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.

Program Overview

Immunization is one of the most successful public health interventions in history. National immunization programs reach >100 million infants every year and have averted globally two to three million deaths every year since the launch of the Expanded Program for Immunization (EPI). However, despite these successes, >1.5 million children still die each year of vaccine-preventable diseases. Many of these deaths occur in low-income countries, where immunization programs face unprecedented challenges (e.g., access to vaccines and ensuring vaccines reach all targeted people). On the bright side, advances in the development and financing of new vaccines provide great opportunities to tackle diseases and mortality through vaccine prevention.

Since 2010, CHAI has worked to save lives and reduce the burden of vaccine preventable diseases by improving coverage of immunization services in resource-limited settings. CHAI not only strengthens immunization systems but does so with an eye to make them a stronger backbone for primary health care. CHAI achieves this by working to strengthen national immunization programs in >15 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, by shaping relevant global markets, and by improving the global immunization ecosystem.

CHAI’s portfolio includes four transformational goals:

1. Protect gains on lives saved and efficiently maintain routine immunization coverage;
2. Reduce further vaccine preventable diseases through existing vaccines;
3. Reduce vaccine preventable diseases through novel vaccines;
4. Support 9 near-to-market African made vaccines to commercialization

Position Overview

CHAI’s Global Vaccines Delivery team is seeking a dynamic Technical Manager to lead key technical areas of CHAI’s vaccine delivery program and be part of the management team of CHAI’s global vaccine delivery program.

The technical focus areas will include cold chain and logistics (transformational goal #1) and will include other areas of work as the program strategy evolves over time. The Technical Manager will report to the Senior Director, Global Vaccines Delivery and manage a team of 2-3 people. They will work closely with their direct reports, other Technical Managers, Regional Managers, and the Senior Management Team to provide strategic and technical support to CHAI country teams and government partners, while also contributing to the shaping of global strategies and best practices in their areas of technical expertise.

This role comes with up to 50% domestic travel and international travel. It is flexible to being based in one of CHAI’s program countries in Africa or Asia pending country leadership approval and subject to the ability to obtain work authorization. See where we work here.

In collaboration with CHAI colleagues in country teams and global teams, the position will:

1. Lead CHAI's vaccines program’s strategy and fundraising in technical focus areas, in collaboration with program and country leadership

• • Develop/update high-impact CHAI’s programmatic strategy and thought leadership in focus areas, both at global and country level, to dramatically improve immunization outcomes and the underlying health systems
  • Drive fundraising and grant proposal development in the areas of focus - in line with CHAI’s strategy, model, and comparative capabilities, both at country and global level.

2. Provide strategic and programmatic leadership for the design and implementation of work in focus countries to dramatically and sustainably improve immunization outcomes, in collaboration with direct reports and Regional Managers

• • Contribute to the design, planning, implementation and monitoring, evaluation & learning of work with country teams to achieve high and sustainable impact in CHAI focus countries.
  • Support ramp up of new workstreams and new focus countries, and strengthen capabilities of existing programs, leveraging institutional knowledge from CHAI
  • Demonstrate impact and support countries to plan for scale and sustainability of high-impact work, including transition of successful practices to national government leadership

3. Improve national and global practices and policies related to technical areas of focus, in collaboration with direct reports and program leadership

• • Become a respected and trusted thought leader in your area of focus within CHAI and within the global immunization community
  • Drive continuous development, dissemination and use of CHAI’s know-how (e.g., "toolkits", “playbooks”, lessons learned) related to areas of focus across CHAI.
  • Develop productive relationships with key partners (e.g., WHO, Gavi, GF, UNICEF) and foster effective exchange of know-how with partners
  • Disseminate CHAI's programmatic insights and lessons learned into the global immunization community and inform global policies, strategies & practices

4. Manage a global team, grants and the program for the technical focus areas, in collaboration with program and country leadership

• • Manage and develop a team of ~2-3 global associates/technical advisors
  • Manage key grants and lead the overall program in the areas of focus
    • Drive the development of program-wide and country-specific objectives, strategies, milestones and KPI in focus technical areas
    • Regularly assess progress against program objectives, learn and make course correction to maximize impact.
    • Prepare high-quality briefings for donors and CHAI management, including achievements to date, key risks & opportunities, and action plan going forward.
  • Act as key member of the management team for CHAI’s global vaccine delivery program
    • Foster productive collaboration and synergies across the entire vaccine portfolio and team and as applicable with other relevant CHAI leaders

• Develop and drive implementation of initiatives to improve the effectiveness of the global vaccine program and its team

• Bachelor's degree (Masters-level or above preferred) in a relevant field
• Minimum 7 years of work experience in a fast-paced, high-expectation environment
• Excellent Program and People Management & leadership, including:
  • Proven team management skills with demonstrated ability to develop & coach people as well as to drive motivation and achievement of ambitious goals and targets
  • Demonstrated end-to-end project management skills, from strategic design to implementation and iterative learnings and improvements in a high-expectations environment with high level of ambiguity and unstructured problems
  • Ability to manage multiple complex workstreams in ambiguous, and often changing environment
  • High emotional intelligence and the ability to manage teams in high-pressure situations.
• Excellent strategic thinker with the ability to design and drive effective strategies to improve immunization outcomes across various country settings and the global immunization ecosystem
  • Outstanding problem-solving, strategic thinking and analytical skills
  • Ability to design, drive and adapt long-term strategies across various complex and ambiguous (country) settings
  • Developed strategic perspective with a simultaneous ability to connect between the strategic, tactical and operational levels
• Excellent Communication and Relationship Management:
  • Excellent communicator: both written and verbal
  • Ability to deliver clear, compelling presentations and reports, syntheses, actionable recommendations, and decisions to a broad range of audiences
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, with ability to work effectively in a multicultural and often remote environment
  • Proven track record of developing, maintaining and strengthening effective working relationships remotely
• Good fit to team culture and context:
  • Entrepreneurial and result-oriented mindset; with an ability to propose, implement and achieve new initiatives and ambitious targets
  • Ability to work collaboratively as part of a matrix distributed team, ideally in the context of a growing or fast-changing team and/or a team with complex management structure (e.g., matrix, cross-functional collaboration)
  • Strong commitment to CHAI’s and the team’s mission and values (CHAI, GVD)
  • Ability to travel extensively (up to 35% of time) to focus countries and other locations as needed for work.

Advantages

• Knowledge of cold chain and logistics, especially as they relate to health commodities
• Knowledge of vaccines, health systems strengthening, and/or service delivery at facility and community level, and/or primary health care systems
• Experience in stakeholder and partner management in high-stakes global environment
• Experience in a top tier management consulting firm
• Experience working with government and in developing countries, notably in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia and with global development partners
• Professional proficiency in a second language of a vaccine program country.

This is an opportunity to join a high-energy, high-expectations matrixed team focused on implementing lasting, transformational impact in the global vaccines delivery space.

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