ABOUT YOU

You are a leader who understands how to work within dynamic teams, fostering collaboration, and driving towards common ambitious goals. You are a clear and concise communicator who uses your skills to engage and maintain positive relationships with stakeholders, conveying strategies, and ensure alignment across various levels of the healthcare system.

You are able to think strategically to understand, analyze and influence the broader healthcare landscape, identifying opportunities for improvement, and developing long-term plans to address challenges.

You also are a strong project officer who is able to use the skills in planning, implementing, and evaluating program interventions effectively, while ensuring adherence to timelines and budgets. We know that the health sector is dynamic, and thus you are adaptable to respond to changes and challenges but still having an eye on the goal which is the key to success.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

 Project Management

• Provide technical expertise, oversee coordination, and supervise entrepreneurship activities within the AHC programme, ensuring alignment with project goals and objectives.
• Collaborate with the Project Leads in stakeholder management for health entrepreneurship.
• Conduct regular risk assessments, identifying potential obstacles and developing mitigation strategies to ensure project success and minimize disruptions to Africa Health Collaborative activities.

 Health Entrepreneurship Support

• Lead strategic mapping and vetting of health sector entrepreneurship opportunities, leveraging the private and public financing such as the Social Health Insurance Fund.
• Provide comprehensive support to health workforce and affiliated entrepreneurs in business development, focusing on supply chain optimization.
• Establish and nurture inter-university social entrepreneurship networks in collaboration with tertiary institutions.
• Work with critical stakeholders in public and private sectors to conduct targeted mapping and vetting of entrepreneurship opportunities in the health and related sectors.
• Conduct entrepreneurship skills and opportunities mapping among youth and provide training geared towards addressing health ecosystem needs.
• Work closely with youth networks, innovation hubs, and tech partners to enable scalable community-driven solutions.
• Support the co-creation and implementation of health innovation challenges, bootcamps, and accelerators.
• Work with critical stakeholders to develop and deploy training programmes and networks that enhance the health workforce and affiliated entrepreneurs; skills in business development, social entrepreneurship, and supply chain considerations.
• Develop, test, and scale sustainable innovative business models, such as Village Savings and Loaning Associations, Social Franchising, Social Marketing and other entrepreneurship models, management platforms and community groups.

 Monitoring, Evaluation Research and Learning

• Support monitoring and evaluation processes to assess program progress, ensure accountability, determine impact, and facilitate organizational learning.
• Support management of health data monitoring activities, ensuring accurate reporting in various AHC and external systems including CHW registry, dashboards and project-based tools.
• Take the lead in documenting, institutionalizing, and disseminating achievements, best practices, and lessons learned from entrepreneurship activity implementation.
• Support in conducting and applying research to inform the implementation of best practices in entrepreneurship interventions.
• Develop and implement workplans, tools, and methodologies to support health entrepreneurship within the PHC sector.

 Health ecosystem

• Support stakeholder policy engagement initiatives, including with youth, to address identified gaps within the health entrepreneurship pillar.
• Develop and maintain strong, collaborative partnerships with health sector entities, government counterparts, regulators, and county stakeholders to ensure effective program implementation.
• Represent the organization at county-level technical meetings, conferences, and workshops, collaborating with other Amref Staff to support the co-design and institutionalization of project interventions.
• Guide the development and engagement of a health entrepreneurship ecosystem, fostering innovation.

Program development

• Actively participate or lead program concept development and proposals for fundraising.
• Engage in strategic partnerships towards program development.

Qualifications

EDUCATION

• University Degree in Economics, Health System Management, Business Administration, Economics, or related social sciences.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• A minimum of 3 years relevant youth or health entrepreneurship experience.
• Demonstrated experience working with multidisciplinary teams is an advantage.
• Experience in implementing development programs is an advantage
• Experience in implementing in the private sector is an advantage.
• Experience in delivering technical assistance and/or institutional capacity building is an asset.
• Proficiency in report writing, and presentation skills.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally as required.

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• Strategic thinking skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Good coordination, problem solving and networking skills.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills.
• Excellent report writing skills.
• Decision making and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work under pressure, and within strict time limits.