Manager, Nursing and Midwifery

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.

Human Resources for Health

CHAI’s Human Resources for Health (HRH) 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 of health workers 3) improving health worker productivity.

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 trained in Liberia. The strategy 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.

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. In addition, CHAI is leading a coalition of advocacy and implementation partners to support Liberia’s Ministry of Health with pre-implementation activities.

Role

The Manager of Nursing and Midwifery will manage relationships amongst stakeholders critical to nursing and midwifery, serving as an advisor to Ministry of Health counterpart (once hired) and Nursing and Midwifery leadership to ensure the successful development and implementation of the Health Workforce Program. S/he will convene stakeholders and build consensus, develop the Health Workforce Program implementation strategies for nursing and midwifery and manage deliverables of both strategies. This individual will work closely with CHAI’s Chief Nursing Officer. S/he will liaise with implementing partner, Last Mile Health, on the role of clinical supervisors for community health workers.

Candidates must have excellent planning, management, writing, analytical, communication and cultural sensitivity skills as they will be working closely with government and external partners. The candidate must have a passion for results and a commitment to excellence.

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 Liberia’s Nursing and Midwifery leadership
• Assemble Health Workforce Sub-Committee for nursing and midwifery and ensure active engagement of all stakeholders and that partners are held accountable for weekly deliverables
• 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
• Key liaison for Government of Liberia’s recruitment of nursing and midwifery foreign faculty
• 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 Senior Program Manager 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
• Perform other tasks as necessary
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent plus 2 years work experience; or Advanced Degree plus 1 year work experience
• Demonstrated strong 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
• Ability to work with humility and achieve results
• High levels of proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and internet applications
• Nursing and/or Midwifery experience preferred

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