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Lwala is growing our strategic partnership and grants management capacities to meet organizational needs and fundraising goals. In the last five years, we have grown from $1.3 million to over $8 million in annual revenue, with support from private foundations, technical health funders, and individual donors. In order to implement our ambitious 2025 Strategy, we expect to raise $50m over this 5-year period.
Lwala’s reporting, development, and communications processes have been growing over recent years to better drive feedback loops within the organization and to external stakeholders. The Learning and Development Officer will support Lwala’s Development and Program teams to make strides in improving its data systems, driving feedback loops, reporting, proposals and communicating externally. These organizational elements are intertwined and require communication and coordination between them in order to drive impact, learning and growth.
Further, the Learning and Development Officer will support team members in growing their skills in writing and telling stories. Helping to build the capacity of team members in their ability to fully understand, talk about and share program results that directly benefit the overall mission of Lwala Community Alliance. The Learning and Development Officer sits within the Development team, with significant collaboration with program teams, research and learning, and finance.

The Development Assistant is a two-part position that provides foundational support to all departments of the U.S. Team and bridges Kenyan and U.S. work priorities and workflow.

Assistant to the US-based Co-CEO. Purpose is to make the executive team a better, faster, stronger, and more effective unit by creating capacity for senior leaders to focus on the most important tasks and to serve as a sounding board and a process-creator for new systems and processes. The Executive Assistant owns executive scheduling, supports workflow coordination, liaises with the Board of Directors, coordinates travel, and may be exposed to sensitive organization information others on the team may not be privy to.
U.S. Team Manager. Purpose is to oversee growing U.S. team including Nashville-based interns; manages HR processes, coordinates events, manages office administration, coordinates and leads team building, supports communications, and manages donor relations and donor processing.

Lwala is a member of the Community Health Impact Coalition - an initiative of some of global health's most innovative implementers to catalyze the adoption of high-impact community health systems design. You can learn about job opportunities with fellow coalition members here.