Program Manager, Cervical Cancer

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 work at the invitation of governments to support them and the private sector to create and sustain high-quality health systems.

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. 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 COVID-19, malaria, tuberculosis, and hepatitis. Our work has also expanded into 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.

**Position Overview**

CHAI is seeking a highly motivated individual with exceptional strategic, technical, and managerial capabilities to lead the Cervical Cancer Program in South Africa. The Program Manager will play a critical role in shaping strategy, managing program implementation, and strengthening CHAI’s partnerships with government and key stakeholders. This role requires an individual with strong communication and analytical skills, the ability to drive high-impact initiatives in a fast-paced environment, and experience in public health program management. The Program Manager will oversee a growing team, coordinate multi-stakeholder engagements, and ensure CHAI’s work aligns with national cervical cancer priorities. CHAI places great value on commitment to excellence, resourcefulness, responsibility, tenacity, flexibility, independence, energy, work ethic, and humility.

The Program Manager will be based in Pretoria, South Africa and report to CHAI South Africa’s leadership team.

**Responsibilities**:
Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Overall programme management, accountability and oversight in terms of:

- Ensuring that the programme has an approved work plan, Log frame, 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 resources working in the programme and all donors
- Leading and managing the achievement of the programme outputs in the different work streams measuring, and ensuring that the objectives of the grant/s through the programme work plans are achieved
- Identifying, documenting and communicating programme risks as part of programme management, and be able to report and manage urgent, threatening risks early
- 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 timely information as required by the donor;
- Lead the programme strategy, planning, implementation and monitoring, including analysis, policy, and guideline development and review by engaging with partners and other CHAI teams on related programme initiatives, as it relates to the implementation of programmatic plans
- Provide strategic and technical support to the National Department of Health (NDoH) in all areas of the national cancer elimination plan: cervical cancer prevention, screening, diagnostics, and treatment, ensuri