Chief of Party- USAID Kenya Digital Health Ecosystem Activity at PATH

2 months ago

Nairobi, Kenya PATH Full time

PATH is an international organization that drives transformative innovation to save lives and improve health, especially among women and children. We accelerate innovation across five platforms-vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, devices, and system and service innovations-that harness our entrepreneurial insight, scientific and public health expertise, and passion for health equity.
Summary


PATH Kenya is seeking a Chief of Party (COP) for an anticipated 5-year USAID-funded Kenya Digital Health Ecosystem project. The project will aim to improve the availability and delivery of quality of healthcare services through integrated and comprehensive digital health platform in Kenya. The project will focus on three main components namely strengthening digital health governance, strengthening interoperability and expansion of existing health information system to support health care delivery, and lastly forging and strengthening strategic partnership for sustainability of digital health investments. This comprehensive sector-wide health information ecosystem will help to achieve health systems outcomes of equity, quality, and resources optimization.
The COP will accountable for overall delivery of the project objectives including provision of strategic and technical leadership to project implementation team, forging and managing relationship with varied stakeholders' groups including USAID, Directorate of Policy, Digital Health, and Innovations at the Ministry of Health, technical and implementing partners.  This person is expected to kick start the project in a timely manner and implement appropriate adjustments to ensure the project maintains its critical path and meets the intended contractual objectives. This person will be the key Project liaison between PATH Kenya, MOH, USAID local mission. Other internal PATH Kenya teams and all other counterparts and implementing partners involved with the project.

Reporting And Supervision

The Chief of Party will report to the PATH Kenya Country Director and may have matrixed reporting lines. S/he is expected to work closely with other Digital Health leadership teams.

Responsibilities:

Provide overall technical and strategic leadership and ensure quality of the project, ensuring the achievement of all project deliverables and targets in a timely manner.
Provide management leadership (programmatic, financial, and administrative) for the project ensuring full alignment with national and international standards and USAID requirements.
Represent PATH Kenya, build and maintain excellent, productive relationships with USAID, project partners and national government counterparts (e.g., ministries of health and regional health bureaus) and other relevant stakeholders.
Provide vision, overall leadership, and technical guidance to the project staff.
Exercise sound financial management skills including effective project spending.
Uphold the standards of PATH Kenya to lead a high-performing team; ensure strict compliance to USAID and PATH Kenya policies, regulations, and internal controls.
Identify obstacles and risks related to implementation in a timely manner and implement strategies to overcome them.
Lead collaboration and network development activities with national, regional, and global partners as appropriate and expected for the delivery of the Project.
Lead development of project strategy as necessary.

Required Skills and Experience: 

Minimum of a master’s degree in public health, public administration, public policy, international development, information technology, or a related field;
A minimum of 12 years’ or more of progressively responsible international work experience implementing digital health/HIS project with demonstrated strong management and coordinating skills.
At least 12 years of experience implementing USAID donor funded projects with at least 5 of those years in a senior manager role
A minimum of 10 years’ experience successfully leading international development projects such as health information systems development and implementation, digital health strategy and roadmaps development and implementation, eHealth architecture development and interoperability services, digital health infrastructure development, of increasing scope and complexity.
A minimum of 10 years of professional experience in the health informatics fields with proven successful implementation of this project.
Demonstrated competency in leading geographically dispersed teams.
Demonstrated competency in management, leadership, decision making, and diplomacy;
Experience working with Kenya government preferred.
Demonstrated success in leading organizations and people with diverse backgrounds and skill sets to achieve results;
Demonstrated ability to liaise with and maintain effective working relations with senior host government personnel, international organizations, NGOs, civil society, and U.S. Government Agencies;
Full professional proficiency in English with excellent oral and written communication skills.

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