Responsibilities
- Guide associates and senior associates in responding to country requests for elimination plans, work plans, technical reports, and case studies.
- Review and ensure quality of country support outputs from associates and senior associates before Director review, including elimination plans, technical reports, donor reports, learning agenda pieces, memos, decks, and case studies.
- Provide structured, actionable technical feedback to strengthen outputs.
- Serve as the first escalation point for country teams before issues reach the Director; quickly identify critical problems, break down and prioritize complex challenges, and apply lessons and best practices to redirect activities.
- Monitor the volume and pattern of country support requests and propose the optimal team structure, whether organized around dedicated country assignments or functional specialization.
- Provide technical and managerial oversight on the costing workstream, including methodology, data quality, and consistency of costing outputs across programme countries.
- Guide the Associate serving as the costing focal point to deliver high-quality analyses aligned with the programme's broader elimination planning and financing strategy.
- Take ownership of the cervical cancer financing workstream, with guidance from CHAI's global health financing team.
- Support countries to identify sustainable financing pathways for scale-up, conduct financing analyses, translate costing outputs into formats suitable for donor reporting and national planning, and develop a toolkit of financing approaches adaptable across settings.
- Maximize data use to identify problems in financing and costing approaches, monitor progress, and develop effective, evidence-based solutions; apply lessons and best practices from across the program.
- Lead creation of learning agenda pieces for the costing and financing workstreams.
- Lead development of cross-country learning products, work closely with the Senior Associate to track progress on other learning agenda commitments, provide technical reviews, and coordinate dissemination and socialization of outputs with the communications team.
- Refine the program's diagnostics strategy, aligning country needs with global market-shaping priorities for screening and precancer treatment technologies, including new technologies such as AI-assisted screening tools and near point of care HPV tests.
- Work closely with the Global Diagnostics Team to ensure country-level and supplier-facing inputs are reflected in the program’s diagnostic strategy; apply knowledge across disciplines to inform approaches bridging product, policy, and country adoption.
- Flag country-level constraints or opportunities that should inform diagnostic tool selection, procurement pathways, or rollout sequencing.
- Support country teams in scoping and planning for deployment of AI-assisted screening tools.
- Engage relevant CHAI teams with prior experience rolling out new health technologies to incorporate lessons learned into planning.
- Lead development of proposals for multi-country and country-level funding opportunities, coordinating input from cross-functional and cross-country teams.
- Work with the senior associate and finance manager to prepare and finalize periodic program and financial reports to key donors.
- Work with the finance manager to develop annual budget revisions for donors, as well as forecasts and re-forecasts for the program; understand and flag implications of over-spend or under-spend, and track obligations, commitments, and expenditure of funds in detail.
- Directly manage and mentor a small team of associates and senior associates, ensuring appropriate workload distribution, training, and performance feedback; bring individuals together as a cohesive unit; provide guidance to other managers on staffing decisions and development plans.
- Coach and support professional development of associates and senior associates, providing structured feedback and contributing to succession planning.
- Lead cross-functional coordination across CHAI’s matrix, including with Global Diagnostics Team, Analytics and Implementation Research, Global Markets Team, health financing, and HPV vaccination teams.
- Direct the team in shaping materials and key messages for senior stakeholders; support development and tailoring of program presentations at global and country level, translating technical content into accessible formats for fundraising, internal and external strategy discussions, and dissemination of program learnings.
- Support refinement of CHAI’s screening and treatment program strategy and integrated cervical elimination strategy; advise senior management on program objectives and strategy to achieve results.
Requirements
- Master’s degree (e.g., MBA, MPH, or related discipline) with 7–8 years of progressively responsible experience in global health, management consulting, or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience leading global or multi-country teams and managing complex, high-value grant portfolios.
- Proven track record in country programs, product access, or health financing within LMIC contexts.
- Recognized expertise in the program’s technical area.
- Excellent relationship management skills, including experience navigating senior, political, and multilateral stakeholder relationships.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience creating and delivering high-quality presentations/decks, with ability to represent CHAI at high levels externally.
- Willingness to travel internationally, approximately 20% of the time.
Nice to Have
- Experience working remotely with a decentralized team.
- Experience working in and/or supporting low- and middle-income countries.
- Professional fluency in additional languages.
Work Arrangement
Remote (Worldwide) — flexible base location with preference for a program country
Other
- An estimated 20% of international travel time is expected.
- The base location is flexible with a preference for the role to be based in a program country, pending country leadership approval.
