Senior Program Manager, Scale & Partnerships

🕒 June 23

🌐 Kenya, Nigeria, +1 more countries – Remote

🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote 🇳🇬 Nigeria – Remote 🇪🇬 Egypt – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

📋 Program Manager

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Noora Health

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2014

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

🍽️ Food & Beverage

💰 Venture Round - Noora Health on 2016-01

Healthcare • Consulting • Food & Beverage

Noora Health is a nonprofit that partners with hospitals and health systems to train family caregivers and frontline health workers, delivering scalable, evidence-based caregiving education. Operating across India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Nepal, Noora Health's programs aim to reduce preventable complications and newborn mortality by equipping families with essential skills and support. It collaborates with global partners like the WHO and integrates caregiver training into routine care to improve patient outcomes in low-resource settings.

📋 Description

• Report to the Head of Global Scaling and Partnerships • Co-manage the team's portfolio across active country programmes, new expansion, and NIAB development as a scaling model • Oversee active NIAB pilots and country partnerships, including milestone tracking, programme data monitoring, risk identification, and troubleshooting • Maintain regular portfolio check-ins, milestone trackers, and data reviews • Monitor partner progress across geographies and identify needed course corrections • Serve as primary contact for assigned NIAB partners during pilot phases • Work with programme and technology teams to support partners • Conduct research, scoping, and due diligence for new country entries • Map health systems, potential partners, policy environments, training infrastructure, and World Bank/multilateral engagement • Identify civil society and institutional partners whose health programmes could integrate the CCP • Assess and score countries against NIAB partner selection criteria and produce opportunity briefs for go/no-go decisions • Lead Africa and MENA market development and build a pipeline of potential NIAB partners • Identify regional distribution partners and represent Noora Health at health convenings • Build and refine the NIAB playbook using field learnings • Support development of the Early Access track • Feed partner and country learnings into the NIAB product team • Document expansion principles and partnership learnings • Produce synthesis notes, country opportunity briefs, and go/no-go recommendations • Support portfolio representation to the board, funders, and external partners • Contribute to funder-facing materials, partner concept notes, and event proposals

🎯 Requirements

• Demonstrated ability to move a relationship from first contact to a structured partnership agreement • Comfortable representing Noora Health with government counterparts, multilateral staff, and institutional partners • Experience with co-investment or co-funding models • Ability to have direct, honest conversations with partners and drive resolution • Familiarity with health systems, policy landscape, and key actors in at least one African sub-region; East Africa strongly preferred • Existing relationships with government health ministries, WHO/World Bank Africa offices, regional health bodies, or major implementing organisations • Understanding of how health programmes are adopted, funded, and sustained within African public health systems • Ability to rigorously assess country or partner opportunities • Strong written communication for concept notes, briefing documents, and partner-facing materials • Experience in a learning-oriented organisation where assumptions are documented and tested • Ability to track a portfolio of active relationships and programmes across concurrent workstreams • Experience in programme operations or country programme management • Comfortable working across time zones with strong async communication habits • 7–10 years of experience in global health, health system strengthening, international development, or a closely related field • At least 3–4 years working in or focused on Africa, with direct experience managing government or institutional partnerships • Experience within or alongside a product or innovation organisation is a strong plus • Based in Kenya, Egypt, or Nigeria • Flexibility to travel across the region (approximately 25–30% travel)

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexibility to travel across the region (approximately 25–30% travel) • Diversity, equity, and inclusion valued • Opportunity to work with a live product and institutional relationships from Day 1 • Globally distributed team with flexible async communication