Clinton Health Access Initiative,Senior Coordinator Jobs in Uganda

Private Sector Markets

Closing date: 24 Jul 2016

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.

Position
Description
In Uganda, the majority of caretakers seek treatment for children’s diarrhea,
malaria and pneumonia in the private sector, largely from small, rural drug
shops. These drug shops often have poor availability of essential medicines,
high prices, and low treatment standards. CHAI’s Private Sector Program was
established to address these barriers in the diarrhea treatment space, and has
since demonstrated a range of accomplishments, such as increasing the
availability of ORS/zinc in rural drug shops by close to 50% nationally. The
team’s scope of work has since expanded to include private sector access to
malaria and pneumonia diagnostics and commodities. Currently the team is
implementing a program training drug shops in Integrated Community Management
of Childhood Illnesses (ICCM) while also improving availability and affordability
of essential child medicines.

Job
Requirements

The Private Sector
Markets Senior Coordinator will fulfill five critical functions; which include:

·
Supporting
the implementation of the private sector Child Health Program through training
drug shops on how to assess, treat and refer malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea in
children under 5;

·
Assist
the planning and execution of ICCM training to drug shops in 7 districts;

·
Support
the implementation of the supportive supervision component of the Child Health
Program, including analyzing field data;

·
Support
the strategic development of the Child Health Program scale-up

·
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;

·
Provide
strategic input to the scoping of new market interventions, including
conducting market research for child health products;

·
Leading
the development of agreements between key private partners for new focus
diagnostics and treatments

·
Providing
technical assistance to the MOH’s National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) on
matters related to private sector engagement for malaria-related commodities;

·
Monitor
the implementation of the co-payment mechanism for ACTs in the private sector,
including provide support for NMCP’s price monitoring in the private market;

·
Provide
strategic and technical support to the NMCP and the different interventions
supporting the co-payment mechanism, such as trainings and communication
campaigns;

·
Organize
and carry out technical assessments of participants in the co-payment
mechanism;

·
Leading
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;

·
Identifying
and scoping strategic opportunities for engaging PNFP providers around new
health areas and products;

·
Building
on previous engagement, working together with Joint Medical Stores (JMS) to
increase availability and affordability of key products in PNFP facilities

·
Analyzing
large volumes of market data, coming from such sources as national retail
audits, supplier sales, and CHAI’s own Monitoring and Evaluation surveys:

·
Collect
and compile market data from multiple sources, including national retail
audits, supplier sales, and NDA import records

·
Lead
regular, deep and sophisticated quantitative analysis of market data on
relevant diarrhea/pneumonia/malaria commodities

·
Coordinate
access to data with CHAI team members, and work with them to make sure that the
data can be made available effectively

·
Supporting
the team’s relationship with donors by e.g. developing concept notes and
participating in fundraising activities.

·
Perform
any other duties as needed.

Qualifications

A
minimum of 3 years of experience in a rigorous private or public sector
position, with increasing levels of responsibility and leadership (preferably
in the public health sector, or in an intensive consultative capacity);
Exceptional
communication and relationship management skills with the 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;
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;
Have
the comfort and flexibility to work independently with a diverse set of
counterparts;
Relevant
personal qualities include: resourcefulness, entrepreneurialism,
flexibility, independence, humility, and work ethic.