Project Overview and Role:
In Kenya, Palladium implements the USAID-funded PROPEL Health project to improve the enabling environment for equitable and sustainable health services, supplies, and delivery systems through policy development and implementation; adequate, predictable, and sustainable health financing; enhanced government stewardship, transparency, and accountability; and use of evidence-based advocacy approaches at global, national, and subnational levels to promote best practices. It focuses on family planning/reproductive health (FP/RH), and the integration of FP/RH with HIV and maternal and child health (MCH) with a lens to enable economic empowerment, positive youth development. Our transformational technical strategy prioritizes localizing policy, advocacy, financing, and governance (PAFG) leadership, technical assistance, and capacity development to enhance resilience and sustainability. The project actively supports USAID’s localization strategy by drawing on local actors to co-create our country designs and lead implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
The Senior Program Officer will contribute to the PROPEL Health Kenya country program by providing a combination of technical, logistical, and administrative support to senior technical program staff to ensure the successful implementation of project activities. The Senior Program Officer will also support other technical staff in the office who are responsible for directing other components of PROPEL Health Kenya’s work as needed.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work closely with technical staff to support the planning and organizing of meetings, workshops, and trainings related to PROPEL Health’s activities, including drafting invitation lists and letters and following up with participant RSVPs.
- Support production of technical materials, including estimating quantities for workshops, compiling info packets etc.
- 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.
- Take meeting minutes at weekly and bi-weekly team meetings and other technical meetings as required.
- Circulate these minutes to relevant staff in a timely manner and document follow up or outstanding items for subsequent meetings.
- Support project documentation by taking activity notes (notes to file), interviewing technical staff, and submitting to HQ for reporting purposes and capturing project successes.
- Initiate and coordinate inputs for bi-weekly activity trackers according to schedule and ensure team calendar is up to date. Work closely with the operations team to ensure all Ops issues are incorporated, and with the technical team/project director to ensure all program activities are accurate.
- Assist with activity planning (e.g., timelines, tasks) and provide inputs for the development of budgets for programmatic activities.
- Collaborate with finance staff on procurement and spending projections.
- Prepare creative briefs, workshop/ meeting agendas, activity reports.
- Support the project in data collection and analysis.
- Identify areas of success and support with drafting success stories and nuggets.
- Represent PROPEL Health in meetings with partners and stakeholders as requested.
- Work with the PROPEL Health Technical team to provide inputs for draft quarterly, semi-annual, and annual activity reports and success stories to showcase PROPEL Health Kenya work.
- Work with the PROPEL Health headquarters team as needed to provide updates on activity implementation and documentation of activities and results.
- Work with other PROPEL Health Kenya team members on capacity development through the design and development of PROPEL Health workshops and trainings. This may include supporting colleagues with logistical arrangements and delivery of trainings.
- Contribute to the PROPEL Health Kenya components including data collection and analysis, support to modelling processes, providing technical assistance to GOK counterparts in strategy implementation and monitoring.
- Work with senior staff and/or consultants to engage with GOK counterparts and relevant multi- sectoral technical working groups to enhance information sharing, collaboration.
Required Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in social sciences, public health, public policy, health systems or similar degree program.
- 5 years of experience providing technical assistance on HIV and other 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 sector and NGOs in the health sector.
- 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 events, workshops, 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.
Reporting and Supervision:
The Senior Program Officer reports to the Deputy Country Project Director.
Company Overview:
About Palladium – Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with governments, businesses, and investors to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. With a team of more than 3,000 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of over 35,000 experts, we help improve economies, societies and, most importantly, people’s lives.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion – Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.
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