Associate, Project Coordination

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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 mobilize new resources and optimize the impact of these resources to save lives, via improved organization of commodity markets and more effective local management. By working hand-in-hand with governments and other NGO partners, CHAI is focused on large scale impact and, to date, CHAI has helped governments design and implement health systems strengthening programs in over 15 countries and improve access to drugs and commodities in nearly 70 countries.

 

Health Workforce: 

CHAI's Health Workforce programs aim to build the health education infrastructure and health workforce necessary to create high quality, sustainable healthcare systems in developing countries. CHAI is focusing its efforts in three strategic focus areas: 1) significantly increasing the number of qualified health workers 2) optimizing the distribution and productivity of health workers and 3) improving management capacity of governments

 

CHAI began working in Liberia in 2006 after the end of the country’s second civil war and was the first international non-governmental organization to register and serve the government. CHAI serves as a central advisor to the Ministry of Health and operates in a seconded fashion with offices located in the Ministry of Health.  In 2014, CHAI supported the Government of Liberia to develop a bold, comprehensive Health Workforce Program to guide national and donor funds to achieve the objectives laid out in Liberia’s 2011 National Human Resources Policy and Plan (HRPP). The resulting strategy articulates Liberia’s need to increase health faculty at training institutions and medical infrastructure at training hospitals in order to achieve an aggressive scale-up plan that will increase the quality, skill-diversity and quantity of health professionals including physicians, nurses, midwives, community health workers and healthcare manager trained in Liberia. Additional interventions are planned to improve policy, planning and management of the health workforce at the Ministry of Health.  The Program emphasizes the country’s desire to move from Ebola containment and treatment to prevention of a recurrence, which will only be achieved through rebuilding and strengthening the health system holistically. Currently, in 2015, CHAI is supporting the Government of Liberia to mobilize resources for Liberia’s training institutions and government to ensure development and management of existing and new health professional training programs and construction of two major teaching hospitals. In addition, CHAI is leading a coalition of advocacy and implementation partners to support Liberia's Ministry of Health with implementation activities. 

 

CHAI is currently seeking an Associate, Project Coordination who will work closely with the Health Workforce Program (HWP) Nursing and Midwifery Manager to facilitate and manage relationships amongst stakeholders critical to nursing and midwifery in Liberia. S/he will support the Nursing and Midwifery leadership to ensure the successful development and implementation of the Health Workforce Program. S/he will convene stakeholders and build consensus, help to develop the Health Workforce Program implementation strategies for nursing and midwifery and manage assigned deliverables of both strategies. The Associate will report to the Associate Director of the HWP. This individual will also work closely with CHAI’s Chief Nursing Officer and liaise with all implementing partners of the HWP around issues related to nursing and midwifery.

Job Requirements

Responsibilities to Government of Liberia:

• Develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders in government, international partners, donors and NGOs, and ensure maximum coordination of resources and effort for successful implementation and scale-up
• Serve as an advisor to the Liberia Board of Nursing and Midwifery and the nursing and midwifery educational institutions on the Health Workforce Program
• Support the Health Workforce Sub-Committee for nursing and midwifery and ensure active engagement of all stakeholders and ensure that the decisions of the subcommittee are fully communicated and acted upon
• Liaise with the training institutions and ensure validation of Health Workforce Program proposal information
• Support development of the Health Workforce Program implementation plan for nursing and midwifery
• Support the National Health Strategy update to ensure alignment with nursing and midwifery components of the Health Workforce Program
•  Liaise with foreign academic institutions to coordinate the Government of Liberia’s recruitment of nursing and midwifery foreign faculty
• Support the development and maintenance of the Human Workforce Program Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Framework and ensure timely data entry and analysis
• Monitor infrastructure improvement projects at the schools of nursing and midwifery, and address issues causing delays
• Serve as an advisor to the Ministry of Health’s counterpart for nursing and midwifery within the HR Unit (once MOH counterpart is hired) – collaborate to ensure skills transfer and government ownership
• Provide key information to the Advisor to the Minister to raise issues to Ministry of Health leadership as necessary
• Identify the most critical hurdles to scale-up, and develop innovative strategies to address them.

 

Responsibilities to CHAI:

• Support the Associate Director to develop and manage work plans, budgets, schedules and logistics plans for key activities
• Develop clear operational plans for execution, and continually identify opportunities for CHAI to add value and maximize impact
• Work collaboratively with the Nursing and Midwifery Manager to ensure that work is clearly divided and timely progress towards deliverables is being made  
• Perform other tasks as necessary

 

• Demonstrated strong project management, analytical, leadership, and problem solving skills
• Ability to work independently and effectively in high-pressure, fast-paced environment and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
• Ability to work with teams across time zones and locations
• Proven ability to build relationships with a range of stakeholders
• Proven ability to drive immediate results
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English
• Ability to work with humility and achieve results
• High levels of proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and internet applications 

 

Experience

Bachelor's Degree with 4 years of work experience

 

Preferred Experience

Experience working or living in Liberia or region

Advanced degree or equivalent 

 

**Clinical education or experience is not required for this position.





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