Country

Burkina Faso

City

Ouagadougou

Type

Full Time

Program (Division)

Country Programs - Burkina Faso

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 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.

Program Overview:

CHAI’s global malaria and neglected tropical disease (NTD) program provides direct technical and operational support to countries around the globe to strengthen their programs and reduce the burden of preventable, treatable diseases. We support governments to scale up effective interventions for prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and surveillance, with the goals of sustainably reducing the number of illnesses and deaths worldwide in the short-term and accelerating progress towards elimination of malaria and NTDs in the long term.

NTDs, including schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis, soil-transmitted helminths, lymphatic filariasis and trachoma, affect more than one billion people worldwide, disproportionately impacting children and the world’s poorest populations. Preventative Chemotherapy (PC) NTDs can be prevented and treated with existing medicines and tools, and countries are aiming to eliminate these diseases by 2030. To achieve this goal while operating under significant resource constraints, national NTD programs need to make data-informed decisions to improve strategic planning, mobilize and make efficient use of increasingly limited resources, and inform the targeting and implementation of prevention and treatment campaigns for NTDs.

Position Overview:

The Analyst must exhibit a passion for results, a commitment for 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. The successful candidate will need to possess strong communication, organizational and analytical skills and be able to work independently to drive implementation. The candidate will report to the CHAI Malaria and NTDs Program Manager and work closely with CHAI global teams, government national programs and key stakeholders to design and manage implementation of context-appropriate strategies and approaches.

The successful candidate will support programmatic aspects of CHAI’s Burkina work and act as a trusted partner to government health officials and partners. They will have deep personal commitment to producing results, the skills to navigate political situations, humility, patience, and optimism even in the face of daunting challenges. CHAI places great value on the following qualities in its staff: resourcefulness, resilience, responsibility, patience, tenacity, humility, independence, energy, and work ethic.

Data Access and Digitization (60%)

• Identify inputs for improvements to the NTD integrated database
• Guide and establish needs for campaign digitization efforts, including:
  • Identify opportunities for data use and digitization of national campaigns, and build a plan and vision for integrated campaign digitization
  • Explore useful analysis and tools for decision-making that are not fully leveraged, assess the operational and financial feasibility of implementing solutions
  • Support operational requirements gathering, including defining and understanding needs and gaps in campaign operations, identifying areas to address through digital solutions and areas that may need parallel operations strengthening by MoH departments and local partner support
  • Select, enhance, and customize context-appropriate campaign tools
  • Promote integrated campaign tools and platforms progressively implemented with across campaign and embedded within routine health systems
  • Conduct routine monitoring and evaluation to understand value and impact of digitizing and integrating campaigns
  • Develop a sustainability plan for long-term maintenance and use of digital platforms, including use of a network of local partners

ARISE Data Quality and M&E support (30%)

• Support data review, indicator estimation, and data source mapping that is required to populate key indicators at relevant frequencies
• Support the design and launch of the ARISE project dashboard (or similar data system) and relevant supporting materials, in collaboration with the CHAI health informatics and digital health teams to visualize progress of the project
• Lead and conduct routine data quality assessment of NTD data, and identify activities to improve the quality of the data

Others Tasks (10%)

• Contribute to the development resources and best practices to share lessons learned across teams, and synthesize and disseminate findings through high-quality presentations, reports, and publications
• Any other tasks as assigned by manager

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in relevant field like business management, public health, policy, or science and 3+ years of relevant work experience in a demanding, results-driven environment; preferably public health and/or business consulting
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and analytical capabilities
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, and strong competence in making persuasive presentations and written reports
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Experience in data management and data analysis
• Ability to be effective, calm, and flexible in high-pressure situations, to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and to effectively prioritize
• Experience living or working in resource-limited countries
• Willingness and ability to travel (20-30%)
• Fluency in English and French, both written and oral

Advantages:

• Understanding of disease surveillance (including surveillance platforms)
• Familiarity with emerging technologies for data collection and reporting, data integration, and data visualization and analysis
• Proven experience in implementing technology-based solutions
• Knowledge of NTD or other global infectious diseases
• Familiarity with national health management information systems (e.g., DHIS2)

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