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. For more information, please visit 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.

In 2006, CHAI was the first international NGO to help Liberia’s government rebuild after a decade-long civil war in Liberia had killed an estimated 270,000 people, decimated the nations’ health infrastructure and hindered the country’s ability to deliver vital health and social services. The partnership between Liberia’s Ministry of Health (MOH) and CHAI evolved from being HIV specific to addressing cross-cutting health systems challenges. CHAI has since supported the MOH in strengthening supply chain management, health workforce, health financing, and provided technical assistance across various vertical programs including HIV, maternal and neonatal health, sexual and reproductive health, malaria, cancer, essential medicines, and assistive technology.

Oxygen therapy (or respiratory care) can be used to treat any form of hypoxemia―abnormally low level of oxygen in the blood―and has the potential to reduce morbidity and mortality among many patient groups, particularly in vulnerable populations such as newborns, children, and pregnant women. CHAI’s Essential Medicines team has been working to expand access to medical oxygen in countries with high rates of mortality for pediatric pneumonia, and has recently began work in additional geographies catalyzed by the critical need for oxygen access in the context of the global COVID-19 response. CHAI, along with consortium partners including PATH and JustActions (Every Breath Counts [EBC] Coalition Coordinator), is supporting low and middle-income countries (LMICs) in improving reliable access to a comprehensive respiratory care treatment package, both as part of the immediate COVID-19 response as well as over time to strengthen respiratory care systems in the long term.

The Analyst will report to CHAI Liberia’s Senior Program Manager and work closely with Country Leadership and other team members, as well as CHAI’s global Essential Medicines Team. This position will be based in Monrovia, with minimal travel to other counties.

CHAI is seeking a high-motivated individual for the position of Analyst, Oxygen Access to support the government in increasing access to oxygen therapy in Liberia. This position is a unique opportunity to gain experience in health systems strengthening and work across all critical systems building blocks. The Analyst will provide technical support across multiple workstreams – national strategy development and costing; procurement, supply chain, and inventory management; clinical training and mentoring; and health information systems. Specific responsibilities include:

Coordination

• Provide ongoing support to strengthen the MOH Oxygen Technical Working Group (TWG) as a coordination platform, and build the capacity of relevant MOH staff to lead the platform; act as secretariat to the TWG, which may include drafting presentations, meeting agendas, taking meeting minutes
• Regularly liaise with MOH units, other government agencies, NGOs and international multilateral organizations for oxygen-related work, and serve as focal person at relevant workshops and meetings
• Support broader advocacy and resource mobilization efforts for oxygen access (e.g. drafting grant proposals, concept notes, presentations, budgets)

Training and Mentoring

• Support clinical training and mentoring in oxygen: training planning and implementation, tracking capacity gaps and progress, ensure integration with other CHAI Liberia programs, etc.

Health Information Systems

• Develop data collection tools and processes to ensure integration of oxygen-related data into routine health and supply chain information systems

Supply Chain

• Support national quantification review exercises for oxygen equipment and supplies
• Support development of technical specifications for oxygen technologies, and ensure integration into revision of national donation guidelines
• Identify opportunities to introduce inventory management systems and tools for oxygen technologies; develop standard operation procedures (SOPs) as needed
• Support integration of reporting and distribution of oxygen technologies into existing routine supply chain systems (e.g. e/LMIS), and support development and updating of oxygen production dashboard

Other responsibilities as needed

This position requires an individual with a self-starter attitude who is comfortable working with minimal direction, with the ability to apply systems thinking to their everyday work. The position also requires that the individual be capable of building strong and effective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders in the government, health facilities, and NGOs. The ideal candidate should have the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in public health, biomedical sciences or engineering, supply chain, or related discipline and at least 2 years of professional experience in health systems strengthening; Master’s degree preferred
• Experience conducting desk and literature reviews; ability to streamline and synthesize large amounts of information into high-quality documents for a wide range of stakeholder
• Experience in convening meetings and facilitating discussions among multidisciplinary group of stakeholders; previous experience working with government stakeholders preferred
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; high proficiency in MS Office Suite, particularly Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook
• Strong critical thinking skills and ability to problem-solve independently
• Great attention to detail, with exceptional organizational, coordination, and time management skills
• Able to quickly learn and become well-versed in all relevant aspects of oxygen delivery, across components of supply chain, equipment management, human resources and clinical training, etc.
• Understanding of and sensitivity to limitations in low-resource settings
• Prior experience in West Africa or other low-resource settings strongly preferred
• Understanding or prior experience in global procurement and medical device quality standards helpful

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