Regional Manager, Malaria, Southeast Asia
Country : Cambodia
City : Phnom Penh
Type: Full Time
Business Unit: Access Programs - Global Malaria
Country : Cambodia
City : Phnom Penh
Type: Full Time
Business Unit: Access Programs - Global Malaria
Founded in 2002, by President William J. Clinton
and Ira Magaziner, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (“CHAI”)
is a global health organization committed to strengthening integrated
health systems and expanding access to care and treatment in
the developing world. CHAI’s solution-oriented approach focuses on
improving market dynamics for medicines and diagnostics; lowering prices
for treatment; accelerating access to lifesaving technologies; and
helping governments build the capacity required for high-quality care
and treatment programs. Since its inception, CHAI’s programs have helped
more than 11.8 million people in more than 70 countries have access to
CHAI-negotiated prices for HIV/AIDS medicines, saving the global health
community billions of dollars. For more information, please
visit: www.clintonhealthaccess.org.
Malaria
is one of the world's most important causes of illness, death, and lost
economic productivity. Over the past decade, dramatic increases in
donor funding have facilitated scale-up of effective interventions to
prevent, diagnosis, and treat malaria. This investment has successfully
reduced the burden of malaria in many settings, and some countries have
begun planning to eliminate it altogether. CHAI’s malaria program
provides direct management and technical support to countries around the
globe to strengthen their malaria programs and reduce the burden of
this preventable, treatable disease.
In
the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), CHAI has been supporting countries
since 2014 to transition their national malaria programs and strategies
to achieve malaria elimination in an accelerated manner. Malaria
elimination in the GMS has significant urgency due the growing threat of
multi-drug resistant malaria. CHAI is supporting malaria programs in
Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia to achieve the required level of
programmatic capacity to devise targeted, evidence-based plans, identify
sufficient resources to enact them, strengthen surveillance systems,
scale-up interventions in high risk and hard-to-reach populations, and
coordinate activities regionally. CHAI supports focus countries to
identify programmatic gaps and define solutions to them, laying the
groundwork for malaria programs that can eliminate malaria sustainably.
To
coordinate malaria elimination efforts across the region and provide
strategic and technical support to CHAI country teams, CHAI is seeking a
highly motivated individual with strong management skills, public
health experience, robust analytical and writing skills, and extensive
organization and communication skills, to serve as Malaria Regional
Manager in Southeast Asia. The Regional Manager is the primary interface
between CHAI's country teams working on malaria in Cambodia, Myanmar,
Laos, and Vietnam and its global technical teams and external partners.
The Regional Manager supports the country teams with strategic planning,
effective implementation, staffing, and management support across all
technical areas, while streamlining communications and interactions
between county teams and global technical staff.
The
Malaria Regional Manager position is based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia,
with frequent travel expected. This position reports to CHAI’s Director
for Malaria Elimination.
Responsibilities:
- Develop management capacity and malaria expertise of CHAI country and regional staff to augment support to national malaria programs
- Support CHAI staff to think critically to identify national malaria program and health systems gaps and leverage the use of epidemiological evidence to guide-decision making regarding CHAI’s malaria elimination support
- Coordinate support from CHAI’s Malaria Analytics and Surveillance, Case Management Support, and Financing Teams, as required, to enhance national country-level support, ensure technical soundness of strategies, and achieve program progress
- Support all CHAI malaria staff in the region to develop annual work plans and assist country teams to manage effective implementation of planned activities
- Monitor program activities against project goals and donor commitments, identify operational bottlenecks or weaknesses, and work with country and Global Malaria leadership to strengthen programs as necessary
- Review and provide feedback on products and documents produced by CHAI team members, including strategic plans, guidelines and standard operating procedures, analysis, project reports and implementation updates, and/or communications with partners
- Streamline communications between Global Malaria leadership and technical staff and country offices, and provide regular updates on opportunities and progress to each
- Facilitate coordination of activities between country teams within the region and act as liaison for learning from other regions
- Synthesize CHAI’s best practices, products, and approaches and work to institutionalize knowledge to maintain consistency of CHAI support across countries and regions
- Manage budgeting across all technical areas, including working with country teams to determine annual allocations and identify under- or over-spends, and liaising with technical experts during the costing and reforecasting of budgets
- Lead donor reporting for region, working alongside country teams to develop programmatic and financial updates
- Represent CHAI at regional meetings and conferences and develop and maintain relationships with regional partners to ensure coordinated activities.
- Collaborate with global technical staff to engage global experts and partners and facilitate their work in the region as appropriate.
- Engage with country offices during development of funding proposals to ensure joint ownership and sufficient program capacity for execution of funded projects
- Other responsibilities as needed
Qualifications:
- Master's Degree in Public Health, Business Administration or related field strongly preferred; or Bachelor’s degree minimum with exceptional experience
- +7 year of work experience with increasing levels of responsibility and leadership;
- Knowledge of malaria, malaria elimination, and/or other major global infectious disease problems;
- Experience in strategy development, planning, and project implementation;
- Experience in capacity building and support management;
- Experience working and communicating with government officials and multilateral organizations;
- Demonstrated analytical, quantitative, and problem solving skills;
- High levels of proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- Previous experience using cloud-based storage applications (e.g. Box, Drop Box), communication tools (e.g. Slack, Yammer), and document search repositories (e.g. PubMed)
- Ability to work independently in unstructured settings and to adapt to new environments and challenges;
- Exceptional written and oral communication and presentation skills, including effective communication of results through data visualization to audiences of varying technical backgrounds.
- Willingness to travel 40-60%
Advantages:
- PhD in epidemiology or related discipline
- Experience living or working in resource-limited countries, including countries of the Asia-Pacific
- Experience in capacity-building;
- Experience working remotely with a decentralized team;
