Manager, Maternal and Child Health(Clinton Foundation)-Job vacancies in USA

Job title: Manager, Maternal and Child Health
Organization: Clinton Foundation
Country: United States of America
Deadline: 27 Feb 2014
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 make life saving commodities more affordable and available in developing countries by mobilizing new resources and optimizing the impact of these resources to save lives, via improved organization of commodity markets and more effective local management.

Background on RMNCH Initiative:
CHAI is building on its successful work in HIV and malaria treatment to support the development and execution of ambitious new efforts to reduce maternal and child mortality through strengthening countries’ reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health (RMNCH) programs, largely by improving supply chains for underutilized commodities, introducing new products and innovatively using mHealth. These efforts will focus on a number of countries in creating market structures that can assure that products are high quality, widely available and affordable. In parallel, CHAI is leading efforts to develop mechanisms to deploy new information and communication technologies effectively in order to streamline supply chains and/or increase demand for products.

CHAI Malawi is recruiting a RMNCH Program Manager, who will be responsible for establishing, implementing and coordinating CHAI’s RMNCH strategy. Reporting to the Senior Program Manager of Access, the RMNCH Manager will work across all levels of the Ministry of Health to drive programmatic changes in RMNCH, particularly for selected essential health products, providing technical and operational assistance to put into effect the concrete implementation plans which they would have been heavily involved in creating. The RMNCH Manager will be able to display a very high degree of credibility, borne out by proven supply chain or maternal and child health experience at an operational and technical level. The RMNCH Manager will have a practical understanding of relevant drivers and motivations across different supply chains and be able to devise and implement strategies and tactics that are innovative and go far beyond the established status quo. The RMNCH Manager will spend ~20% of his/her time travelling domestically, primarily to regions with limited facilities. Limited levels of international travel are also anticipated.

Responsibilities:
• Establish, implement and coordinate CHAI’s RMNCH strategy at a country level
• Identify gaps in RMNCH programming and work with the MOH to devise solutions and advocate for resources
• Analyze and map supply chains to identify key decision makers and potential areas of inefficiency
• Support the Ministry of Health to develop and implement policies and programmes to address supply chain inefficiencies that are affecting access to RMNCH commodities
• In close collaboration with the Ministry of Health, execute the launch of new products or scale-up use of underutilized commodities
• Support the Ministry in coordinating the updating of treatment guidelines and health care worker in-service training
• Manage the development of new mHealth solutions to increase use of commodities in collaboration with CHAI’s mHealth department
• Manage a team of staff and consultants, ensuring workplans, budgets and quality standards are adhered to
• Conduct market analyses and develop business cases to demonstrate to suppliers the market potential for MCH commodities in Malawi
• Interact with country and global CHAI teams to achieve objectives of the RMNCH strategy, providing technical and managerial assistance
• Other responsibilities, as needed

Qualifications:
• Minimum 5 years of work experience, with a main focus on health programming, supply chain, or pharmaceuticals
• Education in nursing, medicine, public health, or business preferred
• Experience in maternal and child health
• Demonstrated success in coordinating partners and developing relationships in order to drive a multi-stakeholder process
• Strong team management skills
• Outstanding analytical, management, and communication skills
• Entrepreneurial mindset and strong self-motivation
• Ability to develop and execute a coherent programmatic strategy, amidst substantial ambiguity and changing circumstances
• Exceptional time-management skills and the ability to manage multiple work streams in parallel under tight deadlines
• Ability to function independently and flexibly
• Strong desire to work in a fast-paced, limited-structure, high-pressure, multicultural environment
• Experience in mHealth an advantage
• Work experience in Malawi an advantage

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