Delivery Leader

Overview : Work with governments and impact organizations, engaging senior leaders in the public sector to address their most complex challenges to improve health outcomes for citizens. Your role involves project implementation, building capacity ties for delivering priority initiatives, and contributing to data system strengthening.

Job Description

As a Delivery Leader in a country project in public health, you will support the delivery of priorities to foster sexual and reproductive health, working jointly with government entities and other partners on the ground to plan for delivery, monitor progress, and address implementation challenges.

This is a contractor role, being offered as a 1-year fixed-term engagement. There may be an opportunity for the engagement to be extended depending on performance and business need.

As a Delivery Leader, you’ll work with senior government officials to support better delivery of public services for the good of their citizens and residents. We are looking for someone to support our teams as we grow our work across Africa, bringing a sharp and data-informed analytical problem-solving skill set to support our clients. This may include working with clients to use data to formulate and test recommendations to improve senior-level decision-making, facilitate problem-solving and collaboration through action-oriented routines, design and delivery of stakeholder workshops, and/or engaging with frontline services providers and end users to inform policy and program implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive and support partner organizations in implementing reforms to build the capacity of the ministry of health, offering guidance and coaching to the client’s team for achieving tangible results.
• Engage directly with local governments and partners, facilitating relationship-building, problem-solving, collaboration, and knowledge management with partners.
• Lead data collection and analytical processes to develop robust recommendations for client presentations.
• Implement prioritized reforms, working closely with client team members.
• Plan and execute stakeholder workshops, ensuring the smooth flow of routine meetings.
• Contribute to the development of client reports and communication materials.
• Build capacity for delivery across sectors through training, coaching, and feedback.
• Foster a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Skill sets:

We work closely in diverse, global teams, leaning on each other’s strengths. We don’t expect any one person to do all these things perfectly. Our teams are made up of people who can:

• Build relationships: Earn trust and influence among diverse stakeholders, especially in the public sector or nonprofit world.
• Facilitate and coach: Run effective meetings and workshops that drive towards problem solving and consensus.
• Analyze and visualize: Collect, manage and analyze raw data to extract actionable insights and recommendations and visualize it for decision-making.
• Model data to identify patterns and forecast future trends: Utilize advanced analytical techniques and tools to reveal relationships within datasets, enabling prediction of outcomes and informed decision-making.
• Write and communicate clearly: Turn complex problems or insights into clear memos and well-structured slides; speak clearly and concisely in remote and in-person settings. Be able to simplify complexity, translating technical language into digestible narratives that enable great decision making of different audiences.
• Prioritize and manage workstreams: Bring clear structure and planning to day-to-day work and communication.
• Solve problems: Break down problems and identify root causes before developing hypotheses and solutions.
• Stay focused: Navigate complexity, especially in policy and program implementation, consistently steering large coalitions back to a single-minded focus on priority outcomes.

Mindsets

We work well with people who are:

• Adaptable: Public sector work is dynamic. Our people are, too.
• Analytical: We identify, dissect, and solve complex problems.
• Accountable: We are a remote team. We work collaboratively but self-sufficiently; oversight is often minimal.
• Driven: Our work is important, so it’s important we do it well.
• Curious: We never stop learning from our clients, colleagues, and partners.
• Collaborative: We are flexible, thoughtful, and team players.
• Inclusive: We embrace all voices and backgrounds; it enriches our work.
• Resilient: We deliver results that are typically difficult to achieve. We stay on track and do not give up.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or above, Master’s in public health is preferable. Otherwise, equivalent requisite working experience will also be considered.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with top consulting firms, governments, or international organizations.
• Must have business-level proficiency in English (spoken and written).
• Prior experience in a client-facing role in public sector contexts.
• Proficiency in project implementation or direct experience in delivering results.
• Sector expertise in health on the African continent is a plus.

What we offer:

• Exposure to senior leaders in government, nonprofits, NGOs, and other social impact organizations.
• Opportunity to be part of a growing organization working on transformative projects around the world.
• Flexible, hybrid and remote working environment.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.

About Delivery Associates:

We help governments, foundations, and social impact organizations all over the world turn big ideas, campaign promises, and ambitious goals into everyday reality for the people they serve. With over ten years of experience and expert staff guiding our work, Delivery Associates has delivered impact in areas ranging from education reform in the US to microfinance in South America to agricultural reform in Africa and the Middle East. We approach every problem with a strong bias towards implementation, an open mind to possibilities, empathy for governments and residents, and a strong value system. We are always asking ourselves, our partners, and our clients: What would it take to make change happen?

To learn more about Delivery Associates please visit deliveryassociates.com/our-work or contact our talent team at for more information on opportunities to join our team.