Country

Ghana

Type

Full Time

Program (Division)

Analytics and Implementation Research

Additional Location Description

This position will be based in a CHAI operations or program country in Africa, pending leadership approval.

Telecommute

Yes

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 skill sets and life experiences. CHAI is deeply grounded in the countries we work in, with the 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 we recognize 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

The Technical Advisor will 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, and sickle cell disease.

Program Support Areas

This AIR Technical Advisor position will support work related to global sexual and reproductive health (SRH). CHAI’s SRH program aims to ensure that all individuals are empowered to access information, products and services that will meet their sexual and reproductive health needs. We aim to significantly reduce unmet need for modern contraception and the incidence of unsafe abortions in program countries.  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 SRH commodity security through global and country supply chain strengthening and improved financing for SRH products; and 3) design and strengthen client-centric service delivery models that will reach key populations with SRH services. At the global level, CHAI is working to ensure that a diversified supplier base can meet demand for key SRH 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 SRH ecosystem. At the country level, CHAI works with governments to develop national SRH 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 SRH Team sits under CHAI’s Women and Newborn Health Cluster and supports the application of global learning and best practices, including around market stewardship and new and lesser used product introduction and scale-up. Underlying CHAI’s approach to all programs is our commitment to achieving sustainable, transformational change at scale by working in a way that strengthens health systems and government capabilities to improve health outcomes.

Position Overview

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 will be responsible for tasks including designing monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems, monitoring and ensuring data quality, analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, visualizing data through dashboards, and preparing dissemination materials and manuscripts. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills, have a robust understanding of M&E theories and techniques, and be familiar with reproductive health programs and key health systems strengthening concepts and approaches. The Technical Advisor is expected to excel at 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 superior problem-solving and analytical skills, who is resourceful, strong at analyzes, and a clear communicator. The ideal candidate should be able to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, multicultural environment, and function independently. This role requires the incumbent to be flexible and simultaneously juggle multiple priorities and projects.

The Technical Advisor will be working across several projects and countries and will be based in a CHAI operations country or program country in Africa, pending leadership approval. We welcome applicants who are from, currently living in, or willing to re-locate to a CHAI program country.

Base location is flexible to countries in which CHAI operates in Africa, subject to country leadership approval and work authorization.

• Designing 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 tailored data collection tools in electronic formats when primary data collection is required
• Assuring data quality: Support CHAI country teams to monitor, validate, and improve data quality
• Offering strategic data-driven insights: 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/or maintain data dashboards and visualizations to communicate program data and insights effectively to stakeholders
• Contributing to program learning and adaptation: Facilitate learning opportunities to share insights and promote adaptive management approaches based on M&E findings
• Building capacity and transferring knowledge: Build the capacity of CHAI teams to gather, analyze and use data generated from the program activities and support transfer of best practices across country teams
• Disseminating evidence: Support documentation and dissemination of results and lessons learned from CHAI's work
• Developing programming: Assist with program development, donor reporting, and grant writing activities

• 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
• Extensive experience with program monitoring systems and use of routine data to enhance program implementation
• Experience with dashboard development and data visualization in Excel or other software
• Skills in data management and analysis, including use of software such as Stata, R, or SAS
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including demonstrated capacity to synthesize evidence into effective presentations and actionable recommendations for a broad range of audiences, including government and donors
• Knowledge of and experience working on sexual and reproductive 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, including an ability to manage challenging multicultural, multi-stakeholder situations
• Commitment to collaborative work with a remote, geographically dispersed team across multiple time zones
• Demonstrated capacity to thrive in a work environment where juggling parallel deliverables and remote work are the norms
• Excellent MS Office skills, including advanced Excel skills
• Ability to travel up to 25% to CHAI program countries and other locations as relevant to work (for in-country support, global meetings, etc.)
• Experience living and/or working in Sub-Saharan Africa

Advantages

• Experience with using Power BI
• Experience using data collection software such as Survey CTO, Kobo Toolbox, or other Open Data Kit platform
• Experience with qualitative data collection and analysis
• Experience with designing and implementing operations research
• Proficiency in French

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