Associate, Malaria Management, Strategy, and Finance

Job Title

Associate, Malaria Management, Strategy, and Finance (MSAF)

Company/Organisation

Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)

Location

Freetown, Sierra Leone

Job Description and Responsibilities

Support the National Malaria Control Programme on strategy and finance aspects.

• Support NMCP to operationalise the 2026 to 2030 National Malaria Strategic Plan through costed annual and quarterly implementation plans, including sequencing, dependencies, and delivery timelines.
• Maintain simple but robust trackers linking activities, milestones, outputs, and indicators across the malaria portfolio, and flag delays, risks, and capacity gaps for timely course correction.
• Support routine performance management cycles (weekly and monthly check-ins, quarterly reviews), including agenda setting, pre-reads, action tracking, and follow-up with owners.
• Conduct decision-grade analyses to inform programme choices, for example, bottleneck analyses, geographic prioritisation, coverage and equity gaps, and feasibility assessments.
• Support development and regular update of malaria program budgets and activity-based costing, ensuring that work plans, staffing plans, and procurement plans are fully costed and linked to available resources.
• Prepare high-quality briefs, slides, and updates for MoH leadership, partners, and CHAI leadership to support clear decisions and coordinated action.

Financing, Costing, and Value for Money

• Lead or support activity-based costing for strategic plan components, annual plans, and major implementation priorities, ensuring assumptions are transparent and documented.
• Support prioritisation and trade-off decisions under a tightening funding landscape, including scenario planning and value for money analyses (unit costs, cost drivers, delivery models, and efficiency opportunities).
• Support development, review, and iteration of malaria budgets, ensuring alignment between workplans, staffing plans, procurement plans, and available resources.
• Track budget execution and absorption, comparing planned versus actual expenditure, identifying variance drivers, and recommending corrective actions, including reallocations and reprogramming where needed.
• Provide financing support across malaria workstreams by translating technical priorities into costed activities, monitoring frameworks, and practical budget tracking tools.

GC8 and Grant Management Support

• Coordinate technical and operational inputs required for Global Fund Grant Cycle 8 (GC8) preparation, including consolidation of gaps, targets, intervention packages, and implementation arrangements.
• Support development of a coherent GC8 investment case that links epidemiological context, national priorities, coverage targets, implementation capacity, and financing.
• Support end-to-end grant management processes, including mapping grant commitments, maintaining deliverable calendars, organising evidence repositories, and ensuring readiness for reporting and assurance.
• Draft or coordinate donor-facing updates, reports, and presentations, ensuring consistency across narrative, budgets, and results, and maintaining version-controlled repositories of key documents.
• Maintain organised, version-controlled repositories for malaria workplans, budgets, analysis files, NSP and GC8 drafts, and key meeting documentation.
• Monitor grant and budget execution for malaria (for example, Global Fund and other major grants), comparing planned against actual expenditure, identifying under or overspending, and proposing options for reallocation or reprioritization.
• Contribute to financial and programmatic gap analysis for the malaria program, including identification of unfunded or underfunded priorities and opportunities to improve technical and allocative efficiency.

Requirements/Qualifications

• Master’s degree in public health, health economics, health policy, business administration, finance, statistics, or a related field.
• At least three years of relevant professional experience in programme management, health financing, strategic planning, management consulting, or monitoring and evaluation.
• Demonstrated strong quantitative and analytical skills, including advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with budgeting, grant management, or resource tracking for health programmes, preferably including Global Fund or similar donor grants.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of producing clear, well-structured briefs, reports, and slide decks.
• Willingness and ability to travel as required.

How to Apply

No application instructions provided.