Country Lead Kenya - Women's Integrated Sexual Health (WISH) Dividend P&S

Location: Kenya; role based at the Kenya facility

Company

hirify.global is a global development company designing and delivering programmes that improve health, infrastructure, institutions, market systems, and natural resource outcomes across more than 90 countries.

What you will do

• Design, negotiate, and finalise annual country workplans with FCDO and government partners.
• Coordinate government stakeholders, FCDO, technical partners, consortium members, and consultants to deliver aligned technical assistance.
• Develop terms of reference, oversee country activities end to end, quality-assure deliverables, and track logframe milestones.
• Represent the programme in senior policy dialogues, donor coordination platforms, and strategic forums.
• Track and mitigate delivery risks while supporting monitoring, evaluation, knowledge management, and reporting.
• Manage country budgets, forecasts, expenditure, cost controls, and value for money in line with FCDO requirements.

Requirements

• Technical expertise in demography, demographic transition, and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Kenya.
• Significant experience leading and managing large, complex donor-funded programmes in Kenya, preferably health or technical-assistance programmes and work funded by FCDO.
• Understanding of donor compliance, reporting, and value-for-money requirements, particularly for FCDO.
• Experience engaging senior government stakeholders, donors, and partners in Kenya, with strong government relationships and networks.
• Strong budget and financial-performance management experience, including forecasting and expenditure control.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams and consortium arrangements, with strong communication, partnership management, adaptive programming, and risk-management skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Fixed-term employment.
• Work within a collaborative, consortium-based programme using a one-team approach across seven countries.
• Equal employment opportunities are provided regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics.