Strategic Projects & Initiative Support- Support the planning and execution of high-priority strategic projects across CHAI’s health systems portfolio, working closely with the Director of Health Systems and country/program teams.- Conduct research, landscape analysis, and synthesis of internal and external inputs to inform new initiatives, country scoping, and program design.- Support CHAI country and program teams in the design and refinement of strategies, workplans, and project frameworks, ensuring alignment with CHAI’s global health systems vision.- Help shape and advance cross-cutting initiatives (e.g., foreign aid transition support, service delivery reform, health systems integration).Strategic Communications & Learning- Synthesize key insights from CHAI’s health...

As an Associate (or Senior Associate), you will be responsible for:- Drafting recommendations and implementation plans to operationalize CHAI’s five-year strategy, including near-term strategic and operational improvements and presenting recommendations to the CEO and other senior leadership.- Scoping potential new, high-impact program areas, including by conducting background research, modeling quantitative impact case, and evaluating funding landscape.- Developing briefing notes, pitch decks, and proposals to secure catalytic funding for new and existing programs and initiatives.- Collaborating with a diverse set of stakeholders across functions to support high-priority special projects across the organization.- Supporting the development of communication materials, including...

- Lead IT resource in the selection and implementation of a financial ERP system.- Maintain Microsoft Windows servers in the corporate data center in virtual and physical environment- Maintain Exchange 2019, Office365 and AD user accounts.- Proactively manage and maintain remote servers in field offices.- Configure, manage and support Server 2012 and 2019 servers.- Provide training and assistance to users as needed.- Interface with vendors to place orders for new equipment and software.- Design and install systems on a limited budget.- Create and maintain updated documentation for all technical aspects of operations.- Must be excited about learning new things, patient in dealing with complex and sometimes high-pressure situations, and must have excellent attention to...

- Support and maintain Box cloud-based file sharing application while supporting 1800 users based around the world- Provide support to staff located globally on cloud-based file sharing applications- Provide training and support to staff on the Box application- Proactively manage staff access and data security and integrity to cloud based file sharing systems.- Integrate a Single Sign-On application with Microsoft Active Directory and cloud-based applications-  Maintain Microsoft Windows 2012 and 2019 servers in the corporate data center and remote sites in virtual and physical environments.- Create and maintain updated documentation for all technical aspects of operations.- Must be excited about learning new things, patient in dealing with complex and sometimes...

- Lead the design, development and maintenance of interactive dashboards using R shiny to present forecasts of malaria metrics and commodities;- Support malaria country epidemiological teams with the development of user-friendly scripts to conduct analyses;- Integrate diverse data sources (e.g., databases, CSVs, geographic data) into R Shiny applications;- Perform data wrangling, cleaning, and transformation to prepare datasets for visualization;- Customize dashboards with CSS and HTML to ensure a professional and consistent appearance;- Collaborate with epidemiologists, analysts, academic partners and other stakeholders to ensure the dashboards and scripts are user-friendly, scalable and maintainable;- Conduct statistical and spatial analyses (descriptive analyses,...

- Provide strategic guidance and planning support to countries (30%)- Support country teams to develop country-level strategy and work plans in line with global CHAI strategy- Build relationships and seek input on country strategy and workstreams among broader global team- Regularly review and facilitate reviews of country work plans, identify implementation barriers, develop solutions, and identify resources and next steps- Monitor country-level program progress against milestones, and work with Program Management to identify and mitigate risks to achieving program and grant goals- Develop concept notes and funding proposals in collaboration with country teams- Attend advocacy and strategy-related meetings with government stakeholders and partners where necessary- Provide...

- Organize, clean, manage, and integrate different types of datasets, including epidemiological, demographic, intervention, climate and geospatial data- Conduct statistical and spatial analyses (descriptive analyses, regressions and other relevant methods), and interpret results to evaluate effectiveness of current interventions, understand disease patterns, and inform strategic and operational planning- Contribute to technical guidance and thought partnership on the implementation of operational research projects related to surveillance, intervention effectiveness, and entomology, including question development and prioritization, formulation of research protocols, study design, sample size calculation, formulating and digitizing data collection tools, data validation and cleaning,...

- Provide technical partnership and support to the MoH on a broad range of health financing and health systems issues. Examples of the range of potential projects may include: supporting aid alignment towards the Health Sector Strategic Plan III for 2023-2030 as part of the “One Plan, One Budget, One Report” approach; supporting District Health Offices in developing planning, budgeting, and management tools; strengthening strategic purchasing of health services to drive efficiencies; evidence-based modelling for health workforce recruitment and pre-service education; operationalize critical health workforce reforms such as civil service performance management and harmonized continuous professional development; and supporting long-term capacity-building of Malawi’s health financing...

- Provide technical partnership and support to the MoH on a broad range of health financing and health systems issues. Examples of the range of potential projects may include: supporting aid alignment towards the Health Sector Strategic Plan III for 2023-2030 as part of the “One Plan, One Budget, One Report” approach; supporting District Health Offices in developing planning, budgeting, and management tools; strengthening strategic purchasing of health services to drive efficiencies; evidence-based modelling for health workforce recruitment and pre-service education; operationalize critical health workforce reforms such as civil service performance management and harmonized continuous professional development; and supporting long-term capacity-building of Malawi’s health financing...

Strengthening the governance and harmonization of RSSH and other health sector investments- Provide technical assistance to the Ministry of Health in developing, operationalizing, and monitoring its vision for the single PIU structure in line with the Ministry of Health’s “One Plan, One Budget, One Report” approach for improving aid alignment and the Lusaka Agenda. This includes supporting stakeholders to establish a shared vision for this PIU, defining its structure and functions, and creating a phased approach with the Ministry and donors for gradually moving towards the single PIU- Undertake an assessment of financial management bottlenecks and gaps that would preclude GFATM’s involvement in the single PIU, while supporting both the Ministry of Health and GFATM to develop and...