Overview
The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries, while strengthening the capabilities of governments and the private sector in those countries to create and sustain high-quality health systems that can succeed without our assistance. For more information, please visit:http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org
CHAI Health Workforce Background:
A skilled health workforce is the backbone of every health system and therefore an essential precondition for progress toward universal health coverage (UHC). However, the WHO estimates that there is a global shortage of 17 million health workers. The gap is most acute in Africa (with a shortage of 4.2 million), which bears 24% of the global burden of disease yet has only 4% of the world’s health workforce.
CHAI assists governments to develop their health workforces by enhancing their capacity to train highly qualified health workers and by strengthening national systems to finance, deploy, and manage those health workers.
CHAI’s approach to national heath workforce strengthening emphasizes three strategies: (i) improving the quality and strategically increasing the scale of education for health workers, (ii) expanding and optimizing health workforce financing, and (iii) providing technical assistance to governments to strengthen their overall health workforce planning and management systems.
Two key principles guide CHAI’s approach to workforce development. The first is focusing on the right kind of health workers—from community health workers to midwives, nurses, health managers, general physicians and medical specialists—based on national need and service delivery objectives. CHAI’s approach also emphasizes sustainability by building the institutional capacity of the schools and universities where health workers are trained, training new generations of health professions educators, and developing systems and individual capabilities within governments to better plan and manage their own health workforces.
CHAI’s health workforce programs vary by country, as they reflect the major barriers and opportunities to workforce development in that specific context, as well as the priorities of the host government.
Position Overview:
CHAI’s Health Workforce Global Team seeks an Associate to support health workforce projects in multiple countries. The role is focused on providing technical and project management support to country teams and partners, and requires a combination of strong communication capabilities, fundamental analytical skills, and high degrees of organization and overall project management. Projects that the associate will support may include but not be limited to: projects to plan and coordinate training for pediatric health workforce in Kenya, Malawi and Zambia; scoping for new health workforce development and pre-service training projects in multiple countries; in-service training and mentoring of health workers in Nigeria.
The role requires significant travel (up to 60%) and may be flexibly based, with a strong preference for East Africa.
Responsibilities
In support of and in close partnership with country teams and key partners:
- Develop and support use of project management tools, including work plans and M&E frameworks
- Clean and analyze data in support of project goals and new project development
- Develop decks, briefs, and other dissemination materials
- Provide technical input on project deliverables and approach, collating input from experts within and outside of CHAI and supported by best practice and literature review where needed
- Conduct scoping activities (including desk review, stakeholder engagement) and develop concept notes and proposals to advance new work
- Support internal knowledge management efforts
- Other responsibilities as neededQualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent plus 5 years work experience; or Advanced Degree plus 2 years work experience
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills in English
- Ability to communicate effectively with people of varied professional, cultural, and educational backgrounds
- Demonstrated strong problem solving skills
- Ability to work independently and effectively in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- Very high attention to detail
- Ability to work with teams across time zones and locations
- Ability to develop, manage and maintain work plans with staff located in various geographies
- Ability to work with humility and achieve results
- High levels of proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and internet applications
- Familiarity with issues in global health
Preferred qualifications:
- Advanced analytical and modeling skills
- Background working in global health systems strengthening, health workforce and/or pre-service education for health workers
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