Project Liaison Consultant - Digital Health

About the role

Living Goods, which provides digital tools to Community Health Workers in sub-Saharan Africa, is looking for a Consultant - Project Liaison in Nairobi, Kenya, reporting to the Deputy Director Digital Health & Government Partnerships. The role provides day-to-day oversight and coordination of Digital Health system implementation, keeping activities on track, managing critical path dependencies and addressing risks and issues promptly. It coordinates stakeholders, monitors progress against plans and milestones and provides timely reporting.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain project work plans and budgets based on the scope of work
• Identify, track and drive resolution of blockers to Digital Health implementation
• Maintain a live risk and issue log with clear ownership, escalating unresolved blockers to project leadership
• Coordinate across government, vendors and other stakeholders to keep projects on track
• Facilitate regular implementation coordination meetings and track actions and decisions to closure
• Prepare progress reports, risk dashboards and briefing materials for stakeholders
• Support planning and sequencing of implementation milestones with other team members
• Maintain productive working relationships with government stakeholders, the vendor and other partners
• Support negotiation and formalisation of data-sharing agreements and other inter-agency arrangements

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Information Systems, Public Health or a related field
• PMP, PRINCE2 or Agile/Scrum certification, or equivalent
• Minimum 6-8 years of experience in project or programme management, including digital health, ICT4D or large-scale government-facing implementation programmes
• Demonstrated experience resolving cross-agency issues in a public-sector context
• Experience managing multi-stakeholder programmes involving government, vendors and development partners