Analyst - Essential Medicines and Oxygen

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 lowand middleincome countries. We work at the invitation of governments to support them and the private sector to create and sustain highquality health systems.

CHAI was founded in 2002 in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic with the goal of dramatically reducing the price of lifesaving 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 COVID19 malaria tuberculosis and hepatitis. Our work has also expanded into cancer diabetes hypertension and other noncommunicable 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.

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In India CHAI works in partnership with its India registered affiliate William J Clinton Foundation (WJCF) under the guidance of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) at the Central and States levels on an array of high priority initiatives aimed at improving health outcomes. Currently WJCF supports government partners across projects to expand access to quality care and treatment for HIV/AIDS Hepatitis tuberculosis COVID19 common cancers sexual and reproductive health immunization and essential medicines.

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Background

With the objective of reducing maternal child and overall mortality from hypoxemia related cases WJCF under the guidance of health departments in the states of Madhya Pradesh Chhattisgarh and Punjab is supporting initiatives to strengthen prevention and diagnosis practices and improve the supply and use of highquality oxygen services. To that end the Essential Medicines and Oxygen (EM&O2) program focuses on the following key elements:

• Effective planning and strategies to manage oxygen systems and overall hypoxemia management
• Affordable efficient and highquality supply chain systems for essential medicines including oxygen
• Improved clinical administration and technical management of oxygen
• Improved information systems and monitoring for oxygen access

The Program supports the state health and facility level leadership to strengthen governance structures ensure optimal availability maintenance and upkeep of oxygen assets strengthen supply chain system to ensure availability and accessibility of essential medicines at primary level and build capacity for management of assets and provision of clinical care. Through this support WJCF expects to ensure prevention early diagnosis and timely access to high quality medical oxygen to manage hypoxemia cases while ensuring adequate preparedness to manage surge of Covid19 cases or on account of other acute or seasonal respiratory ailments.

Role Overview

We seek a highly motivated and entrepreneurial individual with outstanding credentials and demonstrated analytical (quantitative and qualitative) and stakeholder management abilities for the role of Analyst EM&O2 based out of Mohali/Chandigarh. The Analyst will work closely with the state and national program teams and will be expected to develop and manage strong relationships with the Department of Public Health & Family Welfare (DoHFW) Punjab to support program implementation initiatives.

The successful candidate must have strong quantitative and analytical skills excellent verbal and written communication skills be able to function independently with flexibility in a dynamic and uncertain situation be selfmotivated and have a strong commitment to excellence. We place great value on qualities such as resourcefulness responsibility tenacity independence energy and work ethic.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to the following

• Provide strategic and analytical support to EM&O2 program implementation activities including but not limited to working with and engaging with field staff to review programmatic activities track implementation of activities and monitor and review outputs.
• Undertake analysis of large datasets to generate insightful reports and dashboards that can inform programmatic decision making.
• Closely work with State Lead to support government officials in identifying and bridging gaps in hypoxemia management system.
• Support in building and strengthening an efficient public health supply chain for essential medicines including development of guiding documents establishing supply chain monitoring & evaluation (M&E) indicators to track progress and impact over time and routinely report findings.
• Work closely with WJCF and government partners to integrate available data sources and build models to quantify and forecast demand for essential medicines distributed by the public sector
• Support the development of presentations work plans budgets reports proposals articles and other documents for ongoing and new areas.
• Develop strong working relationships with and represent WJCF as a trusted advisor to key stakeholders and ensure coordination of resources and effort for maximum impact.
• Support program management and leadership team with programmatic activities and evaluation and scoping of other potential intervention areas as required.
• Contribute to internal organizational initiatives.
• Other responsibilities as needed.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or higher in management economics public health supply chain engineering computer science statistics operations research or a related field.
• At least three years of professional experience in private or public sector setting/consulting.

Skills & Traits:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English including ability to create persuasive presentations and written reports. Fluency in Hindi and Punjabi is an advantage.
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite particularly Excel PowerPoint and Word.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively in a diverse and fastpaced environment.
• Ability to navigate complex processes and influence decisionmaking in a professional and collaborative manner.
• High emotional intelligence patience and thoughtfulness even in highpressure stressful situations.
• Ability to work independently prioritize and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Willingness to travel extensively within and outside the program states and districts.
• Experience of working with government stakeholders and familiarity with the Indian public health system/social impact sector in areas of supply chain management will be a plus.

Last Date to Apply 2 June 2025