CHAI Uganda Job Opportunities; Program Manager, Central Medical Warehouses

Job Title:        Program Manager, Central Medical Warehouses
Job Location:   Kampala, Uganda
Employer:    Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)
Business Unit:    Country Programs - Country Teams
Job Type:    Regular – Full Time (eligible for benefits)

About Us
The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to strengthening integrated health systems in the developing world and expanding access to care and treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. CHAI’s solution-oriented approach focuses on improving market dynamics for medicines and diagnostics; lowering prices for treatment; accelerating access to life-saving technologies; and helping governments build the capacity required for high-quality care and treatment programs.

Since its establishment in 2002 by President William J. Clinton, CHAI has worked on the demand and supply sides of the market to help more than 2 million HIV+ people access the medicines needed for treatment—representing nearly half of all people and 2 out of 3 children on HIV/AIDS treatment in developing countries. Building on this model, CHAI has expanded its scope to include efforts to strengthen healthcare delivery systems and to combat malaria and childhood illnesses

Job Overview:
CHAI Uganda is continuing to strengthen its partnerships with Uganda’s central medical warehouses with a focus on strengthening the supply chain to increase access to medicines. We are seeking a Program Manager to lead the next phase of growth of this work. The Program Manager will oversee and provide support that includes but is not limited to data analysis, software development, strategic advisory support, logistics and distribution technical assistance, and other tasks—some of which comes with a high level of urgency and quick timelines for output delivery. The central warehouses program is situated in unique place within the CHAI office and requires collaboration and leadership of a number of internal cross cutting initiatives. The Program Manager will be required to skillfully represent CHAI’s priorities to clients while recognizing and focusing on the client’s priorities and key interests. The ideal candidate has experience managing multiple client relationships at a senior and operational level, has exceptional business judgment, excels in building strategy and structure in an ambiguous environment, enjoys initiating, building, and strengthening client relationships, and prefers to be working on many different projects at one time.

Job Requirements:

•     5+ years in management consulting, or in a supply chain, logistics and distribution management environment. Other similar experience will be considered.
•     BA from a top tier university
•     MBA or MA preferred (or equivalent experience)
•     Demonstrated experience building relationships with senior managers and organizational leaders
•     Strong management skills
•     Superb analytical skills and sophisticated communication skills in a variety of formats (excel, powerpoint, word, databases, etc.)
•     Ability to build and understand complex databases and multi-layered data sets
•     Exceptional performance in ambiguous, fluid, or unstructured work environments
•     Demonstrated success balancing multiple priorities and projects at once
•     Experience or strong interest in supply chain
•     Experience or strong interest in software development
•     Experience in East Africa

Job Duties:   

•     Manage the strategy and day-to-day priorities of CHAI Uganda’s central warehouse-facing work
•     Maintain and strengthen relationships with central warehouse senior and operational management
•     Deliver on current projects and commitments while scoping out new initiatives and providing thought partnership to client
•     Ensure eHealth related initiatives are delivered in an integrated, timely and sustainable manner, and support the growth and prioritization of the eHealth project portfolio
•     Drive forward initiatives to promote a stable supply of all commodities
•     Assist in aligning central warehouse stakeholders with other stakeholders in the health system
•     Provide key analytical support and thought leadership both internally and externally to clients on commodity supplies, budgeting and procurement practices, best practices for logistics and distribution at a global and East Africa level
•     Provide technical assistance to strengthen procurement and planning practices
•     Jump in as needed to provide analytical, project management, or other support as situations and/or the level of urgency of a deliverable dictates it

Deadline Date: 20/05/2014

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