Clinton Health Access Initiative ,Volunteer, Health Financing Jobs in Malawi

In 2002, the Clinton
Health Access Initiative (CHAI) began as the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative to
address the HIV/AIDS crisis in the developing world and strengthen health
systems there. Taking the lead from governments and working with partners, CHAI
works to improve markets for lifesaving medi
cines and diagnostics, lower the
costs of treatments, and expand access to life-saving technologies — creating a
sustainable model that can be owned and maintained by governments.

In 2005, CHAI signed
a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Malawi to strengthen
health systems in the most challenged districts, provide national support to
HIV/AIDS drug pricing and programmatic work, support the pilot and scale-up of
prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) initiatives, expand
access to ART for children, strengthen the Malawi’s Lab system, and scale-up an
integrated nutrition program for children. CHAI’s support to Malawi has
expanded to include Human Resources for Health, Vaccines (pneumococcal and
rotavirus), and Health Financing.

Position
Overview:

The Clinton Health
Access Initiative (CHAI) seeks a Volunteer, Health Financing based in Lilongwe,
Malawi to help the Government of Malawi (GoM) address critical funding
shortfalls in the health sector.

Malawi faces a
challenge of limited resources for the health system, and CHAI has partnered
with the government to seek new sources of financing and to realise maximum
impact from existing financing. The Volunteer will work on projects quantifying
the financial gaps in the health sector, helping the government make health
financing policy decisions through targeted use of collected data. The
Volunteer will contribute to the programme’s work on assisting the Ministry of
Health (MoH) with planning and budgeting, designing and implementing various
health reforms, driving operational efficiencies in the health sector and
tracking outcomes and impact in the health sector. In addition, the Volunteer
will work closely with the Central Medical Stores Trust (CMST) and the National
AIDS Commission (NAC) to assist them with budget formulation, budget execution
and performance management.

Job
Requirements

The Volunteer,
Health Financing will report to the Program Manager for Sustainable Health
Financing and will carry out the following:

• Serve
  as a trusted technical advisor to the MoH, NAC and CMST on a broad range
  of health financing and systems issues, enabling the mobilization of more
  resources into the health sector and their equitable, effective and
  efficient distribution;
• Support
  budget formulation, execution and performance management processes at the
  MoH Department of Planning and Policy Development, NAC and CMST; design
  and execute models and tools to identify and mitigate potential
  bottlenecks in processes;
• Quantify
  resource needs for different cost centres and cost categories as requested
  by MoH, NAC and CMST;
• Provide
  technical assistance to Principal Recipients of Global Fund grants on
  budgeting, costing and financial management;
• Conduct
  allocative efficiency and cost-effectiveness analyses for different
  disease programs, including HIV/TB integration;
• Support
  NAC and MoH in establishing and designing a district level budgeting and
  planning process that ensures effective execution of strategic plans;
• Develop
  investment cases for underfunded interventions and health systems areas;
• Contribute
  to standard operating procedures development for CMST;
• Collect
  and analyse CMST order information; and
• Build
  data collection and analysis capacity for MoH, NAC and CMST.

CHAI Malawi
volunteers are provided a living stipend, housing allowance, as well as
arrival/return flights and emergency insurance.

• A
  bachelor’s degree from a well-recognised, high-calibre university;
• One to
  two years’ experience in a private or public sector enterprise;
• Experience
  building and analysing quantitative models to inform decision-making;
• Ability
  to identify key trends from complex datasets and translate them into clear
  advice for government leaders;
• Proficiency
  with MS Excel and PowerPoint (proficiency levels with both will be tested
  during recruiting process);
• Ability
  to solve problems and direct decision-makers towards evidence-based
  solutions;
• Ability
  to navigate political discussions objectively and diplomatically;
• Excellent
  business-oriented verbal, visual and written communication skills;
• Ability
  to build strategic relationships and interact with individuals of
  different backgrounds;
• Excellent
  organisational and problem solving skills;
• Ability
  to multi-task and thrive in fast-paced, high-pressured situations;
• Tenacity
  and the strategic vision to independently develop solutions to complex
  problems; and
• English
  language fluency, both written and verbal.
• Experience
  doing complex analyses in excel including the use of advanced formulas,
  pivot tables, nested ifs, and index-match (knowledge of macros a plus);

Advantages:

• Work
  experience in management consulting, finance; health financing/systems in
  low- and middle-income countries; and
• Chichewa
  fluency, both written and verbal.

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Email Address: emwangi@clintonhealthaccess.org