Project Manager, SUPREME

Amref Health Africa was founded in 1957 and has since grown to become the largest African-based international health development organization; currently implementing more than 180 programs, reaching more than 40 million people across 35 African countries; and a staff complement of over 2,000. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, Amref Health Africa has offices in ten countries in Africa – Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Guinea (Conakry), Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. An additional eleven advocacy and fundraising offices are located in Europe and North America.

Amref Health Africa is driven by its vision of **‘**Lasting health change in Africa’ and its mission **‘**To catalyze and drive community-led and people-centered health systems while addressing social determinants of health’. We believe that the power to transform Africa's health lies within its communities, and therefore strive to ensure that health systems are not only functional but that communities are empowered to hold these systems accountable for the delivery of quality and affordable health care.Amref has been selected to implement a four-year, Unitaid-funded project aimed at accelerating the adoption and strengthening the market for new and underutilized products and delivery strategies for pre-eclampsia and maternal anemia. Specifically, the project, dubbed SUPREME, will promote the consistent use of available, underutilized tools to address pre-eclampsia and anemia in high-burden, low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) through large-scale, multi-country demonstration projects, supported by robust evidence generation to inform broader adoption.

The Project Manager will provide both strategic and technical leadership in the implementation of SUPREME. This role requires strong project management skills and experience in integrating priority interventions and products, overseeing the development and execution of project activities to improve the availability and affordability of medicines, diagnostic technologies, and medical devices across the project countries. The Project Manager will offer strategic vision, technical assistance, and analytical support to Amref’s technical programs and country offices to address market-level access, product utilization, and introduction barriers, including pricing, quality, and supplier diversity. Familiarity with Unitaid Grant Agreement Development (GAD) processes and the capacity to manage multiple partners across several countries in Africa will be key to this role.

Technical Leadership

• Provide management, strategic direction and leadership of the project in line with Unitaid guidelines.
• Provide strategic oversight to ensure that goals and objectives are accomplished within prescribed time frame and funding parameters.
• Manage the project technical team and ensure alignment with the work plan.
• Oversee the technical quality of all the deliverables by sub-awardees.
• Support work planning and ensure alignment with project objectives.
• Collaborate with implementing partners, governments, community organizations, commercial partners, and internal teams to plan and implement access plans
• Support the execution of market access strategies in LMICs addressing barriers to access around policy, regulatory approval, implementation models, and financing across a portfolio of essential.

Project Management

• Foster and nurture strategic partnerships including with Unitaid, Ministries of Health, local organizations and the private sector.
• Manage relationships with consortium partners and ensure quality deliverables are met per the project award agreement.
• Serve as the principal contact person for Unitaid, and nurture and maintain strong relationships with all stakeholders.
• Synthesize findings from implementation research, developed investment cases and cost-impact models, and engage with key stakeholders to garner buy-in at country and regional levels.
• Lead the planning, execution, monitoring, and adaptive learning of project activities to ensure high-quality, results-driven implementation.
• Represent Amref Health Africa in relevant meetings and technical working groups.
• Lead the development of quarterly reports and donor presentations, ensuring timely and high-quality documentation and knowledge sharing.

Delivery Performance

• Work with the other Advisors including the MEL Advisors to perform technical program reviews, ensure high quality results through identifying steps for improvement and assuring appropriate follow-up.
• Synthesize findings from implementation research, develop investment cases and cost-impact models, and engage with key stakeholders to generate buy-in.
• Participate in implementing quality assurance processes and tools of the project.
• Work closely with the Technical Director – RMNCAH to monitor programme performance and delivery ensuring all deliverables and targets are reached.
• Provide line management to country office, responsible for offering technical oversight of the programme.
• Attend consortium level and internal level meetings to review performance against agreed deliverables and offer technical and strategic inputs.
• Oversee and ensure execution of key milestones, taking responsibility for overall progress and use of resources and initiating corrective action where necessary.
• Identify and manage risks so that maximum benefit to the donor and stakeholders is achieved.
• Review and synthesize data for programmatic performance monitoring of RMNCAH activities and utilize the data to sustain and/or take corrective actions.
• Lead planning and execution of communications strategies through a wide range of channels, including abstract submissions, conference satellite sessions, webinars, blog posts, and policy briefs.

Education and Experience

• Master's degree in Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing/Midwifery, Public Health, or a related field
• Minimum of ten (10) years of relevant professional experience.
• Strong technical expertise in applying MNCH, specifically with demand- and supply-side barriers to the introduction and rapid uptake of innovations programming.
• Experience in coordinating A complex, multi-country, multi-partner project.
• Strong understanding, familiarity and experience implementing Unitaid-funded project.

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies

• Ability to collaborate effectively with a diverse team across different cultures.
• Proven ability to thrive in complex, fast-paced environments while managing multiple priorities, meeting tight deadlines, and delivering high-quality results under pressure.
• Ability to interact with established networks of senior-level global health professionals.
• Skilled in field-oriented programming and comfortable working collaboratively within a team.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including presentation abilities.
• Exceptional reporting and analytical skills.
• Solid decision-making and problem-solving capabilities.
• Proficient in planning, organizing, and prioritizing tasks.
• Flexible and adaptable to changing circumstances.
• High level of integrity and honesty.

Amref Health Africa does not require applicants to pay any money at whatever stage of the recruitment and selection process and has not retained any agent in connection with recruitment. Although Amref may use different job boards from time to time to further spread its reach for applicants, all open vacancies are published on our website under the Vacancies page and on our official social media pages. Kindly also note that official emails from Amref Health Africa will arrive from an @amref.org address.

Amref Health Africa is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. Amref Health Africa is is dedicated to diversity and is an equal-opportunity employer with a non-smoking environment policy.