MSH Organizational Development Technical Advisor 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. 

MSH seeks to recruit highly motivated and result oriented individual to join the MEASURE Evaluation Project as a Technical Advisor.
 

Technical Advisor – Organizational Development (OD)

Ref: ID NO. 7629
 

MEASURE Evaluation - PIMA Project is a five-year associate award granted from USAID to the University of North Carolina (UNC) to strengthen the capacities of the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Kenya for evidence-based decision making at national and county levels. 

UNC has contracted with MSH to strengthen institutional systems and structures that support monitoring and evaluation (M&E) as a core driver for health service reforms.

Working closely with the Senior Technical Manager – Organizational Development, the Technical Advisor will be responsible for organizational development interventions at the subnational level and will contribute to completing deliverables under MSH’s subcontract with UNC. 

S/he will help ensure the delivery of technical activities within institutional frameworks to enable the implementation of sound M&E systems in the health sector. 

This includes assisting county-level counterparts and stakeholders in the public health sector in designing interventions to strengthen leadership and management skills of M&E leaders; alignment and coordination of M&E stakeholders; and the mainstreaming of M&E in key health sector policies, plans, and strategies at national and county levels.
 

Overall responsibilities will include; designing and integration of organizational development strategies and activities into the project’s overall objective of building the capacity of MOH programs to foster and sustain strong M&E systems. 

The Technical Advisor will promote collaboration and best practices in organizational development primarily at the county level, and will provide limited support to national MOH interventions. 

S/he will support coordination of the organizational development inputs to the project, including capacity assessments, work planning and activity interventions. 

In addition s/he will work with the Senior Technical Manager – Organizational Development and other in-country technical resources to ensure coordination of approaches and actions in order to maximize synergies.

Key responsibilities include;

• Supporting the Senior Technical Manager – Organizational Development in the development and coordination of organizational development strategies, including plans and actions with the MEASURE Evaluation - PIMA Project senior management team, USAID/Kenya management team, MOH central programs, county health management teams and other in-country implementing partners and stakeholders
• Identifying and engaging stakeholders among targeted county health management teams, including stakeholder mapping and alignment; manage and coordinate with the County Departments of Health in order to facilitate M&E mainstreaming in health sector strategies, plans and activities
• Establishing M&E coordination platforms that guide project interventions, including the work of technical working groups and task forces
• Supporting the effective implementation of MSH deliverables outlined in the MEASURE Evaluation - PIMA Project annual work plan by applying technical leadership and best practices to strengthen M&E systems at the county and sub-county levels
• Working with the Senior Technical Manager, provide and participate in briefings on technical activities related to the MSH subcontract with different partners and donors
• Assisting in the preparation and submission of timely reports as required on an ad hoc, monthly, quarterly and annual basis, including technical reports and success stories

Qualification and Experience
 

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

S/he should have proven skills/experience in providing organizational capacity development and providing technical assistance to public health institutions, especially the MOH in Kenya. 

S/he should be familiar with a broad-based, multi sectoral framework and approaches to public sector organizational development at national and subnational levels

In addition, s/he should have excellent communication, relationship-building, negotiating and influencing skills. 

The ideal candidate should demonstrate ability to work within multi-disciplinary and multicultural contexts with tact and diplomacy. 

S/he should be willing to travel within Kenya.

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 July 9, 2014

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

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