Overview :
Founded in 2002, by President William J. Clinton and Ira C. Magaziner, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (“CHAI”) is a global health organization committed to saving lives, reducing the burden of disease and strengthening integrated health systems in low and middle income countries.
CHAI Ethiopia is currently carrying out a wide range of programs to support the Ministry of Health in improving access to and increasing the quality of health services. As one of CHAI’s largest field offices with more than 170 staff, the Ethiopia office operates programs across a wide range of areas, including maternal, newborn and child health; HIV/AIDS; nutrition; vaccines; health financing and health workforce development.
Project Description:
As a part of its commitment to achieving Universal Health Coverage, the Government of Ethiopia has prioritized national investments in the public health sector to increase the availability and quality of specialty health services with emphasis on connecting rural communities to district-level and referral facilities. Toward this end, the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) requested CHAI to develop academic partnerships to scale up training of medical specialists based on CHAI’s experiences with similar programs in Rwanda and Liberia. In order to ensure that this work aligns with national service delivery needs, CHAI will collaborate with FMOH to set national targets for prioritized cadres (including select medical specialists and the mid-level providers who enable delivery of specialist services), establish educational quality standards for relevant training programs, and design and resource a comprehensive program to strengthen and scale-up training of targeted cadres.
CHAI will approach this work in two phases: during Phase I (2018), CHAI will develop medical specialist staffing targets for Ethiopia’s district and referral facilities, establish national training standards for five priority medical specialty programs, and conduct assessments against these standards at existing medical specialty training programs and associated clinical facilities. This work will inform the development of a costed, prioritized strategy to strengthen medical specialty programs; CHAI will support the government to mobilize resources and engage partners to implement this strategy. During this phase, assessment, planning and quality improvement will be focused on medical specialty programs in internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, surgery, and anesthesiology.
During phase II (2019), CHAI will develop guidelines and conduct similar assessments for mid-level providers who are integral to the delivery of specialty services, such as nurse anesthetists and OR technicians, as well as primary care providers more generally, who play a key role in the referral system that generates demand for specialty services. This work will inform a costed strategy to scale production and improve quality of the mid-level providers required to achieve Ethiopia’s vision of high quality, accessible specialty services.
The CHAI team deployed during Phase I will design, collect, and synthesize data from 12 existing and 4 proposed training hospitals across Ethiopia and work closely with stakeholders in Government, the health education sector, and INGOs to inform program design. The team will rely on clinical experience from global and domestic experts, and work closely with the CHAI’s Global Health Workforce Team to leverage CHAI’s health workforce experience in other countries.
The Administrative Assistant will provide critical support to organize national workshops with key stakeholders, arrange and manage team travel and accommodations during the multiple site assessments during phase I, facilitate travel and lodging for international staff and experts supporting the program, and provide additional support to the Senior Program Manager as needed. Candidates must have relevant experience managing finances, office administration, travel and programmatic logistics, and have excellent planning, writing, communication, and cultural sensitive skills. The candidate must have a passion for results and a commitment to excellent. This position will report to the Senior Program Manager in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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