Living Goods

Role: Chief Program Officer.

Reports into: CEO.

About Living Goods

Delivering Data Driven Care Door to Door to over 6 million People

Living Goods saves lives at scale by supporting digitally empowered community health workers who deliver care on call, making it easy for families in need to get their health needs met. Funders, governments, and public health leaders all recognize Living Goods as one of the most deeply impactful, efficient, and influential community health platforms. Living Goods serves as the principal community health and technology partner to three counties with a total population of over 100 million people.

• Saving Lives: Two independent randomized control trials show Living Goods is reducing child deaths by 25-30%. Where LG works 95% of children are born in facilities and 95% of kids fully complete their immunizations.
• Delivering at Scale: Living Goods supported CHW’s provide care for over 6 million people. LG serves as the primary community health and digitization partner to Kenya, Burkina Faso, and Uganda.
• Low Cost: Perhaps the greatest challenge in scaling community health is doing so a cost that countries can afford. Living Goods delivers comprehensive community care, including compensation, supervision, medicines, and digital tools for under $3 per capita annually.
• Technology Leadership: 0ver 10,000 health workers use LG’s Smart Health platform to provide accurate guided diagnoses, ensure timely follow ups, and deliver performance data in real time.
• Leading Funders: LG is supported by many of the leading global health funders including: The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, The Skoll Foundation, Elma Philanthropies, Virgin Unite, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, GAVI, USAID, The Global Fund, and many others.

Role purpose:

The position will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing the strategic vision of Living Goods. As a board member and deputy to the CEO, the Chief Programme Officer will oversee planning, developing, and enhancing all programmes and initiatives, ensuring alignment with the organization´s mission and goals.

The Chief Programme Officer at Living Goods holds a paramount position in shaping and executing the organization's strategic vision. As the second-in-command to the CEO, this senior leadership role is instrumental in charting the course for Living Goods. The incumbent will spearhead the planning, development, and enhancement of all programmes and initiatives, meticulously ensuring that each undertaking aligns seamlessly with the organization's unwavering mission and overarching goals. In this dynamic and pivotal role, the Chief Programme Officer will play a pivotal role in driving impact, innovation, and sustainable change across our programs, making a lasting difference in the communities we serve.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning:

• Serve as a thought partner to the CEO to evolve LG´s vision, role, and theory of change in driving cost-effective impact and strengthening primary health care systems.
• Provide leadership and vision for all existing and new programmatic initiatives to drive impact and cost efficiency and be responsive to an evolving environment.
• Lead the geographic expansion strategy of the organization.
• Engage Board members and key external stakeholders on strategic programmatic topics.
• Explore opportunities for collaboration and partnership to enhance programme reach and sustainability.

Program development and management:

• Oversee the design, development, and performance of community health programmes.
• Drive the necessary design change and/or adaptation to quickly course-correct and improve programmatic effectiveness, return on investment and sustainability.
• Partner with the digital health team to ensure digital tools are fit for purpose to drive high quality care and strong data-driven performance management.
• Ensure programmes are evidence-based and address the specific needs of the target population.
• Ensure restricted grant are adequately delivered.
• Drive Living Goods learning agenda including innovation pipeline, ensure alignment with our strategic plan and priorities and oversee effective implementation.
• Ensure robust monitoring and evaluation frameworks are in place to assess programme effectiveness.
• Use data-driven insights to continuously improve programme outcomes and impact and generate powerful programme stories.
• Oversee the annual planning and budget process from a programme perspective.

BD & Advocacy:

• Work closely with the fundraising team to identify and secure funding opportunities.
• Lead programme design for BD proposals engaging with country leads and advising on GO/NO Go decisions on bids as per decision matrix.
• Partner with the advocacy and communication teams to tell the story of Living Goods work and state-of-the-art programme approaches.
• Alongside the fundraising team cultivate, solicit, and steward major donors, prospects, and other key stakeholders.

Leadership:

• Develop teams and build a culture of high performance, and an engaged workforce in line with the organization's values.
• Working with the Executive Team, lead on building cross-country effectiveness and efficiencies, making strong operational and strategic linkages between countries and Global Functions.
• Ensure effective and efficient organizations are in place and manage necessary changes.

Education and Experience

• Masters and Professional qualification
• MBA, MPH, or master’s degree in international development or other relevant area preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Other Skills and Competencies:

• 10+ years’ experience working in an executive leadership position in international development or at a multinational organization.
• Extensive experience leading development programmes ideally in the health sector.
• Experience using digital technology to drive programme performance.
• Demonstrated visionary and strategic thinking skills with the ability to rally organizational leaders behind ambitious goals.
• Demonstrated success in creating clear and compelling programme strategies that excite donors and employees.
• Demonstrated understanding and experience with public and private donors, multi-year grants and a track record of achievement managing large scale projects.
• Outstanding communication and public speaking skills.
• Lived experience of the challenges and opportunities of working in developing contexts.
• African origin
• Successful experience with organizational transformation across multiple countries.
• Ability to inspire, motivate and guide a global, diverse, and geographically dispersed teams of 100 or more.

Terms of Appointment

Salary and benefits are commensurate with experience.

Role Location

Role based in Africa, preference for Nairobi.

Living Goods is an equal opportunity employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.

Our current job openings are displayed on our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly. Living Goods does not offer any positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do not send money or personal information.