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Project Manager, Innovation Job Placement – Living Goods (LG)
Job
Title: Project Manager, Innovation
Title: Project Manager, Innovation
Organisation: Living Goods (LG)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Senior Manager,
Global Innovation
Global Innovation
About US:
Living Goods (LG) seeks to improve the lives of tens of millions of
underserved customers by revolutionizing the way community health is delivered
in the developing world. To do this, Living Goods not only grows its own
business operations, but also dramatically magnifies its impact through
large-scale partnerships. Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’
micro-entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their
health and wealth while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic
medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook stoves, and solar lights.
underserved customers by revolutionizing the way community health is delivered
in the developing world. To do this, Living Goods not only grows its own
business operations, but also dramatically magnifies its impact through
large-scale partnerships. Living Goods supports networks of ‘Avon-like’
micro-entrepreneurs who go door-to-door teaching families how to improve their
health and wealth while selling affordable, high-impact products like basic
medicines, fortified foods, water filters, clean cook stoves, and solar lights.
Job Summary: The Project
Manager, Innovation will provide catalytic leadership. The Innovations team
will work closely with the country teams to lead the innovation agenda. One arm of the team will focus on radical
innovation to transform community health – called LGX. Another arm runs the Innovation Network, a
Gates-funded incubation lab that tests community health technologies. The third arm of team is the Innovation
Experiment Program. Led by the Senior
Manager, Global Innovation, this arm will lead programmatic, financing and
technology innovations. The Senior
Manager oversees the Project Manager, Innovation in Uganda.
Manager, Innovation will provide catalytic leadership. The Innovations team
will work closely with the country teams to lead the innovation agenda. One arm of the team will focus on radical
innovation to transform community health – called LGX. Another arm runs the Innovation Network, a
Gates-funded incubation lab that tests community health technologies. The third arm of team is the Innovation
Experiment Program. Led by the Senior
Manager, Global Innovation, this arm will lead programmatic, financing and
technology innovations. The Senior
Manager oversees the Project Manager, Innovation in Uganda.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- Design experiments – You will develop
experiments and workplans for new programs, technologies and processes-
that can improve efficiency and health impact. - Manage experiments – You will coordinate
experiments to test new programs, technologies, and processes. You will work with field teams,
partners, and other departments.
You will draw insights, identify challenges, and make adjustments
needed to ensure success. - Contribute to the idea pipeline –
collaborate with colleagues to generate ideas that will make the biggest
difference, collating ideas top down, bottom up including input from
clients and Community Health Workers. - Manage your team– You will guide and
motivate the Innovation Coordinator and Innovation Analyst. Ensure that
you work as a team to deliver experiments against the approved design
plan, overcome challenges, and monitor and report frequently against
success criteria. - Share lessons learned – Share widely what
we learn (successes and failures), helping not just Living Goods but also
the field of community health, ministries of health, and other community
health organizations all around the world
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate for the Living Goods Project
Manager, Innovation job should have project management skills. You have a bachelor’s degree and 4+
years experience managing projects in emerging markets. You like to get
things done in a structured, methodical way. You are driven to use data to
find solutions and inform decision-making. - Passion for community health. Ideally, you have experience working in
public health or health technologies.
If not, you are steadfastly committed to improving health of low
income people globally. - Curiosity.
You wonder a lot. You love
to day- dream about solutions to problems.
You are good at conceptualizing.
You like to design things. You read a lot and know what is
happening around the world, and new ideas in difference contexts spark
your creative juices. - Collaborative. You know how to motivate people to think
differently and to help others set priorities and work towards goals. - Strategic. You are a quick thinker, laser
focused and clear decision maker. You have a strong interest in
private-sector approaches to development and a proven ability to produce
results. - Lives our values. You can thrive in our
culture – you can demonstrate inclusion, integrity, innovation, quick
footedness, collaboration, and accountability.
NB: Ugandan nationals
preferred. Please note that only candidates meeting the minimum qualifications
will be considered.
preferred. Please note that only candidates meeting the minimum qualifications
will be considered.
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates are strongly
encouraged to apply online at the web link below.
encouraged to apply online at the web link below.
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