Clinton Health Access Initiative is hiring an Associate Program Director

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and oversight across CHAI Cameroon's program clusters and cross-cutting areas, and any additional program areas assigned, ensuring each program has clear objectives, workplans, and performance metrics.
• Serve as a senior advisor to Program Managers on program design, implementation strategy, and problem-solving, drawing connections and identifying synergies across disease areas.
• Monitor program execution across the portfolio, proactively identifying risks, delays, and resourcing gaps, and directing corrective action in coordination with Program Managers and the Country Director.
• Ensure programmatic and financial compliance with CHAI and donor administrative, financial, and contractual requirements across all programs in the portfolio.
• Support the formulation of sub-awards and partner agreements, including scopes of work, deliverable timelines, and budget negotiation.
• Operate the portfolio review process, sequencing scale-up and new scope to sustain delivery and avoid overextension.
• Provide strategic direction for the growth and evolution of the portfolio, working with the Country Director to translate the country strategy into annual priorities across all program areas and emerging health priorities.
• Represent CHAI Cameroon in engagements with the Ministry of Public Health, national disease programs, and other government bodies, multilateral organizations, and technical partners across the portfolio.
• Develop and maintain technical and policy expertise across CHAI's disease-area programs, and translate global evidence and lessons from other CHAI country programs into Cameroon-specific strategy.
• Facilitate high-level strategic discussions with a multicultural, multidisciplinary set of government, donor, and partner stakeholders, and align program strategy with national health plans, including Cameroon's National Health Development Plan (PNDS) and Vision 2035 and SND30 priorities.
• Directly manage and mentor Program Managers across the portfolio, supporting their professional development and helping them build strong, high-performing teams.
• Work closely with CHAI Cameroon leadership and country teams to ensure cohesive collaboration across programs, alignment on shared goals and donor requirements, and a unified country strategy.
• Support hiring across the portfolio, including preparing job descriptions, participating in interviews, and shaping onboarding for new program staff.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to program teams in identifying and solving problems, and provide creative, strategic input on complex cross-program issues.
• Support the development, synthesis, and review of presentations, reports, and briefings for donors and CHAI leadership across the portfolio.
• Lead CHAI Cameroon's resource mobilization effort, establishing and managing a governed opportunity pipeline with systematic screening and clear bid or no-bid criteria aligned to the country strategy.
• Drive donor and partner diversification across bilateral, multilateral, foundation, and private-sector sources to reduce donor-concentration risk and expand the resource base, working toward the strategy's financing targets and the principle that no program should depend on a single donor.
• Identify, scope, and pursue new programmatic opportunities that grow the portfolio, including the design, costing, and incubation of new programs, and the expansion of proven programs where government demand and financing converge.
• Lead and coordinate proposal development from end to end, including concept notes, technical narratives, budgets, and compliance, ensuring each submission has a clear delivery architecture, measurable results, and an explicit sustainability logic; work closely with Program Managers and CHAI's regional and global teams.
• Build fit-for-purpose consortia and partnerships, including with local organizations, that combine technical leadership, implementation footprint, community access, and compliance capacity.
• Professionalize donor stewardship and external communications as a core financing lever, including a donor-segmented engagement plan and systematic dissemination of results.
• Oversee grant and donor management across the portfolio, including reviewing project and financial reports, coordinating donor updates, and ensuring adherence to reporting timelines and quality standards.

Requirements

• Master's degree in public health, business administration, health economics, health policy, or a related field strongly preferred; a bachelor's degree with exceptional, directly relevant experience will also be considered.
• Minimum of seven to ten years of professional experience with increasing levels of responsibility and leadership, including experience managing complex, multidisciplinary programs.
• Demonstrated track record in business development and resource mobilization, including building funding pipelines, leading successful proposals, and growing a program portfolio or funding base.
• Demonstrated experience managing or overseeing more than one program or workstream simultaneously, ideally spanning more than one disease area or technical domain.
• Fluency in French and English, both written and spoken.
• Experience working with government officials, multilateral organizations, and international donors, with the credibility to represent an organization at a senior level, and to cultivate and steward donor relationships.
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to scope ambiguous problems, anticipate emerging issues, and make sound decisions with limited structure or oversight.
• Experience in strategy development, planning, and cross-team implementation.
• Strong financial acumen, including the ability to develop and review program and proposal budgets, and to make sound resource-allocation decisions.
• Demonstrated people-management experience, including mentoring, developing, and holding accountable managers of remote or decentralized teams.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to prepare persuasive proposals, presentations, and donor-facing reports.
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to be effective, calm, and flexible in high-pressure, fast-paced situations.
• Ability to travel up to 40% of the year, primarily within Cameroon.

Nice to Have

• Prior experience working in or managing programs in one or more of malaria, tuberculosis, oxygen and respiratory health, sexual and reproductive health and family planning, immunization and vaccines, or non-communicable diseases.
• Track record of securing funding from major global health donors (e.g., the Global Fund, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gavi, Unitaid, USAID, and FCDO), and of leading or contributing to consortium bids.
• Experience in health data systems, digital health, or health information systems strengthening.
• Experience designing, costing, or launching new programs, or leading market-shaping or health-financing initiatives.
• Experience in management consulting, investment banking, or similarly fast-paced, output-oriented environments.
• Experience living or working in Cameroon or elsewhere in Central or West Africa.

Work Arrangement

Remote (City/Region) — Yaoundé, Cameroon

Team

Reports to the Country Director, CHAI Cameroon. Directly manages Program Managers across the portfolio.

Other

• Language requirements: Fluency in French and English, both written and spoken.
• Travel: Ability to travel up to 40% of the year, primarily within Cameroon.
• This position is based in Yaoundé, Cameroon, with in-country and occasional regional travel subject to country leadership approval.