Executive Director
About Medic Afya
Medic Afya is a newly established, Nairobi-headquartered organisation with operations in Kenya and growing engagement across Africa. While informed by Medic Mobile’s 15+ year open-source legacy, it operates as an independent institution with its own strategic direction and governance.
The organisation works in close partnership with governments and ecosystem actors to strengthen national community health systems and close the digital divide in primary healthcare. By supporting locally owned digital platforms, Medic Afya empowers community health workers and advances equitable access to care, ensuring that frontline providers and the communities they serve have access to reliable, dignified, and user-centred digital tools.
About the Role
The Executive Director will shape Medic Afya’s vision, strategy, partnerships, and operations during a critical formative phase. This role requires a politically astute, relationship-oriented leader with strong stakeholder instincts and a deep commitment to strengthening national health systems and delivering high-quality, reliable service to community health workers and Ministries of Health.
Purpose of the Role
The Executive Director will be accountable for Medic Afya’s performance, credibility, and long-term sustainability. The role exists to ensure the organisation delivers reliable, high-quality digital community health systems and builds the institutional strength required for expansion.
This includes providing strategic direction, ensuring strong governance and operational discipline, cultivating senior-level partnerships, and securing sustainable resources. The Executive Director will align strategy, people, systems, and finances to ensure Medic Afya operates as a resilient, trusted, and high-performing institution within government health ecosystems.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Strategic leadership- Provide clear, Africa-centred strategic leadership grounded in universal health coverage and digital equity. Define and execute a long-term vision that positions Medic Afya as a trusted systems partner to governments, strengthens technology and operational foundations, and supports sustainable regional expansion.
- Team leadership- Build a cohesive, high-performing, and values-aligned team. Strengthen organisational culture and morale, and establish clear systems, structures, and accountability mechanisms that enable performance and institutional growth.
- Stakeholder engagement, external representation and influence- Cultivate credible, high-trust relationships with Ministries of Health, regional institutions, coalitions and platforms, funders and other key actors across the digital health ecosystem. Navigate complex political and stakeholder environments with credibility and discretion, reinforcing Medic Afya’s role as a long-term systems-strengthening partner. Represent the organisation as a leading voice in African-led digital transformation, championing responsible technology adoption and stronger community health systems.
- Governance and operational excellence- Work closely with the Board to establish strong governance, compliance, and effective risk management. Strengthen quality assurance, performance monitoring, and execution discipline, embedding a culture of continuous improvement, responsiveness and service excellence.
- Resource mobilisation and financial oversight- Secure diversified and sustainable funding streams while exercising prudent financial stewardship and strong value-for-money discipline to ensure long-term organisational resilience.
Skills and Experience
- Senior leadership experience (10+ years) in digital health, public health, community health, technology, or related sectors.
- Experience working with or within Ministries of Health or regional health bodies, with the ability to engage credibly at senior government levels.
- Proven ability to build and lead high-performing, multi-disciplinary teams, including through periods of growth or transition.
- Experience overseeing complex organisational budgets (typically $3M+ or equivalent), ensuring strong financial management and audit standards.
- Track record of managing donor relationships and securing diversified, sustainable funding.
- Good understanding of digital health systems, Health IT, digital public goods, interoperability, and the role of technology and data in strengthening public health.
- Experience navigating complex stakeholder environments and building effective cross-sector partnerships.
- Regional experience and the ability to operate effectively across diverse cultural and market contexts are desirable.
- Politically astute strategic thinker with strong execution capability.
- Clear and confident communicator able to influence diverse stakeholders.
- Strong commitment to user-centred solutions, health equity, digital inclusion, and Africa-led innovation.