Ona Senior Project Manager Job in Nairobi, Kenya

The world’s leading humanitarian, development and global health organizations rely on Ona to improve their impact and accountability.

We build technology that affords new opportunities for governments and development organizations and actors to be increasingly collaborative, data-driven, and accountable to the people they serve.

We also make tools that provide opportunities for organizations to make better use of their data to help address some of the world’s greatest challenges, including: maternal and child health, education, community resilience, agriculture, environmental sustainability, access to infrastructure and government accountability.

Ona works with its partners to develop data solutions based on technologies Ona develops. These include Ona Data (ona.io) – a mobile data collection and visualization platform, Canopy – our new enterprise analytics solution and OpenSRP (smartregister.org) a mobile health platform Ona is developing with the World Health Organization.

Overview: We are looking for senior project manager with experience helping to develop and implement technology solutions in areas like data management, health (mHealth) and other service delivery areas.

This includes creating child vaccine systems for Ministries of Health and supporting the coordination of large humanitarian response efforts.

The ideal candidate will be able to combine a strong understanding of how technology can best be used to address problems with deep understanding of global development issues in the the humanitarian or health sectors.

The ideal candidate, will have experience working with software engineering and design teams to help translate needs to technical requirements and help ensure projects stay within scope and budget.

We are also looking for individuals that have experience setting up and institutionalizing best practice project management structures and processes in technology companies.

We are looking for people who are passionate about the potential of technology to drive positive change. We work globally on some of the world’s hardest problems partnering with organizations like WHO, UNICEF and PATH.

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