Founded in 2002 by President William J. Clinton, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to strengthening integrated health systems around the world and expanding access to care and treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria and other illnesses. Based on the premise that business oriented strategy can facilitate solutions to global health challenges, CHAI acts as a catalyst to mobilize new resources and optimize the impact of these resources to save lives, via improved organization of commodity markets and more effective local management. By working in association with governments and other NGO partners, CHAI is focused on large scale impact and, to date, CHAI has secured lower pricing agreements for treatment options in more than 70 countries. In addition, CHAI’s teams are working side-by-side with over 30 governments to tackle many of the largest barriers to effective treatment and care.
About the Malaria Program
Malaria is one of the most important causes of illness, death and lost economic productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Over the past decade, dramatic increases in donor funding have facilitated scale-up of effective interventions to prevent, diagnosis, and treat malaria. This investment has successfully reduced the burden of malaria in many settings, and some countries have begun planning to eliminate it altogether. Yet these gains are fragile: global funding for malaria remains short of what is needed, last decade’s rapid growth in malaria financing appears to have halted, and resistance to insecticides and drugs threatens to set back efforts. CHAI’s global malaria program provides direct management and technical support to countries around the globe to strengthen their malaria programs and reduce the burden of this preventable, treatable disease. We support governments to scale up effective interventions for prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and surveillance, with the goals of sustainably reducing the number of malaria-related illnesses and deaths worldwide in the short-term and accelerating progress towards malaria elimination in the long term.
Location: this position is flexible to CHAI programmatic countries per country leadership approval and the United States.
CHAI is seeking a highly motivated individual to work as part of the global malaria commodity access team to support the development of a global forecast of demand for commodities required to implement elimination campaigns. The Associate will work directly with the commodity access team’s senior technical advisor, coordinate closely with the global malaria research and surveillance team, and work with CHAI country teams to translate both the ideal package of interventions based on geographical risk and current national strategic plans into commodity requirement over time. These forecasts will be revised on an annual basis and shared with the funders and procurers of malaria commodities, along with pharmaceutical and diagnostic manufacturers.
Responsibilities will include:
- Collect and track updates to national strategic plans in countries moving towards malaria elimination;
- Collect and track updates to national procurement supply chain management plans, as they pertain to malaria elimination commodities;
- Work with the global malaria research and surveillance team as they design evidence-based strategic plans towards elimination;
- Develop standard unit quantifications to translate interventions into commodity demand;
- Develop estimates on the timelines for scale-up of elimination campaigns across specific geographical areas;
- Provide analytical support on forecasting and quantification of essential malaria commodities for countries in order to implement these plans;
- Provide ad-hoc data collection and analytical support on forecasting and quantification of essential non-elimination malaria commodities for countries to support analysis of commodity demand and procurement strategies; and,
- Attend and participate in key partner meetings.
Job Requirements
Bachelor or Master’s degree plus relevant professional experience in a demanding, results-oriented environment;
Exceptionally strong quantitative skills, including fluency in Excel.
Ability to create compelling, logical presentations and reports, using MS PowerPoint and MS Word.
Comfort and flexibility to work independently with a diverse set of counterparts.
3-5 years of experience in a demanding private sector environment, such as strategy consulting, or health commodity market intelligence, or public sector advisory position.
Will be able to travel frequently and extensively across sub-Saharan Africa and to other trans-continental meetings.
Advantages
- An MPH, MS in public health, or experience working in public health, particularly with an analytical focus (epidemiology/statistics).
- Experience working in developing countries, particularly on health related issues
- Experience working in pharmaceutical or medical device market research, market intelligence, wholesale distribution, or commercial strategy.
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