Senior Associate, Women’s and Newborn Health

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 skill sets and life experiences. CHAI is deeply grounded in the countries we work in, with the 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.

Program Summary

The Women’s & Newborn Health Cluster at CHAI aims to reduce unintended pregnancies, maternal and neonatal deaths, and stillbirths by ensuring all individuals are able and empowered to access information, products and services that will meet their sexual, reproductive, maternal, and newborn health (SRMNH) needs.

We pursue global and country-focused market shaping opportunities for SRMNH 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 work 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 global product strategies. At the country level, CHAI works with governments to steward SRMNH markets and address market imbalances contributing to unequal access to health commodities and services. We support governments to develop national SRMNH 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; strengthen health worker capacity building; and strengthen performance management for the health system.

The global WNH team supports the application of global learning and best practices. The team provides thought-partnership and technical assistance to programs implemented by in-country teams who lead CHAI’s valued relationships with partner governments and who possess critical knowledge of local context and operating conditions. Underlying our approach is a commitment to achieving sustainable, transformational change at scale by working in a way that strengthens health systems and government capabilities to improve SRMNH outcomes.

Position Summary

This role will sit within the Technical Advisory Group of the Women’s and Newborn Health team, providing cross-portfolio support to optimize the use of knowledge, learning and best practices to enhance program performance, innovation, planning decision-making, and influence. The role will conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses to support decision-making, strategic planning, and program execution. The role will be tasked with analytical and technical work and will develop knowledge products including literature reviews, tools, frameworks, and newsletters to meet program needs. The role will support global knowledge management planning and communication to disseminate learning and evidence.

We are seeking a highly motivated, entrepreneurial individual with strong analytical and project management skills, as well as excellent communication capabilities. The role must be comfortable translating evidence and synthesizing and visualizing quantitative and qualitative data into thoughtful recommendations and easy to understand takeaways. The individual must also be able to function independently, balance multiple priorities simultaneously, and work effectively across a range of stakeholders.

This position will report to the Associate Director and will work in close partnership with global team members, including subject-matter experts and workstream leads. The role must be willing to work across time zones and to travel internationally 2-4x a year.

Responsibilities

Technical support (50%)

Knowledge management and learning dissemination (50%)

The role will work collaboratively with internal teams to achieve shared goals and will actively contribute to internal team operations and culture-building initiatives such as promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Qualifications