The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries, while strengthening the capabilities of governments and the private sector in those countries to create and sustain high-quality health systems that can succeed without our assistance. For more information, please visit: http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org

CHAI’s global malaria program provides direct technical and operational 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.

Summary of Position:

CHAI is seeking a highly motivated and mission-driven individual to help develop, execute and coordinate more effective anti-malaria programs in countries in the South East Asia region, including Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Thailand.

The candidate must have excellent communications skills, patience, and cultural sensitivity, as they will be working on complex topics with a diverse set of global and country partners. The Regional Manager will have significant opportunity to shape CHAI’s approach to supporting malaria programs across a set of country programs. They will have strong quantitative analysis skills and exceptional ability to communicate the implications of analyses clearly and concisely. They will work with CHAI's country and technical teams to devise evidence-based strategic plans, manage communications across countries, regions, and teams, organize CHAI’s work, and provide effective management support to execute high-impact programs.

The position requires a highly motivated individual with outstanding analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and communication skills. The successful candidate does not need to have prior expertise in malaria, but they must have the capacity to rapidly absorb new concepts and be comfortable communicating these to a technical audience. They must exhibit a passion for results, a commitment to excellence, a willingness to provide support to different tasks, and the capacity to facilitate high-level strategic discussions with a multi-cultural, multidisciplinary set of actors. CHAI places great value on the following qualities in its staff: resourcefulness, responsibility, patience, tenacity, humility, independence, energy, and work ethic.

A strong willingness to travel is a must since the candidate is expected to support countries across the South East Asia region with travel estimated to be ~50-70%.

• Coordinate CHAI’s support to national malaria programs in the Greater Mekong Subregion to help strengthen systems and achieve audacious programmatic goals on aggressive timelines
• Develop management capacity and malaria expertise of CHAI country and regional staff to augment support to national malaria programs
• Support CHAI staff to think critically to identify national malaria program and health systems gaps and leverage the use of epidemiological evidence to guide-decision making regarding CHAI’s malaria elimination support
• Coordinate support from CHAI’s Malaria Analytics and Surveillance, Case Management Support, and Financing Teams, as required, to enhance national country-level support, ensure technical soundness of strategies, and achieve program progress
• Work collaboratively with CHAI country teams and provide thought partnership, strategic guidance, and back-stopping support to country program managers and staff across the region.
• Support all CHAI malaria staff in the region to develop annual work plans and assist country teams 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 with country and Global
• Malaria leadership to strengthen programs as necessary
• Ensure the quality of products and documents produced by CHAI team members, including strategic plans, guidelines and standard operating procedures, presentations, project reports and implementation updates, and/or communications with partners
• Streamline communications between Global Malaria leadership and technical staff and country offices, and provide regular updates on opportunities and progress to each
• Facilitate coordination of activities between country teams within the region and act as liaison for learning from other regions
• Synthesize CHAI’s best practices, products, and approaches and work to institutionalize knowledge to maintain consistency of CHAI support across countries and regions
• Manage budgeting across all technical areas, including working with country teams to determine annual allocations and identify under- or over-spends, and liaising with technical experts during the costing and reforecasting of budgets
• Lead donor reporting for region, working alongside country teams to develop programmatic and financial updates
• Represent CHAI at regional meetings and conferences and develop and maintain relationships with regional partners to ensure coordinated activities.
• Collaborate with global technical staff to engage global experts and partners and facilitate their work in the region as appropriate.
• Explore new opportunities, engage with country offices during development of funding proposals to ensure joint ownership and sufficient program capacity for execution of funded projects
• Other responsibilities as needed

• Master's degree in Public Health, Business Administration or related field strongly preferred with a minimum of 5 year of work experience with increasing levels of responsibility and leadership
• Knowledge of malaria, malaria elimination, and/or other major global infectious disease problems
• Experience in strategy development, planning, and project implementation
• Exceptional problem-solving solving skills and analytical capabilities
• Demonstrated ability to learn quickly, act upon technical information and translate scientific knowledge into actionable insights for decision-making
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, with strong spoken and written English, and skill in making persuasive presentations and written reports
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Experience working and communicating with government officials and multilateral organizations
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, set priorities, and work well independently and under pressure. Patience and thoughtfulness even in stressful situations
• Strong interpersonal skills and proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships in a multicultural environment
• Strong work ethic, integrity, credibility, and dedication to CHAI’s mission
• Willingness to travel 50-70% 

Advantages:

• Experience working in management consulting, investment banking, or similar fast-paced, output-oriented environments
• Experience living or working in resource-limited countries, including countries of the Asia-Pacific
• Experience in capacity-building
• Working knowledge of Vietnamese, Lao, Khmer, or Burmese

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