When CHAI was founded, many viewed this goal as unreasonable because health systems in poor countries were too weak and prices of relevant drugs and diagnostic tests were too high.CHAI played a leadership role, working alongside governments and other partners, to lower the costs of treatment and help build the in-country systems necessary to provide lifesaving treatment to millions of people. Since then, CHAI has pursued several similarly ambitious goals, from scaling up pediatric AIDS treatment in order to achieve equity with adults in a timeframe few thought possible, to rapidly accelerating the rollout of new vaccines. CHAI has achieved many of its most important successes when seeking to fundamentally change the way the world approaches an issue and pushing the boundaries of what is considered feasible in global health. OUR VALUES We are driven by a set of values that are fundamental to our work and that support our change-oriented agenda. CHAI doesn’t implement stand-alone programs, nor does it build parallel health systems. Rather CHAI works at the invitation of governments to strengthen and sustain their own capacity to provide long-term healthcare to their citizens. In South Africa, for example, CHAI is supporting the government to expand antiretroviral treatment to more than 2.3 million people and to test over 15 million people for HIV in the next two years. We work with urgency. People are dying unnecessarily from AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis (TB), and other treatable diseases; the world often responds too slowly. We understand that the faster we act the more lives can be saved.
- Job Type: Full Time
- Qualification: BA/BSc/HND
- Experience: 6 – 8 years
- Location: Nigeria
- Job Field: Medical / Healthcare
Responsibilities
- End to end project management. This includes working with state and national team staff on workplan development, weekly monitoring of program activities, progress tracking, report development, and coordination of regular check-in calls with country and global teams.
- Provide adequate technical guidance and support to other program staff to optimize workstreams in line with CHAI values and ensure high technical quality and relevance of plans and outputs by conducting brainstorming sessions, reviewing drafts, providing feedback, and supporting preparations for government engagements.
- Oversee program implementation in line with grant documents and ensure alignment with Government priorities and accountability to program funders.
- Collaboratively design theories of change and results frameworks and execute program monitoring of work and process evaluation.
- Represent and communicate CHAI’s work both within CHAI and to external partners, funders, and government stakeholders. Coordinate the dissemination of CHAI’s learnings from implementation and lead the development of dissemination materials and toolkits using appropriate channels. This includes leading the development of abstracts for submission to conferences, and posters or presentations if invited to present, as well as manuscripts for submission to academic journals. Support uptake of tools and approaches across other CHAI country offices. Engage and build relationships with partners working in similar areas.
- Provide support to the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), National Health Insurance Agency (NHIA), Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) at National level, working collaboratively as an active member of the relevant finance and PHC technical working groups to inform National strategies and implementation, ensure state governments are well informed about national level events and policies, and adjust ongoing CHAI programs to align with national level updates.
- Lead proposal development efforts by identifying gaps and funding opportunities, developing new concepts to secure funding to expand CHAI’s work in this area, and coordinating the proposal writing, budgeting, review, and submission process.
- Working with the Program Director and Country Director, participate in donor engagement activities and actively map funding opportunities through donor landscaping and relationship building with donors and partners.
- Manage monthly and annual program budgets including monthly program expense reviews and adjustments ensuring alignment with grant budgets and compliance with donor requirements.
- Write and present narrative and financial reports for donors and contribute to global reporting across CHAI as required.
- Stay abreast of the evolving health financing landscape, in Nigeria, monitoring key trends in the field.
- Support technical health financing learning within the CHAI Nigeria teams by sharing webinars, online courses, and journal articles, and requesting training sessions from the health financing global team and information sharing sessions from other country teams.
- Building capacity of other progam staff on cross-cutting hard and soft skills including written and oral communications, work planning and time management, stakeholder management, and problem solving, by providing written and verbal feedback, mentorship, and providing opportunities to practice.
- This role requires taking initiative to identify new opportunities and take on other responsibilities as needed and as requested by manager.
- Any other responsibilities as directed by the Program Director and Country Director.
Qualifications
- 6-8 years of experience including experience in the health sector in low and middle income countries
- Program management experience, working end to end from strategy development to proposal development, through implementation, monitoring and evaluation and reporting, as well as program budgeting and operations
- Ability to write persuasively using evidence and to explain complex concepts to a variety of audiences including donors and partners as well as senior government officials
- Strong facilitator and oral communicator able to explain complex concepts to a variety of audiences
- Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and quickly adapt to changing priorities
- Entrepreneurial attitude, ability to self-motivate and propose new initiatives
- Full proficiency of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Strong interpersonal skills and proven ability to build relationships in a multicultural environment
- Ability to coach teams and lead performance development initiatives for program team members
- English language fluency
- Strong technical and scientific writing skills preferred
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) on careers-chai.icims.com to apply
