Head of Nairobi Office & Partnerships Director

Head of Nairobi Office & Partnerships Director

Location: Nairobi, Kenya, with periodic travel across Kenya and East Africa

Contract: Full-time

Start date: As soon as possible

Compensation: Market-aligned, depending on experience

About Causal Foundry

Causal Foundry is an AI company building adaptive decision-support infrastructure for health systems, supply chains, and public-sector operations. Our platform, Kenkai, helps governments, funders, and implementing partners move from fragmented data and static dashboards to intelligent, adaptive systems that can predict risk, recommend action, personalize interventions, and continuously learn from real-world outcomes.

We work with leading global health and public-sector partners to strengthen healthcare delivery in low- and middle-income countries, with a particular focus on operational AI, reinforcement learning, behavioral nudges, digital twins, health workforce optimization, supply chain intelligence, and privacy-first data infrastructure.

In Kenya, Causal Foundry is supporting the Government of Kenya’s digital health transformation through AI-enabled tools for primary and community healthcare. Our work includes integration with national and strategic partner systems to improve frontline health worker engagement, supervision, learning, and quality of care.

About the Role

Causal Foundry is seeking a senior, highly trusted, and politically astute Head of Nairobi Office & Partnerships Director to represent and grow our presence in Kenya.

This person will be responsible for leading Causal Foundry’s Nairobi office, strengthening relationships with government institutions, coordinating local implementation partners, developing strategic partnerships and funding opportunities, and ensuring that our AI-enabled health systems work is delivered with credibility, discipline, and long-term institutional value.

The role requires someone who can operate comfortably at the intersection of government, technology, health systems, implementation, and partnerships. The ideal candidate will have strong relationships with Ministries of Health, digital health agencies, county governments, donors, and ecosystem partners, and will be able to navigate complex institutional environments with discretion, maturity, and excellent judgment.

This is a foundational leadership role for Causal Foundry in Kenya and East Africa.

Key Responsibilities

Government and stakeholder engagement

Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across the Ministry of Health, Digital Health Agency, Division of Community Health, county governments, public-sector agencies, and relevant national digital health structures.

Represent Causal Foundry in strategic meetings, technical working groups, steering committees, workshops, and public-sector engagements.

Navigate government processes with credibility, discretion, and persistence, ensuring that Causal Foundry’s work is aligned with national priorities, institutional governance, and long-term public-sector ownership.

Kenya program leadership

Lead local coordination of Causal Foundry’s Kenya portfolio, including work related to eCHIS, community health, PharmAccess SafeCare, the Virtual Academy, AI policy, and related digital health initiatives.

Ensure that project activities are well coordinated across government, implementation partners, funders, and Causal Foundry’s technical teams.

Support the transition from technical deployment to sustained adoption, ensuring that AI-enabled workflows are understood, trusted, and used by frontline and supervisory teams.

Supply chain and health systems expansion

Support the development of Causal Foundry’s health supply chain portfolio in Kenya and East Africa, including opportunities related to commodity availability, procurement intelligence, warehousing, distribution, last-mile logistics, vaccine delivery, and medical product access.

Identify where Causal Foundry’s AI capabilities can help ministries, public agencies, donors, and implementing partners improve forecasting, reduce stockouts and expiries, optimize allocation, strengthen logistics performance, and support more resilient supply chains.

Work with Causal Foundry’s technical and strategy teams to translate supply chain challenges into practical, fundable, and implementable AI use cases aligned with government priorities and partner needs.

AI in health policy and institutional positioning

Support Causal Foundry’s role in Kenya’s AI in Health agenda, including engagement with policy bodies, technical working groups, ethical review processes, and national digital healt