Lao People's Democratic Republic (the): Program Manager, TB

The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries, while strengthening the capabilities of governments and the private sector in those countries to create and sustain high-quality health systems that can succeed without our assistance. For more information, please visit: http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org

Position Overview:

CHAI has partnered with the Government in Lao PDR since 2014, supporting the MOH across several health programs: Supply Chain Strengthening, Malaria Elimination, Vaccines, Sexual and Reproductive Health, and HIV and TB Access. CHAI has been working with the National TB Centre (NTC) to support health systems strengthening components that contribute to national strategies, such as: ensuring access to optimum treatment and testing commodities; strengthening data utilization for decision-making; and operationalizing subnational case finding models.

The Program Manager, TB will lead a diverse team to support the Ministry of Health to perform high quality analyses and assessments, create informed mitigation plans and ensure that NTC strategies and targets are translated into strong operational plans, and are implemented effectively to support progress towards NTC goals.

The Program Manager will report to the Country Director and will be based in Vientiane, Lao PDR, but may be required to travel within the country up to 25% of the time.

Working together with and supported by the CHAI Lao PDR leadership team, the Program Manager, TB will be responsible for:

Program Leadership

• Lead the development and refinement of the TB program's strategic initiatives, ensuring ongoing alignment with the MOH strategic goals and priorities
• Translate objectives provided by the government, donors, and other partner organizations into clear activity plans, and provide guidance to TB team on prioritization of initiatives
• Lead the TB team in Laos to meet established program objectives under NTC's guidance
• Identify strategic areas for expansion and guide proposal development needed for future program development
• Prepare analysis and build tools to support introduction and scale up of new drugs, diagnostics and programmatic interventions, including costing, scale-up planning, impact analysis, and cost-effectiveness analysis

Stakeholder Coordination

• Establish collaborative relationships with the MOH, partner organizations and other relevant stakeholders
• Ensure communication and alignment of activities across government and partner stakeholders efforts and across other CHAI programs in Lao PDR to ensure coordination and successful execution of the TB program
• Collaborate with internal CHAI global and country teams to facilitate access to key information and stakeholders, provide updates, and leverage core competencies of the various CHAI teams

Perform other duties that may be assigned by country leadership.

• Bachelor's degree in a related field with a minimum of 5 years of work experience in a demanding and fast-paced environment

• Demonstrated experience in:

• Planning and execution of large scale projects, including strategy development, budgeting and activities planning and prioritization

• Team management, specifically mentoring and shaping diverse teams

• Thinking strategically, handling ambiguity, and problem solving in a fast-paced, limited-structure and multicultural environment

• Managing numerous work streams simultaneously in high-pressure situations

• Building and maintaining collaborative, senior-level relationships and working with multiple stakeholders

• Exposure to health care and/or health systems strengthening and/or experience working with Government bodies

• Excellent analytical (qualitative and quantitative) skills and communication (written and verbal) skills, including the ability to prepare and present compelling presentations and program planning and memo documents

• Fluency in English

Advantages

• Experience working in tuberculosis programming
• Experience working in resource-limited settings
• Fluency in Lao or Thai language

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