Position: Volunteer, Assistive Technologies Base Location: Phnom Penh, Cambodia No. of Position: 1
Job Level: Volunteer
Based Location: Phnom Penh
Contract Type: Volunteer
Contract Period: 16th September 2024 – 16th December 2024
Expect Start Date: 16th September 2024
Report to: Fernando GarcÃa Albero
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.
At CHAI, our people are our greatest asset, and none of this work would be possible without their talent, time, dedication and passion for our mission and values. We are a highly diverse team of enthusiastic individuals across 40 countries with a broad range of skillsets and life experiences. CHAI is deeply grounded in the countries we work in, with majority of our staff based in program countries. Learn more about our exciting work: http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org
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.
Talent is the fundamental driver of CHAI’s success in helping save lives and reduce the burden of disease. CHAI’s organizational values reflect its relentless endeavour of hiring, nurturing, empowering, and celebrating diverse and high-calibre individuals who come together to work as cohesive teams. CHAI places a high premium on providing its staff with an enabling environment that encourages entrepreneurship, humility, respect, equal share of voice and fosters high-impact innovation to address some of the most challenging healthcare issues.
Country Program Overview
CHAI began working in Cambodia in 2005 to help the Ministry of Health tackle HIV by introducing better treatment for adults and children and eliminating mother-to-child transmission. The CHAI Cambodia office has grown rapidly since its inception and is now managing multiple programs. In addition to HIV, CHAI is now supporting the Ministry of Health to introduce treatment for hepatitis, scale up a short-course preventative therapy for tuberculosis (TB), eliminate malaria and address multi-drug resistance, save the lives of women through improved access to lifesaving reproductive health care, enhance immunization systems, increase oxygen availability at all levels of the health system, enhance access to assistive technology, and tackle non- communicable diseases.
Assistive technology (AT) is an umbrella term covering products and services that enhance functioning, such as mobility, hearing aids, and eyeglasses. An estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide need at least one form of AT. For the people that need it, AT is life-changing as it supports their independence and ability to live their full potential. Yet, despite the large need, one billion people are denied access to AT, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, where access can be as low as 3% of the need. AT provision has traditionally been perceived as a charitable activity, led by non-governmental and faith-based organizations. As a result, provision is small-scale, erratic, and not sustainable. The growing need for AT is rapidly outpacing the current gains in access. A radical shift is needed from the status quo and governments requested support from CHAI to tackle this.
CHAI completed market landscape analyses on five priority AT – wheelchairs, hearing aids, prostheses, eyeglasses, and personal digital assistive devices – to provide market transparency to buyers on available suppliers, product offerings and pricing benchmark. This market intelligence can support buyers and suppliers to make appropriate assistive products more readily available at more affordable prices. Read more in the recently published report - https://www.clintonhealthaccess.org/report/first-ever-assistive-products- market-report/
Acknowledging that a static report cannot fully meet the dynamic needs of the AT community and there is a pronounced demand for a more agile and accessible platform to showcase AT offerings, CHAI is working with a web developer develop a dedicated web portal for the AT product catalog to address the limitations of a report. This would provide significant advantages:
1. Dynamic interaction and accessibility: Unlike static reports, a web portal can offer interactive elements like search functions, filters, and sorting options, enhancing user experience and product discoverability.
2. Ease of updates: A digital platform allows for real-time catalog updates without the logistical challenges of redistributing updated reports.
3. Insightful analytics: Web-based platforms can capture valuable user interaction data, offering insights for targeted marketing and product development efforts.
Position Overview:
The Volunteer will support liaising with the web developer, providing design inputs, reviewing wireframes and MVP, testing functionalities, and helping web developer with required inputs. Their primary responsibility will be to provide the content from the Assistive products market report 2024 in a format suitable for web portal. The individual would also support the Assistive Technology team in collecting additional information needed for the portal.
Demonstrated ability for creating high-quality deliverables, data interpretation and analysis would be essential. They must have a quick grasp, be able to deliver tasks assigned effectively within the short time span of the engagement and have a strong commitment to excellence. We place great value on personal qualities, including resourcefulness, responsibility, tenacity, independence, energy, and work ethic.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Job Level: Volunteer
Based Location: Phnom Penh
Contract Type: Volunteer
Contract Period: 16th September 2024 – 16th December 2024
Expect Start Date: 16th September 2024
Report to: Fernando GarcÃa Albero
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.
At CHAI, our people are our greatest asset, and none of this work would be possible without their talent, time, dedication and passion for our mission and values. We are a highly diverse team of enthusiastic individuals across 40 countries with a broad range of skillsets and life experiences. CHAI is deeply grounded in the countries we work in, with majority of our staff based in program countries. Learn more about our exciting work: http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org
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.
Talent is the fundamental driver of CHAI’s success in helping save lives and reduce the burden of disease. CHAI’s organizational values reflect its relentless endeavour of hiring, nurturing, empowering, and celebrating diverse and high-calibre individuals who come together to work as cohesive teams. CHAI places a high premium on providing its staff with an enabling environment that encourages entrepreneurship, humility, respect, equal share of voice and fosters high-impact innovation to address some of the most challenging healthcare issues.
Country Program Overview
CHAI began working in Cambodia in 2005 to help the Ministry of Health tackle HIV by introducing better treatment for adults and children and eliminating mother-to-child transmission. The CHAI Cambodia office has grown rapidly since its inception and is now managing multiple programs. In addition to HIV, CHAI is now supporting the Ministry of Health to introduce treatment for hepatitis, scale up a short-course preventative therapy for tuberculosis (TB), eliminate malaria and address multi-drug resistance, save the lives of women through improved access to lifesaving reproductive health care, enhance immunization systems, increase oxygen availability at all levels of the health system, enhance access to assistive technology, and tackle non- communicable diseases.
Assistive technology (AT) is an umbrella term covering products and services that enhance functioning, such as mobility, hearing aids, and eyeglasses. An estimated 2.5 billion people worldwide need at least one form of AT. For the people that need it, AT is life-changing as it supports their independence and ability to live their full potential. Yet, despite the large need, one billion people are denied access to AT, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, where access can be as low as 3% of the need. AT provision has traditionally been perceived as a charitable activity, led by non-governmental and faith-based organizations. As a result, provision is small-scale, erratic, and not sustainable. The growing need for AT is rapidly outpacing the current gains in access. A radical shift is needed from the status quo and governments requested support from CHAI to tackle this.
CHAI completed market landscape analyses on five priority AT – wheelchairs, hearing aids, prostheses, eyeglasses, and personal digital assistive devices – to provide market transparency to buyers on available suppliers, product offerings and pricing benchmark. This market intelligence can support buyers and suppliers to make appropriate assistive products more readily available at more affordable prices. Read more in the recently published report - https://www.clintonhealthaccess.org/report/first-ever-assistive-products- market-report/
Acknowledging that a static report cannot fully meet the dynamic needs of the AT community and there is a pronounced demand for a more agile and accessible platform to showcase AT offerings, CHAI is working with a web developer develop a dedicated web portal for the AT product catalog to address the limitations of a report. This would provide significant advantages:
1. Dynamic interaction and accessibility: Unlike static reports, a web portal can offer interactive elements like search functions, filters, and sorting options, enhancing user experience and product discoverability.
2. Ease of updates: A digital platform allows for real-time catalog updates without the logistical challenges of redistributing updated reports.
3. Insightful analytics: Web-based platforms can capture valuable user interaction data, offering insights for targeted marketing and product development efforts.
Position Overview:
The Volunteer will support liaising with the web developer, providing design inputs, reviewing wireframes and MVP, testing functionalities, and helping web developer with required inputs. Their primary responsibility will be to provide the content from the Assistive products market report 2024 in a format suitable for web portal. The individual would also support the Assistive Technology team in collecting additional information needed for the portal.
Demonstrated ability for creating high-quality deliverables, data interpretation and analysis would be essential. They must have a quick grasp, be able to deliver tasks assigned effectively within the short time span of the engagement and have a strong commitment to excellence. We place great value on personal qualities, including resourcefulness, responsibility, tenacity, independence, energy, and work ethic.
Responsibilities:
- Liaise with the web developer, providing design inputs, reviewing wireframes, interfaces, and MVP.
- Gather market intelligence on wheelchairs, hearing aids, prostheses, eyeglasses.
- Ensure correctness of content on the web portal.
- Collect additional product information needed for the portal.
- Support other workstreams as assigned by the AT Supervisor/Team.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Economics, Public Health, Business, or a related field.
- Good analytical (qualitative and quantitative) skills and communication (written and verbal) skills,
- including development of analyses/presentations.
- Entrepreneurial mindset, including ability to work independently, self-motivate, and propose and
- implement new initiatives.
- Ability to think strategically, handle ambiguity, and problem-solve in a fast-paced, limited-structure,
- multicultural environment.
- High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
- Knowledge of Figma and PostgreSQL desirable but not necessary.
- Willingness to travel if required and at short notice, even to remote places.
- Fluency in English.
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