The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to strengthening integrated health systems in the developing world and expanding access to care and treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases. Based on the premise that business-oriented strategies can facilitate solutions to global health challenges, CHAI acts as a catalyst to mobilize new resources and optimize the impact of these resources to save lives, via improved organization of commodity markets and more effective national and sub-national level management. CHAI is focused on large scale impact, and CHAI’s teams are working side-by-side with over 25 governments to tackle many of the largest health system barriers to effective care and treatment.
Malaria is one of the world’s most significant causes of illness, death and lost economic productivity. Over the past decade, dramatic increases in donor funding have facilitated scale-up of effective interventions to prevent, diagnose, and treat malaria. This investment has successfully reduced the burden of malaria in many settings, and some countries have begun planning to eliminate it altogether. Yet these gains are fragile: global funding for malaria remains short of what is needed, the last decade’s rapid growth in malaria financing appears to have halted, and resistance to insecticides and drugs threatens to set back efforts. CHAI’s malaria program provides direct management and technical support to countries around the globe to strengthen their malaria programs and reduce the burden of this preventable, treatable disease. We support governments to scale up effective interventions, with the goals of sustainably reducing the number of malaria-related illnesses and deaths worldwide in the short-term and accelerating progress towards malaria elimination in the long term.
Summary of Position
CHAI is seeking an Associate, Malaria Program to support a team at the National Department of Health to achieve its malaria elimination goals. The Associate is expected to build strong relationships with the National Department of Health and relevant country partners to develop and deliver upon evidence-based strategic plans to eliminate malaria from South Africa. Working closely with a CHAI Program Manager and small team of Analysts and Associates, the Associate provides dedicated operational support to the National Department of Health to execute effective high-impact programs, focusing on surveillance system strengthening and focus-based intervention strategies. The position requires a highly motivated individual with outstanding analytic, problem solving, organizational, communication, and inter-personal skills. The candidate must be results oriented and independent, able to learn quickly, think strategically, and work effectively with a multi-cultural, multidisciplinary set of actors. CHAI places great value on the resourcefulness, tenacity, patience, humility, and high ethical standards of its staff.
Responsibilities:
The Associate, Malaria Program will work with a decentralized team of CHAI staff to support the National and Provincial Departments of Health to:
- Implement the National Malaria Elimination Strategy
- Deploy and monitor a focus-based intervention strategy to reduce malaria transmission
- Deploy and monitor a DHI2-based national information system to strengthen malaria surveillance and intervention planning
- Design, develop, and deploy mobile tools for electronic data capture, and to strengthen malaria surveillance, program response, and operational efficiency
To achieve these objectives, the Associate, Malaria Program must:
- Coordinate projects that involve a diverse group of stakeholders, including technical experts, partner organizations, and all levels of government
- Undertake quantitative analyses to ensure appropriate coverage of interventions, and progress against program goals
- Support design and implementation of protocols for monitoring and evaluating effectiveness of interventions
- Develop tools and reference materials to support trainings, project management, and monitoring and evaluation
- Draft presentations and reports for internal and external stakeholders
- Identify key impediments to programmatic goals, devise targeted solutions to address them
- Serve as a trusted advisor to stakeholders across government and non-governmental organizations
- Work with CHAI’s technical and global teams to develop and implement a coordinated program of support
- Other responsibilities as needed
Qualifications:
Qualifications
- A Bachelor’s degree minimum plus 3-5 years of relevant work experience
- Demonstrated and exceptional analytical, quantitative, and problem solving skills
- High levels of proficiency in MS Office suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills
- Strong project management and organizational abilities, and detail-oriented approach
- Ability to work independently and to manage own portfolio, balancing multiple tasks simultaneously
- Patience and thoughtfulness even in high-pressure, stressful situations
- Strong spoken and written English
- Strong interpersonal skills, and proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships and influence stakeholders in a multicultural environment
- Experience working in developing country context
Advantages
- Experience working in management consulting, investment banking, or similar fast-paced, output-oriented environments
- Experience working with surveillance platforms (e.g. DHIS2), data collection tools (e.g. ODK) data visualization applications, and/or Java coding
- Experience conducting operational research
- Knowledge of malaria
More Information
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