Ona Project Coordinator, Digital Health Jobs in Kenya
Ona Project Coordinator, Digital Health Jobs in Kenya
At Ona, we don't just strive for diversity, we thrive on it. For Ona, diversity has been a spring board for creativity, innovation, and growth. We are committed to giving equal opportunities to employees and applicants regardless of their race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, colour, nationality, age, marital status, or pregnancy status.
You'll work on projects that support democracy, drive social development, and reduce infant mortality. We build software that solves real problems and you will too. Since we're a startup, you'll have to be a self-starter who is organized and can manage multiple projects at the same time. Since some of our team works remotely, you'll also need great communication skills and to be empathetic.
Responsibilities:
Project Coordination
Coordination of all digital health projects at Ona, including managing logistics, scheduling, timelines, deliverables, reporting requirements, documentation, and work plans for each project.
Work with clients and partners to define the problem they are trying to address and help to design appropriate technology solutions. This often involves travel to the project site.
Helping to translate program requirements into technical requirements; communicate and work closely with our engineers.
Assisting the Project Managers with key project tasks, such as defining project scope, developing scopes of work and budgets, documenting functional and technical requirements, and overall helping to manage projects so they stay within scope, budget, and are completed on time.
Supporting quality assurance workflows on projects and documenting reported problems.
Providing support and training to our clients on our digital health products and services.
Coordinating work and outputs and facilitating communication between our partners.
Organizing and planning meetings and workshops for our projects, including, but not limited to: arranging logistics and capturing workshop outputs and documentation.
Helping to ensure fidelity of use of project tools and processes put in place for projects.
Community management
Managing a growing community of OpenSRP implementers, developers, and researchers on our online communication platform and forum.
Facilitating meetings between project stakeholders and partners and sharing of project updates and milestones.
Managing all materials and documentation produced for community projects and finding a home for all outputs on the wiki or website.
Marketing and documentation
Telling a compelling story to our global audience, sharing milestones and successes
from our projects.
Writing content for our media platforms, including the website, blog, and social media platforms.
Producing marketing materials that effectively communicate the value of our products and services.
Assisting with creating documentation for projects, such as user guides and training materials, and ensuring project deliverables are documented and disseminated.
Proposal writing and support
Performing background research and preparing subject-matter briefs on necessary topics.
Reviewing and synthesizing relevant materials required for projects.
Helping in the writing of proposals and value documentation for the company.
Relationship-building
Helping to build and maintain excellent relationships with our clients and partners.
Requirements:
University degree in public health, computer science, health informatics or related field with experience in project coordination.
Sensitivity to cultural differences and the ability to adapt to different contexts.
Willingness and ability to travel for work.
Fluency in written and spoken English.
Excellent proposal, report-writing, and communication skills.
Interest in and deep familiarity with ICT4D.
Experience working with international companies.
Master’s degree in public health, computer science, health informatics, international development, or a related field.
Experience with project management tools and software (i.e. Harvest, Trello, Confluence, Slack, Google Drive, GitHub) a plus.
Prior experience working in LMICs a plus.
Fluency in an additional language a plus, especially French.
Prior experience working with software development teams.
Familiarity with or experience using widely-adopted, open source data and information platforms a plus (e.g. OpenMRS, DHIS2, RapidPro).
How To apply
Please send the following to jobs+frontend@ona.io:
Note describing why you are interested in working at Ona.
Resume.
Examples of your work. Link to your GitHub page, projects you've completed, or your website.
(bonus points) Build something cool using our API, or extend some software we've written.
Application deadline 20th September, 2019
For more information and job application details, see; Ona Project Coordinator, Digital Health Jobs in Kenya
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