Job particulars
- Job title
- Chief Program Officer
- Hiring organisation
- s Expand Recruitment Services
- Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Industry
- Project Management
- Level
- Management
- Experience
- 15+ years
- Posted
- 26 Oct 2026
- Closing date
- 9 Nov 2026
Key responsibilities
- Program Strategy & Portfolio Support: ( 30% of time)
- Provide strategic direction and shared capabilities that countries can draw on to strengthen impact, efficiency, and scale.
- Set global program strategy and priorities across existing and new initiatives, aligned with Living Goods’ strategy and Theory of Change.
- Enable strategic portfolio prioritization and trade-offs, offering frameworks and insights to inform leadership decision-making.
- Shape geographic expansion and portfolio evolution, including criteria for scale, focus, consolidation, or exit.
- Set strategic direction for the innovation pipeline and its pathways to country adoption and scale.
- Build and steward strategic partnerships, including new government partnerships that countries can leverage where they add value.
- Shape fundraising priorities and decisions based on program strategy and performance insights.
- Execution for Impact: (20% of time)
- Strengthen country-level delivery performance by providing shared frameworks, digital and data tools, and performance oversight — ensuring technology serves as a force multiplier for program quality and efficacy.
- Design and steward global program frameworks, standards, and models based on evidence to guide consistent, high-quality delivery at country level.
- Own and evolve the performance operating system — including tools, practices, and ROI focus — used across countries.
- Enable cross-country performance review, learning, and continuous improvement.
- Drive and monitor the innovation stage gates to optimize innovation pipeline delivery and lifecycle.
- Serve as the programmatic voice in shaping how digital health tools are designed and deployed — partnering closely with the CTO to ensure technology investments are grounded in frontline delivery realities and community health worker needs, rather than owning the technology itself.
- Work with the technology team to ensure shared digital and data tools are fit-for-purpose, translating program requirements into actionable inputs for the technology roadmap.
- Ensure that digital tools genuinely support community health worker performance and that adoption is embedded in program quality standards.
- Improve ways of working, systems, and processes between global and country teams to reduce friction and duplication.
- Performance, Evidence and Insights: (20 % of time)
- Generate decision-grade evidence and insights to inform strategy, strengthen programs, and improve outcomes.
- Ensure robust analytics, monitoring, and independent research and evaluations across programs and innovations to build credible evidence and learning.
- Generate and synthesize insights from data and evidence to inform program design, performance, and decision-making.
- Translate evidence into clear insights and narratives for countries, leadership, partners, and donors.
- Ensure the documentation and knowledge management system is effective in supporting learning, replication, scale, and the organization’s thought leadership agenda.
- New Countries: (15% of time)
- Enable disciplined, repeatable expansion through a clear country scoping and incubation model.
- Define and apply criteria for scoping new countries, aligned to strategy and organizational capacity.
- Design and steward the new country incubation model, including time-bound global support.
- Support and oversee countries during incubation, including direct accountability for readiness and transition to a core country.
- Fundraising and Donor Delivery: (15% of time)
Candidate requirements
- Master’s degree or equivalent in public health, international development, business administration, or a related discipline preferred; bachelor’s degree required.
- 15+ Years of progressive leadership experience in global health, international development, or a related field, with significant time working in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Proven track record leading large-scale, multi-country program delivery — ideally in primary healthcare or last-mile service delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to work at the intersection of program and technology, translating digital health investments into measurable impact.
- Experience managing and developing senior teams across geographies and cultures.
- Track record of successful donor engagement, fundraising, and grant management.
- Private sector experience is a serious advantage.
- Bilingual French and English is a serious advantage.
- Willing to travel 30%+ of the time.
- Role based in Nairobi.
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Hiring organisation
s Expand Recruitment Services