The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to our mission of saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries. We work at the invitation of governments to support them and the private sector to create and sustain high-quality health systems.

CHAI was founded in 2002 in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic with the goal of dramatically reducing the price of life-saving drugs and increasing access to these medicines in the countries with the highest burden of the disease. Over the following two decades, CHAI has expanded its focus. Today, along with HIV, we work in conjunction with our partners to prevent and treat infectious diseases such as COVID-19, malaria, tuberculosis, and hepatitis. Our work has also expanded into cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and other non-communicable diseases, and we work to accelerate the rollout of lifesaving vaccines, reduce maternal and child mortality, combat chronic malnutrition, and increase access to assistive technology. We are investing in horizontal approaches to strengthen health systems through programs in human resources for health, digital health, and health financing. With each new and innovative program, our strategy is grounded in maximizing sustainable impact at scale, ensuring that governments lead the solutions, that programs are designed to scale nationally, and learnings are shared globally.

At CHAI, our people are our greatest asset, and none of this work would be possible without their talent, time, dedication and passion for our mission and values. We are a highly diverse team of enthusiastic individuals across 40 countries with a broad range of skillsets and life experiences. CHAI is deeply grounded in the countries we work in, with majority of our staff based in program countries. Learn more about our exciting work: http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org

CHAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to providing an environment of fairness, and mutual respect where all applicants have access to equal employment opportunities. CHAI values diversity and inclusion, and recognizes that our mission is best advanced by the leadership and contributions of people with diverse experience, backgrounds, and culture.

Program Overview

CHAI began working in Cambodia in 2005 to help the Ministry of Health tackle the rise in HIV by introducing better treatment for adults and children and eliminating mother-to-child transmission. The CHAI Cambodia office has grown rapidly since its inception to manage multiple projects. In addition to HIV, CHAI is now supporting the Ministry of Health to tackle the burden of disease TB, eliminate malaria and address multi-drug resistance, save the lives of women through improved access to lifesaving reproductive health care, enhance immunization systems, increase oxygen availability at all levels of the health system, strengthen laboratory services, and more. Looking ahead, we wish to support the Cambodia Ministry of Health achieves its goals for non-communicable diseases (e.g. diabetes, hypertension, cancer, mental health, etc.).

CHAI provides technical and management assistance to the National Center for Parasitology, Entomology, and Malaria Control (CNM) with a goal to accelerate the drive to malaria elimination by 2025. The overall objective of CHAI’s malaria work in Cambodia is to ensure CNM has evidence-based strategies, strong operational plans, and sufficient financial resources to effectively implement the interventions for the malaria elimination.

Position Overview

CHAI is seeking a highly motivated and flexible individual to serve as a M&E and Grant Management Associate on the malaria team to support the intensification of malaria elimination in Cambodia. The Associate will be responsible for ensuring organizational effectiveness and compliance of the grant from Global Fund, helping set up procedures to put Program Management Framework (PMF) in place and providing technical assistance as required. The role requires high levels of coordination within CNM, United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS), President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), World Health Organization (WHO) and CHAI Cambodia team to oversee the development and dissemination of national and peripheral level work plans; annual budget plan and build capacity at the CNM’s Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) unit for data collection and grant reporting to UNOPS. The Associate will serve as a key connection for the finance, procurement, administrative and program staff at CNM and thus must possess the ability to observe and understand capacities and problems across departments and at different levels of the Cambodian health system.

Competitive candidates will have outstanding problem-solving skills, analytical ability, and communication skills. The candidate must be self-driven, entrepreneurial, and adaptable, and be able to function independently and flexibly with a strong commitment to excellence. The position reports to the Senior Program Manager and will work out of CHAI Cambodia’s office and CNM’s central office, both based in Phnom Penh. The position requires in-country travel to the subnational geographies approximately 25% of the time. Occasional regional travel for meetings and/or conferences may be required.

Operational Planning

• Provide support to CNM on resource mobilization, planning, strengthening of coordination and communication within CNM and with partners and subnational level;
• Provide management support for the development and dissemination of national and subnational-level budgets, budget revisions, and work plans for sub-recipients under CNM, simultaneously coordinate and relay work plan and budget feedback from CHAI program and subnational teams;
• Strengthen the capacity of the M&E unit to support the implementation of the GFATM RAI3E grant in full compliance with PR-UNOPS guidelines for maximum absorption of GFATM-awarded resources;
• Lead and coordinate with all CNM’s units and CHAI’s regional and country malaria team to work on budget detail of the GFATM RAI4E for 2024-2026;
• Assist CNM’s technical bureau with strong coordination with other key implementing partners on updating the National Strategic Plan for Malaria Elimination and Malaria Elimination Action Framework; which including comprehensive planning, costing analysis and key indicators;
• Coordinate closely with CHAI colleagues to ensure comprehensive and seamless program and financial management support to CNM.

Grant Management

• Assist CNM on initiating and modification the grant implementation policy dialogue with PR-UNOPS and to troubleshoot as necessary to facilitate full-scale implementation;
• Reinforce and expand programmatic reporting and activity tracking tools and processes at central and subnational levels, further the capacity of government staff to conduct tracking on a regular basis;
• Facilitate the implementation of CHAI’s Program Management TA Grant to CNM, track position-relevant deliverables and support bi-annual reporting processes;
• Work with CNM technical bureau to optimize and cost national malaria program strategies through building excel-based budget models;
• Support Cambodia’s future grant applications to GFATM and/or other key donors to further support the CNM’s commitment to malaria elimination by 2025.

Monitoring and Evaluation

• Facilitate updates to the standard operating procedures to facilitate work planning and improved monitoring & evaluation;
• Support the M&E unit with data collection and analysis for periodic programmatic reporting to UNOPS/GFATM;
  Other responsibilities as needed.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, policy, health economics/financing or related field;
• 2-3 years of professional experience in the private or public sector with increasing levels of responsibility and leadership in management consulting, financial services, or other relevant fields;
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and quantitative and qualitative analytical capabilities;
• Ability to work closely within a team and contribute proactively to the team goals;
• Organization skills with strong attention to detail;
• Ability to work effectively in a high-pressure, unstructured environment and handle multiple tasks simultaneously;
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral communication in English) and ability to build and nurture relationships in challenging and multicultural environments;
• Excellent attitude to the work and self-motivated personal;
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office with proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Word and other tools.

Advantages

• Familiarity with Global Fund rules and regulations;
• Experience in strategic/business process consulting, investment banking, project/grant management, or operations planning;
• Proven experience on strengthening coordination among diverse stakeholders;
• Knowledge of malaria and/or other major global infectious disease problems;
• Experience living or working in resource-limited countries.

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