Associate, Health Systems Strengthening job at Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) | Apply Now

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 2002 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: 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.

Background:
CHAI Uganda has worked with the government over the past 15 years to increase access to lifesaving commodities including diagnostics, treatments and other biological products that target women and children. CHAI provides technical assistance to the government counterparts through data analytics to inform forecasting, quantification, procurement planning/kit design, commodity pipeline monitoring and delivery of commodities to the last mile, strengthens policy and financing mechanisms for essential maternal and child health commodities and biological products, accelerates introduction of key newer products and improve and uptake of existing commodities and influences and promotes healthier markets for maternal and child health commodities through private sector supplier engagements ( importers, distributors, health care providers and regulatory agencies). CHAI prioritizes commodities that are critical for reduction of maternal and child health morbidity and mortality including childhood vaccinations, commodities for HSS, diarrhea, Pneumonia and Family planning (FP) and, HIV and other infectious diseases, Non-Communicable Diseases, Cervical and Breast Cancer.
Health systems strengthening (HSS) – In line with CHAI’s Global Health system’s strengthening cluster, CHAI Uganda aims to work closely with the government to optimize how policies, budgets and health sector workplans build strong sustainable health systems across program matrices. This work comes off from years of providing technical assistance across several departments in grant writing process for global health initiatives such as Global Fund, GAVI and URMCHIP, and recognizing missed opportunities for collaboration and integration across programs during implementation.
Position Description:
Reporting to the Senior Program Manager, the Senior Associate, will provide program leadership support to deliver the ambitious program objectives. They will be responsible for providing technical and operational leadership for specific projects, overseeing execution and assuming responsibility for high quality delivery. This work will require close collaboration with the Ministry of Health Policy planning and finance department lead and its partners. They will also work closely with CHAI’s Global HSS teams and interact with HSS program colleagues across CHAI countries. We are seeking an individual with proven problem-solving skills, a practical detail-oriented approach, strong track record of project implementation and clear understanding of Global Fund (GF) processes.