or personal information.
Global Research & Learning Senior Manager
Responsibilities
Our strategic plan for growth has 3
objectives: to scale, spread, and strengthen. The Senior Manager,
Global Research & Learning will strengthen research,
analytics and learning across the organization ensuring that we continue to
deepen impact, learn from new innovations, and build evidence for our advocacy
efforts.
·
Ensure
excellence in research, learning and knowledge sharing. As we expand you will ensure that our research is rigorous
and data reliable. You will use LG’s data and other data and research to advise
the best ways to strengthen the program and deliver lasting results in community
health.
·
Drive
learning from innovation. You
will lead research and learning related to our health program innovations. You
develop theories of change, design evaluation frameworks and create and verify
data collection tools, analyze and interpret data, and ensure strong
documentation and dissemination of results at key milestones.
·
Research,
analyze and write with rigor.
You will work with country and advocacy teams to identify and prioritize
research needs, and then develop and oversee operational research studies and
impact evaluations to improve programs and produce evidence for advocacy.
You and colleagues will write articles in peer reviewed journals contributing
to filling priority knowledge gaps in community health.
·
Build
and strengthen research and learning. You will build the capacity of our teams in research,
evaluation, learning and dissemination. You will develop RFPs for external
evaluations and help build strategic research partnerships with other global
health organizations, academic institutions, and government partners to further
our learning and advocacy goals.
·
Knowledge
Management and Dissemination. You
will create best practice systems and tools to document learning from research
and program innovation and ensure the translation of this research for
advocacy.
Qualifications
·
Technical
chops. You have at least 7+ years’
experience as a researcher or in monitoring and evaluation focused roles in
non-profits, social enterprises or foundations. You have a master’s degree or
equivalent in related field such as public health, economics. PhD is highly
valued.
·
Research,
monitoring and evaluation skills. You have designed and led operations and implementation
science research studies. You have expertise in evaluation design, best
practices and both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. You have strong
methodological and analytical skills with a track record of supporting program
evaluations and research from project inception through post analysis and
dissemination. You have excellent proficiency with excel and statistical
software (Tableau, STATA, SAS, SPSS, R) and survey software tools. You are
familiar with publicly available data sets such as DHIS, MIS, DHS and others.
·
Strategy
& learning. You are a
strategic thinker with experience developing theories of change, designing
evaluation frameworks, building and testing data collection tools, analyzing
data, and translating insights for program learning and advocacy.
·
Writing
& presentation skills. You
have demonstrated experience translating complex data into actionable
recommendations, presenting complex information to a variety of stakeholders in
a clear and concise manner, contributing to peer reviewed articles, and writing
white papers and other internal briefs. You can write simply about complex
topics and teach others to do the same.
·
Community
health curiosity. When
it comes to public health, you’re a voracious reader. You stay current on
new research. You like asking tough questions and wading through information to
answer them.
·
Project
Management. You are
organized, have strong project management skills and are able to effectively
manage multiple projects simultaneously and prioritize accordingly.
·
Systems
builder. You like creating strong systems,
processes and tools for collecting, using and translating data. When you see a
need for a better way, you keen to roll up your sleeves and make it happen!
·
Collaborative
spirit. You actively listen and
communicate. You connect easily with your team and colleagues internally
and externally. You are keen to help others out and proactively look for
ways to contribute. You can inspire your team, and you enjoy developing the
capabilities of colleagues.
·
Lives
our values. You can thrive in our culture –
you can demonstrate inclusion, integrity, innovation, quick footedness,
collaboration, and accountability.
·
Research
Publications. You have
proven track record of publications as a lead author in high impact conferences
and journals specific to community and public health research.
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.
Living Goods is an equal opportunity
employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living
Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin,
ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
Living Goods does not offer any
positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If
you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do
not send money or personal information.
Senior Program Manager, Innovation
Network
The Opportunity
We
have created a Community Health Innovation Network to research, test and
demonstrate the viability of community based technical innovations. The
Network will house and explore a wide range of initiatives that will integrate
traditional public health interventions with technology and diagnostic software
and hardware. We are seeking an innovative and dynamic professional to
join LG as the Senior Program Manager.
The
Senior Program Manager will work closely with both LG internal resources and
external partners to ensure the flawless execution of Innovation Network
projects and contribute to strategic evaluation of various initiatives within
Innovation Network to allign with organizational goals. You will be an
expert in effectively managing the numerous stakeholders and elements of a
program. You will have primary responsibility for the management of all
innovation network projects, with a focus on meeting project commitments,
including communications with key internal and external stakeholders. You
will provide direct supervision to project resources involved in the specific projects/initiative(s).
You will own delivery against project plans, overseeing coordination across
teams within LG and with our partners, identifying and managing risks, ensuring
LG & Partners deliver against agreed timelines, budget and scope. You will
support the leadership of the network and coordinate and operationalize the
day-to-day management of the Innovation Network.
Responsibilities
·
Strategic evaluation of initiatives
and projects within Innovation Network
·
Scaling Innovation Network projects
to the operational level
·
Active engagement with external
partners
·
Deliver a coordinated set of
Innovation Network projects from design through implementation
·
Develop and drive robust work plans
outlining objectives, goals, timelines, tasks, and resource requirements.
Resolve or assist in the resolution of conflicts within and between projects or
functional areas.
·
Manage project staff and resources
including the budget; and ensuring a high standard of performance is delivered
on all the projects.
·
Design and own methods for tracking
progress and managing risks. Take corrective action if necessary.
·
Monitor progress on all projects and
deliver timely status reporting to internal and external, e.g. the Steering
Committee, LG Management, Technical Committee. Chair the Technical Committee.
·
Remain current on key developments in
the community health and technical field.
·
Provide mentoring, coaching and
direction setting to team members.
·
Dissemination of results to wider
audience.
Qualifications
·
3 years expereince of leading mid
size team
·
Relevant undergraduate qualification
with project management qualification, e.g. PMP, Prince2, PMQ etc.
·
Minimum of 7 years of program
management experience overseeing complex programs. Success in managing
multiple technology projects is preferred.
·
Broad knowledge of Information &
Communications Technology (ICT) and its application.
·
Proven ability to contribute and to
succeed in a rapidly expanding and fast-paced organization.
·
Exceptional analytical skills,
commitment to accuracy and attention to detail
·
Excellent communication skills
including the ability to adapt communication (verbal and written) to different
stakeholders.
·
Expertise in project planning and
tracking tools. Expertise in the Microsoft Office suite, e.g. Excel,
PowerPoint is a must.
Senior Program Manager, Technical
Assistance
Responsibilities
Living
Goods provides technical assistance to National and County governments,
implementing partners and communities to build networks of effective community
health workers. We believe that individuals who understand the challenges
of community health, can develop new and strengthen ongoing partnerships with
at government and implementer levels, helping governments to deliver high
impact, low cost community health services.
We
are looking for Someone to ensure that our programs hit all the high
notes. Reflect the latest evidence on what works in community health. You
will be the technical base that the rest of the team depends on to offer
strategic direction on interventions requirement, successful implementation and
knowledge management. In this role, you will be a trusted advisor to National
and County governments in Kenya to:
·
Ensure technical assistance is
robust. You are an expert in shaping and delivering technical assistance. You
will support the development and lead in delivering sustainable and effective
technical assistance at national and county levels. This working with the
internal technical assistance teams to design/ inform both our approach to
technical assistance and lead the design of new technical assistance programs
in Kenya. It also includes providing direct technical assistance to national
government and helping the Living Goods technical assistance delivery team to
solve problems during implementation.
·
Identification of technical
assistance (TA) opportunities: You are our top technical expert. The
one who stays on top of research, smells opportunities from afar, identifies
new products and services to incorporate into technical assistance and advices
on new areas to venture into. A go getter who uses evidence and data to develop
improvements to the TA with a view to optimizing impact and cost effectiveness.
·
Ensure program excellence: You will
lead in supporting counties to design, plan and optimally resource and operationalize
technical assistance interventions. You will institute appropriate mechanisms
to support roll out of robust and high impact initiatives.
·
Maintain strong partnerships: You
will need to develop and maintain strong relationships with national and county
public officials, policy makers as well as technical and implementing partners.
·
Raise our visibility: You will
help to scope new technical assistance opportunities with governments and
implementing partners who are seeking support to transform their community
health services. You will make Living Goods continue to play a prominent
advisory role at national level, forge new collaborative relationships with
government, technical agencies and implementing partners. You will help to
document and publish Living Goods learning on technical assistance.
·
Track trends. You will research
trends and developments in community health including community healthcare,
health systems strengthening, performance management, last mile supply chain,
health financing, mhealth, partnerships (implementer and funders) at global,
regional, national and sub national levels and alert Living Goods on the
developments and implications.
Qualifications
·
Technical creds. You have 7+
years’ experience in health policy or working in health system strengthening
efforts at national and sub national levels in Kenya. You have experience
in health program design. You have an MPH or other relevant advanced health
degree. You have additional training and hands on experience in project management,
budgeting and reporting.
·
Mentorship and coaching. You have
training and/or experience in providing mentorship and coaching that transforms
individuals, systems and institutions into high performers.
·
Motivate the team – You will lead
your team, draw lessons from their experiences, hone their techniques, and
solve problems along the way. You will also help team members learn from and
support each other.
·
Multitasks. You’re able to
juggle multiple tasks at once while ‘keeping calm and carrying on.’ You
think strategically, handle ambiguity and work well in a multicultural
environment.
·
People management skills. You
are a seasoned, collaborative manager who can motivate and guide a team, and
team members as individuals.
·
Problem solving skills. You are
able to research problems and solutions. You like to get things done in a
structured, methodical way.
·
Lives our values. You can thrive in
our culture – you can demonstrate inclusion, integrity, innovation, quick
footedness, collaboration, and accountability.
·
Data driven. You have an analytical
mind and are outcome oriented. You have hands on experience in using data for
decision making. You are passionate about rigorous measurement and
accountability.
·
Ability to influence. You have
partnered with stakeholders in health and provided technical assistance to the
Ministry of Health and to County Governments. You have both the technical
know-how, sensitivity and confidence to influence high-level stakeholders
including political leaders at national and county level.
·
Articulate. You have excellent
communications skills both orally and written for policy briefs, PowerPoint
presentations, case studies, training modules, reports etc.
Junior Software Engineer
Responsibilities
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Join engineering team tasked with
continuous development of the Living Goods platform producing clean and
efficient code.
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Develop high-quality software design
and architecture.
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Identify, prioritize and execute
tasks in the software development life cycle.
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Work with QA engineers to Perform
validation and verification testing.
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Document development phases and
monitor systems.
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Contribute to design, development,
and maintenance of features on the Living Goods platform, including new feature
development, review and fixing bugs, code review and scalability testing.
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Report in daily scrums on milestones,
progress towards tasks, barriers needing attention, etc. Log all development
activities inside LG task management system.
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Automate tasks through appropriate
tools and scripting.
Qualifications
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Degree in Software development, IT,
Software Engineering or related field.
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Have 2-3 year’s experience in
software development i.e JavaScript, Java, Python
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Experience of Android development.
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Experience of developing, deploying,
and maintaining production web applications.
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Ability developing backend systems
using Javascript, Java and Python.
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Experience of AWS, SVN, GIT and
Continuous Integration.
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Understanding of concepts like MVC,
Mocking, ORM, and RESTful APIs.
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Ability to forge ahead and
independently, demonstrate effective collaboration with teams across different
functions.
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Are productive in a UNIX-like
environment: you can script your way out trouble.
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Are excited to work with asynchronous
JavaScript in the browser and in Node.
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Understand the basics of database
systems – both SQL and NoSQL databases, and can become proficient with any one
of a wide variety of them without too much trouble.
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Are capable of picking up front-end
JS frameworks, such as AngularJS, ReactJS, even better if you are already a
master with one of them.
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Proven experience in developing and
maintaining highly scalable Node.js microservices
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Are well-versed in CSS, HTML and
JavaScript, as well as mobile responsive web development.
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Enjoy working closely with and
learning from designers to iterate upon solutions and solve problems together.
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Experience leading and/or mentoring a
small team of developers.
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Perfectionism: knowing how it should
be done and not stop until it’s done right.
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Can communicate effectively in
English over video and text chats as part of a results-focused distributed
team.
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Ability to work through ambiguity and
deal with shifting priorities
Health Trainer
The opportunity
Are you looking to use your health
knowledge in a high impact training career?
If you are a natural public speaker
and health professional who loves working with people you could be the right
fit to join Living Goods as a Health
Trainer. This role is based in Nairobi with
significant travel to other counties. Applicants must be willing and able
to travel 50-75% of the time.
Responsibilities
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Prepare and deliver technical modules
trainings in Integrated Community Case Management (ICCM) focusing on Malaria,
diarrhea, pneumonia and malnutrition as well as MNCH, RH and HIV to Community
Health Volunteers (CHVs).
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Provide ongoing training to all LG
Branch team members on health topics keeping abreast of new health information
and changing trends.
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Offer technical assistance in RH,
MNCH, Immunization and HIV to LG research agenda and LG programming.
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Assist in ensuring all LG agents are
in compliance with regulations set by health authorities and professional
bodies including compliance with standard service provision guidelines.
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Coach the Community Health Volunteers
in the field on case identification and management as needed.
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Conduct support supervision to CHVs
in the field after training in the first month of operations.
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Certify and recertify CHV during base
training and annually respectively to ensure quality of CHVs.
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Project management of training agenda
from planning, logistics, communication with government relations and
government officers to back stopping training operations in every base training
in the field to ensure efficiency.
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Compile training reports and analyse
training results and conduct simple operational research from base training and
field work and customize solution based mentoring and coaching and training.
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Contribute to the development and
design of workflows updating of the LG smart health mobile applications to
ensure they are technically sound user friendly for CHVs to deliver Community
Health Services.
Qualifications
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BSc degree in Nutrition, Public
Health, Nursing, Community Health, Diploma in clinical medicine or
pharmaceutical technology.
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Certificate training in HIV/AIDS
management, RH and MNCH, ICCM added advantages.
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Minimum 3 years’ post-graduation
experience in ICCM, RH, MNCH, HIV patient management and/or research.
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Technical expert in Community Health,
ICCM, RH, MNCH and HIV areas.
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Excellent written and verbal
communications skills, both in English and Swahili.
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Self- motivated and an avid reader.
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Well organized and attentive to
details.
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Team player – supportive,
collaborative and encouraging of team mates.
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Charismatic and enthusiastic; a
natural leader.
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Creativity and problem solving
skills.
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.
Living Goods is an equal opportunity
employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living
Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin,
ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
Living Goods does not offer any
positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If
you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do
not send money or personal information.
