Senior Advisor, Program Strategy and Excellence at Living Goods

The position:

• The position is responsible for supporting program strategy and design, working closely with the Global Director, Program Strategy and Excellence to ensure countries and service delivery teams are fully equipped with the frameworks, tools and subject matter experts to drive towards the execution and achievement of Living Goods Theory of Change.

Responsibilities:

Program Design and Strategy:
Works in concert and collaboration with the Global Director, Program Strategy and Excellence:

• Develops and modifies LG´s Theory of Change and supporting foundational strategies (Supply chain, health financing…)
• Serves as a thought partner to the Global Director, Program Strategy and Excellence and the Country teams to evolve program strategies and designs and constantly drive LG Theory of Change.
• Designs strong programs to ensure robust impact on key RMNCH health outcomes, cost effectiveness, scalability, and replicability.
• Collaborate with the Innovation team to strengthen program efficiency and effectiveness.

Program Performance Management:

• In collaboration with Country teams, ensures program designs are quickly iterated based on performance reviews.
• Ensure that Country teams are fully engaged and supported to achieve their annual big wins.
• Closely engage with the digital health team to ensure that digital tools are serving programs and grounded in user insights.

Excellence, learning and organisational effectiveness:

• Co-develops (together with the Global Director, program S & E) a center of excellence to support countries with the design of effective program enablers and tools (that include tools that support the enabling environment for strong HSS approaches; - policies, guidelines, etc.) as well as efficient and effective service delivery based on LG DESC. Ensuring alignment with the Global Health team.
• Strengthened organizational effectiveness through Institutionalized Knowledge Management and systematic use of the RAPID, improving input into the grant process and program effectiveness.
• Manage a Programs knowledge management process at LG, ensuring that a structured process to collect, refine, document, disseminate and ensure adoption of learning/best practices across the programs in the organization is effectively implemented.
• Support the contracting of key consultants required for identified tasks/assignments timeously, to ensure technical workstreams are completed timely.

Government led implementation support and scale up:
Codify Government led implementation support and scale up to maximize impact and institutionalization in 2023 & beyond:

• Co-develop country govt-led implementation support scaling strategy including assessing the potential of partnerships with a focus on Kenya future scaling strategy.
• Support the development & implementation of foundational strategies to support implementation support sites to bridge core components for DESC (for example the Supply chain & health financing strategies).

New Country Expansion:
Support the implementation of LGs expansion strategy based on the New Country Blueprint:

• Support the review of the new Country blueprint ensuring that is up to date with the evolving organizational priorities and strategic plan.
• Support the process of contracting consultants to carryout landscape analyses for geographies identified for potential expansion into.

Business Development and grants management:

• Provide program technical input and thought leadership to facilitate the development of high-quality proposals and partnerships.
• Provide thought leadership based on lessons learned to drive program, BD and communication efforts.
• Engage with prospective and technical funders as well as strategic partners, showcasing LG results, strategies, and approaches.
• Co-implement (with the grants management team) the project management of cross countries restricted grants

Skills and Competencies:

• Strong interpersonal skills
• Communication and Collaboration skills
• Strong knowledge of program design and implementation
• Agility and dealing with ambiguity
• Management of skilled technical teams

Education and Experience:

• Masters degree in the following disciplines: Public Health, Health Systems Strengthening; Health Leadership and Management, Global Health, MBA.
• Doctorate (PhD) level qualification desirable.
• Over 13 years relevant experience with 10 years at supervisory level and at least 5 years at managerial level.