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Director Outreach Operations

Aga Khan University (AKU)

Nairobi, Kenya Permanent

Published 2 months ago · Expires 3 weeks from now

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An established company is recruiting for the following position. Key Responsibilities: Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, the Director will provide overall leadership and operational oversight of the Outreach Division, ensuring the effective integration of the Hospital’s strategic plan into outreach operations. The role is responsible for developing high-quality, cost-effective, and financially sustainable outreach and selected outpatient services, while strengthening referral networks, partnerships, quality, and patient experience across geographically dispersed sites. Specific responsibilities will include:
  • Strategic Leadership and Outreach Expansion: Contribute to the development and execution of the Hospital’s overall strategic plan by analyzing the external environment, leading the implementation of outreach strategic and operational plans, expanding outreach activities, establishing satellite clinics, and strengthening referral networks to support an integrated and geographically distributed healthcare system.
  • Leadership of Outreach Medical Centers: Provide overall leadership for outreach medical centers by working with managers and clinics to establish appropriate professional practice structures, monitoring indicators, and governance mechanisms that ensure quality, efficiency, and consistency of services across all outreach sites.
  • Operations, Staffing, and Infrastructure Management: Ensure outreach medical centers are adequately staffed and equipped by overseeing staffing structures, operational indicators, and the functionality and maintenance of medical and other equipment to support safe, reliable, and efficient service delivery.
  • Performance and Talent Management: Drive performance management processes by setting operational targets, conducting staff performance appraisals, identifying training and development needs, and building cohesive, high-performing teams aligned to institutional goals, while working to maintain or surpass EBITDA targets.
  • Networking, Marketing, and Partnerships: Participate in joint AKHS/AKUHN coordination forums, develop and maintain referral networks for outreach centers, and oversee the implementation of marketing activities to enhance visibility, patient volumes, and coordination of care across outreach sites.
  • Financial and Resource Management: Lead the development and management of outreach operational and capital budgets, monitor manpower, FTEs, expenditures, and utilization indicators, and ensure outreach medical centers operate on a financially self-sustaining basis that covers operating costs and generates surplus for reinvestment into hospital and regional programs.
  • Clinical Integration and Decision Support: Work closely with hospital management and medical leadership to reduce costs, enhance revenues, improve utilization, and achieve quality goals by analyzing...

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