Overview
The program is seeking a highly motivated individual with strong strategic thinking, excellent communication, people management skills, and demonstrated experience for the role of Project Manager. This role will involve full project management responsibilities, including donor reporting, donor engagement, and collaborating with multiple country teams to ensure quality and timely delivery. The Project Manager will provide support to country teams, offer technical guidance—particularly on the creation of costed elimination plans and health financing strategies —and contribute to thought leadership and publication efforts. Additionally, the Manager will assist team leadership in scoping new areas of work and support proposal development.
The role requires collaboration with key stakeholders across the CHAI matrix, including the diagnostics, markets, and AIR / research teams, while closely working with country teams. This position is expected to be based in one of CHAI’s cervical cancer program countries in Africa (possible locations include Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa; subject to country leadership approval).
The role may require ~20% travel. The position will report to the Director, Global Cervical Cancer Program.
Responsibilities
Program management
- Lead the collation, analysis and synthesis of country-level inputs into technical donor-ready reports and deliverables for multiple donors to the program
- Respond to ongoing requests from donors for memos, data analysis, scoping reports, budget updates, communication materials etc.
- Lead on the creation of a calendar of program events / key activities and oversee its execution . report submissions, proposal submissions, marking special days in the year, with program materials, deadline for conference submissions etc.
Country support
Provide hands-on support to teams to carry out costing of elimination plans, including compiling assumptions and inputs, running and validating the costing tools / models etc.Coordinate with in-country cervical cancer and health financing colleagues to define health financing strategies for scale-up of cervical cancer prevention services, and support teams with execution as neededRespond to any other country support requests from any of the seven program teams including creation of decks, reports, memos, case studies etc.Coordinate with the program’s finance and operations manager to oversee procurement of commodities for country teamsKnowledge management and thought leadership
Manage the program resources on box, develop and update program briefs / decks, coordinate with CHAI's operations team to get the cervical cancer page updated on CHAINet- CHAI's internal resource hubContribute to writing technical pieces on the program, including but not limited to white papers, articles, blogs, study manuscripts etc.Coordinate with the CHAI communications team to develop and execute the comm’s plan for the programProgram strategy
Contribute to writing the program strategy, including defining program goals over the next 5 yearsWork with the CHAI Vaccines program to develop / refine CHAI's integrated strategy on cervical cancer elimination including country prioritization, modelling for elimination, quantifying investment needs, integrated service delivery strategies etc.Fund-raising efforts, including proposal development
Support with developing compelling proposals, including detailed budgets for new areas of work / expansion of the programAdditional responsibilities
Support with data cleaning and analysis on ongoing studies / projects on the programAny other task as identified by the Director or other global cervical cancer team membersQualifications
Bachelor’s degree, with 6-7 year’s work experience in a fast-paced industry requiring a high level of quantitative and analytical skillsExceptional analytical (qualitative and quantitative), problem-solving, and communication (written and verbal) skillsAbility to collaborate remotely with team members spread across geographiesAbility to independently operate in an unstructured but demanding multicultural environmentAbility to multitask, set priorities, and rapidly absorb / synthesize a broad range of informationHigh level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and WordAdvantages :
Master’s degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Public Health or other related disciplinesCandidates with experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or medical device industries, management consulting, or investment bankingPrior knowledge of or experience with public or private partners within the global health ecosystemExperience living and working in low-resource settingsjobreference3 #region3
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