Health, Nutrition & WASH Manager at Kidogo Innovations Limited

• The Health, Nutrition, and WASH Manager will be responsible for the planning, implementation, and management of health, nutrition, and WASH programs and projects in alignment with organizational goals and objectives. This role involves strategic planning, resource management, team leadership, and collaboration with stakeholders and partners to ensure the delivery of high-quality services and interventions. This role will report to the Associate Director of Programs.

Your responsibilities will include:

Program Planning and Strategy:

• Develop and implement health, nutrition, and WASH strategies in line with organizational goals and objectives.
• Ensure the integration of health, nutrition, and WASH components into program planning and design.
• Conduct needs assessments and data analysis to identify key areas of focus.

Project Management:

• Oversee the planning, budgeting, and implementation of health, nutrition, and WASH projects/Initiatives of Kidogo.
• Monitor project progress, ensuring timely delivery of activities and adherence to project timelines.
• Manage project budgets, procurements, and resource allocation.

Team Leadership:

• Recruit, train, and supervise a team of professionals working in health, nutrition, and WASH.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to team members, fostering their professional development.
• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment inline with Kidogo’s core values.
• Ensure effective communication across different team members and alignment with departmental plans and objectives.

Monitoring and Evaluation Championing:

• Develop and implement monitoring and evaluation frameworks to assess program effectiveness and work with the M&E teams to execute on the same.
• Ensure data collection, analysis, and reporting to track program impact of all the interventions of HNW.
• Make data-driven decisions to improve program outcomes.

Stakeholder Engagement, Collaboration and Partnerships:

• Source and Engage with HNW partners, contract teams and manage them to implement on the Kidogo objectives e.g build out an effective Growth Monitoring program that can be supported at scale through partnerships.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with local communities and beneficiaries through partners or working with other departments such as Partnerships.
• Work with other teams such as Franchising and M&E to execute on different pieces of the HNW initiatives such as mentorship and advocacy to the MMPs.

Training and Capacity Building:

• Promote health education, nutrition, and hygiene practices in target communities through a Train the Trainer model. Work closely with the training team to build the content and train the trainers.
• Measure the impact of the TOT by working closely with the M&E team and the training team.
• Ensure thereon is sufficient content understanding and retention by the MMPs by working closely with the M&E teams to assess the same.

Health and Nutrition Initiative Execution and Promotion:

• Develop and implement health and nutrition interventions, including maternal and child health, immunization, and nutrition programs.
• Ensure the provision of essential healthcare services and support for malnourished individuals through partnership with other organizations.
• Implement health and nutrition awareness campaigns and interventions by working with the Communication and Design teams as well as the training teams.
• Ensure compliance with best practices and guidelines in health and nutrition programming.

Reporting and Documentation:

• Prepare regular reports on program progress, outcomes, and challenges.
• Maintain accurate records and documentation for all health, nutrition, and WASH projects.
• Comply with donor reporting requirements.

Qualifications:

• Several years of experience in managing health, nutrition, and WASH programs, preferably in a development or humanitarian context.
• Strong project management and leadership skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong collaborative and team leadership skills.
• Knowledge of donor compliance and reporting requirements.
• Technologically savvy.
• Familiarity with relevant guidelines and best practices in health, nutrition, and WASH.

You will fit in the well with the Kidogo Family, if you are:

• A natural leader: You inspire your teammates to stretch themselves, challenge their assumptions and constantly improve through direct mentorship, and serve as an example. You create a sense of mutual accountability, inspire action and follow up effectively to ensure momentum.
• Fiercely compassionate: You exercise empathy and treat all people with respect and dignity. You combine the urgency of getting things done while appreciating the complexities of working in informal urban settlements.
• Visualize the path to the goal: You are highly strategic. You understand how decisions get made; you can take in multiple inputs simultaneously, make decisions with imperfect information and chart a path forward for your team. You stay focused on the most important things, not getting lost in the noise.
• Adaptable / Agile: You have a willingness to learn and adapt. You are comfortable revisiting and refining aspects of a program and iterating based on lessons learned during the development lifecycle.
• Intrapreneurial: You see solutions, not challenges. You have a gritty, experimental spirit and actively find opportunities to reach our goals in more effective ways by exercising creative resourcefulness.
• Doer: You are efficient, organized and use your time effectively. You can juggle many projects of varying urgency and importance simultaneously and can prioritize effectively. You seamlessly balance both urgent short-term tasks with larger long-term projects.
• Wear multiple hats: You can see problems from different perspectives and can balance competing demands (i.e., sustainability and quality). You are also comfortable juggling detailed tasks one minute and more significant strategic questions the next.