Job Vacancies at Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) – 3 Positions

Clinton Health Access Initiative is recruiting to fill the following positions:

1.) Senior Associate - Cold Chain Equipment
2.) Health Information Associate - Developer (Africa)
3.) Senior Analyst, Supply Chain

Clinton Health Access Initiative - Founded in 2002, by President William J. Clinton and Ira Magaziner, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to strengthening integrated health systems and expanding access to care and treatment in the developing world. CHAI’s solution-oriented approach focuses on improving market dynamics for medicines and diagnostics; lowering prices for treatment; accelerating access to lifesaving technologies; and helping governments build the capacity required for high-quality care and treatment programs.

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full time
Program (Division): SRMNCH - Global Vaccines

CHAI's Vaccines program
Immunization is one of the most successful public health interventions in history. National immunization programs reach >100 million infants every year and have, across the globe, averted two to three million deaths every year since the launch of the Expanded Program for Immunization (EPI) in 1974. The introduction of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) and rotavirus vaccines could save a further ~1 million lives per year. Furthermore, great advances in the development and financing of new vaccines provides countries the opportunity to further reduce the burden of diseases such as human papillomavirus (HPV).

However, despite these successes, 1.5 million children still die each year of vaccine-preventable diseases. Many of these are in low-income countries, where immunization programs face unprecedented challenges in accessing vaccines and ensuring they reach all targeted children.

Since 2010, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) has worked to save lives and reduce the burden from vaccine preventable diseases by improving access to immunization services in resource-limited setting. CHAI does this by strengthening national immunization programs at the country level, and the leveraging that experience to improve the global immunization ecosystem. Within that effort, CHAI is pursuing six complementary strategic goals:

• Improving affordability and supply security of immunization products;
• Accelerating the uptake of new or under-utilized vaccines;
• Enhancing the performance of vaccine cold chain and logistics systems to increase effective immunization coverage;
• Improving the design and implementation of service delivery to reach the unreached;
• Supporting successful transition from Gavi support; and
• Strengthening the management system and capacity of immunization programs.

CHAI's vaccine program closely supports the national immunization programs in 11 focus countries - Cameroon, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lao PDR, Lesotho, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Vietnam - and also engages with global stakeholders such as Gavi, WHO and UNICEF to inform global policies and practices.

Cold Chain Equipment
Most vaccines must be stored and transported at refrigerated temperatures of two to eight degrees Celsius to maintain their potency. This network of storage and transport points is known as the “cold chain”, and is the backbone of immunization programs around the world.

However, countries often struggle to maintain their cold chains in good condition, particularly as an influx of newer vaccines increases the strain on an already-taxed system. For example:

• A recent study estimated that 37% percent of vaccines in low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) are exposed to freezing temperatures while in storage, risking their effectiveness. A further 20% is exposed while in transport.
• Countries’ existing cold chains are often under-capacity to store new, life-saving vaccines. For example, the introduction of PCV and Rotavirus vaccines increases storage demands by 232% per fully immunized child.
• Finally, maintaining this equipment in good condition is a complicated task, and many countries struggle to find and manage the necessary resources. As a result, Gavi estimates that over 20% of existing cold chain equipment (CCE) is non-functional today, disrupting both supply chains and immunization services.

To manage this, countries must improve both the makeup and management of their cold chains. In practice, this means enabling immunization programs to:

• Equip their cold chain with sufficient and high-performing storage and transport capacity, with that aim of ensuring consistent vaccine availability and potency.
• Manage the performance of the cold chain, including both monitoring platforms and the systems that maintain equipment in functional condition.
• Identify cold chain interventions (e.g. network extension) that can increase the reach and accessibility of immunization services.
• Implement logistics systems in a sustainable and affordable manner, to ensure that provide performance over the long term.

We are seeking an Associate to join the Global Vaccines Delivery Team to strengthen CHAI's work in Cold Chain Infrastructure and Management, both at global level and in focal countries. This role falls within the global Cold Chain Logistics (CCL) team, which works with governments to remove cold- and supply-chain issues as a barrier to improved coverage.

This role is preferably based in one of CHAI’s Vaccine Program focus countries in West Africa (pursuant to CHAI country team leadership approval). Significant travel (at least 35%) is expected.

Responsibilities
In collaboration with CHAI country teams, CCL team leadership/members, and regional managers, provide high-value strategic and programmatic support to dramatically improve the performance of country cold chains

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• Provide critical input on the approaches needed to meet in-country grant and program objectives related to cold chain, in line with the program strategy and model
• Support development of both program-wide and country-specific objectives and strategies regarding cold chain, emphasizing ambitious and transformational goals
• Contribute to the design, planning and execution of high-impact projects to sustainably transform the vaccines cold chain in CHAI focal countries. Projects could include:
  • Supporting in-country and global efforts to procure and deploy high-performing cold chain equipment, with a focus on the design and implementation of Gavi’s $250M Gavi Cold Chain Equipment Optimization Platform (CCEOP)
  • Introducing effective cold chain management systems, with a focus on the routine performance monitoring, maintenance of CCE, and planning for capacity needs
  • Identifying cold chain network extension strategies that increase access to immunization in under-served and/or low coverage areas
  • Supporting the piloting of next-generation vaccine carriers and coldboxes, and developing business cases to bring successful products to scale

Support CHAI’s ability to deliver high-quality and impactful work across diverse operating contexts and content areas:

• Support the continuous development and effective dissemination of programmatic strategy across CHAI teams, including the development ‘tool kits’, lessons learned, and other know-how related to cold chain
• Support the ramp up of new and existing CHAI staff (at both global level and in focus countries) in cold chain topics, leveraging the institutional knowledge from the CHAI vaccines program and new insights developed by the associate

Inform global practices and policies related to vaccines cold chain:

• Cultivate robust evidence bases, insightful analytical perspectives, and lessons-learned from CHAI and other partners in order to inform global policies/practices and promote improved cold chain outcomes
• Distill CHAI’s programmatic insights into formats that can influence the global immunization community, global policies and country practices beyond CHAI focus countries. This includes supporting CHAI’s participation in key working groups (e.g., EPI manager meetings, ESA regional meetings, Immunization Supply Chain Steering Committee, CCEOP Working Group, TechNet, etc.)
• Develop and expand productive relationships with critical global stakeholders (e.g., Gavi, BMGF, UNICEF SD/PD, PATH, JSI, VillageReach) and foster effective exchange of know-how across them

Support program and grant management (with a focus on vaccines cold chain work) in collaboration with program, regional and country leadership:

• Assess progress against overall objectives and milestones in focus areas and help prepare high-quality briefings for donors and CHAI management, including achievements to date, action plan going forward, and key risks/opportunities
• Working with regional and program management, ensure that progress is properly monitored and evaluated, in line with grant commitments and internal review needs
• Contribute as a member of the global vaccine team to the effectiveness and collegiality of the team, helping identify opportunities and improve CHAI’s vaccines program and team

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree (Master’s preferred); preference for fields related to business, health policy, logistics systems
• At least 4 or 5 years of relevant professional experience
• Exceptional skills in problem-solving and system design
• Strong analytical skills, including qualitative and quantitative data (e.g. data, business case, and health impact analyses)
• Excellent communication skills in English, including synthesis and presentation across common business media (summary reports, slide decks, other presentations)
• Strong interpersonal and cross-cultural communication skills, with a proven ability to build relationships in a multicultural (and often remote) work environment
• Demonstrated capacity to synthesize evidence into an effective presentations and actionable recommendations for a broad range of audiences, anticipating working in-country (e.g. Ministries of Health, district officials) and globally (e.g. donors, policy makers)
• High emotional intelligence, patience and thoughtfulness even in high-pressure, stressful situations. This includes a proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships in a complex environment with occasional tensions or conflicts
• Proven project management skills, including the ability to work effectively in a high-pressure environment, handling multiple tasks simultaneously
• Entrepreneurial mindset, including ability to set priorities, self-motivate, propose and implement new initiatives
• Strong commitment to CHAI’s and the Vaccine team’s mission; a dedicated team player
• Ability to travel extensively (at least 35% of time) to focus countries and other locations as need for work (for in-country support, global working groups, conferences, etc.)

Advantages:

• Knowledge of vaccines, health programs, health supply chains, or cold chain
• Understanding of capacity development and change management approaches
• Experience in a top tier management or supply chain consulting firm
• Experience working with in developing countries or ‘last mile’ operating environments - preferably within health or public sectors

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Job Type: Full Time
Program (Division): Infectious Disease - Global Malaria
Additional Location Description: Eswatini

Overview of Role

• CHAI is seeking a highly motivated individual to work as a Health Information Associate, Developer and play a critical role to help governmental programs improve how they collect, analyze, and use data to accelerate efforts towards malaria elimination.
• They will work with CHAI staff to configure and develop software applications for malaria surveillance use cases, and help build in-country capacity at the CHAI and government levels on the application of information technology for data collection, management, analysis, and use.
• The Associate will support CHAI malaria’s West Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa regional teams to update software configurations, develop scripts, assist in server administration, and provide technical support to end-users. A successful candidate will need to work with team members across CHAI’s Global, Regional and Country Malaria Teams and will therefore need to possess strong communication, organizational, and management skills as well as be able to work independently to drive implementation and have deep personal commitment to producing results.
• CHAI places great value on relevant personal qualities including resourcefulness, tenacity, independence, patience, humility, and strong work ethic.
• This position will be ideally based in Mbabane, Eswatini or Abuja, Nigeria; or other countries within Africa based on country leadership approvals.

Responsibilities
Across countries and projects, the Associate will have the following responsibilities:
Software configuration and development (60%):

• Configure, update, and thoroughly test DHIS2 core set up, including updates to organisation units, data elements, indicators, data collection forms, and dashboards based on country requirements and feedback from users
• Support configuring and comprehensive testing of DHIS2 android applications for country-specific configurations
• Built scripts for data manipulation and processing to stress test system load, build customizations in DHIS2, run analytics on data integrity, and reproduce system functionality to ensure systems data quality
• Support systems integration efforts as needed, primarily between DHIS2 instances, and between DHIS2 and other systems

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Technology Implementation and Training (30%):

• Assist with capacity building for government staff by developing manuals, SOPs, training materials and helping train country staff in the use of information technology
• Develop testing templates and lead end to end testing processes of different information systems prior to roll-out
• Develop and iterate on data outputs to effectively build dashboards and reports for decision-making

Requirements Gathering and System Design (10%):

• Work with CHAI regional Health Information teams to understand technological and non-technological requirements for malaria surveillance across epidemiology, vector control, entomology, health promotion, and commodity use cases
• Develop coherent and technology-appropriate specifications for meeting user requirements across countries and regions, particularly DHIS2-appropriate specifications

Other responsibilities as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (Information Systems, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, etc.) required
• At least two years’ working experience as a software developer, technical product manager, or in a similar role delivering technology solutions
• Proven experience working with DHIS2 installation, configuration of aggregate and tracker workflows, customization and roll-out
• Languages: SQL, JavaScript, html, java, php, python
• Experience in integration of information management systems
• Experience in system administration
• Experience in server set up and hardware management
• Proven experience in implementing technology-based solutions with users
• Familiarity with emerging technologies for data collection and reporting (including experience using open source data collection tools like ODK, and BI tools like PowerBI and Tableau); comfort with developing complex data collection forms and dashboards preferred
• Experience in data management (including managing databases) and data analysis
• Ability to be effective, calm, and flexible in high-pressure situations, to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and to effectively prioritize
• Ability to communicate effectively with people of varied professional and cultural backgrounds
• Ability to travel approximately 25-50% of the year.

Advantages:

• Any statistical and geospatial analysis experience (R, SAS, STATA, ArcGIS and/or other relevant software)
• Knowledge of malaria or other global infectious diseases; and understanding of disease surveillance (including surveillance platforms) with knowledge of global health issues
• Experience living or working in resource-limited countries
• Experience working and communicating with government officials and multilateral organizations.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Location: Abuja
Job Type: Full Time
Program (Division): SRMNCH - Global Vaccines

Background
CHAI's Vaccines Program:

• Immunization is one of the most successful public health interventions in history. National immunization programs reach >100 million infants every year and have, across the globe, averted two to three million deaths every year since the launch of the Expanded Program for Immunization (EPI) in 1974. The introduction of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) and rotavirus vaccines could save a further ~1 million lives per year. Furthermore, great advances in the development and financing of new vaccines provides countries the opportunity to further reduce the burden of diseases such as human papillomavirus (HPV).
• However, despite these successes, 1.5 million children still die each year of vaccine-preventable diseases. Many of these are in low-income countries, where immunization programs face unprecedented challenges in accessing vaccines and ensuring they reach all targeted children.
• Since 2010, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) has worked to save lives and reduce the burden from vaccine-preventable diseases by improving access to immunization services in resource-limited setting. CHAI does this by strengthening national immunization programs at the country level, and the leveraging that experience to improve the global immunization ecosystem.

Within that effort, CHAI is pursuing six complementary strategic goals:

• Improving affordability and supply security of immunization products;
• Accelerating the uptake of new or under-utilized vaccines;
• Enhancing the performance of vaccine cold chain and logistics systems to increase effective immunization coverage;
• Improving the design and implementation of service delivery to reach the unreached;
• Supporting successful transition from Gavi support; and
• Strengthening the management system and capacity of immunization programs.

CHAI's vaccine program closely supports the national immunization programs in 11 focus countries - Cameroon, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lao PDR, Lesotho, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Vietnam - and also engages with global stakeholders such as Gavi, WHO and UNICEF to inform global policies and practices.

Improving Vaccines Supply Chains:

• Most vaccines must travel through supply chains containing between three and five - sometimes more - storage points to get to the last mile. In order to be available to be administered, vaccines must be correctly forecasted, ordered for accurately, managed well in-store, issued and selected for distribution accurately, and delivered on-time and in-full to their next destination. However, many countries struggle to keep all of these processes running smoothly, which threatens full stock availability at the last mile.
• Supply chains are further strained as countries introduce more vaccines to protect children from a wider range of diseases. For example, a recent study found that 38% of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa reported national-level stock-outs. When this happens, according to the study, there is an 89% chance that a stock-out will occur lower in the supply chain, often negatively affecting the last-mile.

To help ensure that children are able to access the full schedule of life-saving vaccines, CHAI supports supply chain work in several countries that is focused on ensuring that certain core elements and practices are in place:

• Critical supply chain processes - forecasting, ordering, issuing, distribution, etc.- have high-quality, well-defined processes that are adhered to by all staff throughout the supply chain.
• Supply chain managers and EPI programs have visibility into critical data points and key performance indicators, such as stock-outs, on-time in-full distribution, and order accuracy.
• Supply chain leaders, at each critical supply chain tier, regularly meet to review performance data, identify problematic performance areas, and implement solutions.

We are seeking a Senior Analyst to join the global vaccines delivery team and contribute to CHAI's work in vaccine supply chain globally and across all its focus countries, in collaboration with another global area owners.

Base location has global flexibility with a strong preference for one of CHAI’s Vaccine Program focus countries in Africa, pursuant to CHAI country team leadership approval. Significant travel (at least 35%) is expected.

Responsibilities

• • Provide high-value strategic and analytic support to design and implement in-country initiatives which will dramatically improve vaccines supply chain performance in collaboration with CHAI country teams:
    • Provide input on the approach needed to meet in-country grant and program objectives related to vaccines supply chain, in line with the program strategy and model.
    • Contribute to the design, planning and execution of high-impact projects with country teams to sustainably transform the vaccines supply chain in CHAI focal countries. Projects might include diagnosing the end-to-end vaccines supply chain and developing strategies and interventions for improvement, improving vaccines ordering and inventory management which may include improved used of technology and data for management, assessing opportunities to integrate vaccines supply chain with other commodities, and supporting thoughtful implementation of data management tools and systems.
    • Support continuous development and effective dissemination & use of programmatic "tool kit", lessons learned, and other know-how related to vaccines supply chain across CHAI's vaccines program.

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• Contribute to the team’s efforts to inform national and global practices and policies related to vaccines supply chain:
  • Inform practices & policies based on robust evidence base, insightful analytical perspective, and lessons learned from CHAI and other partners to promote improved outcomes of immunization programs.
  • Develop relationships with key stakeholders in vaccine supply chain and establish yourself as a respected and trusted thought leader in this area of focus within CHAI and within the global immunization community.
  • Support dissemination CHAI's programmatic insights to the global immunization community as appropriate.
• Support the development of CHAI's vaccines program around vaccines supply chain, in collaboration with program and country leadership:
  • Support development of program-wide and country-specific objectives and strategies regarding vaccines supply chain.
  • Support scoping and development of new grants.
  • Contribute to program thought leadership in supply chain to deliver against current and future goals.
  • Support ramp up of new CHAI staff and new focus countries and strengthen capabilities of existing CHAI staff in supply chain, leveraging the institutional knowledge from CHAI vaccines program.
• Support program and grant management, with a focus on vaccines supply chain work, in collaboration with program and country leadership:
  • Contribute to assessment of progress against overall objectives & milestones in areas of focus and help prepare high-quality briefings for donors and CHAI management, including achievements to date, action plan going forward, and key risks & opportunities.
  • Support assessment of the effectiveness of CHAI's theory of change and approach related to vaccines supply chain in focus countries and recommend improvement opportunities.
• Other responsibilities as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in the study of Business, Science or Engineering with a focus on Supply Chain Management preferred
• At least 1-3 years of relevant professional experience, ideally in an analytical role related to inventory management or supply chain management
• Exceptional skills in problem-solving and analysis of qualitative and quantitative data (including quantitative modeling, data analysis, business case analysis, study design)
• Robust understanding in the design and execution of inventory control systems (e.g., understanding of min-max system, 2-bin system, Newsvendor problem) and supply chain management
• Excellent communication skills in English (including synthesis & presentation) with diverse audience
• Strong interpersonal skills and proven ability to build strong & effective relationships in a multicultural and often remote work environment
• Demonstrated capacity to synthesize evidence into an effective presentations and actionable recommendations for broad range of audience, including Ministries of Health, global donors and policymakers
• Exceptional ability to work independently, setting and achieving ambitious targets with limited guidance, managing competing and sometimes shifting priorities, often under tight deadline
• Ability to travel extensively (at least 30% of time) to focus countries and other locations as need for work (for in-country support, global working groups, conferences, etc).

Additional Location Description:

• Strong preference for program country in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Plusses:

• Knowledge of vaccines, health programs or health supply chains
• Experience in a top tier management or supply chain consulting firm
• Experience working with government and in developing countries, notably in Southeast Asia and/or Sub-Saharan Africa.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

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