Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)
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Position description
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.
Team and Role Overview
Although there has been a significant decline in HIV incidence over the last two decades driven by increased treatment coverage and rollout of effective prevention interventions such as voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), numbers of new infections still far exceed global targets for epidemic control. There is a clear need for new product options and more effective delivery models that can rapidly increase the scale of prevention coverage. As potentially more acceptable, convenient, and discreet options, long-acting PrEP products offer the opportunity to better meet the needs and preferences of end users. This includes lenacapavir, a six-monthly injection recently approved by the US FDA and currently being rolled out across early adopter countries.
CHAI is currently working with a range of partners, including governments, communities, and the private sector to accelerate the introduction and scale up of lenacapavir, while strengthening health systems to support sustainable, resilient prevention responses and additional products in the pipeline.
The Country Support Associate will report to the HIV Prevention Associate Director and will contribute to a range of projects funded by Unitaid, EJAF, the Gates Foundation, and others focused on introducing and scaling lenacapavir. Alongside these projects, the Associate will also support other relevant workstreams across the HIV team and ongoing and new fundraising efforts.
This role will work closely with CHAI country teams and other partners providing technical and operational expertise to execute key grant functions, including country team engagement; developing reports and presentations; conducting desk research and analyses; supporting external partner engagement; supporting work plan development; tracking and monitoring project milestones, timelines, and deliverables; and coordinating reporting inputs from country teams. The Country Support Associate is responsible for staying up to date with the latest prevention market trends, evidence, and knowledge to serve as a resource externally and across both the prevention team and other CHAI teams.
Responsibilities
- Support CHAI country teams in program countries to design, execute, and monitor project activities, elevating risks and emerging issues to manager.
- Prepare presentations that include analyses, cross-country insights, and program lessons for internal and external audiences.
- Coordinate and draft CHAI inputs for routine reporting and ad hoc donor communications and requests.
- Track and consolidate project deliverables against project work plans.
- Develop and monitor internal timelines to account for relevant internal reviews and iteration.
- Maintain and expand knowledge management platforms to enable information sharing across teams.
- Support in translating global evidence and best practices to the country level, including distilling and communicating messages to country teams and other partners.
- Maintain up-to-date expertise across HIV, and specifically HIV prevention, including the latest trends, and research developments, and developing updates for country and global team members.
- Provide support for partner management and donor engagement, including facilitating information sharing, drafting agendas and meeting slides, supporting meeting planning, taking and organizing notes and follow-ups, etc.
- Coordinate CHAI-internal touchpoints to ensure team is aligned and well-positioned to share cross-workstream learnings and collaborate.
- Support monthly prevention team-wide touchpoints to share grant updates and discuss deep dive topics.
- Support in fostering a collaborative team environment which supports and engages team members.
- Support scoping, fundraising, proposal writing, and grant development in line with CHAI’s HIV strategy.
- Other responsibilities as needed.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in relevant field, including (but not limited to) public policy, public health, global health, economics, business, pharmacy, social science or other science. Candidates with alternative educational background degrees are also welcome to apply.
- At least two years of work experience in a fast-paced, results-oriented work environment
- Meticulous work ethic and organization skills with the ability to simultaneously manage multiple complex tasks with a high degree of uncertainty, set priorities, and work independently with a strong attention to detail
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, with the ability to efficiently conduct desk research, identify and consolidate key takeaways, and effectively translate insights based on target audience
- Strong interpersonal and stakeholder engagement skills, with proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships in a diverse environment
- High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word, including strong data visualization skills using these platforms or others
- Patience and thoughtfulness even in high-pressure, stressful situations
- Willingness and flexibility to travel (~40%)
Advantages:
- Knowledge of public health in low- and middle-income countries, in particular HIV.
- Experience excelling in a remote or decentralized work environment.
- Experience writing/editing/submitting publications for academic journals
- Experience conducting quantitative and/or qualitative research
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