Current Openings at Palladium International

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Data Collection, Validation & Management
• Support routine data collection from project sites and partner organisations. 
• Clean, verify, and validate datasets ensuring accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Conduct follow-up with data providers to address discrepancies or incomplete submissions. 
• Assist in organizing, archiving, and maintaining project datasets for easy retrieval and analysis.
• Data Analysis & Visualization
• Support the MEL Lead to generate basic analytical summaries and visualizations using Excel, Power BI, or project templates. 
• Support the MEL Lead in creation of dashboards and visual reports for internal and external stakeholders.
• Assist with DHIS2 data entry, retrieval, and routine reporting as required. 
• Activity Coordination & Support
• Participate in project field activities, including interviews, surveys, and transcription. 
• Support the TPM to prepare daily and weekly activity summaries, milestone tracking, highlighting progress, risks, and incidents.
• Support coordination during stakeholder engagements and data validation exercises.
• Project Implementation Support
• Assist the TPM in preparation of project documents, standard operating procedures, spreadsheets, and presentations.
• Support tracking of activity progress against timelines using project management tools or spreadsheets. 
• Maintain communication and document flow between project teams and partner institutions.
• Administrative and Team Support
• Assist the TPM with meeting scheduling, coordination, and follow-up action tracking.
• Provide logistical support during project events, trainings, and meetings.
• Contribute to a collaborative team environment through proactive engagement and task ownership.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Statistics, Data Science, Public Health, or a related quantitative field.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel (advanced) and working knowledge of Power BI and DHIS2 for data collection, reporting, and visualization. 
• Familiarity with digital tools, data entry platforms, and general IT systems.
• Ability to transcribe, clean, and prepare qualitative and quantitative data for analysis. 
• Experience supporting research, fieldwork, or analytical assignments (e.g., National Health Accounts data collection). 
• Experience with documentation review, reporting, and stakeholder follow-up.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy. 
• Highly organized, dependable, and able to manage multiple tasks.
• Team player with strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Self-motivated, proactive, eager to learn, and comfortable working with minimal supervision. 
• Knowledge of using any statistical software such as R, STATA, Python is an added advantage.

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Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Assess health finance impact and other related health financing studies to improve access to key financial information to determine feasibility and sustainability of scaling up health finance interventions.
• Design and implement technical activities related to health finance policy in Kenya.
• Working closely with both in-person and virtual teams to achieve shared objectives. This will include other technical team members in Kenya, project partners, and the global technical leadership team to ensure application of high-quality Health Financing strategies, tools, and curricula.
• Lead development and implementation of policy tools, approaches, and curricula to achieve project objectives.
• Produce and/or edit a variety of documents including briefing materials, meeting notes, presentation slides, research briefs, and reports for a variety of stakeholders (such as funders, implementing partners, external audiences).
• Support project teams with the development and production of highly polished presentations, concept notes, briefing materials, and other products such as blog posts, newsletters, meeting summaries, thought pieces, and e-communications on key topics of interest.
• Contribute to the development of administrative policies and procedures to ensure efficient and effective project implementation.
• Provide technical support on matters health care financing and PFM.
• Conduct all work to accepted standards of research ethics.

Required Qualifications:

• Masters in health policy, public health, Statistics, Economics/Health Economics or relevant field; at least 10 years demonstrated relevant work experience, OR 8 years’ experience with at with a PhD degree will be an added advantage.
• Extensive experience in health systems strengthening and proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams effectively.
• Experience leading or providing support to the implementation of high-quality monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities (e.g., developing and or monitoring theories of change and conducting outcome harvesting).
• Experience managing and monitoring the execution of deliverables through collaboration with implementing teams, funders, and other technical partners and government.
• Track record of building teams, fostering collaboration, and achieving high-quality deliverables.
• Success in partnership building with diverse stakeholders, including public and private sectors, government representatives, donors, and community organizations.
• Proficient in interpersonal communication, writing, presentation, organization, and computer skills (Outlook, Microsoft office).
• Detail-oriented with the ability to balance multiple tasks and priorities within designated timeframes.
• Responsive and adaptable to changing requirements and demands.
• Knowledge of using any statistical software such as R, STATA, Python.

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 Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight to support the implementation of Health Financing scope in Kenya, ensuring effective management of the activity.
• Serve as a senior member of the program's leadership team, assisting the Data.FI Country Director in overseeing staff supporting Health financing scope.
• Oversee Health Financing programmatic functions, including the development of health financing work plans, budgets, and reports, to ensure the successful implementation of the health financing activities.
• Maintain effective and open communication with key stakeholders, including the Country Data.Fi Country Director, United States Government (USG), Government of Kenya (GOK) counterpart activity technical Leads, and operations teams.
• Collaborate with the project staff to continuously refine implementation processes by integrating lessons learned and best practices.
• Provide leadership to the Health Financing team in the project, including liaison with the USG and GOK focal persons.
• Provide technical direction, oversight, and quality control for all program activities, ensuring integration and collaboration across all areas.
• Offer technical and programmatic guidance and support for project activities.
• Coordinate with USG representatives, other USG projects, and other development partners to ensure collaboration and integrated approaches.
• Provide functional guidance to Health Financing staff and partners, ensuring deliverables are met within timelines and budgets.
• Promote sustainability of project activities through networking, capacity building, and institutional strengthening.
• Manage team members to ensure efficient technical implementation. 
• Utilize analytical techniques to identify and resolve issues or problems.
• Organize and support project trainings, conferences, workshops, and meetings with regard to Health Financing as needed.
• Represent the project in external associations, conferences, and symposia, and prepare necessary project-related reports.

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Economics, Health Economics, Public Health, Health Administration, or related field.
• Minimum 8 years of professional experience in managing large USG donor projects involving multiple partners, with demonstrated skills in strategic planning, management, supervision, and budgeting.
• Comprehensive knowledge of USG contract management, policies, regulations, and reporting requirements.
• Extensive experience in health systems strengthening and proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams effectively.
• Demonstrated expertise with USG planning and reporting systems, operations, and programming, including previous leadership roles.
• Track record of building teams, fostering collaboration, and achieving high-quality deliverables.
• Success in partnership building with diverse stakeholders, including public and private sectors, government representatives, donors, and community organizations.
• Proficient in interpersonal communication, writing, presentation, organization, and computer skills (Outlook, Microsoft office).
• Detail-oriented with the ability to balance multiple tasks and priorities within designated timeframes.
• Responsive and adaptable to changing requirements and demands.
• Knowledge of using any statistical software such as R, STATA, Python.

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Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Lead Data.FI project support offered to the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) in national and subnational malaria analytics, including epidemiological profiling, surveillance performance reviews, and strategic interpretation of routine and community-level malaria data.
• Support NMCP in translating analytical findings into actionable policy recommendations, contributing to the development or evolution of national malaria policies, strategic plans, malaria program integration and M&E frameworks.
• Support the NMCP in the production of malaria epidemiology and control profiles, ensuring data-driven targeting of interventions and improved program effectiveness.
• Provide technical leadership for malaria investment cases, including consolidation of funding requests, alignment with national priorities, and coordination of multi-stakeholder contributions.
• Mentor multi-disciplinary technical teams, ensuring high-quality deliverables, coherent work planning, and effective coordination across partners and government counterparts.
• Support health information system strengthening efforts, including malaria system assessments, point of care system workflows, data capture review, data quality assurance, and the development of relevant reporting guidelines.
• Design and implement evaluation protocols, data quality assessments, and research studies with the malaria program among other domains.
• Conduct advanced statistical analyses using tools such as Stata, R, and Power BI, and translate outputs into accessible insights for policymakers, donors, and technical partners.
• Produce high-quality reports, policy briefs, and evidence summaries to inform strategic decisions at national and donor levels.
• Engage with national programs, donors, and financing mechanisms, including participation in Global Fund coordinating bodies, oversight structures, and technical working groups.
• Support malaria surveillance and cross-country data quality improvements.
• Contribute to publications, knowledge products, and technical evidence generation.

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Biometry, Statistics, Epidemiology, Public Health, or a related quantitative field.
• Minimum of 12–15 years of progressively responsible experience in malaria surveillance, M&E, health systems strengthening, or related public health domains.
• Demonstrated expertise in malaria program analytics, routine surveillance strengthening, and translation of evidence into national strategy and policy.
• Proven experience leading comprehensive malaria situation analyses and contributing to national malaria policy, strategy, and M&E framework development.
• Strong familiarity with National Malaria Control Program and Global Fund processes, including leading or contributing to funding requests, performance frameworks, and strategic alignment with donor priorities.
• Advanced proficiency in statistical and analytical tools (Stata, R, Power BI) with the ability to design, execute, and interpret complex analyses.
• Demonstrated leadership experience managing multi-disciplinary technical teams and coordinating across government, donor, and implementing partners.
• Experience supporting CRVS system strengthening, including data quality assessment, system reviews, and vital statistics reporting.
• Track record of delivering multi-country technical support, particularly in malaria surveillance, routine data quality, or HIS strengthening.
• Strong research and publication record, including contributions to high-impact peer-reviewed journals.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, donor coordination, and communication skills with the ability to translate technical findings for diverse audiences.
• Ability to design and implement evaluation studies, systematic reviews, and data quality assessments across health programs.
• Membership in relevant professional bodies (e.g., International Biometric Society) or participation in national/regional oversight committees is an added advantage.

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Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Lead development and maintenance of detailed project plans, timelines, budgets, resource allocation, and risk-mitigation strategies for digital health initiatives. 
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure coherent execution of digital health workstreams.
• Ensure technical alignment and governance compliance: liaise with DHA, NMCP, KeHMIS and USG stakeholders to align on implementation of national standards, data governance, interoperability, privacy and security requirements into project delivery.
• Monitor project performance, track key performance indicators (KPIs), manage change requests, and prepare status reports and dashboards for senior leadership.
• Manage stakeholder engagement: communicate progress, escalate issues, convene technical working groups, and maintain strong partnerships with GOK, USG and implementers.
• Oversee project quality assurance, system testing, user training, data migration and rollout activities; ensure solutions meet functional requirements and support sustainable use.
• Mentor and support the technical project team, build capacity within implementing partners and GOK counterparts, promote continuous improvement and adherence to best practices.
• Ensure compliance with contractual and funding requirements, coordination with USG agencies (State Department and CDC), alignment with the KeHMIS project and efficient use of resources.
• Lead post-implementation reviews, lessons learned, and continuous optimization of project processes and digital health systems.
• Lead sprint planning and bi-weekly progress reviews under the agile implementation model.
• Support the Data.FI Country Director and the KeHMIS Program Director in aligning collaborative team performance and aligned workplan milestones or product roadmaps.
• Oversee internal reporting, documentation, and learning processes.
• Collaborate with the MEL Lead to ensure data-driven program management and decision-making.
• Liaise with KeHMIS and Palladium Agile Nairobi technical teams to synchronize shared resources and tasks.
• Identify and mitigate implementation risks in collaboration with cluster leads and partners.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in applied statistics, computer science, information technology, public health, project management, or a related field.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in implementing digital health, HIS, or health informatics project in Kenya.
• Proven track record coordinating large-scale digital health or HIS systems (EMR, interoperability, unique patient identifiers) with demonstrated delivery on time, quality and on budget.
• Experience in supporting developing and implementing digital health governance, data protection, interoperability standards, and regulatory frameworks relevant to Kenya (e.g., Kenya Data Protection Act, Digital Health Act).
• Strong project management skills: planning, budgeting, risk management, stakeholder communications, and resource coordination.
• Experience working with USG agencies (CDC, State Department) and familiarity with their operational and compliance frameworks.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills: ability to engage senior government and donor stakeholders, lead technical teams, and write high-quality reports.
• Demonstrated leadership and mentoring capability; team orientation with ability to drive a high-performance culture.

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Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Provide technical and strategic direction for health-financing and policy-related activities under Data.FI Kenya.
• Provide Health Financing leadership for Data.FI Kenya to advance bilateral cooperation between the Government of Kenya and the United States under the America First Global Health Strategy.
• Maintain close and deliberate collaboration with the relevant government agencies such as DHA and SHA, ensuring harmonized implementation of health financing components, aligned workplans, cost-effective implementation, and a unified USG presence in support of Kenya’s digital health priorities.
• Lead the design and implementation of health-financing, analytics, costing, and resource-tracking studies.
• Coordinate digital integration of financial systems within DHA, MoH, and the Social Health Authority (SHA).
• Support policy dialogue on sustainable financing and evidence-based decision making.
• Collaborate with DHA and KeHMIS technical teams to align financial-data systems with national digital-health architecture.
• Represent Data.FI Kenya in national and partner coordination forums related to health financing and UHC.
• Provide technical supervision to health-financing and policy staff and ensure quality of deliverables.
• Contribute to learning, documentation, and dissemination of health-financing innovations.

Required Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree in economics and health economics, Econometrics, statistics and public health/finance, health policy, or a related discipline.
• At least 10 years of experience in health financing, resource tracking, or economic evaluation within government or donor-funded programs.
• Experience working with national health-financing reforms, UHC strategies, or financial-data systems. 
• Deep experience with Kenya’s Digital Health Act, Social Health Insurance framework, and national financing architecture.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder-engagement skills.
• Experience in team management, policy dialogue, and technical representation.
• Experience in managing USG funded project in health financing and policy.
• Knowledge of using any statistical software such as R, STATA, Python
• Experience working with public sector in Kenya.