JOB AT Clinton Health Access Initiative : Volunteer Associate, Global Health Workforce
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
CHAI Health Workforce Team:
A skilled health workforce is the backbone of every health system and therefore an essential precondition for progress toward universal health coverage (UHC). However, the WHO estimates that there is a global shortage of 17 million health workers. The gap is most acute in Africa (with a shortage of 4.2 million), which bears 24% of the global burden of disease yet has only 4% of the world’s health workforce.
CHAI assists governments to develop their health workforces by enhancing their capacity to train highly qualified health workers and by strengthening national systems to finance, deploy, and manage those health workers.
CHAI’s approach to national heath workforce strengthening emphasizes three strategies: (i) improving the quality and strategically increasing the scale of education for health workers, (ii) expanding and optimizing health workforce financing, and (iii) providing technical assistance to governments to strengthen their overall health workforce planning and management systems.
Two key principles guide CHAI’s approach to workforce development. The first is focusing on the right kind of health workers—from community health workers to midwives, nurses, health managers, general physicians and medical specialists—based on national need and service delivery objectives. CHAI’s approach also emphasizes sustainability by building the institutional capacity of the schools and universities where health workers are trained, training new generations of health professions educators, and developing systems and individual capabilities within governments to better plan and manage their own health workforces.
CHAI’s health workforce programs vary by country, as they reflect the major barriers and opportunities to workforce development in that specific context, as well as the priorities of the host government.
Position Overview:
CHAI’s global health workforce team seeks a volunteer based in Kigali, Rwanda to support data collection, analysis, costing and proposal development for a Rwanda health workforce program. In addition, the volunteer may support similar gap analysis and costing for resource mobilization in Ethiopia, with potential for short term travel to Addis Ababa from Kigali.
The position offers the candidate opportunities to develop and apply skills in strategy development, data analysis, costing, modeling and proposal development while building content expertise in health workforce, with an emphasis on pre-service education.
The candidate is expected to be flexible in her/his tasks based on emerging needs.
The ideal candidate can commit to this position from May 1st-July 31st.
Responsibilities
Conduct analyses to inform proposal development for a proposal addressing health workforce development and deployment in Rwanda; example analytical tasks may include:
Analyses to understand and reconcile various public sector health workforce targets to inform health worker staffing at tertiary, secondary and primary hospitals; potentially develop a model to inform staffing targets where they do not exist (e.g. for specialist health workers)
Costing and forecasting to understand financial implications of workforce expansion and expanded pre-service training
Gap analysis and costing to determine equipment needs for pre-service training as well as service expansion
Design and implement tracer study to examine distribution of midwifery graduates in Rwanda
Convene stakeholders and facilitate planning committees comprised of Rwanda Ministry of Health and University of Rwanda stakeholders to validate analyses, inform strategies
Facilitate the development of a resource mobilization plan and develop subsequent donor proposals for specialist program development for pediatrics, maternal health and other areas
Support proposal development for a program to scale up specialist training in Ethiopia, including gap analysis and costing
Qualifications
Experience developing and implementing analytical tools and models
Demonstrated strong project management, analytical, and problem-solving skills
Ability to work independently and effectively in unstructured environments and handle multiple tasks simultaneously; highly organized
Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
Ability to work with teams across time zones and locations
Ability to work with humility and achieve results
High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word
Bachelor’s Degree in management, finance, supply chain, public health or other related field plus 2+ years management experience
Preferred qualifications
Advanced Degree in business, public health, or other relevant fields
Experience developing donor proposals
Experience working in the health sector in LMICs
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