Program Manager – Global Cervical Cancer

Job Description

About the Organization

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.

Job Summary

The program is seeking a highly motivated individual with strong strategic thinking, excellent communication, people management skills, and demonstrated experience for the role of Project Manager.  This role will involve full project management responsibilities, including donor reporting, donor engagement, and collaborating with multiple country teams to ensure quality and timely delivery. The Project Manager will provide support to country teams, offer technical guidance—particularly on the creation of costed elimination plans and health financing strategies —and contribute to thought leadership and publication efforts. Additionally, the Manager will assist team leadership in scoping new areas of work and support proposal development.

The role requires collaboration with key stakeholders across the CHAI matrix, including the diagnostics, markets, and AIR/research teams, while closely working with country teams. This position is expected to be based in one of CHAI’s cervical cancer program countries in Africa (possible locations include Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa; subject to country leadership approval).

The role may require ~20% travel. The position will report to the Director, Global Cervical Cancer Program.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

Program Management

• Lead the collation, analysis and synthesis of country-level inputs into technical donor-ready reports and deliverables for multiple donors to the program
• Respond to ongoing requests from donors for memos, data analysis, scoping reports, budget updates, communication materials etc.
• Lead on the creation of a calendar of program events/ key activities and oversee its execution e.g. report submissions, proposal submissions, marking special days in the year, with program materials, deadline for conference submissions etc.

Country Support

• Provide hands-on support to teams to carry out costing of elimination plans, including compiling assumptions and inputs, running and validating the costing tools/ models etc.
• Coordinate with in-country cervical cancer and health financing colleagues to define health financing strategies for scale-up of cervical cancer prevention services, and support teams with execution as needed
• Respond to any other country support requests from any of the seven program teams including creation of decks, reports, memos, case studies etc.
• Coordinate with the program’s finance and operations manager to oversee procurement of commodities for country teams

Knowledge Management and Thought Leadership

• Manage the program resources on box, develop and update program briefs/decks, coordinate with CHAI’s operations team to get the cervical cancer page updated on CHAINet- CHAI’s internal resource hub
• Contribute to writing technical pieces on the program, including but not limited to white papers, articles, blogs, study manuscripts etc.
• Coordinate with the CHAI communications team to develop and execute the comm’s plan for the program

Program Strategy

• Contribute to writing the program strategy, including defining program goals over the next 5 years
• Work with the CHAI Vaccines program to develop/refine CHAI’s integrated strategy on cervical cancer elimination including country prioritization, modelling for elimination, quantifying investment needs, integrated service delivery strategies etc.

Fundraising Efforts, Including Proposal Development

• Support with developing compelling proposals, including detailed budgets for new areas of work/ expansion of the program

Additional Responsibilities

• Support with data cleaning and analysis on ongoing studies/projects on the program
• Any other task as identified by the Director or other global cervical cancer team members

Educational Qualifications, Skills, and Experience Required

• Bachelor’s degree, with 6-7 year’s work experience in a fast-paced industry requiring a high level of quantitative and analytical skills
• Exceptional analytical (qualitative and quantitative), problem-solving, and communication (written and verbal) skills
• Ability to collaborate remotely with team members spread across geographies
• Ability to independently operate in an unstructured but demanding multicultural environment
• Ability to multitask, set priorities, and rapidly absorb/synthesize a broad range of information
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word

Additional Advantages

• Master’s degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Public Health or other related disciplines
• Candidates with experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or medical device industries, management consulting, or investment banking
• Prior knowledge of or experience with public or private partners within the global health ecosystem
• Experience living and working in low-resource settings