Kate Onyejekwe

Kate Onyejekwe is Vice President, Program Management at JSI. She is an experienced public health and management professional with 26 years of experience in design, implementation, and monitoring of national and international health programs.

Kate has versatile experience in family planning and reproductive health, maternal and child health, immunization, HIV/AIDS, health system strengthening, community development and pharmaceutical management as well as technical, financial, contractual, and operational management in multi-cultural settings with a variety of donors, including USAID. She also has demonstrated experience establishing systems, overseeing project implementation, and leading teams to comply with donor and partner regulations including US Government procedures, while building and nurturing partnerships for program implementation, policy change and resource mobilization. As MCSP’s Country Support Manager, Ms. Onyejekwe served as a member of MCSP’s technical Executive Management Team (EMT), interfacing with USAID bureaus and country missions, ministries of health, international agencies and other stakeholders, and supervises country assessment, planning and review mission; leveraging resources and coordinating inputs from multiple partners to ensure that MCSP’s country programs benefit from the breadth and depth of its partners’ expertise to increase the coverage and quality of evidence-based interventions in the field; ensuring client satisfaction and contributing to program learning agenda and the documentation and sharing of results and lessons learned. Ms. Onyejekwe directly and indirectly supervises over 120 staff including, chiefs of party, program officers and administrative and financial staff in the U.S. and the MCSP-assisted countries. Previously she worked as Senior Results Manager for USAID Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS), was Program and Operations Lead at Management Sciences for Health (MSH), overseeing its country operations management teams and the SOP system. She also led Pathfinder/Nigeria’s Institutional Capacity Building Program and co-managed the country office HIV/AIDS portfolio.

Kate has work experience in over 13 African countries and Haiti, and technical assistance to programs in an additional nine African countries, Ukraine and the Lower Mekong sub-region.