Country

United Kingdom

City

United Kingdom

Program (Division)

Infectious Disease - Global Malaria

Additional Location Description

The base location may also be in a program country in sub-Saharan Africa, pending country leadership approval

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.

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.

Overview of role:

CHAI is seeking a highly motivated individual to lead a project building and disseminating market forecasts for malaria commodities (bed nets, insecticides, diagnostics, and treatments). This position will manage the operations of the project in compliance with grant guidelines and timelines, be the face of engagement with consortium partners and CHAI staff to ensure that project goals and timelines are met, organize the project’s steering committee meetings and incorporate committee insights on project trajectory, maintain project communications and relationships with malaria commodity suppliers and other global malaria stakeholders (e.g., Roll Back Malaria), package and disseminate forecast deliverables, and lead decisions on project approach.

This person should be an experienced professional with expertise in complex project management, data analysis and visualization, work planning, and international team coordination. They must be a highly motivated, entrepreneurial individual with outstanding people and program management, problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills. They must have strong skills in stakeholder management and relationship building with individuals from a range of technical backgrounds. They must also be able to function independently with minimal oversight and have a strong commitment to excellence with a keen eye for detail.

CHAI places great value on relevant personal qualities including resourcefulness, tenacity, independence, patience, humility, and a strong work ethic.

Convene and support CHAI-led consortium of partners for the malaria commodities forecasting project:  

• Lead the work planning process, including the development of templates, ensuring the completion of work plans by all partners, and monitoring the activities and timelines outlined within them
• Lead content development for donor reporting on an annual basis; manage the assembly of CHAI and partner inputs; and help ensure that final reports are clear, consistent, and cohesive
• Oversee knowledge management platform for the project, working in partnership with all consortium partners to keep it comprehensive, up-to-date, and user-friendly
• Manage publication of all project findings, draft and disseminate all communicative briefs and white papers
• Plan and lead regular team, consortium, and steering committee meetings in addition to output dissemination meetings
• Manage team calls and support planning and execution of meetings to discuss project progress
• Act as the key point person representing this project in liaison with commodity suppliers, global stakeholders, and the project donor

Provide technical support and guidance to the forecasting team:

• Maintain positive, productive, supportive, and collegial team cohesion and morale with an existing project team of skilled and independent staff and collaborators
• Support with interpretation and narrative development for outputs produced by the market forecasting associate and epidemiologist
• Lead final decisions on assumptions and scenarios to be included in forecasts and provide backstop support with analysis/interpretation of data
• Keep up to date with new evidence and data relevant to the project
• Collate information from partner engagements to inform forecast priorities going forwards, such as determining global events that should be included in forecast models

Provide support to CHAI's malaria team:

• Act as first point of contact on the team for project management assistance or questions
• Liaise regularly with staff on matters relevant to the team
• Track hiring plans, sub-contracting, and the status of recruitment efforts and proactively flag delays
• Develop and maintain onboarding materials, and coordinate and lead onboarding for new staff
• Manage team calls, including preparing the agenda, taking notes, and tracking follow-up action items
• Develop and maintain knowledge management platform for the team
• Support planning and execution of meetings, including identification of venues and coordination of all travel logistics

• Master’s degree in public health, project management, or similarly applicable studies
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience including project management
• Experience working in an international context and/or entrepreneurial environment
• Experience leading engagement with senior-level stakeholders
• Exceptional written, oral, interpersonal, and organizational skills
• Ability to think strategically and anticipate future consequences and trends
• Experience with data analysis and data visualization
• Ability to work well both independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Strong work ethic, integrity, credibility, and dedication to CHAI’s mission
• Ability to be effective, calm, and flexible in high-pressure situations, to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and to effectively prioritize
• Ability to communicate effectively with people of varied professional and cultural backgrounds
• Proven ability to function in a fast-paced work environment
• Demonstrated ability to work with a sense of urgency and timeliness
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
• Ability to travel 10% to 15%

Advantages

• Experience in a demanding private sector environment, such as strategy consulting, health commodity market intelligence, or public sector advisory position
• Experience working in an international context and/or entrepreneurial environment
• Experience working in malaria and/or with commodities forecasting
• Demonstrated evidence of experience developing technical reports and public presentations of technical data

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