Country Project Lead

The Country Project Lead will represent Living Goods in high-level coordination forums, partnerships, and consortium engagements, ensuring strong alignment, visibility, and effective collaboration across all stakeholders involved in the project.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership & Project Direction (Regional)

• Provide overall strategic leadership for the project across Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and Burkina Faso, ensuring alignment with the donor objectives, Living Goods’ strategy, and country-specific priorities.
• Lead coordination across Living Goods cross-functional teams (Programs, Digital Health, PS&E, Grants & Compliance, Finance, and Business Development) and consortium partners to ensure cohesive and integrated project delivery.
• Guide the development, alignment, and periodic review of country-level strategies to ensure coherence with the overall regional project vision and results framework.
• Ensure the project remains responsive to evolving external contexts, policy shifts, and implementation realities across countries, recommending timely strategic pivots in collaboration with the Senior Director, Upskilling & Performance Management.

Country-Level Strategy & Leadership (Kenya-Specific)

• Serve as the overall Country Project Lead for Kenya, providing leadership for in-country project implementation in close collaboration with the Living Goods Country Director, government counterparts, and consortium partners.
• Lead the co-creation of the Kenya country strategy and implementation approach, ensuring strong alignment with national priorities and government digital and performance management agendas.
• Develop and oversee annual workplans, budgets, and delivery milestones for Kenya, ensuring alignment with regional objectives and donor commitments.
• Define and track clear deliverables and performance milestones for the Kenya project, ensuring accountability and results orientation at all levels of implementation.

Project Management & Implementation Oversight (Regional & Kenya)

• Oversee effective end-to-end implementation of project activities across all participating countries, with a particular focus on digital solutions, and performance management systems.
• Ensure high-quality execution through structured planning, risk management, and proactive problem solving, integrating best practices and lessons learned across countries.
• Monitor project performance against agreed indicators and milestones, initiating timely corrective actions to address implementation bottlenecks or underperformance.
• Ensure project teams are appropriately staffed, skilled, and supported; identify capacity gaps and coordinate with relevant functions to address them.
• Foster a culture of performance excellence, accountability, and continuous learning across country teams and consortium partners.
• Ensure systematic documentation, synthesis, and dissemination of project learnings, innovations, and best practices to inform scale-up and sector influence.

External Engagement, Partnerships & Representation (Regional & Kenya)

• Represent Living Goods and the project in high-level engagements with governments, consortium partners, donors, and other key stakeholders at national and regional levels.
• Build, manage, and strengthen strategic relationships with consortium members, ensuring effective collaboration, role clarity, and shared accountability for results.
• Proactively position and brand Living Goods as a credible technical partner and leader in digital health, CHW upskilling, and performance management.
• Identify emerging needs, partnership opportunities, and avenues for influence that advance project goals and Living Goods’ strategic positioning.
• Ensure consistent, clear, and strategic communication of project progress, challenges, successes, and lessons learned in line with agreed communication and visibility plans.

Reporting, Grant Management & Compliance (Regional – All Countries)

• Provide overall oversight for grant management, reporting, and compliance across all supported countries, ensuring adherence to donor requirements and Living Goods policies.
• Ensure timely, accurate, and high-quality narrative and financial reporting to the donor, coordinating inputs from country teams and support functions.
• Manage project budgets and resources effectively, ensuring value for money, transparency, and full compliance with financial and procurement guidelines.
• Lead project risk identification, monitoring, and mitigation, escalating critical issues as needed and ensuring proactive management.
• Strengthen internal capacity on grant management, compliance, and reporting through coaching, guidance, and structured support to country teams.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, public health, business administration, Information Technology, Project Management, or a related field. A master’s degree in related field is preferred or equivalent.
• Certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP) or similar certification is desirable
• At least 15 years' work experience in the health sector programmes (Community Health is preferred) in senior leadership positions with at least 7 of which must be at a Strategic level in project management, and digital transformation or digital health.
• Proven track record of leading/managing complex projects, especially those including digital initiatives.
• Experience in the non-profit sector or international development with restricted grants is a must.