Title : Senior Program Officer

Country 

Zambia

City 

Lusaka

Type 

Regular – Full Time (eligible for benefits)

Business Unit 

Country Programs - Country Teams

Additional Location Description 

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Overview:

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.

CHAI/Zambia’s Human Resources for Health (HRH) team works directly with the Ministry of Health (MoH) and Ministry of Community Development, Maternal, Child Health (MCDMCH) to plan, design, and implement programs to alleviate the human resources for health crisis in the country. The HRH team partners with the Government of Zambia (GRZ) to set shared priorities and implement strategic, targeted, and effective programs that work to: (i) expand the number of healthcare workers in the country, (ii) optimize the distribution of the health workforce to improve equity of access and meet the needs of communities, and (iii) enhance the productivity of the existing health workforce.

In effort to meet the third HRH objective, CHAI partnered with the MoH to plan, implement, and evaluate the National Community Health Assistant (CHA) Strategy, with the aim of formalizing and expanding the community health workforce through a phased approach, the first phase of which was a pilot, and the second phase, the scale up. The Senior Program Officer is responsible for assisting with the National CHA scale up in partnership with GRZ, and is a part of the CHAI Zambia HRH team and reporting to the (CHA) HRH Program Manager. The Senior Program Officer will work in close collaboration with the government and will interact on a regular basis with donors, NGOs, academic and research institutions and civil society. 

Responsibilities:

• • Collaborate with various partners and the HRH CHA program team to implement the CHA program in partnership with the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Ministry of Community Development, Mother, Child Health (MoCDMCH).
  • Provide high-quality planning to execution to reporting of the following 5 key deliverables:
    • Drugs & Commodities including supply chain and logistics
    • Deployment processes for the CHAs and coordinate procurement
    • Financial support to CHA staff secondees to GRZ including the expenditure reporting from GRZ
    • Training and recruitment activities for CHAs
    • Support monitoring of CHAs once deployed
  
  
  • Manage procurement for CHA program
  • Coordinate with GRZ the training of community health assistants including liaising with the school, Health Professionals Council of Zambia, UNZA, and other relevant stakeholders to ensure comprehensive and quality skills-based training is provided to CHA students, and that the CHA tutors are supported
  • Ensure proven evidence based public health interventions, and findings from the CHA pilot,  are incorporated into the CHA curriculum and training plan
  • Collaborate with GRZ and the HRH team to strengthen government systems as they relate to the CHA and their referral health centre 
  • Responsible to find synergies between other community volunteers training programs and new interventions (drugs, procedures, etc.) and ensure they are incorporated into the CHA curriculum
  • Develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders in government, international partners, donors and NGOs, and ensure coordination of resources and efforts
  • Support the CHA HRH Program Manager in all programmatic matters including project development, budgeting and forecasting of all work streams, expenditure reporting and, report writing
  • Provide support to core HRH team to ensure that the objectives and deliverables of the CHAI Zambia HRH Program are met

• Bachelor’s Degree  with a minimum of 3 years of work experience within a demanding and fast-paced environment
• Proven track record of effective project management and ability to generate results
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and strong interpersonal capabilities
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and ability to make linkages between interventions/programs
• Self-motivated and ability to work under pressure and set priorities
• Ability to deal with sparse data and ambiguity
• Ability to maximize available data to provide strategic recommendations
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency with MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Ability to work cohesively with many implementing partners (e.g. MoH, MCDMCH, donors, etc.)
• Ability to coordinate meetings, meet deadlines, generate data driven reports and work in a fast-paced environment with maximum efficiency and impact
• Experience working effectively with diverse teams
• Willingness to travel domestically
• Zambian nationals are strongly encouraged to apply

Advantages

• Experience working in public health and with international organizations in Zambia
• Familiarity with GRZ healthcare worker’s training curriculums, teaching methodologies and the public health sector systems
• Procurement experience and/or educational qualifications 

Qualifications:

• Excellent problem solving, analytical and quantitative skills
• Proven track record of effective project management and ability to generate results
• Strong interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills, and an ability to build professional relationships with key stakeholders
• Ability to work independently and effectively in high-pressure, fast-paced environment and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Ability to achieve maximum efficiency and impact with limited human and financial resources
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word

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