Uganda: Senior Coordinator, Private Sector Markets

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 in association with governments and other NGO partners, CHAI is focused on large scale impact and, to date, CHAI has secured lower pricing agreements for treatment options in more than 70 countries. In addition, CHAI’s teams are working side-by-side with over 30 governments to tackle many of the largest barriers to effective treatment and care.

Position Description
In Uganda, the majority of caretakers seek treatment for children’s diarrhea, malaria and pneumonia in the private sector, largely from small, rural drug shops. These drug shops often have poor availability of essential medicines, high prices, and low treatment standards. CHAI’s Private Sector Program was established to address these barriers in the diarrhea treatment space, and has since demonstrated a range of accomplishments, such as increasing the availability of ORS/zinc in rural drug shops by close to 50% nationally. The team’s scope of work has since expanded to include private sector access to malaria and pneumonia diagnostics and commodities. Currently the team is implementing a program training drug shops in Integrated Community Management of Childhood Illnesses (ICCM) while also improving availability and affordability of essential child medicines.

Job Requirements

The Private Sector Markets Senior Coordinator will fulfill five critical functions; which include:

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  Supporting the implementation of the private sector Child Health Program through training drug shops on how to assess, treat and refer malaria, pneumonia and diarrhea in children under 5;

  
  


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  Assist the planning and execution of ICCM training to drug shops in 7 districts;

  
  


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  Support the implementation of the supportive supervision component of the Child Health Program, including analyzing field data;

  
  


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  Support the strategic development of the Child Health Program scale-up

  
  


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  Driving new market shaping interventions that range from facilitating negotiations between manufacturers and importers to bring low cost diagnostics and treatments into the country and launching new product innovations;

  
  


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  Provide strategic input to the scoping of new market interventions, including conducting market research for child health products;

  
  


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  Leading the development of agreements between key private partners for new focus diagnostics and treatments

  
  


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  Providing technical assistance to the MOH’s National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) on matters related to private sector engagement for malaria-related commodities;

  
  


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  Monitor the implementation of the co-payment mechanism for ACTs in the private sector, including provide support for NMCP’s price monitoring in the private market;

  
  


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  Provide strategic and technical support to the NMCP and the different interventions supporting the co-payment mechanism, such as trainings and communication campaigns;

  
  


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  Organize and carry out technical assessments of participants in the co-payment mechanism;

  
  


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  Leading the office’s strategy for engaging private, not-for-profit (PNFP) providers, developing interventions to improve dispensing behavior for key commodities and working with suppliers to increase availability of these products;

  
  


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  Identifying and scoping strategic opportunities for engaging PNFP providers around new health areas and products;

  
  


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  Building on previous engagement, working together with Joint Medical Stores (JMS) to increase availability and affordability of key products in PNFP facilities

  
  


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  Analyzing large volumes of market data, coming from such sources as national retail audits, supplier sales, and CHAI’s own Monitoring and Evaluation surveys:

  
  


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  Collect and compile market data from multiple sources, including national retail audits, supplier sales, and NDA import records

  
  


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  Lead regular, deep and sophisticated quantitative analysis of market data on relevant diarrhea/pneumonia/malaria commodities

  
  


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  Coordinate access to data with CHAI team members, and work with them to make sure that the data can be made available effectively

  
  


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  Supporting the team’s relationship with donors by e.g. developing concept notes and participating in fundraising activities.

  
  


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  Perform any other duties as needed.

  
  

Qualifications

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in a rigorous private or public sector position, with increasing levels of responsibility and leadership (preferably in the public health sector, or in an intensive consultative capacity);


• Exceptional communication and relationship management skills with the ability to clearly communicate complex ideas;


• Proven excellence in quantitative statistical analysis and problem solving (including excellent Microsoft Excel and/or Access skills and experience with STATA or equivalent;


• Capacity to synthesize monitoring data into effective presentation of results to help guide recommendations on performance improvement; Ability to create compelling, logical presentations and reports, using PowerPoint, Word and other media;


• Have the comfort and flexibility to work independently with a diverse set of counterparts;


• Relevant personal qualities include: resourcefulness, entrepreneurialism, flexibility, independence, humility, and work ethic.

Advantages

• Master’s Degree in business administration, logistics or a related field;


• Experience working in developing countries (specifically East Africa)


• Experience working in a consumer-driven culture

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