Country

Burkina Faso

City

Ouagadougou

Type

Full Time

Program (Division)

Country Programs - Burkina Faso

Telecommute

No

The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to our mission of saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries. We work at the invitation of governments to support them and the private sector to create and sustain high-quality health systems.

CHAI was founded in 2002 in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic with the goal of dramatically reducing the price of life-saving drugs and increasing access to these medicines in the countries with the highest burden of the disease. Over the following two decades, CHAI has expanded its focus. Today, along with HIV, we work in conjunction with our partners to prevent and treat infectious diseases such as COVID-19, malaria, tuberculosis, and hepatitis. Our work has also expanded into cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and other non-communicable diseases, and we work to accelerate the rollout of lifesaving vaccines, reduce maternal and child mortality, combat chronic malnutrition, and increase access to assistive technology. We are investing in horizontal approaches to strengthen health systems through programs in human resources for health, digital health, and health financing. With each new and innovative program, our strategy is grounded in maximizing sustainable impact at scale, ensuring that governments lead the solutions, that programs are designed to scale nationally, and learnings are shared globally.

At CHAI, our people are our greatest asset, and none of this work would be possible without their talent, time, dedication and passion for our mission and values. We are a highly diverse team of enthusiastic individuals across 40 countries with a broad range of skillsets and life experiences. CHAI is deeply grounded in the countries we work in, with majority of our staff based in program countries. Learn more about our exciting work: http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org

CHAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to providing an environment of fairness, and mutual respect where all applicants have access to equal employment opportunities. CHAI values diversity and inclusion, and recognizes that our mission is best advanced by the leadership and contributions of people with diverse experience, backgrounds, and culture.

Since its establishment in 2002 by President William J Clinton, CHAI has worked on the demand and supply sides of the market to help more than 2 million HIV+ people access the medicines needed for treatment – representing nearly half of all the people on HIV treatment in developing countries.  Building on this mode, CHAI has expanded its scope to include efforts to strengthen healthcare delivery systems and to combat malaria and childhood illnesses.

In 2019, the government of Burkina Faso approached CHAI to support its efforts to combat malaria and prepare for its international financing forum for Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Since then, CHAI Burkina Faso’s portfolio of work has expanded to include integrated support for sustainable health financing, malaria control, the COVID19 response, improved diagnostics, surveillance system strengthening, and the fight against neglected tropical diseases. CHAI’s integral support aims to help the government achieve several of its key priorities for UHC, including operationalizing its “One Plan, One Budget, One Report” vision, financing and implementing its primary health policy, and implementing key reforms to improve the availability and use of data for planning and resource management from the central to the decentralized level.

Position Overview:

CHAI is seeking an experienced Associate Director to lead our engagement on Programs (including Digital Health, Oxygene, and Community Health) and support the Office Operations. The AD will need to take a broad view and ensure effective linkages and synergies among the programs under his/her management and between other programs in the office. The AD will also provide leadership and strategic thinking around program direction, ensures high quality program deliverables, manage human resource within his/her programs and oversees a wide range of internal and external partnerships.

The AD is a member of the Senior Management Team, which makes decisions for the CHAI Burkina Faso office as a whole and ensures effective linkage and reporting between the CHAI Burkina Faso office, relevant CHAI global teams, donors and many other stakeholders. Lastly, the AD is responsible for providing strategic direction and ensuring the coordination of resource mobilization efforts as well as technical leadership in the development of proposals and concept notes for new initiatives.  The Associate Director will be based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and report to CHAI Burkina’s Country Director.

CHAI is a fast-paced and results-driven environment. This individual will manage a growing team and shape CHAI’s engagement and should have demonstrated managerial experience, exceptional communication, and analytical skills, be a leader with strong strategic thinker and be able to adapt to differing program needs. CHAI places great value on commitment to excellence, resourcefulness, responsibility, tenacity, flexibility, independence, energy, work ethic and humility. The ideal person will be a strong mentor, manager, role model and team player who demands 100% performance from self and entire team.

The Associate Director will:

Program Management (50%):

• Ensure effective management, coordination and synergies across the programs under his/her leadership;
• Provide technical oversight in the implementation and execution of CHAI Burkina’s interventions and guide evidence-based decision-making regarding policies, guidelines, and program operations;
• Manage all staff through talent management initiatives, succession planning and provision of continuous feedback and capacity building to staff;
• Work with Human Resource in the process of hiring, promotion, and teambuilding to ensure effective team staffing, leave approval, administration and performance in a multicultural environment;
• Provide direct support to program managers in their strategic planning, budgeting, expenditure tracking, problem-solving, overseeing project performance against work plans and budget and overall grant management;
• Work closely with the CHAI Burkina finance, compliance, Headquarters and donors to ensure compliance with donor and CHAI regulations, ensure sound financial transactions including the approval of expenses based on set thresholds
• As directed by the CD, serve as official liaison between CHAI, donors, Government, regulatory bodies, partners, and other relevant governmental and non-governmental institutions on issues related to activities on the programs
• Ensure all programs are on course to achieving their respective targets through effective monitoring, evaluation and learning;
• Seize opportunities to build capacity, skills and relationships with Government and cooperating partners to develop competencies that ensure local leadership and sustainability of the programs.
• Ensure effective documentation and knowledge management within the programs and provide technical guidance and oversee quality of deliverables and ensure that communications and work products that are shared externally meet CHAI standards;
• Participate in Senior Management Team meetings and functions and provide strategic guidance and support on issues that affect the cluster;
• Develop new and maintain strategic relationships with senior stakeholders necessary to advance the program objectives;
• In concurrence with the CD, provide strategic direction in reprioritization, expansion, scoping of new initiatives, proposal development, coordinating resource mobilization and fundraising efforts to help achieve program objectives of the CHAI Burkina office.

Operations (50%):

• Support CHAI Burkina Country Director on priority projects related to operations excellence, compliance, programmatic and country operations as assigned;
• Contribute to establishment and implementation of robust program and operational policies and systems, ensuring they are aligned with CHAI policies and compliant with local law;
• Support fundraising efforts, including new program development, proposal and concept note development and budgeting.
• Perform any other tasks assigned by the Country Director.

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent plus 10 years work experience; or Advanced Degree or equivalent plus 8 years work experience; or equivalent work experience.
• Experience conceiving, planning and executing complex programs or projects with verifiable results.
• Ability to work through sensitive political contexts and develop strong relationships with government officials and multilateral organizations and achieve consensus.
• Ability to work independently and effectively in high-pressure, fast-paced environment and handle multiple tasks simultaneously with minimal supervision; set priorities, delegate and work independently.
• Ability to mentor and lead teams for strong consistent performance.
• Entrepreneurial and strategic mindset able to think creatively around long-term program objectives and detail steps necessary to achieve those goals.
• Demonstrated strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including attention to detail.
• Exceptional written and oral communications skills.
• Strong work ethic and flexibility, ability to work with humility and urgency.
• Ability to deploy established management experience to address and synthesize a broad range of information.
• Ability to navigate ambiguous and complex processes and be flexible.
• Willingness to travel within Burkina Faso as needed.
• English fluency (written and spoken) would be an asset but not compulsory.

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