Programme Manager

Overview:
The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to our mission of saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries. We make big changes that challenge what people think is possible to help millions of people stay healthy and live longer.

CHAI was founded in 2002 in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic with the goal of dramatically reducing the price of life-saving drugs and increasing access to these medicines in the countries with the highest burden of the disease. Today, thanks in part to CHAI’s efforts, over 20 million people in low
- and middle-income countries have access to high-quality medicines. Drugs that used to cost US$10,000 per patient per year now cost US$45 per patient per year. See more on our role in catalysing the change here.

Over the following two decades, CHAI has expanded its focus. Today, along with HIV, we work in conjunction with our partners to prevent and treat infectious diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and hepatitis. Our work has also expanded into sexual and reproductive health, cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and other non-communicable diseases, and we work to accelerate the rollout of lifesaving vaccines, reduce maternal and child mortality, combat chronic malnutrition, and increase access to assistive technology. We are investing in horizontal approaches to strengthen health systems through programs in human resources for health, digital health, and health financing. With each new and innovative program, our strategy is grounded in maximizing sustainable impact at scale, ensuring that governments lead the solutions, that programs are designed to scale nationally, and learnings are shared globally.

CHAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to providing an environment of fairness, and mutual respect where all applicants have access to equal employment opportunities. CHAI values diversity and inclusion, and recognizes that our mission is best advanced by the leadership and contributions of people with diverse experience, backgrounds, and culture.

**Team Overview**:
Over the last several decades, South Africa’s Department of Health (DOH) has made significant progress in moving towards achieving the UNAIDS 95-95-95 (95% of all people living with HIV will know their HIV status, 95% of people with diagnosed HIV infection will receive sustained ART and 95% of all people receiving ART are virally suppressed) for the paediatric and adolescent populations. However, gaps still exist. Due to South Africa’s high disease burden, South Africa falls short and does not meet the 95-95-95 targets. To address these challenges, the CHAI South African (CHAI SA) team is supporting the DOH, at national, provincial and district levels to implement a broad range of activities across the 95-95-95 matrix, including assessing and costing proven and/or new innovative intervention strategies focused on the identification, establishing strong linkage systems, improving paediatric and adolescent retention/viral suppression, and building an investment case for scale and sustainability. This work will be done through the provision of technical assistance to support the development and deployment of strategic interventions and operational plans, resource optimization in the short and long term and galvanizing key stakeholder coordination.

**Position Overview**:
**Responsibilities**:
Overall Programme management, accountability and oversight in terms of:

- Ensuring that the programme has an approved workplan, Logframe, budget and forecasts as part of official programme documents.
- Understanding the programme/s, implementation and close out phase milestones, timelines and expectations and that these are communicated to all teams working in the programme
- Leading and managing the achievement of the programme outputs in the different work streamsmeasuring, and ensuring that the objectives of the grant/s through the programme workplans are achieved
- Identifying, documenting and communicating programme risks as part of programme management, and be able to report urgent, threatening risks early to the Senior Director CHAI,
- Providing operational programme management including recruitment and management of personnel, and ensuring cohesive teamwork, as a Team leader;
- Developing and maintaining a programme governance framework for programme review meetings, monitoring of deliverables and collation of programme and donor reports
- Budget development, oversight, management, expenditure control, reporting and observe allowable variances as set by donor, working closely with the Finance Manager.
- Ensure compliance with the responsibilities in the grant framework and manage and maintain the risk management tool
- Lead monitoring, evaluation, reporting and learning (MERL) efforts with the aim to maintain and update comprehensive, feasible M&E frameworks that will generate credible, actionable and time