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.
In India, CHAI works in partnership with its India registered affiliate William J Clinton Foundation (WJCF) under the guidance of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) at the Central and States' levels on an array of high priority initiatives aimed at improving health outcomes. Currently, WJCF supports government partners across projects to expand access to quality care and treatment for HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, tuberculosis, COVID-19, common cancers, sexual and reproductive health, immunization, and essential medicines.
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Programme overview
CHAI, in partnership with WJCF in India, has launched an initiative to shape the global market for energy efficient Air Conditioning in emerging marketsโa climate impact opportunity three times greater than fully decarbonizing aviation and shipping combined. Cooling will be one of the largest drivers of greenhouse gas emissions over the coming years as people across the world buy an additional ~4.5B room air conditioning (RAC) units to adapt to a warming world. While access to space cooling is critical for health and productivity, without intervention, the resulting emissions from this massive growth in RACs are expected to contribute 0.5 degrees Celsius to global surface temperature by 2100. Manufacturers have begun developing much more efficient RACs that can reduce emissions by as much as 80%, but the current path to market launch and uptake is slow and uncertain. Strategic shaping of markets for key products played a central role in transforming the fight against HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases. Many of the tools that have been successfully deployed to shape markets for health products can be applied to critical climate technologies; however, today, there is a major gap in bringing this market-shaping toolkit and discipline to bear on urgent climate priorities.
WJCF is incubating a new initiative to shape the market for clean cooling technologies. Indian consumers are expected to purchase ~1B RACs by 2050, representing one of the fastest growing and largest markets. In order to avoid locking in low efficiency RACs for another generation, our goal is to drive rapid, large-scale uptake of next generation RACs that are optimized for India by implementing a suite of market shaping interventions. Our initial research suggests promising initiatives may include supply de-risking mechanisms such as market commitments and demand incentivizing tools such as innovating consumer financing programs.
Role Overview
We seek a highly motivated individual with demonstrated experience for the role of Analyst โ Climate & Cooling for WJCFโs strategic initiative in climate change. The candidate will report to the Lead โ Climate & Cooling and, as an integral member of the country team, work closely with representatives of different internal country and global teams. The Analyst will play a powerful role in crafting the climate and cooling strategy and implementation approach for WJCF. The candidate must be able to function independently, be comfortable working and coordinating the operations of cross-functional teams, be flexible, and have a strong commitment to excellence. WJCF places great value on relevant personal qualities: resourcefulness, responsibility, tenacity, independence, energy, and work ethic.
Responsibilities
Provide specialised inputs for informing WJCFโs strategy in the cooling sectorConstruct approaches and frameworks for designing and implementing initiatives and forging alliances aimed at positively impacting the cooling sectorConduct primary research and literature review and track developments related to technological, policy, regulatory, trade, and commercial aspects of climate change, particularly cooling related drivers in India and outsideDevelop insights for constructing interventions across the cooling value chain for market shaping in the direction of energy efficient and lower emission technologiesDevelop and leverage networks with key entities in the climate and cooling ecosystem in IndiaSignificantly contribute to thought pieces and research collaterals for WJCFSupport the crafting of internal and external facing collaterals and reportsPlay the representation role for WJCF at appropriate fora such as symposiums and workshopsUndertake any other responsibilities as assigned by programme leadershipQualifications
Bachelorโs or Masterโs degree in social sciences, environment, engineering, policy, economics/finance1-2 years of relevant experience in analytical roles, such as consulting, research, etc., preferably with a focus on climate-related topicsTrack record of developing research and outreach collaterals commiserate with the requirements for consulting firms, research entities, and think tanksAbility to thrive in uncertainty and develop bottom-up hypotheses which can be testedProven ability to deliver high quality outputs under time sensitive and complex requirementsStrong analytical skills and in-depth working knowledge of digital analytical and visualization toolsStrong written and verbal communication skillsAbility to work in a matrix and multi-cultural team across geographies#jobreference1 #region2