Program Advisor, Strategy and Excellence Full Time

Role: Program Advisor, Strategy and Excellence

Reports to: Senior Advisor, Program Strategy and Excellence
Location: Kenya

Introduction:
Do you want your work to matter? Do you want to use your skills to make a difference, not just a living? Do you want to improve millions of lives, including your own?

Living Goods endeavours to improve access to essential healthcare services in underserved regions, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. We believe community health is critical to deliver Universal Health Coverage and that community health workers (CHWs) are essential, because they bring health services to people’s doorsteps. But to truly make an impact, CHWs need to be digitally empowered, equipped with treatments, effectively supervised, and compensated.

We also help governments transform their community health systems and workforces. We have transformed ability of community health workers to have a lifesaving impact across Africa. These community health workers educate, assess, treat, and refer for common illnesses like pneumonia, diarrhea, and malaria that affect children under 5, they help ensure children get immunized on time, and they support women through their pregnancies and with family planning. They also provide primary healthcare to millions of people at a fraction of the cost of doctors and nurses.

At Living Goods, you will have the chance to apply your ideas and creativity at work every day!

The position:
The Program Advisor, Strategy & Excellence, provides strategic and operational support to specific grants, ensuring effective implementation across its geographies of implementation. The role primarily supports the design, execution, monitoring, and documentation of projects, working closely with Project, country, grants, and program teams. The Advisor plays a critical role in synthesizing insights, supporting alignment with Living Goods’ Theory of Change, and enhancing performance, programmatic learning and excellence.

This role will be embedded in the Program Strategy & Excellence unit and works under the guidance of the Senior Advisor, collaborating cross-functionally to support program implementation, performance tracking, donor reporting, and knowledge management.

Responsibilities:
Projects Management (30%):

• Lead the management of specific grants/projects, ensuring effective project cycle management.
• Coordinate with project teams to align grant implementation with strategic priorities and timelines.
• Track project deliverables, timelines, and budgets.
• Assist in preparing donor reports and documentation, ensuring quality and timeliness.
• Identify and escalate risks related to grant implementation and compliance.
• Manage Projects, including work planning, and tracking milestones.
• Support scheduling and follow-up tracking from strategic planning meetings.

Program Design and Strategy (20%):

• Contribute to developing strategic inputs to inform program design and modifications under restricted grants.
• Support program scoping, country diagnostics, and rollout planning in line with LG’s Theory of Change.
• Collaborate with technical teams to ensure alignment of grant objectives with broader program goals.

Monitoring, Learning and Knowledge Management (20%):

• Monitor program performance, capturing lessons learned.
• Maintain learning repositories and program documentation aligned to specific grants.
• Support dissemination of insights and contribute to learning events and knowledge-sharing sessions.

Stakeholder Engagement and Coordination (10%):

• Act as a liaison between Program Strategy & Excellence, country teams, and technical support units.
• Provide logistical and coordination support for stakeholder meetings, technical working groups, and project check-ins.
• Contribute to donor engagement by preparing briefs and collating updates.

Program Performance Management (20%):

• In collaboration with the Program Strategy & Excellence team and the Project teams, ensure project designs are quickly iterated based on performance reviews.
• Ensure that Project teams are fully engaged and supported to achieve Project milestones.

Education and Experience:

• Masters degree in the following disciplines: Public Health, Health Systems Strengthening; Health Leadership and Management, Global Health, MBA.
• A minimum of 13 years relevant experience with 10 years at supervisory level and at least 4 years at managerial level.

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

Compensation:
A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and bonus opportunity. The opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.

Living Goods is an equal opportunity employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability.

Our current job openings are displayed on our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly. Living Goods does not offer any positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do not send money or personal information. If offered a role at Living Goods, we’ll request consent to complete a background check, which is part of our hiring process

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