Job Postings
VILLAGEREACH - Summer MBA Internship Positions
VillageReach is looking for one to two graduate-level interns interested in joining the VillageReach team for the summer – and potentially beyond – to apply their experience in global health to the work of a small, innovative Seattle-based global health organization. The work of each intern will be determined based on time availability, experience, and interest. Read the full internship description here.
To apply, send resume and cover letter via email with the subject line "SBG Summer Intern". Deadline for Application: May 17, 2013.
Healthcare Innovation Opportunity in India for Summer 2013
The Care Companion team (fatefully drawn together through Stanford's Design for Extreme Affordability class in 2012) is looking to bring on another team member. This person would be on the ground in Mysore, India between June-August 2013 to collaborate with our very awesome partner, Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospital (NH), and take Care Companion to the next level.
The Care Companion Program is designed to transform family members from passive bystanders to active participants in a loved one's care, because no one cares more for a patient, than a daughter, son, wife, or husband. It's an in-hospital initiative that educates, empowers, and trains family caregivers with the skills and confidence to become care providers for patients who have undergone a major surgery, while in the hospital and at home. The program was created for family members of all literacy lives (some of the star performers are non-literate), who have had limited or no access to medical professionals.
The CCP team & NH beta-tested the program in Summer 2012, before its launch in NH hospital in Mysore this past March. While part of the program's goals are to task shift high-yield but time-consuming jobs from nurses to family caregivers, the ultimate purpose of the Care Companion Program is to improve the quality of care delivered and facilitate a smooth transition home post-discharge.
Job description:
We're looking for a think-on-your-feet, bias-toward-action awesome individual who wants to play a critical role in designing a health systems service innovation. Someone who would want to get knee deep-- probably even neck deep-- in the iterative process of empathy/needs-finding and prototyping. Someone who is able to look at problems with a critical eye, and a first thought is, How might we make this better?
The intern would be on the ground in Mysore, India for 6-10 weeks working closely with NH management and a local nurse educator who is responsible for the Care Companion Program to:
? Assess program operations and provide support if necessary.
? Design and prototype additions / modifications to the program (i.e., mobile platform for post-discharge education, improved communication systems between NH staff and family caregivers, sky's the limit!)
? Communicate and collaborate with the other five members of the Care Companion team.
What we'll provide:
? Cost of travel, lodging, visa.
? Stipend for food & in-country transportation
What we're looking for:
? Masters student/grad, PhD candidate, recent grad, graduating senior, or highly-motivated undergrad.
? Experience working and problem solving in low-resource settings.
? International experience in a developing country setting highly recommended.
? Cultural competency & willingness to be flexible.
? All academic backgrounds welcome, but basic health literacy a must.
? Adobe Photoshop & Premiere Pro experience preferred.
Application materials must be emailed by 11:59pm, Saturday, April 20.
Applicants selected for a brief interview will be contacted by April 27.
Microgrant Coordinator Volunteer Position Opening: Teach For Health
San Ramon, Nicaragua
In August 2012 a new Microgrant Empowerment Initiative was introduced in the health promoter program, providing a series of 55 small grants to participant communities. Grants range from $50-$1500 per project and are meant to supply seed funding and infrastructure investment that is paired with substantial community sourced investments in volunteer time, and a small proportion of matching funds. Successful completion of entry level projects qualifies communities and their representative promoters for increased funds and larger and more complex projects.
Teach for Health is currently seeking Regional Microgrant Coordinators for the summer of 2013. This is a volunteer position, where advanced students or public health professional volunteers will be assigned to a geographic region with 1-5 participating communities. Volunteers will meet with health promoters to help develop project ideas, travel via public transportation to the communities to view projects in action, troubleshoot project implementation, assist with outcome measure selection and monitoring, and provide general mentorship. We anticipate that this will be a challenging but incredibly rewarding chance to work creatively with a large number of diverse community based programs. Volunteers are expected to assist health promoters in their efforts, catalyzing community driven change rather than implementing their own agenda. Host families will be available for approximately $10/day with meals in country provided. We will assist applicants with funding applications to UCSF and other identified sources to help mitigate traveling expenses. In country support will be provided by Peace Corps Volunteer(s) and full time Teach for Health employees.
Applicants must meet the following criteria:
1) Strong conversational Spanish ability (native fluency is not required). Must be able to talk comfortably about a wide range of health topics in Spanish, navigate public transportation, and assist with meetings where no English assistance will be available.
2) Must be able to commit to a minimum of 6 weeks in Nicaragua (8 weeks+ is preferred) between June and August 2013. Additional orientation sessions in San Francisco will be required prior to departure.
3) Prior global health experience, classwork, and program development experience is preferred but not required.
4) Students from all professional disciplines at UCSF are encouraged (medicine, nursing, pharmacy etc), as well as residents and faculty. Volunteers will be expected to work within the limits of their current experience and training with regards to any patient care opportunities and advising roles.
5) Independence, creativity, and ability to work collaboratively with a large number of people are essential.
Please email this address, or use the contact form on the website if you are interested.
TB Alliance: Pediatric Program Head
Strawn Arnold & Associates, Ltd. is a retained executive search firm focused exclusively in the life sciences. We have been retained to recruit the Pediatric Program Head for the TB Alliance.
Company Background
The TB Alliance is an international product development partnership (PDP) created to accelerate the development and adoption of urgently needed new anti-tuberculosis (TB) drugs. Tuberculosis kills 1.7 million people each year worldwide.
As a not-for-profit organization, Based in New York City, the TB Alliance also operates a satellite office in Pretoria, South Africa.
As a virtual drug developer, the TB Alliance manages a portfolio of candidate TB compounds from public and private sector sources, using a variety of licensing and partnership agreements. This model minimizes costs, including overhead and investments in infrastructure, while optimizing scientific capability to speed new TB drug development. The TB Alliance business model and diverse partnerships enable them to leverage $1.66 worth of partner services for every dollar invested in the TB Alliance.
The TB Alliance offers the greatest concentration of TB drug development expertise in the world and is uniquely positioned to broker collaborative relationships that are traditionally not possible. As the head of the Drug Development arm of the Critical Path to TB Drug Regimens initiative, several of the world's leading pharmaceutical developers have agreed to test their experimental compounds in combination with one another. This kind of collaboration among private developers is exceedingly rare; in this case, the TB Alliance, as a neutral third party singularly focused on the mission for new and better TB drugs and was able to bring these parties together and leverage efforts across the field, regardless of sponsor.
For more information, please access the website.
Position Summary
The Pediatric Program Head provides program direction to expedite the availability of pediatric TB medicines through both market intervention and product development. The overarching objective of the pediatric program is to accelerate widespread availability of properly formulated, high-quality, affordable TB drugs, and to ensure these regimens reach children with TB.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
The pediatric program head will establish strategic relationships with collaborators including the World Health Organization (WHO), pharmaceutical industry, academia, governmental agencies, funders, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to advance the goals of the pediatric program.
The program head will represent the pediatric program externally and internally, establishing the visibility needed to ensure adequate funding and support for the initiative through public and private sources. To increase interest and investment in TB pediatric treatment, the program head will establish a center of excellence in the form of a centralized and widely disseminated knowledge base and clearing house for pediatric TB drug and treatment knowledge including product, regulatory, and market information.
The program head will oversee a cross-functional project team of internal and external team members, achieving results through project planning, objective setting, activity coordination, and evaluation of progress. Functional expertise on the team will include clinical and regulatory, pharmaceutical product development, business development, global health policy, and market intelligence. Preferred service providers, such as contract research organizations, will execute specific elements of project work under the direction of the project team.
The program head will direct activity to achieve the initial objectives of the pediatric initiative, which include:
- Lower known market entry barriers such as inadequate information and perceived low demand, and unclear regulatory pathways, through market intelligence and intervention tactics.
- Expedite new product introduction through the establishment of incentives to manufacturers to encourage sustained investment in formulation and production of pediatric TB medicines.
- Drive both policy changes and product uptake at the global and country levels, addressing the current geographic fragmentation, product funding, and adoption practices. And, increase public and private sources for product funding, procurement, and distribution.
- Facilitate widespread availability of quality pediatric TB medicines, particularly in high-burden and low-income countries through relationships with policy makers, regulatory authorities, drug manufacturers, and purchasers.
The program head will also oversee the financial management of the pediatric program, collaborate with External Affairs to contribute to increasing the funding for the initiative ensure stewardship of the available resources, and manage contractual obligations.
Position Requirements
- Experience for this position includes extensive global health management experience, ideally with specific experience in TB and/or pediatrics, market intelligence and intervention, pharmaceutical product development, regulatory affairs, and public health policy. Knowledge of pediatric TB treatment practices would be ideal. Working knowledge of high TB burden countries, in both emerging economies (BRICS) and low-income countries, is important.
- Strong project management skills and cross-functional leadership skills are essential. Experience achieving results through a worldwide virtual team preferred. Matrix management skills required. Excellent communications and interpersonal skills required.
- An advanced degree, ideally MPH, Ph.D., MD, MBA, in a related discipline plus 10+ years of relevant experience is required.
- Ability to travel, as necessary, to achieve the program objectives.
The individual right for this job will be motivated to “make a difference,” which is a pivotal reason why the individual wishes to join the TB Alliance.
Please respond to: Connie Pate, Managing Partner, Strawn Arnold & Associates, Ltd
Deputy Country Director to help lead "Educate!"
For the Deputy Country Director, we're looking for:
-A strong operationally focused individual who has managed a team of at least 10 and can build strong management, HR and finance systems.
-Someone who can lead, motivate, recruit and retain talented team members.
-A strong communicator who has experience managing change in an organization.
-Based in Uganda, this position, with strong performance, will be quickly promoted into the Country Director role.
Read more or download the job description.
Research Associate/Executive Director for Ministry of Health in Ethiopia
The Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health seeks a Research Associate/Scientist to serve as the Executive Project Director for the Building Future Primary Care Capacity for Health Results in Ethiopia (HEPCAPS2) project. The HEPCAPS2 project will assist the Government of Ethiopia to sustain and improve the effectiveness of its Health Extension Program, which is the main primary health care delivery vehicle for the country. Over the next 3 years HEPCAPS2 will engage with the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) and two partner organizations to implement several demonstration projects in Ethiopia to test innovative mechanisms to improve primary health care, including priority maternal and newborn health and disease control outcomes.
The successful candidate for this position will have extensive experience conducting rigorous international health research, be knowledgeable about health systems development in low-resource settings, and will have proven managerial and leadership talent. The Executive Director (ED) will be based in Boston, traveling frequently to Ethiopia. Working closely with the Principal Investigator, Prof. Peter Berman, the ED will design and implement research activities and provide visionary leadership and management for the HEPCAPS2 project.
Specific responsibilities include:
Research Contributions:
- Contribute substantially to the design and execution of project research and write-up of research results, including co-authoring scientific papers and publishing in reputable journals
- Lead development of project demonstration activities with oversight from the PI
- Oversee the design and implementation of a sizable time/motion study of primary care workers
- Work with collaborators to design and carry out rigorous evaluations of selected demonstration projects
- Make critical technical and programmatic decisions that will require competency in areas of health financing, health systems development, human resources for health, and working within resource constrained health systems
- Oversee qualitative and quantitative data analysis and results reporting
Senior Management Responsibilities:
- Lead the overall project management and coordination, providing strategic direction on the HEPCAPS2 project
- Manage working relationships between Harvard project staff, faculty and staff in two partner organizations, and senior personnel within the FMOH
- Oversee production of deliverables to donor, ensuring timely completion and submission
- Manage a diverse team, overseeing and delegating work
- Work directly with senior officials in the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, exhibiting a high degree of professionalism, technical competency, and a visionary mindset
- Make several short-medium length trips annually to Ethiopia (position entails up to 30% travel) to work with field staff and oversee project implementation
Basic Qualifications:
Doctoral qualification in health systems, health financing, global health or related field. Research Scientist level requires at least two years applied experience beyond doctorate. Applicants should have a demonstrated ability to conduct collaborative and methodological research and work independently in the design, conduct, monitoring and analysis of research studies and interventions. Applicants should also demonstrate strong quantitative and communication skills and have interest in assuming a leadership role.
Additional Qualifications:
A background in health economics, health care delivery, health care financing, organization theory, management, human resource planning, and/or health systems development in low-income countries. Prior field research experience related to primary care in low income settings desirable. Substantial experience in applied research and research administration. Strong writing skills and exceptional oral and written communication skills. Ability to represent the Principal Investigator and the Project with external constituents, including the donor, international organizations, peer institutions, and Ethiopian government bodies. Ability to travel required. Excellent problem-solving, communication, supervisory, and organizational skills. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated success leading collaborative projects and achieving exceptional project results.
Interested applicants should submit a cover letter and CV to Sarah Hurlburt and include "Executive Director — Ethiopia" ” in the subject line of your email. Applications will be reviewed beginning January 15, 2013 until the position is filled.
Job Opening: Sub-Intern, Partners in Health
Reports to: PIH Surgery Director/Clinical Fellow(s)
Location: Zanmi Lasante, Haiti
Organizational Profile:
Partners In Health (PIH) is an internationally recognized non-profit organization whose mission is to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. Through service delivery, training, advocacy and research, PIH works to bring the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need. Headquartered in Boston, PIH has sites in Haiti and the Dominican Republic as well as Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, Peru, Mexico, Russia, Kazakhstan, Boston and the Navajo Nation, where we work to lessen the joint burden of disease and poverty.
Founded in 1985, at a small community clinic in Cange, PIH and Zanmi Lasante (ZL, our Haiti- based sister organization) pioneered a community-based model of care, hiring and training thousands of accompagnateurs to prevent illness, monitor needs and deliver quality health care to people living with chronic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis. In partnership with the Haitian Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP), PIH/ZL has expanded to a total of 12 sites in the Central Plateau and the Lower Artibonite, serving a catchment area of 1.3 million people.
Program Profile:
The Zanmi Lasante clinical team at Hopital Bon Sauveur in Cange, Haiti provides elective and emergency surgical care free of charge to the local population. These clinicians are supported by international specialist surgical teams that visit on a regular basis.
Job Description:
The Haiti Sub-Intern assures continuity of surgical care for all surgical patients of the Zanmi Lasante Hopital Bon Sauveur in Cange, Haiti with some work in Hopital Universite Mibale by directly participating in their care and serving as a clinical liaison between visiting surgeons & surgical teams, and onsite clinical staff.
The principal roles and responsibilities of the Sub-Intern include:
1. Facilitating communication and collaborative work between onsite and visiting care providers
2. Developing and maintaining a list of potential surgical patients
3. Coordinating transportation for visiting surgical teams
4. Presenting patients during daily rounds and helping to create a patient plan of care
5. Assisting the fulfillment of patient care plans in collaboration with the clinical staff
6. Leading, and presenting patients during preoperative rounds
7. Maintaining patient surgical records, including writing notes and orders
8. Tracking updates and changes to each patient’s care planning
9. Communicating all changes in patient care to onsite hospital staff
10. Attend clinic and be present in the operating room to:
a. Help evaluate patients for visiting surgical teams
b. Facilitate continuity of care of patients
c. Troubleshoot/respond to any concerns that may arise
d. Assist with patients and cases as needed
e. Assure smooth transition between cases
The communication demands of this sub-internship make a strong command of the Haitian- Creole or French a prerequisite for the position. Additionally, students should have completed a 3rd year rotation in surgery.
Job Opening: Ethiopian Agriculture Transformation Agency
The opportunity is both for immediate start or future interest.
The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) is an initiative of the Gates Foundation and the Government of Ethiopia and is based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The ATA works to promote rapid agricultural sector transformation by supporting existing structures of government, private-sector and other non-governmental partners to address systemic bottlenecks in the system. The Agency is expected to deliver on a priority national agenda to achieve growth and food security. While technically part of the government, we report to only the Transformation Council, a body made up of the Prime Minister, Minister of Agriculture, and other key officials.
This opportunity provides incredible exposure to international development, both the tools and issues as well as major stakeholders and donors. Co-workers are a fun, eclectic mix of former consultants, world-renowned researchers / agronomists, former NGO staff, and others.
You can reach our recruiting team here, or reach out to Nadia Viswanath.
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