Global Director Community Health Systems Strengthening

Do you want your work to matter? Do you want to use your skills to make a difference, not just a living? Do you want to improve millions of lives, including your own?

Living Goods works to reinvent how we improve the lives of the under-served. We think big, relentlessly innovate to ensure both impact & health system strengthening.  At Living Goods, you will have the opportunity to apply your ideas and creativity at work every day.  If you work well in a dynamic collaborative environment, set high standards, and meet challenges with determination and a sense of humor, you’ll thrive here at Living Goods.

Your Charge

The Director Community Health System Strengthening leads the strategic planning, learning, and designing of approaches, methodologies, and tools for community health systems strengthening to ensure LG support makes community health systems more efficient, sustainable, and resilient. The role also works to diffuse those lessons via partnerships and advocacy for community health systems in collaboration with peer organizations.

Roles and Responsibilities

Strategic planning         

• Develop/ refine the overarching strategy for community health systems strengthening partnerships programs (named partnerships below) including frameworks, systems, processes, and best practice tools to ensure a standardized coherent approach.
• Lead the design of high-impact, evidence-based, and context-responsive partnerships programs focusing on the institutionalization of community health best practice pillars including digitalization, data-driven supportive supervision, effective remuneration, strong supply chain, and training among others. Develop clear KPIs to measure success.
• Coordinate work across core countries and new countries to support all delivery teams in designing, delivering, monitoring, and evaluating the high-impact indirect approaches and programs.
• Build/strengthen coalitions with other community health and health systems strengthening organizations/individuals, relevant funders, etc. to diffuse lessons learned and generate greater adoptions of best practices strengthening the community health system.
• Contribute to advocacy efforts and the development of proposals, related to the Helping Others programs.

Program implementation

• Partner with core countries and new countries leads to ensure partnerships’ programs deliver against set KPIs, as per negotiated co-financing arrangements, roadmaps and timelines
• Advice on partnerships course correction if not working.
• Based on learnings from both partnerships and direct operations, adapt approaches and ensure best practices are institutionalized across partnerships.
• Build and strengthen the capacity of teams delivering the partnerships to ensure a standardized, coherent approach to delivering through others.

Documentation and advocacy  

• Develop standard approaches and ways of working, evaluate them, and institutionalize them to maximize the impact of partnership programs.
• Ensure learnings from partnerships are well documented, collated, and published to influence quality implementation internally and influence policy and practice externally.
• Develop strategies to share those internally and externally to shape re-design and/or policy and/or community of practice.
• Write and publish blogs, reports, and articles on Living Goods partnerships programs and outcomes to influence policy and practice internally and externally.

People management    

• Lead global CHSS technical team and consultants to maximize support to all countries.

Skills and Competencies

• Solid experience and understanding of health systems strengthening.
• Strong strategic, analytical, systems thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to develop individual and institutional capacity.
• Strong interpersonal and facilitation skills with the ability to relate to people at all levels internally and externally.
• Engagement with various African Governments.
• Management of skilled technical teams.
• Dealing with ambiguity.
• Influencing skills.
• Policy writing.

Minimum Qualifications 

• Master’s degree with at least 13 years relevant work experience with at least 5 years Leadership/Management experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Public Health; Health Systems Strengthening; Health Leadership and Management; Public Policy and Administration; Global Health or related field.
• Professional qualifications in coaching and adult learning are an added advantage.

Compensation

A competitive salary and benefits package commensurate with experience including health insurance and annual performance bonus pay opportunity.  This is an opportunity to be your best while making lives better for those in need.