Program Officer

**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.

WJCF is an Indian not-for-profit entity, registered under Section 8 of the Indian Companies Act 2013, and has an affiliation agreement with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI). Our mission is to save lives and improve health outcomes in the country by enabling the government and private sector to strengthen and sustain quality health systems. WJCF has partnered with the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and state health departments since 2007, providing technical and operational support across key health priorities, including infectious diseases (COVID-19, hepatitis, HIV, TB, vector-borne diseases), non-communicable diseases (cervical cancer, diabetes, sickle cell disease), maternal and child health (anaemia, immunisation, diarrhoea, pneumonia), sexual and reproductive health, health insurance and digital health (AB PM-JAY, ABDM), oxygen and hypoxemia management, safe drinking water, and climate and health.

**Program Background**:

- With the objective of reducing maternal, child, and overall mortality from hypoxemia related cases, WJCF, under the guidance of health departments in its program states, is supporting initiatives to strengthen prevention and diagnosis practices and improve the supply and use of high-quality oxygen services. To that end, the Essential Medicines and Oxygen (EM&O2) program focuses on the following key elements:

- Effective planning and strategies to manage oxygen systems and overall hypoxemia management
- Affordable, efficient, and high-quality supply chain systems for essential medicines including oxygen
- Improved clinical administration and technical management of oxygen
- Improved information systems and monitoring for oxygen access
- The Program supports the state health and facility level leadership to strengthen governance structures, ensure optimal availability, maintenance, and upkeep of oxygen assets, strengthen supply chain system to ensure availability and accessibility of essential medicines at primary level and build capacity for management of assets and provision of clinical care. Through this support WJCF expects to ensure prevention, early diagnosis, and timely access to high quality medical oxygen to manage hypoxemia cases, while ensuring adequate preparedness to manage surge of Covid-19 cases or on account of other acute or seasonal respiratory ailments.

**Position Summary**:
**Responsibilities**:

- Providing support in capacity-building initiatives for technical staff, including the sharing of training modules, IEC materials, and implementation strategies to manage oxygen systems in health facilities
- Developing and disseminating tools to assist in long-term planning and sustainability of oxygen systems, such as demand forecasting, framework for costing of oxygen systems, state roadmap etc.
- Developing presentations, work plans, roadmaps, budgets, reports, proposals, articles, and other documents for ongoing and new program areas
- Developing data dashboards and building capacity for centralized monitoring of oxygen supply infrastructure
- Supporting any other state priorities related to strengthening medical oxygen