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 West and Central Africa (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and Sierra Leone). The associates 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 skillset 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.

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

Malaria case management in both private and public sectors:

• • Develop 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;
  • Prepare and conduct regular (quarterly) malaria case management data review sessions by country, drawing from available data sources;
  • Identify 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;
  • Develop and support the implementation of M&E plans for CHAI and government case management and tools to include collection, analysis, interpretation and use of appropriate indicators;
  • Generate, synthesize and translate evidence (i.e., via surveys, literature reviews, routine data analysis) to inform government and partner policy and programmatic decision-making;
  • Support day to day implementation of CHAI’s country team workplans on malaria case management;
  • Support design and implementation of new case management strategies and/or tools, as necessary.

Antimalarial drug resistance:

• • Provide technical guidance to CHAI’s country teams on what may be contributing to resistance and what interventions can mitigate or delay the onset of resistance;
  • Support development and implementation of national antimalaria drug resistance strategies.

Community health:

• • Help shape and improve existing and future CHW related interventions across the region and serve as a trusted community health advisor to CHAI country teams and external stakeholders;
  • Support government partners and CHAI country and regional teams to develop and execute evidence- and needs-based integrated community health policies, strategies and operational plans at all levels to increase availability of malaria and non-malaria commodities and expand access to quality integrated malaria services;
  • Coordinate with government and CHAI teams to include systematic tracking, analysis and mapping of quantitative and qualitative indicators on coverage and quality of malaria diagnosis, treatment and surveillance at community level.

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

• Develop and maintain 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 French and advanced written/spoken English skills;
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in public health, epidemiology, economics, or other relevant fields plus relevant professional experience in a demanding, results-oriented environment;
• High levels of proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint;
• 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;
• Excellent written and oral communication (English) skills, problem-solving and strong organizational abilities and detail-oriented approach;
• 2–3 years of experience in a demanding private sector environment, such as strategy consulting, or health commodity market intelligence, or public sector advisory position;
• Experience and willingness to work in developing settings;
• Willingness to travel frequently (~30-50% time) and extensively with country, and within the region.

Advantages:

• Knowledge of malaria or other infectious diseases;
• Experience working in community health systems/with community health workers in low-resource settings;
• Experience using advanced analytical software (e.g., SAS, STATA, SPSS, R);
• Experience working with governments and institutions in sub-Saharan Africa.

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