Vacancies at Palladium International

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Provide strategic 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.
• Ensure robust interagency coordination with US CDC, State Department, and other USG entities to advance shared global health security goals, surveillance strengthening, and digital transformation agendas that protect both Kenyan and American public health interests.
• Maintain close and deliberate collaboration with the DHA and the CDC-funded KeHMIS project, ensuring harmonized implementation of digital architectures, aligned workplans, cost-effective implementation, and a unified USG presence in support of Kenya’s digital health priorities.
• Support the DHA in national-scale implementation of digital health solutions; ensuring they strengthen surveillance, improve service delivery, and contribute to early warning and rapid response capabilities.
• Support DHA in instituting system-wide HIS strengthening including maturity assessments, digital readiness reviews, interoperability alignment, governance reforms, and national standards adoption to improve the integrity, completeness, and timeliness of health data.
• Lead project planning, budgeting, compliance, and performance management for USG funds, ensuring transparency, accountability, and adherence to federal standards, while reinforcing Kenyan government institutional capabilities.
• Guide evidence generation, implementation science activities, and strategic analytics that inform GOK, DHA and USG decision-making on surveillance, digital transformation, and national health security priorities.
• Supervise and mentor multi-disciplinary teams: technical, operational, financial, and digital health specialists, to ensure disciplined execution, high-quality outputs, and a culture of continuous improvement.
• Represent Data.FI and USG-supported digital health investments in national digital health technical forums, interagency coordination meetings, and security-sensitive health information discussions.

Required Qualifications:

• Master of Public Health (MPH) or an advanced degree in computer science, digital health, health informatics, epidemiology, health systems management, or a related field.
• At least 15 years of senior leadership experience supporting national digital health, HIS, surveillance, or public health systems, including extensive engagement with the Kenya Ministry of Health and DHA.
• Demonstrated experience co-creating and institutionalizing national digital health governance frameworks, interoperability standards, and policy instruments with government, in line with the Kenya Data Protection Act and Digital Health Act.
• Strong experience working across USG interagency structures, including familiarity with State Department priorities, coordination mechanisms, and global health security expectations.
• Proven ability to coordinate or complement the CDC-funded KeHMIS program, ensuring aligned implementation, efficiency gains, and a coherent USG technical presence to minimize fragmentation and duplication.
• Track record implementing national-scale digital health solutions, including EMRs, POC systems, community digitization platforms, surveillance data tools, and unique patient identifier frameworks, with clear results in system performance and data quality. 
• At least 10 years of progressive leadership experience managing large, USG-funded health or digital-transformation programs. 
• Proven experience in governance, policy engagement, and institutional capacity development.
• Strong program and financial management capability, including multi-award oversight, forecasting, risk mitigation, compliance with USG financial controls, and alignment with national legal frameworks.

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Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Contribute to the project’s components including data collection and analysis, support to modelling processes, providing technical assistance to GOK counterparts in strategy implementation and monitoring.
• Support technical staff in developing technical content for meetings, such as drafting agendas and presentations and participate in actual coordination and implementation of the meetings/activities.
• Work with senior staff and/or consultants to engage with GOK counterparts and relevant multi- sectoral technical working groups to enhance information sharing, collaboration.
• Support project documentation by taking activity notes, interviewing technical staff for reporting purposes and capturing project successes and lessons learned.
• Initiate and coordinate inputs for bi-weekly activity trackers according to schedule and ensure team calendar is up to date. 
• Prepare Health Financing briefs, and activity reports.
• Support the project in Health Financing data collection and analysis.
• Represent the project in meetings with partners and stakeholders as requested.
• Work with other project team members on capacity development through the design and trainings. 

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in social sciences, public health, public policy, statistics, economics, health systems or similar degree program.
• 5 years of experience providing technical assistance on public health programs in areas such as health governance, health policy, using data for decision making, capacity development of public sector, functional transfer, strategic and implementation planning, and leadership.
• Experience working both with public and private sectors.
• Experience developing and applying systems management and monitoring tools and conducting assessments and analyses.
• Experience strengthening accountability and transparency of public sector health programs.
• Experience implementing programs and providing technical assistance at the national and county levels in Kenya.
• Proven experience conducting training and building the capacity of counterparts to strengthen policy and governance at the national and subnational levels.
• Demonstrated experience in disseminating work through conference presentations, publications, and journal articles.
• Proven experience in national and county budget data analysis, report writing and dissemination
• Proven knowledge of donor transition.
• Knowledge of public sector systems in the health sector.
• Proven knowledge of public budgeting systems and process.