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 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.

Position Overview

CHAI has recently launched a system that aims to strengthen ambition, monitor results, and drive impact-based decision-making across CHAI’s diverse portfolio of programs (Program Performance Management (PPM)). As a result of this PPM system and in conjunction with the recent shift in the funding landscape, CHAI aims to strengthen the rigour of our decision-making processes. This requires enhanced capacity to pressure test theories of change and develop health impact and cost-effectiveness models. 

As Senior Project Manager, you will primarily focus on applying rigorous economic principles and advanced quantitative methodologies to assess and prioritize programs for external fundraising. This role will specifically focus on developing impact cases for assessing new and under-resourced program areas where we believe CHAI has significant impact potential and positioning. In addition, you will play a pivotal role in building and operationalizing CHAI's ability to pressure test ideas through a health impact and cost-effectiveness lens by establishing foundational systems, standards, and processes that will inform the long-term structure of these capabilities across the organization.

This position will be held within the PPM team with a close relationship to the Maximum Impact Incubator team — a team that uses similar principles to survey the most cost-effective opportunities for a specific donor. In addition, you will work closely with CHAI program and country teams, academics, and other stakeholders to conduct rigorous analysis of prospective programs.  This will begin as a 6-month position with potential for extension.

External funding review:

• Develop a deep pipeline of new program ideas and prioritization framework for determining which CHAI concepts, programs, and proposals warrant pressure testing, considering organizational impact, funding potential and strategic alignment.
• Pressure test concepts by doing a rigorous review and deep vetting of theories of change, literature review, and cost-effectiveness analysis for prioritized ideas. The concepts will be sourced across CHAI with dedicated time towards proposals from the Innovation cluster and opportunities emerging from CHAI’s Technical Support Units (TSUs) supporting governments to navigate the changing foreign aid landscape and build more efficient health systems.
• Lead model development from the ground up for promising concepts that lack quantitative frameworks.
• Support 3-5 major reviews during the 6-month period, spanning Innovation cluster and TSU concepts and other high-priority external funding opportunities.

Build capacity throughout CHAI:

• Establish standard operating procedures (SOPs) and quality standards for developing impact models and testing new and under-resourced ideas for fundraising.
• Design an assessment mechanism to measure whether pressure testing processes improve proposal quality, funding success rates, and strategic clarity.
• Recommend capacity-building approach, including whether to expand dedicated team size or train distributed staff across CHAI in critical thinking and pressure testing methodologies.

Stakeholder engagement and policy influence:

• Engage with CHAI leadership to disseminate findings and build materials to inform recommendations around funding and resource allocation decisions.
• Collaborate with CHAI country teams and government partners to ensure feasibility and alignment of interventions within national health systems.

Education & Experience:

• Postgraduate degree in economics, public health economics, development economics, epidemiology, or related quantitative discipline.
• 10+ years of experience applying quantitative methods to global health or development challenges, including cost-effectiveness analysis, impact evaluations, or health economics.

Technical:

• Exceptional analytical and critical thinking skills, with proven capacity to pressure test complex theories of change.
• Advanced quantitative skills, including building impact models from scratch.
• Strong understanding of cost-effectiveness analysis and ability to apply this lens across diverse health interventions.
• Deep literature review expertise, including ability to synthesize evidence and identify gaps.

Operational:

• Outstanding time management and ability to work independently.
• Proven ability to translate research into policy recommendations and engage effectively with donors, government stakeholders, and research institutions.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present complex quantitative findings to diverse audiences; proficiency in one or more languages spoken in CHAI countries is a plus.
• Experience implementing a wide variety of programs and/or working with partners (government or non-profit) in at least one CHAI program country.

Additional:

• Direct experience collaborating with donors in the global health and development space.
• Experience leading analytical teams.

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