Title : Volunteer, Male Circumcision Program

Country 

Zambia

City 

Lusaka

Type 

Volunteer, International – Full Time, under 6 months (ineligible for benefits)

Business Unit 

Country Programs - Country Teams

Additional Location Description 

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Overview:

The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) works in partnership with country governments, partners, and other major stakeholders to identify the key obstacles to access and scale-up of essential health services and to develop sustainable strategies to overcome them. CHAI’s solution-oriented approach focuses on improving market dynamics for medicines and diagnostics; lowering prices for treatment; accelerating access to life-saving vaccines and technologies; and helping governments build the capacity required for high-quality care and treatment programs.

CHAI Zambia's MC program supports the Government of the Republic of Zambia with technical assistance and analytical support to accelerate the scale-up of Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) for HIC prevention in Zambia.  Reaching the Goverment's goal of circumcising 80% of HIV-negative adult men aged 15-49 years by 2015 could avert 339,000 new HIV infections by 2025. In order to achieve this goal, CHAI is currently seeking a short term volunteer analyst (2-4 months) to be based in Zambia.

Responsibilities:

•  M&E Framework development: Support MC program manager to develop a robust Monitoring & Evaluation framework for management of the government’s national Male Circumcision program:
  • The volunteer would be required to conduct a literature review on M&E framework design and specifically on appropriate indicators for VMMC.
  • Post literature review, the volunteer would be required to conduct interviews with government stakeholders, partner NGOS and internal CHAI staff to inform the development of a draft framework.
  • The volunteer would then be responsible for facilitating stakeholder workshops in order to review and finalize the draft framework.
  • Lastly, the volunteer would be responsible for the production of any required documentation (word documents/power point presentations) on the same.
• Finalization of VMMC Annual Report: Support MC Officer to finalize Annual VMMC Program Report:
  • The volunteer would be responsible for working with MC Program Officer to compile and synthesize data collected from all 10 provinces and interview notes from central stakeholders into a finalized annual report which clearly describes and ranks remaining barriers to scale-up by province and at national level.

Qualifications:

• Post secondary degree in an analytical discipline with strong academic performance.
• 2-3 years work experience in an analytical role.
• Demonstrated project/process management experience, including the ability to work well with multiple stakeholders.

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