Clinton Health Access Initiative Job Opportunity

Recruitment Team

 CHAI/Zambia's Human Resources for Health (HRH) team works directly with the Ministry of Health (MoH) and Ministry of Community Development Maternal and Child Health (MCDMCH) to plan, design, and implement programs to alleviate the human resources for health crisis in the country. The HRH team partners with the Government of Zambia (GRZ) to set shared priorities and implement strategic, targeted, and effective programs that work to: (i) expand the number of healthcare workers in the country, (ii) optimize the distribution of the health workforce to improve equity of access and meet the needs of communities, and (iii) enhance the productivity of the existing health workforce. In effort to meet the third HRH objective, CHAI partnered with the MoH to plan, implement, and evaluate the National Community Health Assistant (CHA) Strategy, with the aim of formalizing and expanding the community health workforce through a phased approach, the first phase of which was a pilot, and the second phase, the scale up. In effot to ensure CHAs have skilled birth attendants to refer the community to at the rural health centre level, CHAI is working with the government to implement the scale up of skilled birth attendants (SBA) cadre(s)[1]. The HRH Analyst is responsible for assisting and managing all quantitative and qualitative data for the HRH team, guiding analytical and cost-effective HRH interventions. The HRH Analyst is a part of the CHAI Zambia HRH team, and reporting to the M&E HRH Program Manager. The HRH Analyst will work in close collaboration with the government and will interact on a regular basis with donors, NGOs, academic and research institutions and civil society.



[1] A Skilled Birth Attendant (SBA) is defined as a qualified health professional such as a Nurse, Midwife, Clinical Officer, Medical Licentiate and/or Doctor who is trained to provide labor and delivery services



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