Health System Strengthening (HSS) Senior Manager at IntraHealth International

Summary Of Role

The HSS Senior Manager will lead the HSS component of this project and be responsible for overseeing the assessment, design and delivery of health systems strengthening and organizational development (OD) activities tailored to meet the capacity needs of Bungoma and Busia county health departments and local NGOs under the project. S/he will supervise the project’s HSS team. This position will be based in Bungoma and report to the Deputy Chief of Party.

Essential Functions

• Ensure the achievement of high-quality results related to strengthened county and subcounty health systems and local partner NGO organizational capacity.
• Lead the technical approach and delivery of the project’s capacity building activities for health system and organizational strengthening for project local partners including Bungoma and Busia county health departments and consortium local NGOs. This includes strengthened HRH and health financing systems.
• Coordinate baseline and follow-up organizational assessments using the Non-US Pre-Award Survey (NUPAS) and NUPAS Plus and other tools as necessary with local NGO consortium partners to identify specific technical and organizational capacity development needs to be addressed over the life of the project, strengthening technical and organizational capacity in order to support county health programs at scale.
• Oversee development, implementation and monitoring of capacity development plans for organizational strengthening for local partners and county health departments.
• Oversee support to local partners in OD areas including leadership, governance, and management; finance management/compliance/audit readiness; human resources staff management, training and development; grant and sub-awardee management; strategic information analysis, management and application; and sustainability and business development.
• Provide TA to consortium local partners in complying with PEPFAR and USAID planning and reporting requirements.
• Collaborate with project M&E lead on metrics, monitoring and measurement of health systems strengthening and organizational development against benchmarks and support a learning agenda.
• Provide overall technical and managerial leadership to health systems strengthening team members for the project.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or higher in business administration, organizational development, public health, or related field.
• Minimum of 7 years of relevant, senior-level professional experience managing and implementing health systems strengthening programs, with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in Kenya preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with government representatives, NGOs, for-profit private sector entities, donors and other stakeholders, particularly at the sub-national level.
• Proven knowledge of HSS issues and trends, and the ability to integrate HSS with HIV/FP/RMNCAH services improvement and delivery.
• Deep knowledge of ongoing and emerging issues in relation to capacity development.
• Experience in assessing organizational capacity and providing capacity building activities.
• Experience interacting with local organizations and government on capacity building.
• Strong interpersonal and team management skills and accomplishment in strategic visioning, leadership, networking, and problem-solving.
• Proven success in working in or with government and NGOs at national and/or province/county levels.
• Experience with IT and digital health for capacity building.
• Professional level of oral and written fluency in English language.
• Experience with PEPFAR programming and USAID funding strongly preferred.
• Must have legal authorization to work in Kenya.