Head of Nairobi Office & Partnerships Director
Location: Nairobi, Kenya, with periodic travel across Kenya and East Africa Contract: Full-time Start date: As soon as possible Compensation: Market-aligned, depending on experience
About Causal Foundry
Causal Foundry is an AI company building adaptive decision-support infrastructure for health systems, supply chains, and public-sector operations. Our platform, Kenkai, helps governments, funders, and implementing partners move from fragmented data and static dashboards to intelligent, adaptive systems that can predict risk, recommend action, personalize interventions, and continuously learn from real-world outcomes. We work with leading global health and public-sector partners to strengthen healthcare delivery in low- and middle-income countries, with a particular focus on operational AI, reinforcement learning, behavioral nudges, digital twins, health workforce optimization, supply chain intelligence, and privacy-first data infrastructure. In Kenya, Causal Foundry is supporting the Government of Kenya’s digital health transformation through AI-enabled tools for primary and community healthcare. Our work includes integration with national and strategic partner systems to improve frontline health worker engagement, supervision, learning, and quality of care.
About the Role
Causal Foundry is seeking a senior, highly trusted, and politically astute Head of Nairobi Office & Partnerships Director to represent and grow our presence in Kenya. This person will be responsible for leading Causal Foundry’s Nairobi office, strengthening relationships with government institutions, coordinating local implementation partners, developing strategic partnerships and funding opportunities, and ensuring that our AI-enabled health systems work is delivered with credibility, discipline, and long-term institutional value. The role requires someone who can operate comfortably at the intersection of government, technology, health systems, implementation, and partnerships. The ideal candidate will have strong relationships with Ministries of Health, digital health agencies, county governments, donors, and ecosystem partners, and will be able to navigate complex institutional environments with discretion, maturity, and excellent judgment. This is a foundational leadership role for Causal Foundry in Kenya and East Africa.
Key Responsibilities Government and stakeholder engagement
Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across the Ministry of Health, Digital Health Agency, Division of Community Health, county governments, public-sector agencies, and relevant national digital health structures. Represent Causal Foundry in strategic meetings, technical working groups, steering committees, workshops, and public-sector engagements. Navigate government processes with credibility, discretion, and persistence, ensuring that Causal Foundry’s work is aligned with national priorities, institutional governance, and long-term public-sector ownership.
Kenya program leadership
Lead local coordination of Causal Foundry’s Kenya portfolio, including work related to eCHIS, community health, PharmAccess SafeCare, the Virtual Academy, AI policy, and related digital health initiatives. Ensure that project activities are well coordinated across government, implementation partners, funders, and Causal Foundry’s technical teams. Support the transition from technical deployment to sustained adoption, ensuring that AI-enabled workflows are understood, trusted, and used by frontline and supervisory teams.
Supply chain and health systems expansion
Support the development of Causal Foundry’s health supply chain portfolio in Kenya and East Africa, including opportunities related to commodity availability, procurement intelligence, warehousing, distribution, last-mile logistics, vaccine delivery, and medical product access. Identify where Causal Foundry’s AI capabilities can help ministries, public agencies, donors, and implementing partners improve forecasting, reduce stockouts and expiries, optimize allocation, strengthen logistics performance, and support more resilient supply chains. Work with Causal Foundry’s technical and strategy teams to translate supply chain challenges into practical, fundable, and implementable AI use cases aligned with government priorities and partner needs.
AI in health policy and institutional positioning
Support Causal Foundry’s role in Kenya’s AI in Health agenda, including engagement with policy bodies, technical working groups, ethical review processes, and national digital health governance mechanisms. Help position Causal Foundry as a credible partner for responsible, privacy-first, locally governed AI infrastructure in health. Ensure that Causal Foundry’s work is communicated clearly as decision-support infrastructure for public health systems, not as a replacement for human judgment or government accountability.
Partnership and ecosystem development
Develop and manage relationships with local and regional partners, including NGOs, digital health implementers, academic institutions, donors, and private-sector actors. Actively identify new opportunities for collaboration, funding, and expansion, particularly where Causal Foundry’s platform can strengthen national systems, frontline workforce performance, supply chain resilience, or health financing operations. Lead or support proposal development, donor conversations, and strategic partnership opportunities in Kenya and East Africa. Build and maintain a pipeline of strategic opportunities with ministries, donors, implementing partners and innovation partners in Kenya and across the East Africa region (and globally as required)
Operational leadership of the Nairobi office
Establish and manage Causal Foundry’s Nairobi presence, including office operations, local hiring, team coordination, partner engagement, and administrative discipline. Build a high-performing, values-aligned local team over time, ensuring strong communication between Nairobi, Barcelona, and other Causal Foundry teams. Ensure that local operations reflect Causal Foundry’s standards for professionalism, responsiveness, transparency, and delivery excellence.
Implementation quality and risk management
Monitor implementation risks, including government approvals, partner coordination, data governance, adoption barriers, stakeholder misalignment, and reputational risks. Ensure that issues are escalated early and handled with maturity and diplomacy. Support local sensitization, change management, and adoption activities with government and implementation partners.
Candidate Profile
We are looking for a senior leader with strong institutional credibility, excellent stakeholder instincts, and deep understanding of Kenya’s health and digital health ecosystem.
The ideal candidate will bring:
10+ years of senior experience in public health, digital health, health systems, government relations, development, technology, or related sectors. Strong relationships with government institutions in Kenya, ideally including the Ministry of Health, Digital Health Agency, county governments, or national health programs. Demonstrated ability to engage credibly with senior government officials, donors, implementing partners, and technical teams. Familiarity with health supply chain challenges, including forecasting, procurement, warehousing, distribution, stockout prevention, commodity visibility, vaccine logistics, or last-mile delivery. Demonstrated experience in partnership development, donor engagement and strategic business development within global health, digital health or public sector innovation. Strong understanding of Kenya’s health system, Universal Health Coverage agenda, community health strategy, and digital health transformation. Proven ability to manage complex multi-stakeholder initiatives involving government, funders, NGOs, and technology partners. Excellent political judgment, discretion, and ability to navigate sensitive institutional dynamics. Strong communication skills, including the ability to translate technical concepts into clear institutional and policy value. Experience building or managing a country office, program team, or major partnership portfolio. Strong execution discipline, follow-through, and ability to move work forward in complex environments. Commitment to responsible AI, data protection, public-sector accountability, and locally owned digital transformation.
Desirable Experience
Experience with one or more of the following would be an advantage: Kenya eCHIS, Afya BI, DHIS2, or national digital health platforms. Community health systems and CHP / CHV programs. Ministry of Health technical working groups or policy processes. Donor-funded programs involving Gates Foundation, CEO Roundtable, Sanofi, Gavi, Global Fund, USAID, World Bank, or similar institutions. AI, machine learning, digital public infrastructure, interoperability, or health data governance. Regional experience across East Africa. Health supply chain systems, procurement platforms, LMIS, vaccine logistics, medical commodities distribution, or supply chain strengthening programs. Experience working with institutions or partners involved in health commodity procurement and distribution, such as national medical stores, county supply chain teams, Gavi, Global Fund, UNICEF, UNFPA, USAID, or similar actors.
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