Associate Delivery, Global SRH Job in Senegal Recruiting by The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc.

The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to our mission of saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries. We work at the invitation of governments to support them and the private sector to create and sustain high-quality health systems.

CHAI was founded in in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic with the goal of dramatically reducing the price of life-saving drugs and increasing access to these medicines in the countries with the highest burden of the disease. Over the following two decades, CHAI has expanded its focus. Today, along with HIV, we work in conjunction with our partners to prevent and treat infectious diseases such as COVID-19, malaria, tuberculosis, and hepatitis. Our work has also expanded into cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and other non-communicable diseases, and we work to accelerate the rollout of lifesaving vaccines, reduce maternal and child mortality, combat chronic malnutrition, and increase access to assistive technology. We are investing in horizontal approaches to strengthen health systems through programs in human resources for health, digital health, and health financing. With each new and innovative program, our strategy is grounded in maximizing sustainable impact at scale, ensuring that governments lead the solutions, that programs are designed to scale nationally, and learnings are shared globally.

At CHAI, our people are our greatest asset, and none of this work would be possible without their talent, time, dedication and passion for our mission and values. We are a highly diverse team of enthusiastic individuals across 40 countries with a broad range of skillsets and life experiences. CHAI is deeply grounded in the countries we work in, with majority of our staff based in program countries. Learn more about our exciting work:

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

Unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions drive high rates of preventable mortality and morbidity in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs). CHAIs Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) program aims to ensure that all individuals are empowered to access information, products and services that will meet their sexual and reproductive health needs. We aim to significantly reduce unmet need for modern contraception and the incidence of unsafe abortions in program countries within the next 5 years. To accomplish our goals, were pursuing 3 strategic objectives:

We pursue global and country-focused market shaping opportunities for SRH products to create an enabling environment for the introduction and scale up of quality-assured products and services in LMICs. At the global level, we are working to ensure that a diversified supplier base can meet demand for key products and ensure commodities are affordable and of high quality. We also coordinate donors and partners around a global product strategy. At the country level, CHAI works with governments to develop national SRH scale up plans with clear targets; use data to coordinate partner resources against the plan and achieve targets; strengthen national forecasting and quantification; address supply chain bottlenecks; improve health worker training; and strengthen performance management for the health system.

The Global SRH teams current grant portfolio (non-exhaustive) includes: an investment by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) to support scale up of a three-month, subcutaneous self-injectable contraceptives (DMPA-SC) in Liberia, Ghana, Malawi and Myanmar where CHAI is the lead national Technical Assistance partner; and an investment by the U.K. Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to expand global access to the hormonal IUD (HIUD) through a number of supply and demand side interventions. CHAI is supporting governments to lead development and roll out of national HIUD introductions in 7 countries: DRC, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia. In addition, in Cambodia, DRC, Liberia, Uganda, Rwanda, South Africa, and Zambia, CHAI is also supporting governments to scale up affordable, quality-assured Medical Abortion (MA) combipacks in alignment with local laws. CHAI is also supporting market landscaping for next generation on-demand contraceptive products.

The Global SRH Team works across the CHAI matrix to support the application of global learning and best practices, and provide thought-partnership and technical assistance to programs implemented by in-country teams who own our valued relationships with partner governments and who possess critical knowledge of local context and operating conditions. Underlying our approach is our commitment to achieving sustainable, transformational change at scale by working in a way that strengthens health systems and government capabilities to improve SRH outcomes. In addition, leveraging our experience in product introduction, the SRH program is pioneering new approaches to transform the way product introductions are done by establishing processes and systems that support governments to lead management of SRH markets in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Zambia, and by proving out a responsive demand-side funding mechanism that incentivizes alignment with government plans (the Catalytic Opportunity Fund).

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The Associate will provide technical and programmatic support as primary Country Focal Point (CFP) for 3 program country teams in Africa (DRC, Rwanda, Senegal) to support introduction of new reproductive health products, improve sexual and reproductive health service delivery, and execute SRH market stewardship. To support this work, CHAIs Global SRH Team is seeking a highly motivated individual with superior problem-solving and communication skills who is resourceful, collaborative, and proficient in quantitative analysis. The candidate should have experience working in a fast-paced, multi-cultural environment and functioning independently with minimal guidance. The candidate must have excellent relationship-building and communication skills and ability to work effectively with others remotely.

The position will also support country teams to remain abreast of global best practices and evidence related to SRH and to translate this information into improvements in country-specific programs and approaches. The role will be expected to work collaboratively with country teams to design programs, identify country-specific opportunities for improving SRH service delivery, document and evaluate progress, and communicate lessons learned.

In addition to country support, the Associate will own a subset of knowledge areas, leading knowledge sharing priorities and coordinating development of global goods; as well as liaising internally with other CHAI program teams as appropriate. The Associate will report to the Global SRH Senior Program Manager and sits within the GSRH Teams SRH Delivery cluster. Base location is flexible within a CHAI SRH program in Africa, pending Country Director approval. Expected travel is 50% including frequent travel to work with teams in person in focal countries.

Responsibilities

Specific responsibilities of the Global SRH Program Associate will include:

Strategic and technical support to program implementation:

Cross-country Coordination and Knowledge Management:

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