Clinton Health Access Initiative Overview:

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 skillsets 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.

Program Background:

CHAI Uganda has worked with the government over the past 15 years to increase access to lifesaving commodities including diagnostics, treatments and other biological products that target women and children.

CHAI provides technical assistance to the government counterparts through data analytics to inform forecasting, quantification, procurement planning/kit design, commodity pipeline monitoring and delivery of commodities to the last mile, strengthens policy and financing mechanisms for essential maternal and child health commodities and biological products, accelerates introduction of key newer products and improve and uptake of existing commodities and influences and promotes healthier markets for maternal and child health commodities through private sector supplier engagements ( importers, distributors, health care providers and regulatory agencies).

CHAI prioritizes commodities that are critical for reduction of maternal and child health morbidity and mortality including childhood vaccinations, commodities for diarrhea, Pneumonia and Family planning (FP), commodities for infectious diseases such as HIV and Hepatitis as well as those for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) including Hypertension, Diabetes, Sickle cell disease, and Cancer.

CHAI Uganda NCD Program

The burden of NCDs continues to rise both globally and nationally.

In Uganda, NCDs and injuries account for about 41% of deaths, with NCDs alone responsible for 35% and injuries for 6%.

The CHAI Uganda NCD program primarily addresses four major diseases: cancer, sickle cell disease, hypertension, and diabetes. This role mainly focuses on providing support for diabetes and hypertension. CHAI will collaborate with the Uganda Ministry of Health and other partners to enhance and accelerate the country’s response to prevent and control these NCDs including supporting fundraising and improving efficiencies to improve access to services and commodities for NCDs.

CHAI is seeking a highly motivated and resourceful individual to support CHAI’s country efforts in improving access to Diabetes and Hypertension services.

Reporting to the Senior Associate NCDs, the Program Officer will provide program support to deliver the ambitious program objectives.

He/she will be responsible for providing technical and operational support for specific projects, overseeing execution and assuming responsibility for high-quality delivery. The program officer is expected to be a self-starter, knowledgeable, fast learner, meticulous, resourceful and agile to be successful and effective in a fast-moving environment.

Key responsibilities:

Program Implementation:

• Support CHAI internal Diabetes and Hypertension project planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting progress to all key stakeholders.
• Lead compilation of a program events calendar or key activities e.g.

Competences

• Responsible for the execution of small-sized, often lower complexity project(s) (has little ambiguity, risk, moving parts, budgetary constraints or stakeholders), or contributes towards larger more complex projects.
• Performs quantitative and qualitative analytical tasks with limited errors and high-quality outputs.
• Performs routine tasks independently.
• Gathers, reviews, and validates data/information.
• Ensures process integrity by identifying and helping to resolve service quality and efficiency issues.
• Provides information to relevant internal stakeholders within a defined program area/function.

Qualifications and skills required:

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, business, public health, or related field
• At least 2 – 3 years of working experience in a demanding result driven environment
• High emotional intelligence, patience and thoughtfulness even in high pressure, stressful situations
• Strong process management skills, high level of organization and good attention to detail
• Excellent analytic skills with proficiency in Microsoft Office suite –Excel, Powerpoint and Word
• A flexible, entrepreneurial and output focused mindset, with strong self-motivation
• Ability to independently develop, push forward, and execute a coherent programmatic strategy amidst substantial ambiguity and changing circumstances
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Exceptional time management, with an ability to manage multiple tasks under tight deadlines

Advantages

Experience working and communicating with government officials at the national and subnational level