Country Project Lead

The Country Project Lead will represent Living Goods in high-level coordination forums, partnerships, and consortium engagements, ensuring strong alignment, visibility, and effective collaboration across all stakeholders involved in the project. Roles and Responsibilities: Strategic Leadership & Project Direction (Regional) Provide overall strategic leadership for the project across Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and Burkina Faso, ensuring alignment with the donor objectives, Living Goods’ strategy, and country-specific priorities. Lead coordination across Living Goods cross-functional teams (Programs, Digital Health, PS&E, Grants & Compliance, Finance, and Business Development) and consortium partners to ensure cohesive and integrated project delivery. Guide the development, alignment, and periodic review of country-level strategies to ensure coherence with the overall regional project vision and results framework. Ensure the project remains responsive to evolving external contexts, policy shifts, and implementation realities across countries, recommending timely strategic pivots in collaboration with the Senior Director, Upskilling & Performance Management. Country-Level Strategy & Leadership (Kenya-Specific) Serve as the overall Country Project Lead for Kenya, providing leadership for in-country project implementation in close collaboration with the Living Goods Country Director, government counterparts, and consortium partners. Lead the co-creation of the Kenya country strategy and implementation approach, ensuring strong alignment with national priorities and government digital and performance management agendas. Develop and oversee annual workplans, budgets, and delivery milestones for Kenya, ensuring alignment with regional objectives and donor commitments. Define and track clear deliverables and performance milestones for the Kenya project, ensuring accountability and results orientation at all levels of implementation. Project Management & Implementation Oversight (Regional & Kenya) Oversee effective end-to-end implementation of project activities across all participating countries, with a particular focus on digital solutions, and performance management systems. Ensure high-quality execution through structured planning, risk management, and proactive problem solving, integrating best practices and lessons learned across countries. Monitor project performance against agreed indicators and milestones, initiating timely corrective actions to address implementation bottlenecks or underperformance. Ensure project teams are appropriately staffed, skilled, and supported; identify capacity gaps and coordinate with relevant functions to address them. Foster a culture of performance excellence, accountability, and continuous learning across country teams and consortium partners. Ensure systematic documentation, synthesis, and dissemination of project learnings, innovations, and best practices to inform scale-up and sector influence. External Engagement