Country Project Lead

Role: Country Project Lead

Reports to: Executive Advisor Programs, with dotted line to Country Director

Location: Kenya

About Living Goods:

We’re on a mission to ensure no woman or child dies from easily preventable diseases. To bring high-quality healthcare door to door, we’ve partnered with African governments to ensure that community health workers (CHWs) have the tools, support, and knowledge they need to save lives. We focus on ensuring CHWs are treated as essential health workers who should be digitized, equipped, supervised, and compensated—so they can make the greatest impact—and harness community-level data to transform health systems. We have supported over 12,000 CHWs, impacting more than 6 million people across Kenya, Uganda, and Burkina Faso.

About the Project:

This is a multi-country, donor-funded initiative delivered through a consortium of partners, focused on strengthening community health systems and advancing the use of data and digital solutions to improve service delivery. The project will support governments to enhance performance management approaches, build workforce capabilities, and drive more effective, scalable, and sustainable health outcomes across the region.

The Opportunity:

The Country Project Lead (Kenya) will serve as the overall lead and coordinator for the donor funded project across Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and Burkina Faso, with primary accountability anchored in Kenya. The role will provide end-to-end leadership for the full lifecycle of the grant, ensuring effective project planning, execution, monitoring, reporting, and close-out in line with donor requirements and Living Goods (LG) policies. Working in close collaboration with Country Leads, Program Support functions, Grants and Compliance, and Business Development teams, the Country Project Lead will drive high-quality grant implementation and management. This includes ensuring timely and accurate donor reporting, strengthening internal capacity on grant management and reporting, and providing oversight on compliance, deliverables, and financial stewardship. The role will ensure the project is delivered on time, on budget, and on scope, while fully adhering to donor compliance standards and LG policies from project inception through close-out.

At the Kenya country level, the Country Project Lead will provide overall project leadership and serve as the primary point of contact for external engagement with government counterparts, consortium partners, and other key stakeholders. The role will oversee implementation of Living Goods’ priority focus areas under the grant, including the deployment of digital solutions and the data-driven performance management approaches that enable continuous capability improvement, enhance CHW effectiveness, and contribute to dignified, and fulfilling work for Community Health Workers.

The Country Project Lead will represent Living Goods in high-level coordination forums, partnerships, and consortium engagements, ensuring strong alignment, visibility, and effective collaboration across all stakeholders involved in the project.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership & Project Direction (Regional)

• Provide overall strategic leadership for the project across Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and Burkina Faso, ensuring alignment with the donor objectives, Living Goods’ strategy, and country-specific priorities.
• Lead coordination across Living Goods cross-functional teams (Programs, Digital Health, PS&E, Grants & Compliance, Finance, and Business Development) and consortium partners to ensure cohesive and integrated project delivery.
• Guide the development, alignment, and periodic review of country-level strategies to ensure coherence with the overall regional project vision and results framework.
• Ensure the project remains responsive to evolving external contexts, policy shifts, and implementation realities across countries, recommending timely strategic pivots in collaboration with the Senior Director, Upskilling & Performance Management.

Country-Level Strategy & Leadership (Kenya-Specific)

• Serve as the overall Country Project Lead for Kenya, providing leadership for in-country project implementation in close collaboration with the Living Goods Country Director, government counterparts, and consortium partners.
• Lead the co-creation of the Kenya country strategy and implementation approach, ensuring strong alignment with national priorities and government digital and performance management agendas.
• Develop and oversee annual workplans, budgets, and delivery milestones for Kenya, ensuring alignment with regional objectives and donor commitments.
• Define and track clear deliverables and performance milestones for the Kenya project, ensuring accountability and results orientation at all levels of implementation.

Project Management & Implementation Oversight (Regional & Kenya)

• Oversee effective end-to-end implementation of project activities across all participating countries, with a particular focus on digital solutions, and performance management systems.
• Ensure high-quality execution through structured planning, risk management, and proactive problem solving, integrating best practices and lessons learned across countries.
• Monitor project performance against agreed indicators and milestones, initiating timely corrective actions to address implementation bottlenecks or underperformance.
• Ensure project teams are appropriately staffed, skilled, and supported; identify capacity gaps and coordinate with relevant functions to address them.
• Foster a culture of performance excellence, accountability, and continuous learning across country teams and consortium partners.
• Ensure systematic documentation, synthesis, and dissemination of project learnings, innovations, and best practices to inform scale-up and sector influence.

External Engagement, Partnerships & Representation (Regional & Kenya)

• Represent Living Goods and the project in high-level engagements with governments, consortium partners, donors, and other key stakeholders at national and regional levels.
• Build, manage, and strengthen strategic relationships with consortium members, ensuring effective collaboration, role clarity, and shared accountability for results.
• Proactively position and brand Living Goods as a credible technical partner and leader in digital health, CHW upskilling, and performance management.
• Identify emerging needs, partnership opportunities, and avenues for influence that advance project goals and Living Goods’ strategic positioning.
• Ensure consistent, clear, and strategic communication of project progress, challenges, successes, and lessons learned in line with agreed communication and visibility plans.

Reporting, Grant Management & Compliance (Regional – All Countries)

• Provide overall oversight for grant management, reporting, and compliance across all supported countries, ensuring adherence to donor requirements and Living Goods policies.
• Ensure timely, accurate, and high-quality narrative and financial reporting to the donor, coordinating inputs from country teams and support functions.
• Manage project budgets and resources effectively, ensuring value for money, transparency, and full compliance with financial and procurement guidelines.
• Lead project risk identification, monitoring, and mitigation, escalating critical issues as needed and ensuring proactive management.
• Strengthen internal capacity on grant management, compliance, and reporting through coaching, guidance, and structured support to country teams.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, public health, business administration, Information Technology, Project Management, or a related field. A master’s degree in related field is preferred or equivalent.
• Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP) or similar certification is desirable
• At least 15 years' work experience in the health sector programmes (Community Health is preferred) in senior leadership positions with at least 7 of which must be at a Strategic level in project management, and digital transformation or digital health.
• Proven track record of leading/managing complex projects, especially those including digital initiatives.
• Experience in the non-profit sector or international development with restricted grants is a must.

Skills and Competencies

• Strong leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Passion for digital health and performance management
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a multicultural environment with security challenges.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and initiative.
• Fluency in English is mandatory. Ability to communicate in French will be desirable
• Proficiency in digital tools and performance management systems.
• Strategic thinker with broad ecosystem thinking.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrable experience in influencing government and stakeholders to drive change.
• Conversant with the oversight of restricted funding.

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.

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