Head of Programmes - LSTM Kenya

POSITION: Head of Programmes - LSTM Kenya ORGANIZATION: Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine ABOUT THE ROLE As Head of Programmes at LSTM Kenya, you will drive excellence across our research portfolio while ensuring smooth operations and strong partnerships. This is a pivotal leadership position responsible for managing an annual research investment exceeding £9 million. You'll work alongside our Chief Operating Officer to strengthen governance frameworks, enhance risk management protocols, and optimize operational systems that enable transformative tropical medicine research across Kenya. Your leadership will span programme management, administrative support, logistics coordination, and operational teams. You'll empower Principal Investigators to achieve ambitious research goals, maintain rigorous donor compliance standards, and represent LSTM Kenya as the senior operational voice in conversations with government agencies, funding bodies, research collaborators, and regional and international stakeholders. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES You will provide strategic programmatic leadership that ensures efficient delivery of our research initiatives. This includes developing and monitoring key performance indicators and metrics specific to LSTM Kenya's context, advising organizational leadership on structural improvements and workforce planning needs, and serving as the primary operational liaison connecting internal departments and external partners. Your role encompasses oversight of programme management operations, supervision of administrative and logistics teams, support for Principal Investigators in delivering world-class research outputs, management of donor relations and compliance reporting requirements, and representation of LSTM Kenya at strategic forums and stakeholder engagements.