The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to our mission of saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries. We work at the invitation of governments to support them and the private sector to create and sustain high-quality health systems.

CHAI was founded in 2002 in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with the goal of dramatically reducing the price of life-saving drugs and increasing access to these medicines in the countries with the highest burden of the disease. Over the following two decades, CHAI has expanded its focus. Today, along with HIV, we work in conjunction with our partners to prevent and treat infectious diseases such as COVID-19, malaria, tuberculosis, and hepatitis. Our work has also expanded into cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and other non-communicable diseases, and we work to accelerate the rollout of lifesaving vaccines, reduce maternal and child mortality, combat chronic malnutrition, and increase access to assistive technology. We are investing in horizontal approaches to strengthen health systems through programs in human resources for health, digital health, and health financing. With each new and innovative program, our strategy is grounded in maximizing sustainable impact at scale, ensuring that governments lead the solutions, that programs are designed to scale nationally, and learnings are shared globally.

At CHAI, our people are our greatest asset, and none of this work would be possible without their talent, time, dedication and passion for our mission and values. We are a highly diverse team of enthusiastic individuals across 40 countries with a broad range of skill sets and life experiences. CHAI is deeply grounded in the countries we work in, with the majority of our staff based in program countries. Learn more about our exciting work: http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org

CHAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to providing an environment of fairness, and mutual respect where all applicants have access to equal employment opportunities. CHAI values diversity and inclusion and recognizes that our mission is best advanced by the leadership and contributions of people with diverse experience, backgrounds, and culture.

Overview of Role:

The Clinton Health Access Initiative’s (CHAI’s) work in malaria Commodity Access provides support for National Malaria Control Programs (NMCPs throughout sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central America). CHAI’s Commodity Access Team support involves providing analytical, operational, and management expertise to help CHAI’s country teams and NMCPs achieve high coverage in diagnosing, treating and curing malaria patients. On a global scale, CHAI collaborates with global malaria stakeholders like the Global Fund to Fight AIDs, Tuberculosis and Malaria or the World Health Organization on malaria policies, priorities and strategies to improve patient access to malaria commodities.

CHAI is seeking an Associate, to help identify, design, implement and evaluate opportunities that can increase the proportion of malaria patients that are treated and cured across the public, private and community sectors in East and Southern Africa (chiefly Angola and Mozambique). The associate will work closely together with CHAI’s country teams, providing technical and implementation support and acting as a liaison with CHAI’s global malaria teams.

The candidate must have excellent communications skills and cultural sensitivity, as s/he will be working closely with global and country partners. The successful Associate will have strong organizational and project management skills and will be capable of synthesizing data and literature, conducting rapid analyses and communicating such analyses on a regular basis in a clear and concise manner to colleagues and partners. The Associate will be able to collaborate effectively with other teams, function efficiently in a semi-independent setting, and thus be a self-motivated individual capable of managing multiple tasks at once and making sound independent decisions regarding data analysis.

The individual will bring a generalist skill set to the team and is willing to take on a variety of tasks ranging from data analytics, developing training materials, updating national guidelines to operational support to facilitate workshops with government stakeholders. Examples of the country support include the design and implementation of community health workers expansion or forecasting multi-year need for malaria commodities. Focus countries supported include Angola and Mozambique, though potential support may be required in other countries.

Provide technical, operational and implementation support including but not limited to:

• Malaria case management in both private and public sectors:
  • Developing and maintaining a strong understanding of the malaria diagnosis and treatment landscape within Southern Africa; and serve as a trusted adviser and collaborator to CHAI country teams and national malaria programs on issues related to case management;
  • Identifying high priority opportunities to improve the quality and coverage of malaria diagnosis and treatment across public, private and community sectors through scoping exercises and review of routine data;
  • Developing technical expertise in diagnosis and treatment tools and interventions relevant to, and stay updated on latest global guidance and research through technical working groups, publications, meetings; to advise country teams and governments;
  • Developing and supporting the implementation of M&E plans for CHAI and government case management and tools to include collection, analysis, interpretation and use of appropriate indicators;
  • Ensuring documentation and dissemination of topics related to malaria case management and/or supply chain management activities and results through technical reports, presentations, policy briefs, and publications; 
  • Generating, synthesizing and translating evidence (i.e., via surveys, literature reviews, routine data analysis) to inform government and partner policy and programmatic decision-making;
• Community health:
  • Expand access to and effectiveness of community case management networks through targeted and context specific strategies.
• Supply Chain Management:
  • Collaborating with government partners, CHAI country teams, and other stakeholders, to identify data & capacity gaps that impact procurement, supply, and distribution systems of malaria commodities, and build solutions that fit the needs of the malaria program in the context of the national health system.
  • Work closely with CHAI malaria country teams and government partners to integrate available data sources and build models to quantify and forecast demand for malaria commodities distributed by the public and private sectors.

Provide support to Project and Grant Management, and regional coordination, including but not limited to:

• • Developing and maintaining strong working relationships with key stakeholders across government and non-governmental organizations, and academic partners, with support from Regional Manager;
  • Support grant management and donor reporting for the region, and work alongside country teams to develop programmatic updates;
  • Any other tasks identified.

• Essential: Fluent written/spoken Portuguese and advanced written/spoken English skills;
• Bachelor or Master’s degree in public health, epidemiology, economics, or other relevant fields plus relevant professional experience in a demanding, results-oriented environment;
• 2–4 years of experience in a demanding private sector environment, such as strategy consulting, or health commodity market intelligence, or public sector advisory position;
• Ability to work independently in remote and unstructured settings, to work closely within and across other teams, and to adapt to new environments and challenges;
• Experience and willingness to work in developing settings;
• Excellent written and oral communication (English & Portuguese) skills, problem-solving and strong organizational abilities and detail-oriented approach;
• High levels of proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint;
• Willingness to travel frequently (~25-50% time) and extensively with country, and within the region.

Advantages

• Knowledge of malaria or other infectious diseases;
• Experience using advanced analytical software (e.g., SAS, STATA, SPSS, R);
• Experience working in pharmaceutical or medical device market research, market intelligence, wholesale distribution, or commercial strategy;
• Experience working with governments and institutions in sub-Saharan Africa.

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