Program Lead - Maternal Newborn and Child Health

• Lead strategy, planning, budgeting, implementation, and performance management of the Healthy Birth Initiative and contribute to broader maternal, newborn, and child health priorities across Jhpiego
• Build and manage partnerships with global partners, government, donors, professional associations, academia, and implementing partners
• Provide technical leadership in maternal and newborn health, quality improvement, and introduction of innovations, including mentoring multi-disciplinary teams
• Strengthen health systems, workforce capacity, referral networks, and data-driven decision making
• Oversee financial management, compliance, risk mitigation, and partner performance
• Lead monitoring, evaluation, learning, research, and knowledge-sharing initiatives
• Lead, supervise and mentor a multidisciplinary team of technical, programmatic, and monitoring and evaluation professionals
• Support resource mobilization and growth opportunities

Qualifications & Experience:

• Master's degree in Public Health, International Development or a related field
• Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible experience managing public health programs, including at least 5 years in a senior leadership role
• At least 5 years in maternal, newborn, and child health programming
• Demonstrated experience managing large donor-funded programs and multidisciplinary teams
• Strong experience working with regional, national and county governments in Kenya

Skills & Competencies:

• Deep familiarity with Kenya's Maternal, Newborn and Child Health landscape
• Expertise in health systems strengthening, quality improvement, resource mobilization and stakeholder engagement