Senior Program Officer

1 month ago

Nairobi, Kenya Corporate Staffing Services Full time

PATH is a global nonprofit dedicated to achieving health equity. With more than 40 years of experience forging multisector partnerships and with expertise in science, economics, technology, advocacy, and dozens of other specialties, PATH develops and scales up innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing heath challenges.

PATH Kenya a local entity that has been working in the country since 1990. PATH Kenya has been a trusted partner to the Kenyan government, the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, and the communities we serve. PATH in Kenya works to enhance health system capacity and resilience by providing technical expertise with deep local experience, accelerating progress through advocacy and policy, and using human-centered design to maximize impact.

PATH has been awarded a multi-year grant from the Astellas Global Health Foundation to help address HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis (TB) health care delivery barriers in Nyamira County. This project, aims to “Optimize scalable and catalytic community-based Primary Health Care (PHC) that strengthens and sustains integrated HIV and TB service delivery in Nyamira County.” Specifically, the project will focus on supporting Community Health Promoter workforce development, supporting roll-out and scale-up of e-CHIS, and strengthening the supply chain to ensure the availability of high-quality commodities and tools for community health units.

PATH Kenya will work together with the Nyamira County Department of Health and County Health Management Team to strengthen Community Strategy and Primary Health Care approaches to efficiently deliver HIV/AIDS and TB services.

PATH Kenya is seeking a Senior Program Officer.

This position is based in Nyamira.

Responsibilities:

Provide overall project technical, operational, and administrative support for community health strengthening and primary care networks approaches in Nyamira County for integrated HIV/TB implementation. Primarily responsible for all project activities implementation in Nyamira South sub-county, with oversight for the other four(4) sub-counties. Support capacity building for community health strategy and primary care networks (PCN) implementation. Liaise with relevant PATH Kenya technical teams to implement primary care networks, e-CHIS, support learning and CQI approaches, and commodity management strengthening approaches at community level and linked to primary care networks. Support HIV/TB integration approaches at community level to include differentiated services delivery approaches, as part of primary care networks implementation. Liaise with CHMTS, SCHMTs and CHCs to coordinate project implementation, support supervision and reporting of project activities within Nyamira County Lead and coordinate project data review, data quality and data analysis and dissemination engagements in liaison with CHMTs/SCHMTs Provide representation on behalf of the project and PATH as will be required.

Required Skills and Experience:

Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Medical Sciences, Public Health, Social Sciences, Health Systems Management, Health Policy with minimum experience of five years providing technical assistance in health and development projects in Kenya. Relevant master’s degree will be an advantage. Excellent knowledge on community health strategy guidelines and primary care networks (PCN) implementation approaches in Kenya. Excellent demonstrable project management skills, including people management, work plan development and budgeting and managing multi-disciplinary teams. Good working knowledge of HIV/TB implementation and guidelines in Kenya Demonstrated ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams for HIV/TB projects at community and facility levels of care in Kenya. Knowledge and experience on capacity building of communities and community health systems to support health services. Strong English oral and written communication skills. Excellent report writing, presentation, work planning development and budgeting knowledge. Strong ability to organize and prioritize work and to meet deadlines within a flexible, fast-paced environment with multiple and competing demands. Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills with a demonstrated capacity to solve implementation challenges. Excellent team player and ability to work with diverse national and county governments, development partners, local implementing partners and community based organizations to meet project deliverables in a timely manner

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