JOB DESCRIPTION

Description

The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. is hiring a Technical Advisor, Analytics and Implementation Research (AIR) Team

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.

Analytics and Implementation Research (AIR) Team

TheTechnical Advisorwill be a member of CHAI’s Analytics and Implementation Research (AIR) Team and work closely with members from both CHAI country teams and global program teams.

CHAI’s AIR Team is a results-driven team of public health experts strategically positioned at the center of CHAI’s geographic and disease priorities, maximizing health systems, and bringing innovations to scale. AIR has years of experience tackling problems within real-world health systems in resource-limited settings and a long history of well-regarded collaboration with partner governments and CHAI country and global teams. AIR’s work began in HIV and has expanded over the years alongside CHAI’s strategic focus, currently including maternal, neonatal and child health, sexual and reproductive health, vaccines, viral hepatitis, cervical cancer, COVID-19, diabetes, tuberculosis, andsickle cell disease.

Program Support Areas

This AIR Technical Advisor position will support work related to global women’s and newborn health (WNH). CHAI’s WNH program aims to ensure that all individuals are empowered to access information, products and services that will meet their sexual and reproductive health needs; to significantly reduceunmetneed for modern contraception and the incidence of unsafe abortions inprogramcountries; and tosubstantially reducematernal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. To accomplish our goals, we’re pursuing 3 strategic objectives: 1) scale up access to new and underutilized products to increase choice for women and better meet their needs and preferences; 2) increase SRMNH commodity security through global and country supply chain strengthening and improved financing for SRMNH products; and 3) design and strengthen client-centric service delivery models that will reach key populations with SRMNH services. At the global level, CHAI is working to ensure that a diversified supplier base can meet demand for key SRMNH products and ensure commodities are affordable and of high quality. We also coordinate donors and partners around a global product strategy and to shape the broader WNH ecosystem. At the country level, CHAI works with governments to develop national SRMNH scale-up plans with clear targets; use data to coordinate partner resources against the plan and achieve targets; strengthen national forecasting and quantification; address supply chain bottlenecks; improve health worker training; and strengthen performance management for the health system.

The Global Women and Newborn Health Cluster supports the application of global learning and best practices, including around market stewardship and new and lesser used product introduction and scale-up.UnderlyingChai’sapproachto all programsis our commitment to achieving sustainable, transformational change at scale by working in a way that strengthens health systems and government capabilities to improvehealthoutcomes.

Candidate Profile

AIR is seeking a Technical Advisor to work with CHAI country and global teams, county government partners, and implementing partners to contribute to achieving transformational impact in CHAI’s Women’s and Newborn Health programs.The Technical Advisor willbe responsible fortasks including designing and implementingmonitoring and evaluation (M&E)systems, continuouslymonitoringand improving data quality, analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, visualizing data through dashboards, and preparing dissemination materials and manuscripts.The ideal candidate willpossessstrong analytical skills, have a robust understanding of M&E theories and techniques, and be familiar with sexual and reproductive health and health systems strengthening programs. The Technical Advisor is expected to excel atconsolidatingand triangulatinglarge amountsof data, translating data into actionable insights through analysis, visualization, and dissemination to drive impact for women’s and newborn health programs.

The successful candidate will be a motivated individual with strong problem-solving and analytical skills, who is resourceful, analytical, and a clear communicator. The ideal candidate should be able to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, multi-cultural environment, and function independently.This role requires the incumbent to be flexible and simultaneously juggle multiple priorities and projects.

Responsibilities

Designing and implementing M&E Systems: Lead the design of routine monitoring guidance, tools, and processes for a large sexual and reproductive health program across at least 10 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, including by optimizing opportunities to strengthen and use existing nationally-owned data systems, such as the Health Management Information System (HMIS) and Logistics Management Information System (LMIS)

Developing data collection tools: Create and manage tailored data collection tools in electronic formats when primary data collection isrequired

Assuring data quality:Support CHAI country teams tomonitor, validate, and improve data quality

Offering strategicdata-driveninsights:Analyze program data and translate findings into actionable recommendations to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of CHAI programs

Enhancing data accessibility and visualization:Develop and/ormaintaindata dashboards and visualizations tocommunicate programdataand insights effectively to stakeholders

Contributing to program learning andaadapation:Facilitatelearningopportunitiesto share insights and promote adaptive management approaches based on M&E findings

Bumidcapacityand transferringknowledge:Build thecapacityof CHAI teams to gather,analyzeand use data generated from the program activitiesand support transfer of best practicesacrosscountry teams

Scatteredof eVidence:Support documentation and dissemination of results and lessons learned from CHAI’s work

Developingprogramming:Assist with program development,donorreporting, andgrant writing activities
Qualifications

Essential

Master’s degree in public health, economics, or a related field and a minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience in a field requiring analytical problem-solving anddata management

Extensive experience with program monitoring systemsanduse of routine data to enhance program implementation

Experience withdashboard development and data visualizationin Excelor other software

Skills in data management and analysis, including use of software such as Stata, R,or SAS

Excellent written and verbal communicationskills, plusdemonstratedcapacityto synthesize evidence into effective presentations and actionable recommendations for broad range of audiences, including government and donors

Knowledge of, and experience working on, sexual, reproductive,maternaland newborn health programs

Ability to work independently, to develop and execute work-plans, and to achieve specified goals with limited guidance and oversight in a fast-paced environment

Exceptional diplomatic and interpersonal skills, includingan ability to manage challenging multi-cultural, multi-stakeholder situations

Commitment to collaborative work with a mostly remote, geographically dispersed team across multiple time zones

Demonstratedcapacityto thrive in a work environment where juggling parallel deliverables and remote work are the norms

Excellent Microsoft Office skills, including advanced Excel skills

Ability to travelup to25%toCHAI programcountries and other locations as relevant to work (for in-country support, global meetings, etc.)

Experience living and/or working in Sub-Saharan Africa

Experience working across multi-country grants

Advantages

Experience with usingPowerBI

Experience using data collection software such asSurveyCTO, Kobo Toolbox,or other Open Data Kit platform

Experience with qualitative data collection and analysis

Experience with designing and implementing operations research

Proficiencyin French

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: No requirements