Vacancy title:
Program Manager - Global Cervical Cancer

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Healthcare, Category: Management]

Jobs at:
Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc.

Deadline of this Job:
Thursday, July 31 2025

Duty Station:
Zambia | Lusaka | Zambia

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, July 24 2025, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

CHAI’s cervical cancer program aims to reduce cervical cancer incidence in LMICs by expanding access to secondary prevention services for women, thereby preventing mortality and morbidity while lowering cancer treatment costs for healthcare systems.  This work complements CHAI's vaccines programs that help LMICs introduce and routinize HPV vaccines for adolescent girls (primary prevention).

The CHAI approach is built on four key pillars: (1) Supporting Ministries of Health to introduce optimal tools, integrate services into routine healthcare, update policies, build workforce capacity, and strengthen health systems for scale-up; (2) Engaging in market-shaping to improve access and affordability of new technologies; (3) Advancing innovation, including AI-based screening, to enable same-day diagnosis and treatment; and (4) Conducting implementation research to generate evidence for scaling and refining national and global guidelines.

The program is advancing to the next phase, where countries will support seven Ministries of Health with scale-up planning. This includes creating costed cervical cancer elimination plans, quantifying the financing gap for expansion, and identifying health financing pathways to close the gap, alongside efforts to strengthen health systems for improved service delivery. CHAI is seeking a project manager to play a pivotal role in this next phase of work.

[1] World Health Organization fact sheet 22 February 2022 Cervical cancer (who.int)

Position Overview

The program is seeking a highly motivated individual with strong strategic thinking, excellent communication, people management skills, and demonstrated experience for the role of Project Manager.  This role will involve full project management responsibilities, including donor reporting, donor engagement, and collaborating with multiple country teams to ensure quality and timely delivery. The Project Manager will provide support to country teams, offer technical guidance—particularly on the creation of costed elimination plans and health financing strategies —and contribute to thought leadership and publication efforts. Additionally, the Manager will assist team leadership in scoping new areas of work and support proposal development.

The role requires collaboration with key stakeholders across the CHAI matrix, including the diagnostics, markets, and AIR/research teams, while closely working with country teams. This position is expected to be based in one of CHAI’s cervical cancer program countries in Africa (possible locations include Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa; subject to country leadership approval).

The role may require ~20% travel. The position will report to the Director, Global Cervical Cancer Program.

Responsibilities

Program management

• Lead the collation, analysis and synthesis of country-level inputs into technical donor-ready reports and deliverables for multiple donors to the program
• Respond to ongoing requests from donors for memos, data analysis, scoping reports, budget updates, communication materials etc.
• Lead on the creation of a calendar of program events/ key activities and oversee its execution e.g. report submissions, proposal submissions, marking special days in the year, with program materials, deadline for conference submissions etc.

Country support

• Provide hands-on support to teams to carry out costing of elimination plans, including compiling assumptions and inputs, running and validating the costing tools/ models etc.
• Coordinate with in-country cervical cancer and health financing colleagues to define health financing strategies for scale-up of cervical cancer prevention services, and support teams with execution as needed
• Respond to any other country support requests from any of the seven program teams including creation of decks, reports, memos, case studies etc.
• Coordinate with the program’s finance and operations manager to oversee procurement of commodities for country teams

Knowledge management and thought leadership

• Manage the program resources on box, develop and update program briefs/decks, coordinate with CHAI's operations team to get the cervical cancer page updated on CHAINet- CHAI's internal resource hub
• Contribute to writing technical pieces on the program, including but not limited to white papers, articles, blogs, study manuscripts etc.
• Coordinate with the CHAI communications team to develop and execute the comm’s plan for the program

Program strategy

• Contribute to writing the program strategy, including defining program goals over the next 5 years
• Work with the CHAI Vaccines program to develop/refine CHAI's integrated strategy on cervical cancer elimination including country prioritization, modelling for elimination, quantifying investment needs, integrated service delivery strategies etc.

Fund-raising efforts, including proposal development

• Support with developing compelling proposals, including detailed budgets for new areas of work/ expansion of the program

Additional responsibilities

• Support with data cleaning and analysis on ongoing studies/projects on the program
• Any other task as identified by the Director or other global cervical cancer team members

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, with 6-7 year’s work experience in a fast-paced industry requiring a high level of quantitative and analytical skills
• Exceptional analytical (qualitative and quantitative), problem-solving, and communication (written and verbal) skills
• Ability to collaborate remotely with team members spread across geographies
• Ability to independently operate in an unstructured but demanding multicultural environment
• Ability to multitask, set priorities, and rapidly absorb/synthesize a broad range of information
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word

Advantages:

• Master’s degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Public Health or other related disciplines
• Candidates with experience in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or medical device industries, management consulting, or investment banking
• Prior knowledge of or experience with public or private partners within the global health ecosystem
• Experience living and working in low-resource settings

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 72

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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