Project Manager – Horizon 1000 Kenya

ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

Horizon 1000 is a transformative initiative to deploy contextually grounded, ethically designed artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, including 7, across primary healthcare systems in Kenya. Amref Health Africa will lead a three-county proof of concept in Murang'a, Mombasa and Bungoma, working alongside an AI design partner, a technology partner, a clinical learning partner and an implementation science partner. The project sits at the intersection of digital health innovation, primary healthcare strengthening and implementation science. Its defining legacy will be a practical, replicable deployment playbook that equips future implementers to deploy AI in Kenya's primary healthcare system with confidence, fidelity and speed.

JOB PURPOSE

The Project Manager will coordinate the day-to-day implementation of the Horizon 1000 Kenya project under the guidance of the Director, Impact & Innovation. The role will support delivery coordination, partner and sub-grantee follow-up, external stakeholder engagement and consistent application of the project's values throughout implementation.

The role requires strong project management, health systems knowledge and digital health fluency, together with a commitment to co-design and community-centred approaches. The Project Manager will support engagement across the government and regulatory landscape, coordinate partner inputs, and contribute to the systematic capture of implementation learning for the national AI deployment playbook and scaling framework.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

Project and Partnership Management

• Coordinate project planning, implementation and monitoring across the three counties, ensuring activities are delivered on time and aligned with agreed work plans and objectives.
• Support budget tracking, risk monitoring and funder reporting, maintaining accurate records and escalating significant variances or delivery risks.
• Coordinate day-to-day delivery across primary partners, specialist sub-grantees, government counterparts and community stakeholders, tracking agreed activities and outputs.
• Support administration of sub-grant agreements with specialist organisations, track performance and deliverables, coordinate inputs into the project's learning system, and facilitate interfaces with the technology partner.
• Support the convening and servicing of the project's governance structures at project and county levels, maintaining accurate records and following up agreed decisions and actions.
• Coordinate the day-to-day activities of the project team, provide operational guidance, monitor progress against work plans and escalate issues requiring management attention.

Use Case Co-Design and Implementation

• Coordinate landscape assessments and participatory co-design activities in each county with the human-centred design expert organisation, healthcare workers, community health promoters, facility managers and county health teams.
• Support the development and validation of AI use cases grounded in local clinical realities and primary care workflows.
• Coordinate the phased, facility-level rollout of AI-enabled CDSS and related solutions, including change-management activities and healthcare worker onboarding.
• Implement feedback mechanisms, consolidate user and stakeholder input, and coordinate agreed improvements during implementation.

External Stakeholder Engagement and Governance

• Support Amref's engagement with the Ministry of Health, Digital Health Agency, Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, county health authorities and relevant clinical regulatory bodies, maintaining effective working relationships at the operational level.
• Coordinate required inputs, documentation and follow-up for regulatory, data governance, clinical validation and ethical oversight processes associated with AI-enabled CDSS deployment.
• Contribute to project engagement within Kenya's national digital health and AI agenda and support meaningful government and county participation.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

• Work with the monitoring and evaluation team and implementation science partner to coordinate implementation of the project's MEL framework, baseline and outcome evaluations, and implementation science activities.
• Support the collection, quality review and synthesis of evidence on project results and the conditions under which AI solutions work in Kenyan primary healthcare settings.
• Track partner and sub-grantee progress, maintain accurate performance records and use evidence and feedback to recommend operational improvements.
• Support the translation of implementation learning into accessible products for government, county health teams, funders and the wider digital health community.

Deployment Playbook, Sustainability and Scaling

• Coordinate partner contributions to the development of an AI deployment playbook documenting the process from co-design and regulatory navigation through solution build, implementation and evaluation.
• Support engagement with the Ministry of Health and Digital Health Agency on the development and use of the deployment playbook as a practical resource.
• Contribute project evidence and implementation inputs to the development of the scaling framework and sustainability plan with government partners.
• Ensure that lessons, implementation tools and decision points are systematically documented for adaptation and use by future implementers.