Associate, SRH at Clinton Health Access Initiative- Rwanda (CHAI): (Deadline 22 March 2022)

Associate, SRH at Clinton Health Access Initiative- Rwanda (CHAI): (Deadline 22 March 2022)

CHAI RWANDA

VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT

TITLE: Associate, SRH

Program: Sexual and Reproductive Health

Job Location: Kigali

Type: Full-Time Paid

Start date: Immediate

Overview:

The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries, while strengthening the capabilities of governments and the private sector in those countries to create and sustain high-quality health systems that can succeed without our assistance. For more information, please visit: http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org

Program Summary:

The International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994 encouraged governments to address unsafe abortion as an urgent public health problem and to provide treatment of incomplete abortion (United Nations, 2004). The Nairobi summit in 2019 recognized Safe abortion services and treatment of unsafe abortion as essential package of sexual and reproductive health interventions and as part of a comprehensive life course approach to realizing rights and choices for all.

Every year over 300,000 mothers die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth with 99% of all maternal deaths occurring in the developing world. Unintended pregnancies also contribute significantly to maternal mortality. Unsafe abortion is a leading cause of maternal mortality; at least 8% of maternal deaths are due to complications of unsafe abortion worldwide.

CHAI is collaborating with Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) through Maternal, Child, and Community Health (MCCH) Division to integrate Sexual Reproductive Maternal NH approach including ensuring access to legally permissible Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC) and post-abortion care, increasing access to essential reproductive health products and services by pursuing global and country-focused market-shaping opportunities and in-country engagement around guidelines, registration, tendering, procurement, and service delivery.

In addition, CHAI aims to support the government to deliver robust, integrated reproductive health programs. Underlying CHAI’s approach is the development of effective, government-led management systems that serve as the backbone towards facilitating program implementation, supports the transition, and enables the government to sustain progress, while also providing for the continued growth and evolution of a country’s CAC program.

Therefore, CHAI Rwanda is looking for an Associate who can shoulder the dual responsibilities of working closely with senior leadership on CAC program strategy implementation and contributing to all program’s deliverables. CHAI seeks a highly motivated, entrepreneurial individual with outstanding analytical skills, problem-solving ability, and communication skills. The Associate must be able to function independently, be comfortable working and coordinating the operations of cross-functional teams, be flexible, and have a strong commitment to excellence. CHAI places great value on relevant personal qualities: resourcefulness, responsibility, tenacity, independence, energy, and work ethic.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain trust-based relationships with key government partners and relevant technical working groups for CAC implementation.
• Support MCCH in development, costing, implementation, and monitoring of detailed national comprehensive abortion care scale-up strategy, operational plans, concepts notes and activities reporting
• Support the integration of CAC into sexual reproductive health services in health facilities.
• Support analysis of policy and regulatory landscape to make recommendations and support any policy revisions that may be required around CAC in Rwanda

• Conducting routine data analysis of national data and monitoring against targets, and analytical support for costing and data-driven decision-making around the national scale-up plans for CAC products
• In collaboration with key government partners (e.g RSOG) and relevant technical working groups; provide continuous capacity-building support to health facilities through mentorship and supportive supervision

• Support SRH Program Manager in donor and grant management and managing the operations and finances of the program to meet deliverables within the appropriate timeframes.
• Perform any other related duties

Qualifications:

• Three years of experience in a demanding, results driven, environment
• Master’s degree in Public Health with a medical background (general medicine, nursing, midwifery)
• Exceptional strategic development skills, ability to identify and pursue high-impact strategies in complex, uncertain and evolving environments

• Exceptional analytical (quantitative and qualitative) and skills with the ability to effectively communicate in English and Kinyarwanda (orally and in written form) and to tailor communication to a variety of audiences
• Ability to absorb and synthesize a broad range of information, including technical information, and to prepare compelling presentations and reports
• Ability to be effective in high-pressure situations, handle multiple tasks simultaneously, and set priorities
• Strong desire to work in a fast-paced, limited-structure, high-pressure, multicultural environment
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
• Significant government stakeholder management experience would be a strong added value

Application Process:

Interested candidates should send their applications to:

https://careers-chai.icims.com/jobs/11800/associate%2c-sexual-reproductive-health/job

The deadline for applications is March 22, 2022. Only shortlisted candidate will be contacted.

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