Country

Namibia

Type

Full Time

Program (Division)

Infectious Disease – Global Malaria

Additional Location Description

Base location is flexible subject to work authorization and country approval, with preference towards Africa regions and/or time zones.

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.

About The Program:

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.

20% Strategic Leadership

• Lead the coordination and prioritization of CHAI-supported bodies of work, particularly analytically-driven planning and malaria program digitization efforts
• Coordinate these initiatives with Ministry of Health counterparts, to achieve alignment on strategic direction and a collaborative approach to meeting malaria programme needs
• Develop and manage strong working relationships with key stakeholders across CHAI, government, non-governmental organizations, and local institutions working on relevant informatics, data analytics and surveillance activities
• Assist staff seconded to government to manage effective implementation of planned activities, including adherence to timelines and coordinating review and feedback from technical teams
• Monitor program activities against project goals and donor commitments, identify operational bottlenecks or weaknesses, and work collaboratively with country-based and global teams to achieve exceptional results on aggressive timelines

50%: Analytics and Surveillance Advisor

• Provide direct support to surveillance and analytics workstreams including the formulation and conducting of high-quality epidemiological analyses to evaluate effectiveness of current interventions, understand disease patterns, and inform strategic planning related to malaria within the region
• Provide onboarding, mentorship, supervision, and training of a small technical team
• Perform scientific literature review on relevant topics as needed (e.g., surveillance methods, drivers of malaria transmission, intervention effectiveness)
• Monitor, evaluate, and improve the performance of malaria surveillance processes and platforms, and contribute to the formulation of surveillance guidelines, SOPs and training materials
• Support development, integration, and institutionalization of malaria information systems, including data collection tools and dashboards
• Support integration of data use and analysis in routine programmatic activities at all levels of the health system
• Manage and coordinate analytical projects across different technical teams related to malaria epidemiology (e.g., drivers of transmission), targeting and evaluation of interventions (e.g., Indoor Residual Spraying, Insecticide-Treated Net distributions, health worker allocations), and surveillance (e.g., data quality audits)
• Design, implement, analyze, and disseminate operational research projects evaluating program or intervention effectiveness
• Support design and routine implementation of monitoring and evaluation of CHAI and governmental programs
• Organize, clean, and integrate datasets from different sources to aid program monitoring and evaluation and larger analyses
• Formulating and delivering national and sub-national level training technical materials
• Contribute strategic vision and thought leadership for how malaria analytics and surveillance can be strengthened in Angola and Mozambique
• Promote the routine use of epidemiological, entomological, and programmatic data and analysis to inform country strategy planning and program implementation
• Review and contribute to surveillance and analytics components of annual country work plans to ensure they meet strategic goals
• Synthesize and disseminate findings through high-quality presentations, reports, and scientific publications
• Represent CHAI at external technical meetings with international and local academic and technical partners.

30%: Digital Health Technical Advisor

• Serve as focal point on updates of the Digital Health grant, supporting the country-based team and technical teams on partner coordination, and provide periodic updates on status of implementation
• Manage relationships with subcontractors, ensuring compliance with organizational policies and work with technical teams to ensure the delivery of timely and high-quality work
• Identify new opportunities within and outside the initial project scope, anticipate risks and be proactive in responding to them.

• Master’s Degree in a relevant field or Bachelor’s degree minimum with exceptional experience
• 5+ years of work experience with increasing levels of responsibility and leadership
• Exceptional written, oral communication, and presentation skills in both English and Portugese, including effective communication of results through data visualization to audiences of varying technical backgrounds
• Knowledge of malaria, disease elimination, digital health, and/or other major global infectious disease problems
• Experience in strategy development, planning, and project implementation
• Experience in capacity building and support management
• Experience working and communicating with government officials and multilateral organizations
• Demonstrated analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills
• High levels of proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Ability to work independently in unstructured settings and to adapt to new environments and challenges
• Experience working remotely with a decentralized team
• Willingness to travel 20-30%

#jobreference3 #region3