Project Manager
- Langata Rd, Nairobi, Kenya
- Full-time
Company Description
Amref Health Africa was founded in 1957 and has since grown to become the largest African-based international health development organisation; currently implementing more than 180 programs, reaching more than 40 million people across 35 African countries; and a staff complement of over 2,000. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, Amref Health Africa has offices in ten countries in Africa – Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Guinea (Conakry), Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. An additional eleven advocacy and fundraising offices are located in Europe and North America.
Amref Health Africa is driven by its vision of ‘Lasting health change in Africa’ and its mission ‘To catalyze and drive community-led and people-centred health systems while addressing social determinants of health’. We believe that the power to transform Africa’s health lies within its communities, and therefore strive to ensure that health systems are not only functional but that communities are empowered to hold these systems accountable for the delivery of quality and affordable health care.
Job Description
Amref Health Africa believes in the power of capacity building, a belief that is echoed by many across the world. Development actors across the world are focussed on how to maximise the limited resources – financial, time, people, etc – available to us. At Amref, we have been at this for a long time! We have developed, tried and tested, and scaled capacity development approaches – such as curriculum development, policy development, digital learning, institutional capacity strengthening, coaching, and mentorship – that have resulted in improvements in the quality of health service delivery. We now want to apply these approaches and the lessons we have learnt towards strengthening education of health professionals to address cardiometabolic diseases in East Africa.
That’s why we’re looking for a Project Manager. We need a seasoned leader to take the lessons we have learned, adapt them to fit context, identify improvement opportunities and implement these approaches accordingly. That’s where you come in.
The Project Manager will provide managerial and technical leadership to the Partnership for Education of Health Professionals project as well as support other Amref initiatives and projects as appropriate.
As Amref Health Africa’s implementation lead, you will, oversee project implementation, develop and maintain strategic partnerships, develop and oversee annual work plans and budgets as well as ensure the project is, and remains, in compliance with the relevant donor guidelines, organizational policies as well relevant national laws and regulations.
Specifically, you will have the following responsibilities:
- Technical Leadership: You provide management, vision, strategic direction and leadership in the delivery of the project objectives. You ensure the quality and timeliness of project implementation.
- Partnership and Relationship Management: You foster and nurture strategic partnerships among actors at national and provincial level that include consortium partners, local implementing partners, and the community. You manage the flow of information between teams and stakeholders to ensure the required information is available when needed.
- Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning: You ensure high quality results through a regular review process of overall performance, identifying steps for improvement and assuring appropriate follow-up as needed. You engage in the learning agenda with consortium partners and community engagement, ensuring that lessons are fed back and widely shared across the project. You can course correct as necessary based on the lessons learned.
- Reporting: You oversee the development and review of annual work plans and budgets, and preparation of quarterly and annual reports submitted to Amref and the Consortium Lead. You will ensure timely submission of work plans, budgets and progress reports as well as other deliverables to Amref.
- Compliance: You ensure project operations comply with Amref Health Africa policies and procedures as well as Amref’s Logistics Partner, the funder, and MOH rules and regulations. You will protect the organisation from risks ensuring compliance with appropriate use of financial and other resources, as well as with local laws.
Qualifications
We are looking for a go-getter who will leverage on innovative approaches to manage the project.
- You have strong people, networking, problem solving, facilitation, communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to lead groups of people towards a common goal.
- You have demonstrated the ability to cultivate relationships and collaborate with a variety of stakeholders such as civil society, government ministries and officials, regulatory bodies, mid-level and higher institutions of learning, donors, community- based institutions.
- You have the ability to provide leadership, communicate effectively, resolve conflict resolution, and promote a team approach within a multi-cultural and matrixed team to enhance staff commitment to the project’s success.
- You have excellent spoken and written English. French language skills is an added advantage.
- You have the ability and experience to work with Government and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and professional associations on public health and other development issues.
- You have a minimum of seven (7) years relevant experience in leading large and complex partnerships and programs focused on working with Government, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), curriculum development, gender equality approaches and strategies particularly for health workers and communities.
- You have experience in providing technical assistance or coordination of non-communicable diseases and/or primary health care services.
- You have prior experience working in East Africa. Experience in the health sector and multi-country experience is preferred.
- You have a master’s degree or higher in Business Administration, Public Health, Social Sciences, Health Sciences. International Development, Non- Profit Management, or a closely related field. Or you have the relevant experience to match similar education and skills.
Additional Information
Application deadline is January 31, 2025. Please note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis
Amref Health Africa does not require applicants to pay any money at whatever stage of the recruitment and selection process and has not retained any agent in connection with recruitment.
Although Amref may use different job boards from time to time to further spread its reach for applicants, all open vacancies are published on our website under the Vacancies page and on our official social media pages. Kindly also note that official emails from Amref Health Africa will arrive from an @amref.org address.
Amref Health Africa is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Amref Health Africa is an equal opportunity employer and has a non-smoking environment policy.
