Country-Level Technical Assistance- Support the provision of targeted country-level technical assistance, holding regular touchpoints with country teams to identify and address risks and support needs, developing resources and consolidating evidence on emerging issues, and providing analytical support.- Participate in and contribute to in-country process and activity reviews, sharing actionable and strategic feedback, and elevating issues, themes, and roadblocks to inform future technical assistance and support cross-country learning.- Structure, develop and review quantitative and qualitative analyses to inform the design and execution of targeted technical assistance activities to address priority gaps and support an enabling environment for PrEP scale-up (e.g., identification of priority sub-national geographies, target populations, and optimal delivery models for prevention).- Develop clear presentations to share findings and recommendations for internal and external audiences.Project Management- Manage and monitor country progress against program deliverables through regular joint reviews/calls on program strategy with country teams and program managers- Manage, coordinate, and develop inputs for routine reporting and donor updates, as well as ad hoc reporting needs, including requesting, reviewing, and consolidating inputs from partners.- Provide strategic, operational, and tactical support for partner management and donor engagement, including facilitating information sharing, drafting agendas and meeting slides, supporting meeting planning, taking and organizing notes and follow-ups, etc.Communications, Knowledge Management, and Cross-Team Learning- Maintain up to date expertise regarding the HIV prevention pipeline and delivery space and support knowledge management across the team.- Work with CHAI country teams and partners to plan and execute communication, learning, and knowledge management processes and activities, including developing and implementing a plan for cross-country engagement and coordination.- Develop and review learning and communication products including but not limited to technical briefs; conference abstracts and presentations; publications; infographics and other visual aids.- Lead cross-team engagement to ensure the prevention team is coordinated, aligned, and well-positioned to share workstream learnings and collaborate, including through supporting monthly prevention team touchpoints.- Support HIV Prevention Director and Senior Manager in fostering a collaborative team environment which supports and engages team members.

- Support program implementation, including strategic support to relevant government departments in operational roll-out of programmatic activities including national policy and coordination.- Support the design and implementation of processes, systems for collection, collation, and synthesis of program data to inform program strategy, operations, and reviews- including supply chain preparedness and development of technical tools.- Monitor program implementation activities; identify potential risks and challenges to the implementation plan and roll-out of activities; work towards addressing potential risks/ mitigation mechanisms.- Build and maintain trust-based relationships with key government partners (from national and sub-national level), cooperating partners, and other relevant stakeholders to expand access to quality PrEP.- Support program leadership in the overall grant management process including sharing inputs or drafting donor update reports including progress monitoring, budget utilization, risk assessments and sustainability structures.- Document and disseminate key learnings from the program implementation with government partners and CHAI program teams to inform evidence-based decision-making and alignment with WHO recommendations and guidelines.- Support opportunity identification, development of proposals, work plans, budgets and other reports and documents for ongoing and new areas as needed to support and facilitate execution of program implementation activities.- Provide technical assistance to support the adoption and expansion of evidence-based, precision prevention strategies through engagement with TWGs and other HIV prevention planning platforms.- Provide analytical support to the Ministry of Health and other country-level stakeholders to drive evidence-based precision prevention programming.- Contribute to project quarterly dashboards by gathering, reviewing, and submitting quantitative and qualitative data on HIV prevention programming, leveraging national health information systems and other data sources.

Program Management:- Ensure effective management, coordination and synergies across all programs within the HSS cluster;- Oversee and manage all program staff working on the HSS cluster through talent management initiatives, succession planning and provision of continuous feedback and capacity building ;- Work with Human Resource in the process of hiring, promotion, and teambuilding to ensure effective team staffing, leave approval, administration and performance in a multicultural environment;- Provide direct support to program managers in the cluster in their strategic planning, budgeting, expenditure tracking, problem-solving, overseeing project performance against work plans and budget and overall grant management;- Work closely with the CHAI Zambia finance, compliance, headquarters and donors to ensure compliance with donor and CHAI regulations, ensure sound financial transactions including the approval of expenses based on set thresholds.- As directed by the CD, serve as official liaison between CHAI, donors, Government, regulatory bodies, partners, and other relevant governmental and non-governmental institutions on issues related to activities on the cluster.- Ensure effective documentation and knowledge management within the programs and provide technical guidance and oversee quality of deliverables and ensure that communications and work products that are shared externally meet CHAI standards.- Participate in Senior Management Team meetings and functions and provide strategic guidance and support on issues that affect the cluster.- Develop new and maintain strategic relationships with senior stakeholders necessary to advance the program objectives.- In concurrence with the CD, provide strategic direction in reprioritization, expansion, scoping of new initiatives, proposal development, coordinating resource mobilization and fundraising efforts to help achieve program objectives of the CHAI Zambia office.Technical:- Lead the design and implementation of projects to support Government’s HSS priorities in Zambia based on WHO and other health systems strengthening frameworks to achieve UHC.- Provide technical oversight in the implementation and execution of CHAI Zambia’s health systems strengthening interventions and guide evidence-based decision-making regarding policies, guidelines, and program operations;- Ensure technical congruence between program activities, Governments priorities, and donor requirements.- Provide in-depth and high-quality technical assistance/inputs to GRZ health systems strengthening programs, policies, strategies and proposal development processes at all levels- Based on a firm knowledge of the distribution, determinants and distribution of health-related states and events collaborate with GRZ and other stakeholders to develop innovative technical strategies to strengthen health systems at all levels to improve health outcomes- Provide technical leadership, strategic guidance, oversight and continuity of CHAI’s support to GRZ on the following grants/initiatives:- Strengthening accountability across various health programs in the cluster to improve equitable access to high quality health services.- Oversee the implementation of the Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, and Newborn Health program work plans including program planning, budgeting, coordination, forecasting, monitoring and reporting. Including the provision of technical assistance to GRZ to assist with SRMNH program design and rollout influencing national research, policy formulation, strategic documents development and analysis.- Increase access of basic health services in rural parts of Zambia by strengthening community health systems including the enrollment, training, deployment, supportive supervision and motivation of Community Health Workers such as Community Health Assistants (CHAs) as well as other community systems strengthening activities- Addressing Zambia’s health workforce challenges including the training, absorption, distribution and retention of health workforce as well as pediatric workforce scale up activities.- Development and implementation of strategies to build health systems resilience to absorb “shocks’ to the health system including ensuring access to oxygen such as liquid oxygen (LOX). Also, ensuring health worker availability, safety and competence in the provision of both COVID-19 and general health services.- Sustainable health financing through improved financial risk protection, financial management and performance- Increase access to Assistive Products (AP) and systems for delivering assistive technology (AT) in Zambia. This includes providing programmatic and technical oversight for effective program implementation.- Ensure all programs in the cluster are on course to achieving their respective targets through effective monitoring, evaluation and learning.- Seize opportunities to build capacity, skills and relationships with Government and cooperating partners to develop competencies that ensure local leadership and sustainability of the programs.- Perform any other tasks assigned by the Country Director. This job description summarizes the main duties of the job. It neither prescribes nor restricts the exact tasks that may be assigned to carry out these duties.

- Identify important research questions within the mandates of the funded projects.- Ensure compliance with all local research ethics requirements and regulations.- Supervise data collection, management, and analytic staff.- Collaborate with data owners (e.g. MOH) to acquire data for analysis.- Prepare final data sets for transfer to overall AMBIT & Retain6 data teams- Implement and supervise all data and analytic aspects of the project including: 1) writing research protocols and SOPs; 2) developing and designing research tools; 3) coordinating data acquisition (data collection, transfer, dataset linkages, pre-processing, quality assurance etc.); 4) developing data analysis plans and sample size calculations; 5) conducting data analysis; and 6) writing up results.- Be able to set up and run descriptive and inferential and multivariate statistical analyses (including regression analyses, ANOVA), survival analyses, cluster analyses and non-parametric statistics as appropriate for different experimental designs.- Author analytic reports, abstracts, presentations, and manuscripts including data visualizations to contribute to presentations for stakeholders.- Train and mentor junior analytic research staff.- Travel to study sites and to meetings and conferences within and outside Zambia as needed.- As needed, participate in stakeholder meetings and represent the two projects to the Ministry of Health, implementing partners, funders, and other stakeholders.- Perform other tasks and roles as requested by AMBIT/Retain 6 leadership and CHAI leadership.