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Technical Program Manager
Living Goods
Job at a glance
- Employer
- Living Goods
- Position
- Technical Program Manager
- Location
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Possible duty stations
- Nairobi
- Job type
- Contract
- Contract
- Full-time
- Experience
- 5–7 years in Digital Health or ICT4D
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in IT or related fields
- Salary
- Not stated in the advert
- Application deadline
- 11 January 2027
- Posted on VacancyKE
- 13 October 2026
VacancyKE summary
Living Goods is hiring a Technical Program Manager in Nairobi to lead digital health initiatives. You will coordinate with government and technology partners to ensure the successful implementation, adoption, and sustainability of community health digital systems.
What stands out about this opportunity
- Focuses on scaling digital health solutions for community health workers.
- Requires active representation in national technical working groups.
- Rolling review process means early application is advantageous.
What’s offered
- Full-time contract position.
Key responsibilities
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and improve Community Health digital systems with partners.
- Track actions and resolve implementation challenges during technical working sessions.
- Ensure technical quality, clear objectives, and rigorous project deliverables.
- Validate system designs, configurations, integrations, reports, and workflows with stakeholders.
- Coordinate deployment planning, infrastructure readiness, training, and transition activities.
- Monitor progress, risks, and issues, escalating resolutions to MOH and counties.
- Prepare weekly and monthly Digital Health Kenya reports for internal meetings.
- Represent Living Goods in national digital health technical working groups.
Who should apply?
This role suits an experienced program manager with a background in digital health or ICT4D who has successfully managed implementations involving government stakeholders and large-scale platforms.
Key requirements
- Bachelor's in IT or related field
- 5–7 years Digital Health experience
- 3–5 years government program management
- Large-scale platform deployment experience
- Project management skills
- Stakeholder engagement ability
Nice to have
- ITIL, PMP/Prince2, Agile/Scrum certifications.
- Data Analytics, AI, or other relevant ICT certifications.
What you should know
- The role is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
- Interviews may occur before the final submission deadline.
- Living Goods never asks candidates for money or personal information upfront.
How to apply
- Submit your resume via the application link provided.
- Deadline: End of day 23rd October 2026, East Africa Time.
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Original employer advertisement
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The employer’s advert
Job Title: Technical Program Manager
Department: Digital Health
Reports To: Deputy Director Digital Health & Government Partnership
Location: Nairobi
Contract Type: Full-time
About Living Goods
We’re on a mission to ensure no woman or child dies from easily preventable diseases. To bring high-quality healthcare door to door, we’ve partnered with African governments to ensure that community health workers (CHWs) have the tools, support, and knowledge they need to save lives. We focus on ensuring CHWs are treated as essential health workers who should be digitized, equipped, supervised, and compensated—so they can make the greatest impact—and harness community-level data to transform health systems. In 2023 we supported over 12,000 CHWs, impacting more than 6 million people across Kenya, Uganda, and Burkina Faso.
1. Role Purpose
This role will support the implementation and scale-up of digital health initiatives in Kenya by providing technical leadership and coordinating effectively with government, technology partners, and cross-functional Living Goods teams. The role ensures the quality and successful delivery, adoption, performance, and sustainability of digital health solutions through effective implementation planning, technical oversight, risk and issue management, stakeholder alignment, and continuous improvement. The role also contributes to national digital health initiatives by representing Living Goods in technical working groups, supporting alignment with government priorities and standards, and translating implementation insights into practical improvements in digital health systems and service delivery.
2 . Key Responsibilities
Digital Programs Delivery
• Collaborate with government, partners, and LG teams to design, develop, test, deploy, and continuously improve Community Health digital systems, ensuring effective implementation, timely resolution of issues, and improved service delivery.
• Participate in implementation planning meetings, technical working sessions, and progress reviews to track actions and address implementation challenges.
• Ensure the technical quality and rigor of projects with clear objectives and deliverables.
• Facilitate review and validation of system designs, configurations, integrations, reports, dashboards, and workflows with national and county stakeholders.
• Coordinate implementation readiness activities, including deployment planning, infrastructure readiness, training preparation, support arrangements, and transition planning.
• Monitor implementation progress, risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating and coordinating resolution with MOH, Counties, technology partners and LG teams as required.
• Prepare and present weekly and monthly DH Kenya reports and represent Digital Health in scheduled internal meetings to provide updates on progress and risks
Government Engagement and Partnership Management
• Maintain productive working relationships with national government stakeholders, implementing partners, donors, and technology partners.
• Contribute to alignment of Digital Health solutions with government policies & regulations, standards, enterprise architecture, interoperability requirements, and strategic priorities.
• Support preparation of reports, presentations, and briefing materials for internal, government and partner engagements.
• Represent the LG Digital Health team in external engagements and workshops as required.
• Represent LG in technical working groups for national digital health initiatives
Innovation and continuous improvement
• Work closely with LG engineering, Innovations teams, government and partners to ensure digital health solutions meet user and Community Health Program requirements.
• Contribute to system design discussions, product enhancement prioritization, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support documentation and dissemination of lessons learned and implementation best practices.
3. Job Competencies (Knowledge, Experience and Attributes / Skills).
Academic Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Health Informatics, Information Systems, or related fields.
Professional Qualifications / Membership to professional bodies
• ITIL, PMP/Prince2, Agile/Scrum, Data Analytics, AI or any relevant ICT certifications
Work experience is required.
• Minimum 5–7 years of professional experience in Digital Health, health systems strengthening, ICT4D, or large-scale digital transformation programs.
• At least 3–5 years of experience managing Digital Health or ICT implementation programs with government stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience supporting deployment and operational management of large-scale digital platforms serving frontline workers or public service delivery programs.
• Experience working with national and county governments, development partners, donors, and implementing organizations.
4. Key Competencies Requirements
Functional/ Technical:
• Understanding of digital health ecosystems and government structures
• Project management skills
• Knowledge of product development, software implementation lifecycles, and digital support models
Behavioral:
• Strategic thinking and systems leadership
• Advanced project and stakeholder management
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills
• Data analysis and performance management
• Innovation and change leadership
• High integrity, adaptability, and team-building skills
To apply please submit your resume. The deadline for submissions is end of day 23 rd October 2026, East Africa Time. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with the potential for interviews to be called before the end of the submission period.
Living Goods is an equal opportunity employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.
Our current job openings are displayed on our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly. Living Goods does not offer any positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do not send money or personal information.
Department: Digital Health
Reports To: Deputy Director Digital Health & Government Partnership
Location: Nairobi
Contract Type: Full-time
About Living Goods
We’re on a mission to ensure no woman or child dies from easily preventable diseases. To bring high-quality healthcare door to door, we’ve partnered with African governments to ensure that community health workers (CHWs) have the tools, support, and knowledge they need to save lives. We focus on ensuring CHWs are treated as essential health workers who should be digitized, equipped, supervised, and compensated—so they can make the greatest impact—and harness community-level data to transform health systems. In 2023 we supported over 12,000 CHWs, impacting more than 6 million people across Kenya, Uganda, and Burkina Faso.
1. Role Purpose
This role will support the implementation and scale-up of digital health initiatives in Kenya by providing technical leadership and coordinating effectively with government, technology partners, and cross-functional Living Goods teams. The role ensures the quality and successful delivery, adoption, performance, and sustainability of digital health solutions through effective implementation planning, technical oversight, risk and issue management, stakeholder alignment, and continuous improvement. The role also contributes to national digital health initiatives by representing Living Goods in technical working groups, supporting alignment with government priorities and standards, and translating implementation insights into practical improvements in digital health systems and service delivery.
2 . Key Responsibilities
Digital Programs Delivery
• Collaborate with government, partners, and LG teams to design, develop, test, deploy, and continuously improve Community Health digital systems, ensuring effective implementation, timely resolution of issues, and improved service delivery.
• Participate in implementation planning meetings, technical working sessions, and progress reviews to track actions and address implementation challenges.
• Ensure the technical quality and rigor of projects with clear objectives and deliverables.
• Facilitate review and validation of system designs, configurations, integrations, reports, dashboards, and workflows with national and county stakeholders.
• Coordinate implementation readiness activities, including deployment planning, infrastructure readiness, training preparation, support arrangements, and transition planning.
• Monitor implementation progress, risks, issues, and dependencies, escalating and coordinating resolution with MOH, Counties, technology partners and LG teams as required.
• Prepare and present weekly and monthly DH Kenya reports and represent Digital Health in scheduled internal meetings to provide updates on progress and risks
Government Engagement and Partnership Management
• Maintain productive working relationships with national government stakeholders, implementing partners, donors, and technology partners.
• Contribute to alignment of Digital Health solutions with government policies & regulations, standards, enterprise architecture, interoperability requirements, and strategic priorities.
• Support preparation of reports, presentations, and briefing materials for internal, government and partner engagements.
• Represent the LG Digital Health team in external engagements and workshops as required.
• Represent LG in technical working groups for national digital health initiatives
Innovation and continuous improvement
• Work closely with LG engineering, Innovations teams, government and partners to ensure digital health solutions meet user and Community Health Program requirements.
• Contribute to system design discussions, product enhancement prioritization, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support documentation and dissemination of lessons learned and implementation best practices.
3. Job Competencies (Knowledge, Experience and Attributes / Skills).
Academic Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Health Informatics, Information Systems, or related fields.
Professional Qualifications / Membership to professional bodies
• ITIL, PMP/Prince2, Agile/Scrum, Data Analytics, AI or any relevant ICT certifications
Work experience is required.
• Minimum 5–7 years of professional experience in Digital Health, health systems strengthening, ICT4D, or large-scale digital transformation programs.
• At least 3–5 years of experience managing Digital Health or ICT implementation programs with government stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience supporting deployment and operational management of large-scale digital platforms serving frontline workers or public service delivery programs.
• Experience working with national and county governments, development partners, donors, and implementing organizations.
4. Key Competencies Requirements
Functional/ Technical:
• Understanding of digital health ecosystems and government structures
• Project management skills
• Knowledge of product development, software implementation lifecycles, and digital support models
Behavioral:
• Strategic thinking and systems leadership
• Advanced project and stakeholder management
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills
• Data analysis and performance management
• Innovation and change leadership
• High integrity, adaptability, and team-building skills
To apply please submit your resume. The deadline for submissions is end of day 23 rd October 2026, East Africa Time. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with the potential for interviews to be called before the end of the submission period.
Living Goods is an equal opportunity employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.
Our current job openings are displayed on our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly. Living Goods does not offer any positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do not send money or personal information.