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Senior Communication and Knowledge Manager
JOB PURPOSE
Amref Health Africa is seeking an experienced professional to provide overall strategic and technical leadership, capacity building and TA in developing and implementing communications and knowledge products strategies to increase the directorate’s and organization’s visibility. The candidate will work under the supervision of the Senior Director, Health System Strengthening and in close collaboration with the pillar directors and the HSS team.
Primary Responsibilities
Program Management
- Providing strategic leadership and overarching management of HSS directorate knowledge management objective by leading communication and knowledge management workstreams.
- Advising and collaborating with HSS staff to identify key stakeholders in implementing countries, and projects, assessing challenges and building capacity to enable and empower them to implement evidence-based interventions to increase the knowledge exchange around health initiatives.
- Working with HSS pillar directors and teams to assess knowledge management and mobilization needs of the directorate to increase the sharing and uptake of knowledge, learning and tools in support various programs.
- Influencing and promoting mechanisms to increase the use of evidence for action in the public-private space for the health system strengthening, across disciplines and countries while promoting communication in knowledge products translation.
- Developing and reviewing case studies, policy and advocacy briefs, blogs, and/or other documents for dissemination on a variety of media platforms, working closely with the HSS team
- In collaboration with Amref’s M&E team and other country teams developing and executing a communications and knowledge management workplan and approaches
- Ensure monitoring, evaluation, and research findings, lessons learned, and best practices are documented, stored, and shared within the HSS directorate, relevant stakeholders and Amref Health Africa at large
- Overseeing the organization and planning of events and webinars to share project knowledge and learnings, working with Amref’s dissemination and learning platforms and other forums, and engaging a diverse set of partners and a wide audience
- Identify and propose knowledge-sharing strategies and tools, including categories and types of knowledge products, their sources of origin, target audience, and dissemination channels
- Providing overall leadership to the communication and knowledge management portfolio and line managing direct reports including supporting work plan development and performance management to ensure team synergy and high-quality technical project delivery in time and budget
- Develop and maintain communication materials that are tailored to the needs and interests of different stakeholder groups
- Facilitate building capacity for knowledge management and use
Business Development
- Identify and develop new opportunities for communication and knowledge management partnerships and collaborations.
- Negotiate and secure funding for communication and knowledge management initiatives.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Develop and implement strategies to engage a wide range of stakeholders, including government officials, donors, media outlets, community leaders, and project beneficiaries.
- Facilitate dialogue and collaboration among stakeholders to ensure alignment and ownership of communication and knowledge management initiatives.
- Build relationships and connections with key stakeholders, including government officials, donors, media outlets, and community leaders utilizing various channels for information sharing, learning, to influence and help shape and advance the communications agenda
- Working with directorate and project staff conduct regular stakeholder engagement activities, such as workshops, meetings, and surveys, to gather feedback and inform program improvement while promoting communication and knowledge management best practices.
- Create relationships and connections utilizing various Review reports and external stakeholder engagement materials and collaborate with MEL to organize learning and knowledge sharing events facilitate knowledge sharing and engagement with a broad range of internal and external audiences
- Liaise with the project team to map high level advocacy elements that must be considered in the Communications and Engagement Plan.
- Provide support in the mobilization and meetings with key stakeholders
Special Projects and Initiatives
- Support leadership in new, high priority efforts as opportunities arise in PHC and related areas
- Perform other relevant HSS interventions in coordination with the supervisor
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Education
- Master’s degree in journalism, Communications, international development, marketing, public relations, Public Health, Social Sciences, or a related field
- Bachelor’s degree in journalism, Communications, Public Health, Social Sciences, or a related field
- Training in any of the following areas is an added advantage: health communications, public health and health economics.
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Professional Qualification and Competencies
- The ideal candidate will have ten (10) years dedicated experience with progressive responsibilities in communications and knowledge management, 3 of which must be in international sector development working on health
- Possess strong communication skills and fluent in written and verbal English and ability to effectively communicate (orally and in writing) with diverse stakeholders, functions, cultures and levels in the organization
- Possess excellent writing and presentation skills for multiple audiences, (technical and non-technical) particularly informed, non-expert audiences.
- Proven experience in developing and implementing communication and content strategies
- Competent in digital platforms and devices and traditional office applications (Word, Power point and excel);
- Experience maintaining an electronic document repository and/or with using webbased tools to maintain collaboration spaces
- Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work across cultures,
- Strong understanding of communication and knowledge management principles and practices and in innovative communication technologies including social media
- Technically sound in DEIB-focused approaches
- Candidates with fluency in French is desirable.
Relevant Certifications
- Certified Communication Professional (CCP)
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
Compensation
- This role attracts competitive benefits commensurate with experience
Primary Health Care Director
JOB PURPOSE
Amref Health Africa is seeking an experienced professional to provide PHCs overall strategic and technical leadership on policy analysis, generation and translation, while building the team’s capacity on policy issues and network with relevant decision makers at national, regional and global level. Under the supervision of Senior Director, Health System Strengthening and in collaboration with Directors; Health Financing, Reproductive Maternal Child and Adolescent Health [RMNCAH], and Social Determinants of Health (SDoH), the incumbent will support partner countries in direct guidance and technical oversight of PHC.
The PHC Director will be responsible for supporting a portfolio of work focused on understanding PHC system efficiency, the contribution of PHC systems to health outcomes, as well as deeper analyses of specific PHC system drivers that ultimately create a compelling product that will support policy makers, funders, advocates and researchers to improve the quality of global health decisions.
Primary Responsibilities
Strategic Program Management
- Provide technical expertise on how to strengthen implementation of the Primary Health Care model in the various countries by overseeing national and sub-national technical support to partner countries.
- Work closely with HSS pillar directorates in building and ecosystem of partners in support of PHC for Universal Health coverage.
- Support partner countries and Amref’s Country Offices (COs) in the costing of their PHC packages and advocacy to increase domestic funding for PHC.
- Work closely with stakeholders in driving conceptual and strategic project alignment, overall workplan execution, and deep dives on specific policies while monitoring program budgets, tracking expenditures and identifying potential savings.
- Advise on best practices regarding Universal Health coverage (UHC) and PHC to ensure the highest level of quality for the delivery of health care in Amref’s COs and partner countries.
- Oversee the development and implementation of all PHC programs, ensuring they are aligned with strategic objectives and donor requirements by technically supporting Amref’s COs in the region to develop the relevant analyses aligning with their national context.
- In collaboration with health economists, develop package of guidance, tools and terms of reference for defining and estimating the costs of PHC packages, measuring PHC progress and financing, ensuring alignment with Amref’s PHC frameworks, PHC global guidance frameworks and comparability across countries/regions.
- Support Amref’s COs to prepare, present and summarize PHC financing findings for advocacy and use at country, regional and global level.
- Contribute to cross-country analyses of findings in support of emerging issues in health while building an ecosystem of technical partners working in priority countries and advocacy partners for PHC services.
- Advocate, during strategic discussions with Ministries of Finance and Health and other key decision makers and stakeholders, including Amref’s COs, to influence agenda setting in favor of PHC.
- Participate in regular weekly HSS meetings, Health section quarterly reviews, and region wide activities (e.g. country office annual reviews and regional office planning).
Business Development
- Identify new PHC programs and funding opportunities through networking, meetings and other channels.
- Initiate resource mobilization concepts for the PHC programs and participate in proposal writing for potential PHC grants.
- Develop and implement strategies to increase Amref and HSS’s PHC programmes visibility and impact.
- Negotiate with donors to secure funding for PHC programs and manage PHC grant proposals and contracts.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Engage and build relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including government officials, donors, community leaders, and healthcare providers.
- Collaborate with WHO, BMGF, World Bank/GFF, USAID and other UN agencies and implementing partners to build an ecosystem of partners who support country-level technical assistance on public financing: costing, financial and fiscal space analysis, budgeting and design of financing for PHC.
- Build consensus on PHC priorities and strategies and advocate for PHC policies and programs at the national and regional levels.
- Develop and maintain communication materials for PHC stakeholders and support partnership development.
Special Projects and Initiatives
- Support the leadership in new, high priority efforts as opportunities arise in PHC and related areas.
- Perform other relevant HSS interventions in coordination with the supervisor.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Educational Qualification
- Master’s degree in public health, Social Sciences, International Development, Health System Strengthening or a related field.
Professional Qualification and Competencies
- Minimum ten (10) years of experience working in health and technical knowledge of policy, advocacy and governance.
- Experience in global public health, international development and up-to-date knowledge in PHC.
- A minimum of ten (10) years of experience at the national and international level in a relevant discipline, such as international public health or global development, is required.
- Proven leadership in developing strategies, conceptualizing, planning, and implementing projects or programs.
- Demonstrated ability in building partnerships with government health agencies, donors, and other key stakeholders.
- Ability to be an effective agent of change in the partner countries advocating for evidence-based program and policy changes that enhances primary health care.
- High level of organization, attention to detail, professionalism, and reliability with the ability to prioritize and manage work in a fast-paced environment.
- Technically sound in DEIB-focused approaches.
- Highly collaborative and accessible leadership style, with experience managing teams.
- Enthusiastic about working in an open environment with multicultural peers and staff, including global, regional, national, local, public, and private sectors.
- Strong communication and relationship building skills with diverse stakeholder both the national, regional and the global health community, particularly among donors, multilateral partners, and implementers .
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including demonstrated ability to effectively facilitate high-level meetings; prepare clear and concise briefs, presentations, and reports.
- Strong interpersonal and capacity-building skills, including training, mentoring, and coaching skills.
- Good knowledge of theoretical and practical modeling is required with the ability to make data-driven and analytical decisions.
- Preference will be given to candidates who have knowledge and experience of health economics, Public Financial Management in Health and analyses of global health financing issues and trends.
- Experience with Health Systems Strengthening applications and programs and in strengthening public health financing and governance.
- Fluency in French would be an added advantage.
Compensation
This role offers competitive benefits commensurate with experience.
Data Scientist/Analyst
JOB PURPOSE
Amref Health Africa is seeking a highly skilled Data Scientist/Analyst to join the Health System Strengthening Directorate. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in leveraging data to enhance decision-making, drive programmatic impact, and contribute to the overall goal of improving health outcomes in Africa by making sense of existing data, developing a system of data collection and analysis and presenting the data to key stakeholders for utilization
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Program Management:
- Lead in the development of an HSS Data Management and information use blueprint and Implementation Plan with representation of all the four strategic pillars within the HSS directorate
- Continuously reviewing and improving data management processes, analytical methodologies, and reporting mechanisms to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of program management with the Directorate
- Contribute to the development and implementation of performance monitoring frameworks to track and assess the effectiveness of health system strengthening programs within the Health Systems Strengthening Directorate
- Contribute to the Directorate’s evidence-based work planning and budgeting efforts
- Lead in the review and adaptation of essential data-related policies, Minimum operating Standards (MoSs), and Standard Operating Procedures (SoPs)
Work closely with the Health System Strengthening team and Amref country offices to identify opportunities for data-driven interventions to improve health systems.
The specific roles under program management include: –
- Maintain the data for Health System Strengthening Directorate:
- Maintain the data dashboards of the HSS data
- Develop data collection systems, data analytics and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality ensuring the database is updated as per schedule.
- Acquire data from primary or secondary data sources and maintain the data, identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets.
- Work with management to prioritize business and information needs of the HSS directorate.
- Locate and define new data process improvement opportunities while providing technical support in data collection, compilation and quality control.
- Regularly review, analyze and evaluate business and user needs and experience to improve the design, development and implementation of the database.
- Collect and analyze feedback from users to assess the quality, relevance and usefulness of the portal and the data in particular.
- Work with Amref’s IT team in capturing bugs and any technical issues in the issue tracker and follow up with the developers.
- Provide database liaison support:
- Serve as the data focal point for HSS In order to consolidate and communicate information regarding data updates and other developments.
- Work closely with Amref’s IT team to coordinate the database and data requirements.
- Communicate regularly with IT team to provide updates on database maintenance, support, and other relevant issues.
- Develop custom data visualizations and dashboards:
- Produce customized data visualizations to support HSS data and impact stories.
- Create custom dashboards and interactive data features.
- In collaboration with Amref’s M & E department Develop and manage the data dashboards for HSS to support Health Financing, Reproductive Maternal Child and Adolescent Health [RMNCAH], Primary Health Care (PHC), and Social Determinants of Health (SDoH)
- Support data hub web development and content:
- Build custom sub web pages on the HSS data and work with the IT team in updating web content as required,
Evidence Generation and Translation:
- Conduct comprehensive analysis of health-related data to identify trends, patterns, and insights that can inform programmatic decisions and strategies within the HSS directorate and Amref in general.
- Utilize statistical modeling and forecasting techniques to predict future health system needs, resource allocation, and potential outcomes of program interventions.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of rigorous evaluation studies to assess the impact and effectiveness of health system strengthening initiatives. This involves developing evaluation frameworks, coordinating data collection and analysis, and reporting findings.
- Ensure the accuracy, completeness, and reliability of data by implementing data quality assurance processes, data cleaning techniques, and validation checks.
- Staying updated with the latest advancements in health system strengthening and data science, exploring innovative approaches, and contributing to research publications and conferences.
- Ensuring compliance with data governance policies and privacy regulations, such as HIPAA, GDPR, and applicable local laws, to protect sensitive health data.
- Develop and maintain data pipelines for efficient data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) processes.
- Create visually appealing and informative data visualizations to effectivel communicate complex information to technical and non-technical stakeholders. This includes building interactive dashboards, charts, and graphs to support decisionmaking
- Guide HSS directorate staffs and Amref country offices on the utilization of emerging evidence generated from data extraction and analysis.
Business Development
- Support proposal development to secure funding and business for HSS directorate and Amref Health Africa at large
Stakeholder Engagement & Capacity Building
- Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including healthcare professionals, donors, policymakers, and program managers, to understand their data needs and provide insights that support evidence-based decision-making.
- Provide technical support and training to Amref’s staff on data-related tools, methodologies, and best practices and promoting a data-driven culture.
- Work with Amref’s COs and directorates in building a data utilization for decision making COP
- Undertake related duties as required.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
The successful candidate will have a strong technical background in data management, analysis, synthesis, and modelling. The incumbent will contribute to the implementation of the directorates research vision to maximise the value of data and information systems as strategic research assets ensuring relevance, accessibility and usability of health system data and analysis.
Education Qualification
- Master’s in Data Science and a data science certification.
- Master’s in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, actuarial science, or a related field and a data science certification.
- PhD is an added advantage
Professional Qualification and Competencies
- Minimum five (5) years of experience in technical knowledge of managing and making sense of data to enhance decision-making, and drive programmatic impact
- Programming Skills – knowledge of statistical programming languages like R, Python, and database query languages like SQL, Hive, Pig is desirable. Familiarity with Scala, Java, or C++ is an added advantage.
- Statistics – Good applied statistical skills, including knowledge of statistical tests,
- distributions, regression, maximum likelihood estimators, etc. Proficiency in statistics is essential for data-driven companies.
- Machine Learning – good knowledge of machine learning methods like k-Nearest Neighbors, Naive Bayes, SVM, Decision Forests.
- Strong Math Skills (Multivariable Calculus and Linear Algebra) – understanding the fundamentals of Multivariable Calculus and Linear Algebra is important as they form the basis of a lot of predictive performance or algorithm optimization techniques.
- Data Wrangling – proficiency in handling imperfections in data is an important aspect of a data scientist job description.
- Experience with Data Visualization Tools like matplotlib, ggplot, d3.js., Tableau that help to visually encode data
- Strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills in extracting insights from complex datasets, identify patterns and make data-driven decisions
- Familiarity with the healthcare industry, especially in relation to health systems strengthening is highly desirable
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to present complex information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Good understanding of ethical considerations related to data privacy, security, and data confidentiality. This includes familiarity with relevant regulations such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is highly desirable
- Strong interpersonal and capacity-building skills, including training, mentoring, and coaching skills.
- Technically sound in DEIB-focused approaches
- Demonstrate ability to build networks and with various stakeholders
- Fluency in French would be an additional advantage.
Key Performance Indicators for this role include: –
- Up to date and accurate data dashboards.
- Maintained and updated country fact sheets
- Effective communication with IT directorate and related departments.
- Quality data visualizations are produced based on up-to-date design and technology.
- Custom pages are built using modular templates and modifications are made as needed.
- Custom dashboards are built and maintained to support specific data initiatives.
Compensation
- This role attracts competitive benefits commensurate with experience
Senior Health Economist
JOB PURPOSE
Amref Health Africa is seeking a highly motivated and dynamic person in the deepening of the health financing functions and their interactions in strengthening health systems in Africa. The successful candidate should have strong experience in providing strategic and technical advice across various stakeholders including governments, development partners, implementing partners and internal directorates within the context of health economics and health financing. As a Senior Health Economist, the candidate will provide thought leadership to Amref Health Africa and its partners in the areas of revenue mobilization, pooling, purchasing, and benefit entitlement.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Evidence Generation and Translation:
- Develop and design different economic analyses [at micro and macro-economic] levels to include fiscal space analysis in the health sector,
- Reviewing policies and guidelines related to medication reviews in Swedish healthcare regions.
- Lead, coordinate, monitor, and roll out health economic analysis [ to include health technology assessment [HTA], technical and allocative efficiency, economic evaluation, fiscal space analysis among others that generate evidence to inform decision making for strengthening health systems]
- Conducting econometric analysis using large register-based datasets.
- Develop and support the translation of evidence through high-quality learning products to include manuscripts for peer review papers, policy briefs and other forms of publications that target high-level decision-makers and stakeholders in the health sector,
- Use findings from analytics [economic and impact] through technical reports for use by stakeholders in health systems including donors, governments, and health programs
- Performing health economic evaluations. and support the institutionalization of reforms on health financing and health systems within government systems
- Participate and represent Amref Health Africa in policy dialogue forums to disseminate evidence generated on health financing and health systems,
- Performing health economic evaluations while identifying interrelationships between health financing and other pillars within the HSS directorate to build the synergy and coherence needed for efficient health systems.
- Identify and implement appropriate analytic approaches and methodologies to improve on current processes
- Design and implement sound tools for principal health care drivers, by market segment and/or by provider/payer, referral patterns, and reimbursement rates
- Develop, evaluate, and provide consultative analytics to support negotiations for valuebased arrangements
- Design and implement processes (SQL) to efficiently measure, monitor, and forecast revenue from payers.
- Determine credibility and usability of data prior to delivery of analytic results
- Build and utilize final report results in Tableau environment
- Reviewing policies and guidelines related to medication reviews in Swedish healthcare regions.
- Conducting econometric analysis using large register-based datasets
Program Management:
- Lead development and technical oversight of a strategic portfolio of health systems financing and economics work for the directorate that links with and leverages relevant global agendas
- Support Amref Health Africa and HSS directorate in building an ecosystem of partners who support country-level technical assistance on health economics: costing, fiscal space analysis, budgeting and design of financing for PHC
- Coordinate and foster coherence across stakeholders and activities to increase capacity, evidence-based approaches and systemic change in health financing
- Provide support on the delivery of technical assistance framework, in close working relationships with the different pillars within HSS and Amref Health Africa while supporting Support technical leadership to define and grow health financing, health systems, and priorities,
- Participate in building knowledge and thought leadership in health financing and health systems thus contributing to increased Amref Health Africa visibility in this area,
- Support in the establishment of sustainable partnerships with governments, and regional blocks to influence health financing priorities, resolve challenges and barriers to strengthen sustainable health systems
- Providing national health systems financing and technical advice and support costing and economic evaluation work in a health economics and financing related field
- Build solid relationships within the organization including financial, actuarial, local market contracting, and clinical operations areas
- Encourage and promote idea generation in support of revenue generation strategies and other innovative solutions
- Support in the development of HSS work plans and budgets
Business Development-
- Support identification and proposal development to secure funding and business for HSS directorate and Amref Health Africa at large
- Negotiating and partnering with government, research and / or non-government entities in health-related field particularly in a development setting
Stakeholder engagement & Capacity building
- Beyond the formal engagement that Amref Health Africa has developed the successful candidate will foster relationships with key stakeholders in the health sector [Donors, implementing partners, learning institutions, and governments]
- Support the development of essential policy documents, guidelines, job aids, and toolkits
- Leverage on networks and existing regional convenings and platforms and support in building capacity on health financing to Amref Health Africa and health stakeholders.
Special Projects and Initiatives
- Support leadership in new, high priority efforts as opportunities arise in PHC and related areas
- Perform other relevant HSS interventions in coordination with the supervisor
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
The successful candidate will have a strong technical background in health economics and health systems and solid experience in delivering technical assistance. The candidate should be highly motivated, a creative problem solver, and have strong analytical, communication, process facilitation, and collaboration skills.
Education and Professional Qualification
- Master’s degree in public health, health economics, social policy, public policy or any other relevant field
Professional Qualification and Competencies
- Minimum ten (10) years of experience and technical knowledge of policy, advocacy, health system financing and governance,
- Prior experience in health economic modelling projects and/or health financing, particularly delivery of TA to strengthen public financing management, health financing capacity building, etc.
- Demonstrated experience of having built cost effectiveness and/or budget impact models from concept to conclusion including quality control, review, and critique of models
- Proven leadership in developing strategies, conceptualizing, planning, and implementing projects or programs.
- Track record in building partnerships with government health agencies, donors, and other key stakeholders,
- High level of organization, attention to detail, professionalism, and reliability. Ability to prioritize and manage work in a fast-paced environment and be responsive to internal offices/units and partners.
- Highly collaborative and accessible leadership style, with experience managing teams. enthusiastic about working in an open environment with multicultural peers and staff, including global, regional, national, local, public, and private sectors.
- Advanced level of proficiency developing economic models using Excel® and visual basic® for applications (VBA); experience developing economic models using R is preferred but not essential
- Experience in global evidence generation including cost-effectiveness and/or budget impact models
- Excellent research, communication and coordination skills, an acute eye for detail, together with a positive disposition will all be essential to enable you to help influence change at a senior level across the directorate
- Strong interpersonal and capacity-building skills, including training, mentoring, and coaching skills.
- Technically sound in health financing and health systems and ability to build and work with networks
- Technically sound in DEIB-focused approaches
- Fluency in French would be an additional advantage
Compensation
- This role attracts competitive benefits commensurate with experience
Medical/Social Anthropologist
JOB PURPOSE
Amref Health Africa is seeking an experienced professional who will be responsible for providing expertise and guidance on social determinants of health (SDoH) to enhance health initiatives and interventions for improved health outcomes, including delivery of TA, evidence generation and translation to grow the SDoH portfolio. The successful candidate should have global exposure in any of the following areas of social determinants in health: culture and environment, syndemics and health disparities, modern and traditional/indigenous health climate change, human trafficking, violence, migration and natural/human made disasters. Working closely with teams across Amref and the Health System Strengthening Directorate, the successful candidate will provide specialized strategic, technical and situational anthropological advice, overall strategic leadership in conducting research and evaluations, collecting and interpreting medical data in liaison with relevant stakeholders.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Program Management:
- Promote measurable anthropological programming which contributes to achieving suitable and concrete results through communications, engagement and the empowerment and participation of stakeholders, communities, implementing partners and government counterparts.
- Provide support on the delivery of technical assistance framework, in the various social health determinant areas working closely with the different pillars within HSS and Amref Health Africa.
- Provide guidance and advisory to Amref Health Africa and the HSS directorate by studying and understanding the health seeking behavior and social determinants of health for the target populations and propose and build interventions of interest.
- Propose and map groups of individuals that are vulnerable to future outbreaks based on socio- economic, belief and cultural practices, perceptions, attitudes and knowledge level for risk management purposes and future interventions.
- Support Amref’s technical leadership to define and grow SDoH priorities at the intersection with health while building knowledge and thought leadership in SDoH and health systems thus contributing to increased Amref Health Africa visibility in this area.
- Support in the establishment of sustainable partnerships with governments, and regional blocks to influence SDoH priorities, resolve challenges and barriers with a view to strengthen approaches in addressing SDoH.
- Identify interrelationships between SDoH and other pillars within the HSS directorate to build the synergy and coherence needed for efficient health systems through development of essential policy documents, guidelines, job aids, and toolkits
- Support in the development of HSS work plans and budgets.
Evidence Generation and Translation
- Develop and support the generation of evidence through high-quality learning products to include manuscripts for peer review papers while supporting analytics to identify, consider, and propose reforms to strengthen multi-sectoral collaboration towards a unified approach in addressing SDoH.
- Lead and provide guidance to the HSS directorate and the Amref Health Africa’s country offices on applying an SDoH lens to their work.
- Develop and support the translation of evidence through high-quality learning products to include policy briefs and other forms of publications that target high-level decision-makers and stakeholders in the health sector.
- Support the institutionalization of reforms on SDoH within government systems; national and sub-national.
- Participate and represent Amref Health Africa in policy dialogue forums to disseminate evidence generated on health financing and health systems.
Business Development
- Support proposal development to secure funding and business for the HSS directorate and Amref Health Africa at large.
Stakeholder Engagement & Capacity Building
- Support in building capacity on social determinants of health at the intersection with health to Amref Health Africa and key stakeholders.
- Foster relationships with key stakeholders in the health sector [Donors, implementing partners, learning institutions, and governments and establish and strengthen strategic partnerships with regional and international stakeholders.
Special Projects and Initiatives
- Support leadership in new, high priority efforts as opportunities arise in PHC and related areas
- Perform other relevant HSS interventions in coordination with the supervisor
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- The successful candidate will have a strong technical background in medical/sociology anthropolgy as well as solid experience in the delivery of technical assistance. The candidate should be highly motivated, a creative problem solver, and have strong analytical, communication, process facilitation, and collaboration skills.
Education and Professional Qualification
- An advanced degree in medical anthropology, socio anthropology, sociology, public health social sciences or any other relevant field.
Professional Qualification and Competencies
- Minimum ten (10) years of experience working in global development and technical knowledge of policy, advocacy and governance in Social Determinants of Health (SDoH).
- Proven skills in social research methods including systematic review of evidence, qualitative operational research skills and translation of evidence into practice.
- Proven leadership in developing strategies, conceptualizing, planning, and implementing projects or programs.
- Experience in research, conceptualizing and technical support and leading stakeholder engagement in the Social Determinants of Health areas.
- Technically sound in DEIB-focused approaches.
- Experience working on the development and roll-out of cross-cutting initiatives and programmes across multi-level organizations and stakeholder groups
- Ability to develop workplans and proposals collaboratively
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including demonstrated ability to effectively facilitate high-level meetings; prepare clear and concise briefs, presentations, and reports and translate knowledge products to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Compensation
- This role attracts competitive benefits commensurate with experience
Method of Application
Interested? Please visit our website https://amref.org/vacancies/ to make your application. You will be directed to our online portal where you will need to create an account in order for you to be able to submit your application. Your application should include a cover letter detailing why you are the best fit for this position and your CV with relevant skills and experience. Closing date will be Monday, 18 th March 2024. Only shortlisted candidates will be contactedInterested and qualified? Go to Amref Kenya on recruitment.amref.org to apply