Senior Technical Advisor (STA) – Horizon-1000

About the role

AMREF Health Africa is recruiting a Senior Technical Advisor (STA) for its Horizon-1000 initiative, based in Nairobi (Westlands). The role provides technical and professional expertise, ensures accuracy, compliance and continuous improvement, and manages functional operations and delivery.

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical and professional expertise ensuring accuracy, compliance and continuous improvement.
• Supervise and develop staff, manage team performance and build skills so that work is executed effectively.
• Ensure financial and resource stewardship.
• Promote equity, diversity and inclusion, and uphold governance, policies and compliance.

Required profile

• Five or more years of progressively responsible experience managing multi-stakeholder programmes in digital health, health systems strengthening, artificial intelligence or international development, including at least two years of supervisory or project leadership with a Master's degree; or eight or more years with a Bachelor's degree and at least three years of leadership.
• Demonstrated experience leading large donor-funded programmes involving government institutions, development partners and multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Proven experience managing programme implementation across national and county government structures in Kenya or comparable devolved health systems.
• Experience managing implementation partnerships between government, academia, technology partners and development organisations.
• Required: training or certification in AI in healthcare, responsible AI, data protection, information security or digital health governance.
• Added advantage: experience with implementation science, change management, human-centred design, quality improvement, primary health care, universal health coverage, health workforce strengthening, evidence generation, M&E and knowledge management.

Required skills

• Strong programme and project management skills, including planning, budgeting, monitoring, reporting, procurement and risk management.
• Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams and manage complex stakeholder relationships.
• Understanding of primary health care, devolved governments, health systems strengthening, the Social Health Authority, the Digital Health Agency and universal health coverage.
• Knowledge of artificial intelligence, generative AI, clinical decision support systems, digital health ecosystems and health information systems.
• Understanding of Kenya's Digital Health Architecture, Digital Health Act, Data Protection Act, National AI Strategy, interoperability standards and health information governance.
• High-level proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and programme management tools; familiarity with digital health platforms, dashboards and data analytics software is desirable.