Associate, Health Systems

ABOUT VILLAGEREACH

VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone, so that each person has the health care needed to thrive. We develop solutions that improve equity and access to primary health care. This includes making sure products are available when and where they are needed and primary health care services are delivered to the most under-reached. Radical collaboration with governments, the private sector and other partners strengthen our ability to scale and sustain these solutions. Our work increases access to quality health care for more than 58 million people in sub-Saharan Africa. VillageReach is incorporated in Washington State and has offices in Seattle (USA), Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, and Mozambique.

Summary

VillageReach invites qualified candidates to apply for the position of Associate, Health Systems team. The Health Systems team takes a systems and cross-technical approach to ensure delivery of equitable primary health care. The Associate will support across different workstreams in the team, such as demand, and human resources for health. The successful candidate will be a person motivated by mission, by a highly dynamic and entrepreneurial environment, and by the understanding that their contribution can and will impact the success of VillageReach. Candidates eligible to work in DRC, Malawi, Mozambique, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Tanzania, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa are eligible to apply. This position does not qualify for relocation or work permit sponsorship. This is an immediate hire and candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

Description

VillageReach seeks an Associate to support across different workstreams in the Global Technical Health Systems team, such as vaccine demand, human resources for health, and equity.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities of the Associate, Health Systems include the following. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time.

Promoting Equity through Supply Chain (50%)

VillageReach developed a framework for promoting an equity lens in supply chain to improve supply outcomes of availability, potency, and access. The framework is available here: https://www.technet-21.org/en/library/main/6441-promoting-equitable-health-product-access-%20.

• Support the deployment and implementation of supply chain equity guidance by identifying opportunities in countries where VillageReach works
• Collaborate with country governments to communicate the importance and value of equity, in relation to efficiency
• Collaborate with other supply chain partners to identify opportunities for deployment of the guidance where VillageReach does not have presence
• Build partnerships with donors and governments to use the supply chain equity framework in their funding applications
• Socialize the equity framework through multiple mechanisms, such as organizing webinars, posting on forums, writing blogs etc.
• Create presentations and materials for country teams to use with governments
• Document learnings

Community Health Workers (CHWs) and Human Resources for Health: (40%)

VillageReach is leading research and advocacy work related to the use of Community Health Workers (CHWs) as vaccinators. This technical brief provides some framing for this work: https://www.villagereach.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Community-health-workers-as-vaccinators.pdf

• Support research and advocacy efforts related to leveraging CHWs as vaccinators
• Support development and implementation of supply chain interventions to improve vaccine supply availability for CHWs
• Support desk review to synthesize the existing HrH landscape and inform new areas of work
• Contribute to the development of educational materials and/or training curriculum
• Provide surge support as needed to contribute to donor reports and new business development opportunities
• Synthesize lessons learnt from work for dissemination across countries and support writing blogs or papers
• Implement strategies to improve human resources for health (HrH) related to health worker capacity development, community-level service delivery, health worker wellness, community health workers, supply chain workforce development

Cross-cutting team support: (10%)

• Helps organize meeting agendas and actio