Founded in 2002 by President William J. Clinton, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to strengthening integrated health systems around the world and expanding access to care and treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria and other illnesses. Based on the premise that business oriented strategy can facilitate solutions to global health challenges, CHAI acts as a catalyst to mobilize new resources and optimize the impact of these resources to save lives, via improved organization of commodity markets and more effective local management. By working in association with governments and other NGO partners, CHAI is focused on large scale impact and, to date, CHAI has secured lower pricing agreements for treatment options in more than 70 countries. In addition, CHAI’s teams are working side-by-side with over 30 governments to tackle many of the largest barriers to effective treatment and care.
Job Title: Associate, Family Planning
Summary of Position:
Over 200 million women around the world have an unmet need for family planning, indicating they would like to stop or limit childbearing, but do not have access to methods to do so. Increasing access to family planning has the potential to reduce maternal and infant mortality, reduce the number of deaths due to unsafe abortion, and improve the health outcomes of women and families overall. Long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC), which include intrauterine devices (IUDs) and contraceptive implants, are the most effective methods of reversible contraception, have high rates of continuation by users, and are ideal for both spacing and limiting births.
Since 2012, CHAI has worked with governments, partners and manufacturers to reduce the price of contraceptives and increase access to family planning supplies and services. CHAI’s helps Ministries to plan, coordinate, and implement family planning scale-up, by providing a strong foundation of rigorous analysis and management support to more effectively target interventions, allocate resources, and fill gaps to align contraceptive supplies with human resource capacity and client demand.
As part of this work, CHAI is supporting several countries to develop, deploy and routinely use performance management tools for family planning. These Family Planning Dashboards provide actionable, integrated analyses of disparate data collected through government information systems in a visual and user-friendly format. CHAI is also working with Ministries to manage the transition of the single-rod implant product, Implanon, from an older version (Implanon Classic) to a newer version (Implanon NXT) which requires the training of current implant providers to use the new improved insertion device. The Family Planning Associate will be responsible for supporting the deployment and institutionalization of the existing Family Planning Dashboards in Nigeria, Kenya and Tanzania and the development of similar tools in additional countries. The Associate will also support country teams’ efforts to strengthen national forecasting and supply planning processes, and to coordinate both the supply and training aspects of the NXT transition.
The Associate will report to the Global Program Manager, Family Planning.
Base location is flexible pending on country leadership approval. Expected travel is 50%.
The Family Planning Associate will work with CHAI country teams, the Global Family Planning Program Manager, CHAI’s Technology Team and other relevant stakeholders to support implementation of the Family Planning Dashboard by:
Developing dashboard training materials and deployment plans specific to each country and supporting timely rollout
Documenting examples of successful use of the dashboard by governments and partners to improve programmatic performance or decision-making
Institutionalizing the dashboard within governments by building capabilities and comfort to use the tool and integrating tool’s use into routine government activities
Supporting the implementation of additional dashboards in new countries; responsibilities will include developing country-specific requirements for development, providing iterative feedback to developer and thoroughly testing requirements until final product is complete, and thoroughly documenting and communicating decisions to ensure coordination and alignment with all relevant stakeholders.
The Family Planning Associate will also support the broader work of the Global Family Planning team by:
Supporting country teams to strengthen national forecasts and ensure contraceptive security through improved supply planning and addressing supply chain bottlenecks
Monitoring stock on hand, consumption and orders of family planning commodities for each program country
Supporting the coordination of commodity availability, health worker trainings, advocacy and communication to finalize the NXT transition with minimal disruption to implant access
Contributing to donor reports
Monitoring key program indicators and supporting analysis across program countries
Conducting additional analyses of global consumption or procurement data, or other information, as needed
Bachelor’s degree in a related field with a minimum of 3 years of experience or Master’s degree in a related field with a minimum of 2 years of work experience in a demanding and fast-paced environment.
Excellent written and oral English communication skills
Willingness to work with a geographically dispersed team across multiple time zones
Strong analytical, problem solving, and quantitative skills, and ability to use data to inform program development and strategy
Experience building and maintaining quantitative models in Excel preferred
Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, set priorities, and work well under pressure
Self-motivation and comfort working independently with little oversight
Prior experience in family planning and reproductive health preferred
Experience with developing web-based applications a plus
French language proficiency preferred
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