Associate, HIV
Prevention
Country: South Africa
City: Pretoria
Type: Full Time
Business Unit: HIV, TB & Health Financing
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 is currently expanding the focus of its HIV/AIDS work
to drive scale up of proven biomedical prevention technologies – particularly
voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC). VMMC is one of the most important
interventions in the HIV prevention strategy, reducing transmission by 60%, a
rate similar to some vaccines, leading to a much lower cost per infection
averted than other HIV prevention interventions. Countries and donors set an
ambitious target of circumcising 80% of HIV-negative, currently uncircumcised
adult men in the 14 highest burden countries in Eastern and Southern Africa.
Modeling suggests that, if these targets are achieved, 3.4 million HIV
infections would be averted through 2025 and result in a net savings of US$16.5
billion in treatment costs. CHAI is currently supporting the governments of
South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to meet their national VMMC targets. Through
this support, CHAI aims to drive improvements to program performance and
efficiency in order to increase the impact of VMMC and helping to avert new HIV
infections and reduce overall treatment costs across the region.
As the Associate for HIV Prevention, the successful
candidate will work closely with the VMMC Program Manager and CHAI country
teams to execute CHAI’s VMMC strategy and activities in focus countries.
Specific responsibilities and qualifications are listed below:
Responsibilities:
- Structure
and drive quantitative and qualitative analyses that address key
programmatic issues facing national VMMC programs; this could include
issues related to monitoring and evaluation, procurement and supply chain,
personnel utilization and demand generation among priority populations.
- Inform
strategic decision-making among CHAI teams and relevant external partners,
including Ministries of Health through:
- Analyzing
and drawing conclusions from large volumes of data from several sources;
- Creating
quantitative models, visuals and analyses to estimate the cost and impact
of VMMC service delivery;
- Presenting
analytical findings to internal and external audiences.
- Provide
strategic technical assistance to support CHAI’s in-country VMMC programs
to ensure that the performance of national VMMC scale up is monitored for
efficiency and effectiveness – and that targets are met.
- Support
program management, including donor reporting, planning, budgeting and
knowledge management to ensure best practices are shared across focus
countries.
- Proactively
monitor developments related to VMMC and HIV prevention across focus
countries and at the global level – and ensure updates are shared with
country teams to inform program planning and decision-making
- Perform
other responsibilities as assigned by team supervisor
Qualifications:
- A
Bachelor’s degree from a well-recognized, high-caliber institution in a
relevant field
- A
minimum of three years of experience in a private or public sector
enterprise
- Excellent
problem solving, analytical and quantitative skills
- Ability
to think strategically, handle ambiguity and work in a very fast-paced,
limited-structure, multicultural environment
- Detail-oriented
with strong organization and time-management skills
- Ability
to travel extensively to focus countries and other locations as relevant
to work (for in-country support, conferences, etc.)
- Strong
diplomatic and interpersonal skills
- Excellent
written and verbal communication skills
- High
level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint
and Word
- Knowledge
of – and experience with – HIV treatment and/or prevention programs a plus
- Experience
working in African countries a strong plus
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