Technical Advisor, Epidemiologist, Malaria & NTDs Analytics & Surveillance - Anglophone & Lusophone Africa

Country
Namibia
Type
Full Time
Program (Division)
Infectious Disease - Malaria & NTDs
Additional Location Description
Flexible in CHAI program countries pending work authorization and leadership approval
Overview

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 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 recognizes that our mission is best advanced by the leadership and contributions of people with diverse experience, backgrounds, and culture.

Overview of the Role

CHAI is seeking a highly motivated individual to work as a Technical Advisor Epidemiologist, Malaria & NTDs Analytics & Surveillance, Anglophone and Lusophone Africa to lead a team of epidemiologists to help malaria and NTD programs to measure and improve surveillance systems and use data to inform routine and strategic decisions. This position will shape the strategy of the analytics and surveillance team, manage its team members, and provide technical support to CHAI and MOH staff in malaria and NTD programs in six countries across the region.

CHAI places great value on relevant personal qualities including resourcefulness, tenacity, independence, patience, humility, and strong work ethic.

This position will report to the Senior Technical Advisor, Malaria & NTDs Analytics & Surveillance, African regions.

Responsibilities

Regional Strategy:

  • Lead all malaria, NTD, and dengue surveillance and analytics work for the region, as required.
  • Serve as an expert/technical advisor for epidemiological and strategic questions to CHAI’s regional team, country teams, and for senior leadership.
  • Serve as a lead contributor to building and implementing CHAI’s regional malaria and NTDs strategic vision, focusing on robust use of epidemiological data and analysis to inform strategic processes.
  • Along with digital health colleagues, develop and communicate a coherent vision for malaria and NTD information systems within and across countries, and influence internal and external stakeholders and initiatives to drive the vision forward.
  • Support rigorous evidence-based planning of intervention deployment, and design and implement monitoring to evaluate effectiveness of current government interventions and identify potential approaches or strategies to accelerate progress and advocate for resources.
  • Set and adjust team priorities in response to evolving programmatic needs, and identify strategic opportunities for analytical support that address critical programmatic questions and optimize decision-making.

Technical project implementation and management: 

  • Oversee the implementation of analytics and surveillance projects to support evidence-based decisions.
  • Organize, clean, and integrate datasets; conduct statistical analyses; and develop and interpret risk maps and stratifications.
  • Contribute to the formulation of annual work plans across multiple countries.
  • Lead monitoring and evaluation of the performance of existing and new surveillance processes and platforms, and identify ways of improving them.
  • Guide the development and deployment of surveillance system digital tools and platforms in country and ensure alignment of technology solutions with strategic objectives, in collaboration with CHAI Digital Health staff.
  • Review and ensure high-quality surveillance and analytics guidelines and SOPs, M&E plans, lessons learned documents, and operational manuals.
  • Oversee design, implementation, analysis, and dissemination of operational research projects related to surveillance, intervention effectiveness, and entomology.
  • Support the development of country-led systems for conducting data analysis and leading surveillance related processes.

Team management and partner collaboration:

  • Directly manage, onboard, provide technical mentorship, supervision, guidance, and training to a small team of junior and mid-level epidemiologists based across the region; provide guidance, direction, and mentorship to staff across the region.
  • Work directly with technical teams, country teams and governmental staff to better integrate epidemiological, entomological, and programmatic data use and analysis into routine programmatic activities at all levels of the health system.
  • Cultivate and establish relationships with local academic institutions, international academic institutions (Imperial College London, STPH), NGOs (e.g. PSI, PATH, FHI360), and regional organizations (e.g. WHO AFRO) working on data analysis or surveillance to inform malaria and NTD goals.

Communication and knowledge management:

  • Manage and develop resources and best practices to share lessons across teams; synthesize and disseminate findings through high-quality presentations, reports, and publications.
  • Represent CHAI at external technical meetings, acting as the face of the organization to academic/technical partners within the region, including via the dissemination of findings through high-quality presentations, reports, and publications.
  • Review and/or contribute to the development of the technical sections of grant deliverables (power points, programmatic reports, grant proposals, scoping documents).
  • Monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on CHAI’s malaria analytics and surveillance support.
Qualifications
  • Masters in public health, epidemiology or related field
  • 5+ years of work experience with increasing levels of responsibility and leadership, including management experience
  • Experience contributing to strategic planning through rigorous data use processes
  • Experience mentoring and managing junior technical staff 
  • Experience with designing, conducting, and analysing epidemiological surveys
  • Experience in conducting surveillance system assessments, planning surveillance strengthening activities, and conducting data quality assessments
  • Experience in working and communicating with government officials and other external partners
  • Exceptional skills in the epidemiological analysis of health data and the application of analyses for decision-making
  • Statistical and geospatial analysis programming experience (including expertise with R, STATA,  ArcGIS, QGIS and/or other relevant software)
  • High levels of proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and internet applications
  • Proficiency in report writing and other concise written communications
  • Exceptional written and oral communication skills
  • Fluency in English

Advantages

  • Working proficiency in Portuguese.

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