CHAI International Non-profit Jobs - Coordinator, Private Sector Markets at Clinton Health Access Initiative

Job Title:  Coordinator, Private Sector Markets

Organisation: Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About US:

The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to strengthening integrated health systems in the developing world and expanding access to care and treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. CHAI’s solution-oriented approach focuses on improving market dynamics for medicines and diagnostics; lowering prices for treatment; accelerating access to life-saving technologies; and helping governments build the capacity required for high-quality care and treatment programs.

Since its establishment in 2002 by President William J. Clinton, CHAI has worked on the demand and supply sides of the market to help more than 2 million HIV+ people access the medicines needed for treatment—representing nearly half of all people and 2 out of 3 children on HIV/AIDS treatment in developing countries. Building on this model, CHAI has expanded its scope to include efforts to strengthen healthcare delivery systems and to combat malaria and childhood illnesses.

Job Summary:  The Coordinator, Private Sector Markets will fulfill five critical functions; which include:

• Driving new market shaping interventions that range from facilitating negotiations between manufacturers and importers to bring low cost diagnostics and treatments into the country and launching new product innovations;
• Overseeing CHAI’s relationship with the National Drug Authority (NDA) of Uganda by supporting the registration of new products to increase patient access and developing and monitoring policy initiatives such as recommended retail prices for essential medicines.
• Providing technical guidance to the MOH’s National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) on matters related to private sector engagement for malaria-related commodities.
• Managing the office’s strategy for engaging private, not-for-profit (PNFP) providers, developing interventions to improve dispensing behavior for key commodities and working with suppliers to increase availability of these products.
• Analyzing large volumes of market data, coming from such sources as national retail audits, supplier sales, and CHAI’s own Monitoring and Evaluation division.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Take ownership of a variety of short and long term strategic initiatives to improve the availability and affordability of optimal products for diagnosing and treating the main childhood illnesses in Uganda’s private retail sector
• Oversee all relationships with important health sector partners ranging from government officials to pharmaceutical sales representatives
• Lead the office-wide relationship with the NDA to achieve and expedite programmatic deliverables, such as the registration of new products
• Potentially identify and pursue new areas of work with the NDA that will have dramatic and leveraged impact on health outcomes
• Collect and compile market data from multiple sources, includingnational retail audits, supplier sales, and NDA import records
• Manage regular, deep and sophisticated quantitative analysis of market data on relevant diarrhea/pneumonia/malaria commodities
• Actively coordinate access to data with CHAI team members, and work with them to make sure that the data can be made available effectively

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• The applicant should preferably hold a Master’s Degree in business administration, logistics or a related field;
• Past experience working in developing countries (specifically East Africa) is desired
• Prior experience working in a consumer-driven culture is an added advantage
• The applicant should possess at least three years’ experience in a rigorous private or public position, with increasing levels of responsibility and leadership (preferably in the pharmaceutical industry or in an intensive consultative capacity);
• Exceptional communication and relationship management skills with ability to clearly communicate complex ideas;
• Proven excellence in quantitative statistical analysis and problem solving (including excellent Microsoft Excel and/or Access skills and experience with STATA or equivalent;
• High capacity to synthesize monitoring data into effective presentation of results to help guide recommendations on performance improvement; Ability to create compelling, logical presentations and reports, using PowerPoint, Word and other media;
• Comfort and flexibility to work independently with a diverse set of counterparts;
• Relevant personal qualities including resourcefulness, entrepreneurialism, flexibility, independence, humility, and work ethic.

How to Apply: 

All suitably qualified candidates who wish to join one of the world’s leading non-profit organizations founded by one of America’s former presidents, Bill Clinton should apply online at the web link below.

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