Job Title: Senior Fundraising and Business Development Advisor
(External Consultant)
Date Posted: 07/07/2026
Job Type: Full Time
Employer: Jacaranda Health
Industry: Sales &
Marketing
Salary: Open
Location: Nairobi
Country: Kenya
Deadline: 17/07/2026
Looking for a medical job in Kenya? Jacaranda Health is hiring a senior fundraising & business development advisor to build and activate a broad network of relevant funder relationships.
The role is based in Nairobi and experience experience working on maternal health/newborn care is required.
About the role
We
are looking for a well-connected senior advisor to help us build relationships
with, and carve the right in-roads into a broader set of funders. We need
someone with a deep understanding of the global health and philanthropic
funding landscape, and can help us think strategically about which doors to
knock on and how. You will work closely with our Director of Global
Development, Co-Executive Director, and Head of Country Expansion, operating as
a trusted thought partner and connector as we sharpen our fundraising strategy
and pursue new revenue streams.
Reports to: Director of Global
Communications & Development
Terms
of Engagement: Consultancy
Key Responsibilities
- Help us build and activate a broad network of relevant funder
relationships. This includes identifying the right channels, events, and
communities to engage, making targeted introductions, and helping us show
up in the right rooms.
- We have strong philanthropic foundation funding but want to
diversify into new revenue streams to support our next phase of scale,
including bilaterals, multilaterals, government-to-government, big bet and
effective altruism funders, and corporates. A core early contribution will
be scoping work: assessing which of these channels represent the right
bets for us, where the most promising in-roads lie, and where we should be
investing our time.
- Provide targeted advisory support on a rolling basis: for example,
helping us craft the right narrative and ask for a specific funder,
pressure-testing our positioning for a new funding channel, or developing
a focused action plan around one or two priority opportunities that our
internal team can then own and drive.
- Work alongside our Head of Country Expansion, and Directors of
Global Programs and Development to identify and connect with funders who
can resource our scale-up across current and new SSA geographies.
Qualifications
- Deeply networked in the global health and international development
funding ecosystem, with strong existing relationships across foundations,
multilaterals, bilaterals, and big bet funders.
- Direct experience working in or supporting fundraising efforts
across Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Senior-level background in fundraising or business development for
mission-driven global health organisations, with experience spanning
multiple funding channels beyond foundations.
- A strategic thinker who can help a growing organisation cut through
a complex funding landscape, and is comfortable shaping thinking and
making connections rather than managing delivery.
- Bonus: existing relationships with funders such as Skoll, Co-Impact,
CIFF, ELMA, or experience navigating government-to-government or
multilateral funding mechanisms.
Desirable Skills and Competencies:
- Experience working on maternal health, newborn care, or broader
reproductive and primary health programmes in SSA.
- Existing relationships with in-country government stakeholders in
Nigeria, Tanzania, Ghana, or other West or East African markets.
- Familiarity with the G2G aid landscape as it is evolving under
current US foreign policy priorities.
How to Apply
