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.

CHAI’s Global Malaria and NTDs Programs

CHAI’s global malaria and neglected tropical disease (NTD) program provides direct technical and operational support to countries around the globe to strengthen their programs and reduce the burden of preventable, treatable diseases. We support governments to scale up effective interventions for prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and surveillance, with the goals of sustainably reducing the number of illnesses and deaths worldwide in the short-term and accelerating progress towards elimination of malaria and NTDs in the long term.

Senegal Program Overview

The CHAI Senegal office has been working with the Ministry of Health (MoH) since 2018. The team has worked with the National Programs for HIV, Non-Communicable Diseases, Universal Health Coverage, and Maternal & Child Health, and has recently engaged the National Program for Neglected Tropical Disease (NTDs). CHAI aims to build sustainable access to timely and high-quality information across relevant levels of the health system and help programs to routinely use data and generated analytics to inform programmatic and strategic planning and operations.

 

Position Overview

 

CHAI is seeking a highly motivated and mission-driven individual to work as a NTDs Associate to implement intensified activities which will aim to improve the quality and timeliness of NTDs data. By making information and analytics more accessible to the NTDs program in addition to in-country stakeholders and leveraging existing tools, platforms, and systems, CHAI seeks to strengthen the use of data by providing technical assistance in building robust data systems and improving analytics for decision-making and planning.

The Associate will work closely with and provide effective technical support to the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the National Program for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD). Immediate activities in Senegal include supporting the scale-up of digitized mass drug administration (MDA)campaigns, strengthening national and international NTDs reporting systems, and promoting the use of data to reach Senegal’s NTDs control and elimination goals..

The successful candidate will have a background in health informatics, ideally with professional experience in collaborating with the public sector in reinforcing data and reporting systems. The candidate will also need to possess strong communication, organizational and analytical skills and be able to work independently to drive implementation. Professional fluency in French is required for this role.The candidate will report to the Senegal Program Manager for NTDs and work closely with CHAI global teams, government national programs and key stakeholders to design and manage implementation of context-appropriate strategies and approaches.

This Associate must exhibit a passion for results, a commitment for excellence, a willingness to provide support to different tasks, and the capacity to facilitate high-level strategic discussions with a multi-cultural, multidisciplinary set of actors.

The successful candidate will support programmatic aspects of CHAI’s Senegal work and act as a trusted partner to government health officials and partners. They will have deep personal commitment to producing results, the skills to navigate political situations, humility, patience, and optimism even in the face of daunting challenges. CHAI places great value on the following qualities in its staff: resourcefulness, resilience, responsibility, patience, tenacity, humility, independence, energy, and work ethic.

The Associate will support the NTDs program to:

• Identify opportunities for data use and scale-up of digitized national campaigns and contribute to the national NTDs program’s vision for integrated campaign digitization
• Explore useful analysis and tools for decision-making that are not fully leveraged and assess the operational and financial feasibility of implementing solutions
• Support operational requirements gathering, including defining and understanding needs and gaps in campaign operations, identifying areas to address through digital solutions and areas that may need parallel operations strengthening by MoH departments and local partner support
• Select, enhance, and customize context-appropriate campaign tools for Senegal
• Promote integrated campaign tools and platforms progressively implemented with across campaign and embedded within routine health systems
• Conduct and support the NTDs program’s routine monitoring and evaluation to understand the value and impact of digitizing campaigns and promoting data use
• Develop a sustainability plan for long-term maintenance and use of data platforms, including use of a network of local partners
• Provide day-to-day program management support to the NTDs program
• Support the Program Manager in shaping CHAI’s overall NTDs strategy for the country, participate in the development of clear operational plans for execution, and continuously identify opportunities for CHAI to add value and maximize the impact of the NTDs program
• Coordinate meetings and facilitate knowledge sharing between the government program and partner organizations in the region to ensure effective collaboration
• Liaise with CHAI’s global and regional teams to ensure strong communications and timely delivery on cross-cutting projects and activities
• Contribute to the development of resources and best practices to share lessons learned across teams
• Synthesize and disseminate findings through high-quality presentations, reports, and publications
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders from government, partner organizations and local institutions to facilitate coordination, problem solving, alignment of objectives and delivery of results
• Additional responsibilities as required and assigned by the direct line manager

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in relevant field like business management, public health, policy, or science and 3+ years of relevant work experience in a demanding, results-driven environment; preferably in public health and/or data informatics
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and analytical capabilities
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, and strong competence in making persuasive presentations and written reports
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Experience in data management and data analysis
• Ability to be effective, calm, and flexible in high-pressure situations, to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and to prioritize competing timelines
• Fluency in French and good command of English (written and oral)
• Experience living or working in resource-limited countries

Advantages:

• Understanding of health informatics with knowledge of global health issues
• Proven experience in implementing technology-based solutions with users, preferably for disease surveillance and in low- and middle-income countries
• Knowledge of NTDs or other global infectious diseases
• Familiarity with emerging technologies for data collection and reporting, data integration, and data visualization and analysis

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