Palladium

Data.FI Kenya Deputy Director / Health Financing & Policy Lead

About Palladium

Palladium is a global leader in the design, development, and delivery of Positive Impact—the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with governments, businesses, and investors to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. For more than 50 years, Palladium has been helping clients achieve impact through innovative strategies, practical approaches, and measurable results.

Project Overview and Position Summary

Data.FI is a global project funded by the U.S. Department of State to strengthen health information systems, health financing and improve the use of data for decision making. In Kenya, Data.FI will support the Ministry of Health (MoH) through the Digital Health Agency (DHA), National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP), the National Public Health Institute (NPHI) and other relevant state agencies to enhance digital health governance, public health surveillance, and health financing integration.

The Deputy Director for Health Financing and Policy will provide strategic and technical leadership for the health-financing and policy reform components of Data.FI Kenya. The role will oversee activities related to health economics, resource tracking, and the digital integration of financial systems under the DHA, SHA and MoH frameworks. The Deputy Director, Health Financing & Policy will also serve as a key liaison with the relevant government agencies and development partners to support Kenya’s universal health coverage and sustainable financing agenda.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide technical and strategic direction for health-financing and policy-related activities under Data.FI Kenya.
• Provide Health Financing leadership for Data.FI Kenya to advance bilateral cooperation between the Government of Kenya and the United States under the America First Global Health Strategy.
• Maintain close and deliberate collaboration with the relevant government agencies such as DHA and SHA, ensuring harmonized implementation of health financing components, aligned workplans, cost-effective implementation, and a unified USG presence in support of Kenya’s digital health priorities.
• Lead the design and implementation of health-financing, analytics, costing, and resource-tracking studies.
• Coordinate digital integration of financial systems within DHA, MoH, and the Social Health Authority (SHA).
• Support policy dialogue on sustainable financing and evidence-based decision making.
• Collaborate with DHA and KeHMIS technical teams to align financial-data systems with national digital-health architecture.
• Represent Data.FI Kenya in national and partner coordination forums related to health financing and UHC.
• Provide technical supervision to health-financing and policy staff and ensure quality of deliverables.
• Contribute to learning, documentation, and dissemination of health-financing innovations.

Required Qualifications:

• Doctorate degree in economics and health economics, Econometrics, statistics and public health/finance, health policy, or a related discipline.
• At least 10 years of experience in health financing, resource tracking, or economic evaluation within government or donor-funded programs.
• Experience working with national health-financing reforms, UHC strategies, or financial-data systems.
• Deep experience with Kenya’s Digital Health Act, Social Health Insurance framework, and national financing architecture.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder-engagement skills.
• Experience in team management, policy dialogue, and technical representation.
• Experience in managing USG funded project in health financing and policy.
• Knowledge of using any statistical software such as R, STATA, Python
• Experience working with public sector in Kenya.

Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Reports To: Country Director / Governance and Policy Lead

Type: Full-time, National Position

Safeguarding

Palladium is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and adults, and expects all staff and partners to share this commitment.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Our company provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.

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