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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.
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Responsibilities
Program Overview:
Over two-thirds (68%) of Zimbabweโs population is at risk of malaria, a disease that kills over 400 people annually. Zimbabwe targets to reduce malaria transmission to an annual incidence of 17 cases per 1,000 population and malaria deaths to less than 40 by 2025 while expanding subnational areas with no local transmission of malaria to at least 20 districts. The Zimbabwean National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) has been implementing a clinical mentorship program in 20 malaria-endemic districts since 2016. The mentorship program aims to improve the performance of frontline staff in malaria service provision. The clinical mentorship program leverages highly experienced healthcare providers to guide the improvement in the quality of care by the less experienced staff focusing on patient screening, testing, treatment, reporting, communication, and commodities management.
In 2022 CHAI and NMCP teams developed a digital platform in Moodle Learning Management Information system for clinical mentorship as part of improving data quality of service delivery and monitoring and evaluation. The digital clinical mentorship platform addresses some of the gaps in the paper-based clinical mentorship program, such as the lack of visibility in mentorship activities by management and the lack of structured means in the recruitment of mentees and mentors into the mentorship program, making it challenging to track program progress and impact.
Position Overview:
The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) Zimbabweโs Malaria Volunteer will provide direct technical support to the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) in executing their Malaria burden reduction and elimination program case management priorities. This will include but is not limited to, activity planning and coordination. The volunteer will support the implementation of the digital mentorship pilot, build subnational and national capacity, and support the deployment of appropriate interventions in target populations to accelerate progress toward sustainable malaria elimination. This position will be based at the Central level with tiered subnational support where applicable.
Qualifications
Provide the overall support and coordination of CHAIโs support for clinical mentorship and community health surveillance in all the CHAI-supported provinces and document progress, key decisions, and lessons learned in line with the annual work plan. Review the clinical mentorship tools in Zimbabwe and ensure the digital clinical mentorship tools can replicate and improve on the existing mentorship framework.Review courses in the digital mentorship platform with the aim of updating and aligning the existing courses in the digital mentorship platform.Assist in the data collation, analysis, and dissemination of results to the NMCP.Support implementation and strategy finalization of the case management digital mentorship pilot and scale up.Monitoring the progress of implementation including co-ordination with implementing facilities/states and visits to implementing facilities to monitor uptake of activities under the pilot, support facility staff and identify challenges and opportunities for improvement.Synthesize data and observations into presentable findings and learnings.Present findings and recommendations from the data analyses to the Ministry of Health and Childcare provincial, district, and health facility stakeholders to inform the decision-making.Support identification of operational bottlenecks that hamper progress towards set targets and devise strategies to mitigate the identified bottlenecks in the implementation of the digital mentorship tool.Any other duties as assigned by the manager.Qualifications
Bachelorโs Degree in a clinical, medical, or public health field. A masterโs degree in public health is desirable.Two years of professional work experience in the public or private sector (candidates with public health experience preferred).Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).Strong communication skills, including the ability to synthesize information and prepare compelling presentations and short reports.Ability to multi-task, think innovatively and be effective in high-pressure situations.Entrepreneurial mindset, including the ability to work independently on complex projects, self-motivate, and propose new initiatives.Experience working on malaria projects or any projects of similar nature using tools such as DHIS2 will be an added advantage.Knowledge of the Moodle learning platform is an added advantage.Ability to travel extensively (50% local) to provinces, districts, and health facilities.