Job Openings at Living Goods - 2 Positions

The Opportunity

LG seeks an innovative and dynamic leader to join our team in the new role of Senior Advisor, Government Partnerships. To scale our impact and achieve our mission, Living Goods cannot go it alone. We must partner with other local and international NGOs and governments to implement our model; and we must expand and strengthen our relationships with institutional funders, corporations and other stakeholders. The Senior Advisor, together with other members of our Partnerships team, will pioneer, develop and manage many of these partnerships with a particular focus on governments and policy development. This is an exciting new opportunity and one that is squarely positioned both at the heart of Living Goods’ strategy, and at the leading edge of our drive towards transformative change.

The ideal candidate is an accomplished, results-focused professional with vision and entrepreneurial spirit. This role can be based in either Nairobi, Kenya or Kampala, Uganda and will report to the Director of Global Partnerships. Up to 50% travel can be expected.

Responsibilities and Requirements

• Prospect and develop partnership opportunities to enable Living Goods to expand its operations either directly as LG or by offering technical assistance and support to partners, or indirectly by influencing policy and guidelines that other organisations and government are required to implement.
• Develop and manage strategic partnerships with governments and NGOs in new countries that enable Living Goods to scale the impact of its proven community health outreach model.
• Build the capability of LG to provide technical assistance to governments in both the development and implementation of community health policy.
• Lead the design, implementation, and reporting on community health policy and advocacy activities with government in new countries.
• Prepare community health policy analyses, recommendations and policy briefs to position Living Goods with governments and donors.
• Team up with LG’s Business Development team to prepare bids and proposals in response to government, foundation or other donor solicitation.
• Research and stay abreast of trends and developments in health financing, both globally and in our target countries; innovations in community health work and bilateral funding opportunities (i.e.USAID, DFID).
• Represent LG at external high level meetings, workshops and conferences.
• As a member of the Living Goods Strategic Management Team, contribute to organization-wide strategy and discussion.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in strategic partnerships at senior management level with 5 years minimum experience in policy engagement with senior government planners.
• Experience of providing technical assistance in the health sector.
• Emerging markets experience, preferably in Sub Saharan Africa.
• Background in management consulting and public health, a major plus.
• Superior proposal development skills targeting large funders (e.g. USAID, DFID, Global Fund, Gates Foundation, corporates, etc.)
• Experience of driving organizational strategy as member of a senior management team.
• Exceptional quantitative and qualitative analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively at senior levels of government and with a range of stakeholders.
• Master’s degree ideally in Public Health, Public Policy, Public Administration, Business Administration, or Law.

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.

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RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage Project Technical Configuration: Work independently and partner with project managers to write technical scope of work, support service design, configure and customize communication technologies and data visualization dashboards to meet requirements, create user manuals, deploy and train on technologies managing project timelines and monitor usage of the technologies.
• Work with designers and project managers to ensure that systems designs are feasible and building upon past work. Be available to other teammates who may be building other systems, to maintain best practices and quality. Manage project timelines, monitor usage of platforms
• Support Product Development: Work with Living Good’s designers to describe mHealth needs and opportunities in your region and to ensure these needs are addressed in LG’s current products or in LG’s Product road map.
• Post Deployment Product Support: Support end users and stakeholders (internal and external) on any arising technology issues/bugs working alongside tech support team to resolve or escalate to other tech teams and follow up to resolution.

QUALIFICATION

• Be based in Kenya /Uganda and/or have legal work permits for Kenya/Uganda.
• Have Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering or Mathematics and 3+ years relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Have a minimum of 3+ years’ experience using command-line tools on Linux (preferred) or another UNIX-like operating system. Be comfortable and proficient in HTML, Javascript, Node.js, and JSON.
• Have experience with relational databases, Postgres and MySQL
• Have experience in Scripting languages Appscript/Shell/Awk
• Have experience with data analysis and data visualization languages R/Matlab/Python
• Candidates should have the following personal work ethics (essential qualifications):
• Good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to pass on information clearly to users and to grasp difficulties perceived by users.
• Commitment to frequent and timely communication, both in person and online (via email, Internet Relay Chat, and other online chat applications).
• Strong problem solver with good logical diagnostic skills and ability to exercise good judgement in the resolution of problems
• Ability to multi-task in dealing with several different problems at a time.
• Strong customer service orientation that establishes a good working relationship with customers, with the attitude of wanting to assist people and pass-on their knowledge and experience to others.
• Ability to work under high pressure, meet deadlines, monitor and follow-up on pending matters under minimum

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.

What is Living Goods?

Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’ micro-entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their health and wealth while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook stoves, and solar lights. Living Goods seeks nothing less than a disruptive reinvention of distribution in emerging markets, through networks of franchised micro-entrepreneurs who leverage Living Goods’ brand, buying power and mobile marketing tools to deliver vital products at accessible prices to the people who need them most. By combining the best practices from the worlds of micro-enterprise, franchising and public health, Living Goods is creating a fully sustainable system to improve the health, and wealth, of underserved communities.

Living Goods has been featured in The New York Times, NBC News, The Economist, and The Huffington Post. Check out these articles and more on our press page.