Application Guide
How to Apply for District Coordinator in Community Health
at Living Goods
🏢 About Living Goods
Living Goods is unique for its innovative digital health approach that equips Community Health Workers (ASBCs) with technology, training, and supplies to deliver high-impact care in underserved communities. Working here offers the opportunity to be part of a mission-driven organization that partners with governments to scale sustainable community health solutions across Africa.
About This Role
As a District Coordinator, you'll manage community health program operations across specific districts in Burkina Faso, ensuring ASBCs have functional digital tools, medicines, training, and timely remuneration. This role is impactful because you'll directly coordinate learning sites and supervise field staff to maintain program effectiveness and strengthen health systems in remote regions.
💡 A Day in the Life
A typical day involves coordinating with district health teams to monitor ASBC performance, troubleshooting digital tool issues in the field, ensuring medicine supply chains are functioning, and supervising LG staff through remote check-ins and site visits. You'll spend significant time collaborating with regional health officials and documenting program outcomes to inform learning site improvements.
🚀 Application Tools
🎯 Who Living Goods Is Looking For
- Has experience coordinating health programs in rural or remote districts in West Africa, particularly Burkina Faso
- Demonstrates strong operational management skills with digital health tools and supply chain logistics for medicines
- Possesses fluency in French and local languages relevant to Plateau Central and Centre Sud regions
- Shows proven ability to collaborate with government health officials, district management teams, and community health workers
📝 Tips for Applying to Living Goods
Highlight specific experience managing community health programs in Burkina Faso or similar West African contexts
Quantify your impact on ASBC (or similar community health worker) performance metrics like training completion rates or medicine availability
Demonstrate familiarity with digital health tools used by frontline health workers in low-resource settings
Show how you've successfully collaborated with government health departments at district or regional levels
Include examples of supervising field staff in remote locations with limited infrastructure
✉️ What to Emphasize in Your Cover Letter
['Your direct experience coordinating health programs in Burkina Faso or similar Francophone West African countries', 'Specific examples of managing digital tools and supply chains for community health workers', 'Success stories of collaborating with government health officials to strengthen community health systems', "How you've trained and supervised field staff in remote, resource-constrained environments"]
Generate Cover Letter →🔍 Research Before Applying
To stand out, make sure you've researched:
- → Living Goods' specific digital health tools and platforms used by ASBCs in Burkina Faso
- → The organization's current partnerships with Burkina Faso's Ministry of Health and regional health authorities
- → Challenges facing community health programs in Plateau Central and Centre Sud regions specifically
- → Living Goods' innovation in community health worker remuneration and supervision models
💬 Prepare for These Interview Topics
Based on this role, you may be asked about:
⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Applying with only urban health management experience without rural/remote district coordination
- Failing to demonstrate specific knowledge of Burkina Faso's health system and community health landscape
- Using generic application materials that don't address digital health tools, ASBC management, or government collaboration
📅 Application Timeline
This position is open until filled. However, we recommend applying as soon as possible as roles at mission-driven organizations tend to fill quickly.
Typical hiring timeline:
Application Review
1-2 weeks
Initial Screening
Phone call or written assessment
Interviews
1-2 rounds, usually virtual
Offer
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