Clinton Health Access Initiative ,Associate, Health Financing & M&E Jobs in Rwanda

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date: 08 Jul 2015
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 glo

bal 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.

The
CHAI Rwanda program is currently seeking a highly motivated, flexible
individual to provide technical support to the CHAI and the Rwanda Biomedical
Center (RBC), Ministry of Health in the Planning, M&E and business development
Division. With a strong analytical mind, excellent skills in a number of
relevant software packages the candidate should be very strong at problem
solving and analysis. Based at RBC and CHAI as required previous experience in
developing countries and/or CHAI a plus, previous experience in consultancy
work a strong plus, academic excellence a very strong plus.
Job Requirements
  • Serve
    as a trusted technical advisor to the planning M&E and Business
    Strategies Division of RBC on a broad range of health financing and
    systems issues;
  • Support
    the Director of M&E and his team to improve overall team effectiveness
    through development and maintenance of activity planning to streamline
    scheduled and unscheduled tasks
  • Support
    the Director of M&E and his team to create/maintain tools that will
    monitor and evaluate the impact of nationwide activities held at the
    decentralized levels
  • Generate
    follow-up reports and action items for divisions and health facilities to
    improve their service delivery and operations
  • Aid
    the M&E Director in leading the efforts to improve reporting from each
    division and to track progress against national key performance indicators
    while monitoring activity and budget execution
  • Manage
    the quantification of available resources, costs and gaps in the health
    sector to inform planning and budgeting for all financing sources;
  • Gather,
    analyse and report on epidemiological information, services and quality
    data to inform good evidence based planning processes
  • Assist
    the RBC with the creation and prioritization of new strategic plans and an
    essential health packages;
  • Manage
    the development of investment cases for underfunded disease programs and
    health systems components, support grant writing processes;
  • Create
    strategic and operational plans and analytical tools to drive service
    delivery efficiencies in infrastructure, human resources for health,
    medical equipment, essential medicines and supply chains;
  • Provide
    analytical support, and bring new ideas to the RBC with the design and
    implementation of various resource generating concepts;
  • Identify
    bottlenecks in RBC processes and design and execute solutions;
  • Assist
    in building capacity at all levels of the RBC planning division;
  • Develop
    and deliver analytical policy memos and presentations to inform RBC and
    its partners to drive evidence-based operational and policy changes as
    required;
  • Perform
    any other duties assigned by the RBC.
  • Degree,
    preferably in public health or health economics; or commensurate with work
    experience
  • A
    minimum of 5 years’ professional experience in a private or public sector
    setting, preferably in low- and middle-income country settings;
  • Experience
    with a range of health tools, One Health, Epi Info, STATA SPSS. And
    demonstrated experience of giving training to others.
  • Very
    strong analytical skills and advanced technical proficiency with MS Excel
    and PowerPoint (analytical skills and proficiency levels will be tested
    during recruiting process), demonstrated experience building quantitative
    models and analysing data to inform evidence-based decision-making;
  • Experience
    with cost-effectiveness analysis, economic evaluation, designing and
    implementing health systems reforms;
  • Experience
    in project planning, management and implementation;
  • Excellent
    business-oriented verbal, visual and written communication skills and
    demonstrated ability to navigate political discussions objectively and
    diplomatically;
  • Demonstrated
    ability to build strategic relationships with individuals of different
    backgrounds;
  • Demonstrated
    ability to multi-task, be effective in high-pressure situations and
    respond to ad-hoc requests while managing an existing workload;
  • Tenacity
    and a can-do attitude;
  • Demonstrated
    ability to solve challenging problems without extensive structural or
    operational support; and
  • English
    language fluency, both written and verbal. French a Plus.
Preferred
Qualifications:
  • An
    advanced degree, preferably in public health or health economics; or
    commensurate with work experience
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