The Senior Manager, Innovations will spearhead the organization’s programs innovations, ensuring it drives measurable health impact, cost efficiency, and scalable solutions for community health. As a thought leader in health impact, digital health and performance management, this role will ensure that the organization stays at the forefront of advancements, fostering a culture of rapid learning and agile implementation.
This role is pivotal in identifying, developing, and executing a robust pipeline of innovations and experiments, while co-securing the necessary resources through fundraising and partnerships.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategy

• Support the development of innovation strategy for the organization in coordination with the Director Program Strategy and Excellence and Digital Health team.
• Lead efforts to identify, landscape and cultivate appropriate partnerships to build relevant pipeline idea initiatives in line with strategic plan and innovation strategy.
• Oversee the development and refinement of innovation design to generate evidence of impact, cost effectiveness and scalability.
• Strengthen innovation process, approaches and tools that drive user acceptance and fast learning cycle.

Project Coordination

• Oversee Project management cycle of key innovation initiatives and ensure learning cycle is effective balancing results, speed and nimbleness.
• Ensure innovation related restricted funding projects are timely executed and in full compliance with donor.
• Oversee partnership and/ or donor management when relevant.
• Co-create with government/key stakeholders innovative solutions to enable easy and quick adoption into national policies & strategies.

People Management

• Recruit manage and develop an effective innovation team.
• Bring out the best in people and build a culture of high performance and engagement in line with the organization’s values.
• Develop and infuse a UX and innovation culture across the organization.

Business Development and Advocacy

• In collaboration with the BD team, drive fundraising efforts to finance innovation initiatives, this will include developing high-quality proposals and partnerships.
• Capture lessons learned by initiatives, develop insights and case studies on innovations to inform future programming, influence policies and practice and increase visibility of Living Goods.
• Participate in global and regional health innovations forums to share insights and position LG as a thought leader in the innovation space.
• Engage with prospect and technical funders as well as strategic partners in relation with innovations.

Essential Qualifications, Experience, & Attributes:

• Master’s degree in Entrepreneurship, Business management, Technology or related field
• Professional certifications in Digital Health, Project Management desirable.
• Minimum of 10 years relevant experience with over 7 years supervisory experience and at least 4 years managing teams.
• Forward thinking.
• Ability to analyze, comprehend, and articulate the operational goals and strategic plan of the organization to guide decision-making.
• Provides leadership in effective management and stewardship of programs.
• Ability to communicate both inside and outside the organization and make formal presentation.
• Interpersonal and leadership skills and high levels of integrity.
• Builds commitment through collaboration, consultation and consideration of the stakeholders and the teams.
• Strong interest in digital health/ experience working in the digital health sector and / or public health innovation, with track record in development and deployment of innovations within private or public sector, including end-to-end management of the innovation cycle.
• Technical knowledge and hands on experience of virtual and data driven solutions within healthcare (i.e. telehealth, e-learning, digitized supply chains).
• Track record in driving organizational learning, knowledge management and documentation of best practices.
• Curiosity