Management Sciences for Health Senior Technical Advisor (Organizational Development) Job in Kenya

Management Sciences for Health (MSH) is a nonprofit international health organization with over four decades of experience in strengthening health systems, and capacity of local institutions. 

MSH takes a comprehensive approach to improving health to achieve scalability, lasting impact, and sustainability. 

Our mission is to save lives and improve the health of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health. 

For more information please visit our website www.msh.org.

MSH seeks to recruit highly motivated and result oriented individual to join the MEASURE Evaluation Project, an USAID funded project as a Senior Technical Advisor.
 

Senior Technical Advisor – Organizational Development (OD): ID NO.13-5742
 

The Senior Technical Advisor, OD will provide leadership and organizational development technical assistance to M&E professionals and teams at the national and county levels, as well as promoting sustainability of those efforts through selected universities using our leadership, organizational development models and business planning
process.
 

S/he will serve on a core team of technical experts and work with M&E teams in local institutions to develop skills in leadership, management, systems thinking, change management, communication, decision-making, and improve planning and implementation.
 

In addition s/he will establish technical strategic direction for the leadership and OD component of the project through innovative approaches to addressing organizational challenges and opportunities in an effort to strengthen M&E systems and participate in the consultant management process, including development of scopes of work, providing quality assurance and review of deliverables.
 

The successful candidate will provide OD related technical assistance including workshop facilitation, on-site coaching and mentoring to teams of local health sector agencies to strengthen their M&E systems and practices.
 

Qualifications
 

The ideal candidate should have a minimum of a master’s level education in organizational development, public administration, management, social sciences or a related field. 

At least 7 years overall work experience with a minimum of 3 years of experience in capacity development, institutional strengthening, monitoring and evaluation.

S/he should have knowledge and experience in leadership development, management and public sector systems (preferably in health). 

S/he should have proven experience in organizational capacity development, monitoring and evaluation, experience in providing technical assistance to Public Health institutions, programs or projects in Kenya is preferred.

In addition, s/he should have excellent communication, relationship-building, negotiating and influencing skills, demonstrated leadership, and the ability to work collaboratively across technical disciplines.

Management Sciences for Health is an equal opportunity employer offering employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, and national origin, and citizenship, physical or mental handicap. 

For further detail and to apply for this position, please visit the Employment Opportunities section of our website at www.Jobs-msh.icims.com by December 14, 2012. 

If you cannot apply online or have difficulty doing so, please email an explanation of your problem to iRecruiterproblem@msh.org.
 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.