Living Goods Innovation Project Manager Jobs in Kenya

We’ve created a dedicated team to provide catalytic leadership. The Innovations team will work closely with the country teams to lead the innovation agenda. One arm of the team will focus on radical innovation to transform community health – called LGX.



Another arm runs the Innovation Network, a Gates-funded incubation lab that tests community health technologies. The third arm of team is the Innovation Experiment Program. Led by the Senior Manager, Global Innovation, this arm will lead programmatic, financing and technology innovations. This is where you sit.

Responsibilities

  • Design experiments – You will develop experiments and workplans for new programs, technologies and processes- that can improve efficiency and health impact.
  • Manage experiments – You will coordinate experiments to test new programs, technologies, and processes. You will work with field teams, partners, and other departments. You will draw insights, identify challenges, and make adjustments needed to ensure success.
  • Contribute to the idea pipeline – collaborate with colleagues to generate ideas that will make the biggest difference, collating ideas top down, bottom up including input from clients and Community Health Workers.
  • Manage your team – You will guide and motivate the Innovation Coordinator and Innovation Analyst. Ensure that you work as a team to deliver experiments against the approved design plan, overcome challenges, and monitor and report frequently against success criteria.
  • Share lessons learned - Share widely what we learn (successes and failures), helping not just Living Goods but also the field of community health, ministries of health, and other community health organizations all around the world


    Your background


  • Project management skills. You have a bachelor’s degree and 4+ years experience managing projects in emerging markets. You like to get things done in a structured, methodical way.
  • You are
    driven to use data to find solutions and inform decision-making.
    Passion for community health. Ideally, you have experience working in public health or health technologies.
  • If not, you are steadfastly committed to improving health of low income people globally.
    Curiosity.
  • You wonder a lot. You love to day- dream about solutions to problems. You are good at conceptualizing.
  • You like to design things. You read a lot and know what is happening around the world, and new ideas in difference contexts spark your creative juices.
  • Collaborative. You know how to motivate people to think differently and to help others set priorities and work towards goals.
  • Strategic. You are a quick thinker, laser focused and clear decision maker. You have a strong interest in private-sector approaches to development and a proven ability to produce results.
  • Lives our values. You can thrive in our culture – you can demonstrate inclusion, integrity, innovation, quick footedness, collaboration, and accountability.

    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.

    How to apply

    Interested candidates should apply online by 30th June, 2018

    For more information and job application details, see; Living Goods Innovation Project Manager Jobs in Kenya

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