Volunteer, New Initiatives

Overview:

One of the hallmarks of the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is simultaneous and intensive engagement on the demand and supply sides of the market to improve access-to-medicines and diagnostics for patients in developing countries.  While CHAI’s global access programme works to address supply-side barriers to access and to foster a healthy marketplace to ensure the sustainable supply of essential commodities at lower prices, CHAI’s country teams help governments understand the market, access lower prices, and facilitate the roll-out of new and improved products.  Additionally, country teams work closely with governments to scale up and strengthen diagnosis, care and treatment programmes.

CHAI Swaziland is seeking a Volunteer, Access Programmes (New Initiatives), to assist in the evaluation of new project or commodity areas where patients face significant barriers to accessing effective, life-saving health care services.  These areas may include: opportunistic infections related to HIV, vaccines, sexually transmitted infections, as well as use of new technologies to support the health system.  The individual will help to perform needs assessments into key disease or commodity areas that are a priority for the Ministry of Health and help to identify appropriate interventions based on international examples of best practice or assessment of emerging products and technologies that could transform the Ministry’s ability to provide high-quality health care services

By identifying new opportunities, and appropriate interventions, CHAI may ultimately be able to help save more lives by ensuring greater access to diagnosis, care and treatment.   We are accordingly seeking highly motivated individuals with outstanding analytical, communication and project development skills.  The candidates must be able to function independently and flexibly, along with a deep personal commitment to producing the highest quality results. CHAI places great value on relevant personal qualities: resourcefulness, entrepreneurialism, tenacity, independence, humility, and work ethic.

Responsibilities:

• Lead assessments into disease areas or resource gaps that are priorities for the Swaziland Ministry of Health, harnessing data to quantify the impact of barriers to health service access
• Map demand side barriers to patient access to effective health care services in Swaziland for focal disease areas
• Identify relevant and practical interventions based on research into examples of best practice and availability of new products and technologies
• Conduct demand side analysis for potential products or services including the development of demand projections
• Assist in developing impact hypotheses on how interventions could generate greater public health impact
• Develop compelling, costed proposals to leverage funding to assist the MoH to implement priority interventions
• Work with the Ministry of Health and development partners to inform needs assessment and to identify and develop relevant interventions, including mapping of existing initiatives
• Engage with CHAI’s global teams to access relevant market information to inform the assessment of new opportunities and to identify funding opportunities
• Assist the Senior Programme Manager with donor engagement as required

Qualifications:

Required:

• BA/BSc plus a minimum of two years of work experience
• Fluency in English; excellent written and oral communications skills
• Strong quantitative skills, including experience working in excel on data analysis
• Ability to prepare compelling presentations and written proposals
• Ability to absorb and synthesize a broad range of information, including technical information
• Ability to navigate complex government processes and develop strong working relationships with government counterparts and development partners
• Detail-orientated, excellent organisational and problem solving skills
• Ability to multi-task and to be effective in high-pressure situations
• Ability to work independently and proactively with minimal supervision
• Awareness of challenges related to working in a resource-limited setting and willingness to learn in a culturally diverse work environment
• High level of proficiency in relevant computer applications including Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Advantages:

• A background in management consulting, finance or similar profession
• Experience living and/or working in developing countries
• Familiarity with global health issues

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