Job Title: Global Health Advisor
Hiring Organization: Living Goods
Location – Locality: Nairobi
Location – Region: Kenya
Industry: NGO
Job Type: Full Time
Salary: KES
Date Posted: 05/27/2024
Introduction:
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?
Living Goods endeavours to improve access to essential healthcare services in underserved regions, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. We believe community health is critical to deliver Universal Health Coverage and that community health workers (CHWs) are essential, because they bring health services to people’s doorsteps. But to truly make an impact, CHWs need to be digitally empowered, equipped with treatments, effectively supervised, and compensated.
We also
help governments transform their community health systems and workforces. We
have transformed ability of community health workers to have a lifesaving
impact across Africa. These community health workers educate, assess, treat,
and refer for common illnesses like pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria that
affect children under 5, they help ensure children get immunized on time, and
they support women through their pregnancies and with family planning. They
also provide primary healthcare to millions of people at a fraction of the cost
of doctors and nurses.
At Living
Goods, you will have the chance to apply your ideas and creativity at work
every day.
The
position:
The
Global Health Advisor is the health expert of the organization and will provide
health leadership across programs, modalities, and geographies to ensure LG
constantly deepen its health impact, adapt to evolving environment and remain
compliant to LG, WHO & Country Health policies, guidelines & standards.
The position will also represent and build LG´s global health credibility
externally.
Responsibilities:
Strategy
and program design:
Serves as
a thought partner to the CPO, the Director of Program Strategy and Excellence
and the Country teams to constantly strengthen program quality and ability to
drive health impact goals including morbidity and mortality reduction.
Develops
evidence-based health/clinical strategies to deepen health impact of LG
programs across modalities and geographies and ensure LG achieves morbidity and
mortality reduction goals.
Identifies
and analyzes global health trends as well as community health trends, best
practice and latest evidence to fuel program team and influence program
strategy and excellence.
Provides
input and supports implementation of performance improvement plans (Impact
Optimization plans), playing critical roles that directly relate to service
quality, competence, training, etc.
Technical
support:
Provides
health technical support to the program team, the innovation team and the
country program delivery teams to ensure high-quality service delivery and
continuum of care.
Provides
health technical input in the design, development & update of digital
content, workflows to ensure that they enhance ease of use, quality of service
delivery & job aid capability.
Builds
and drives service quality improvement practices across programs
Works
with Performance, Evidence, and Insights (PEI) teams to review and evaluate
KPIs to ensure health outcomes are being delivered.
Works
with PEI team to ensure research studies, clear capture lessons and impact
relating to health outcomes.
Service/Clinical
Quality standards:
Builds
and drives service quality improvement practices across programs.
Reviews
technical/clinical training content, models, and approaches to ensure that the
approaches are driving desired improvement outcomes for program teams &
CHWs.
Develops
and ensures adoption of cost effective and replicable approaches to capacity
building including platforms and sequencies of capacity building (base
training, in-services, on-the job training) in alignment & compliance to
WHO and Country MoH policies & guidelines.
Develops
and leads the Service/clinical Quality assessments to determine quality of
services provided, and key gaps for improvement.
Leads in
the identification, and adoption of service quality best practices across LG.
Leads the
documentation of key learnings relating to Service quality.
Risk and
compliance:
Develops,
updates, and oversees clinical protocols and policies for staff and CHWs
including those necessary for digital tools development, ensuring alignment
with WHO and Country MoH policies & guidelines.
Tracks
the orientation, dissemination, and compliance to the health protocols across
LG.
Oversees
health related risk management across the organization and leads crisis
management when health related.
BD and
Advocacy:
Builds
LG’s health credibility externally.
Be the
health technical lead and provide thought leadership to facilitate development
of high-quality proposals.
Engages
with prospect and technical funders as well as strategic partners, showcasing
LG results, strategies and approaches.
Identifies,
cultivates, and supports partnerships to strengthen LG programs, this can
include global TWG, global coalition
Skills
and Competencies:
Good
Interpersonal skills, Communication and Collaboration,
Strong
knowledge of program design and implementation.
Education
and Experience:
Medical
Doctor/ Masters Degree in Public Health, Child Health or related field
Relevant
Professional certifications
