Country Director, Cambodia

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 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 skill sets and life experiences. CHAI is deeply grounded in the countries we work in, with the 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.

CHAI began working in Cambodia in 2005 to help the Ministry of Health (MoH) tackle the rise in HIV by introducing better treatment for adults and children and eliminating mother-to-child transmission. The CHAI Cambodia program has grown rapidly since its inception to manage multiple projects supporting Cambodia’s health system. In addition to HIV, CHAI is now supporting the MoH to tackle the burden of infectious diseases including TB and drug-resistant TB, and hepatitis; save the lives of women and children through improved access to lifesaving reproductive health care and immunizations; increase oxygen availability at all levels of the health system; enhance laboratory services; strengthen sustainable health financing and social health protection; and address non-communicable diseases (e.g. diabetes, hypertension, cancer, mental health). CHAI Cambodia has recently updated its country strategy and team structure, around three crosscutting strategic priorities that are interlinked and complementary: infectious disease control and elimination, strengthening integrated primary health care (PHC) services, and health systems strengthening — including sustainable financing, digitalization, and health information systems.

CHAI is seeking an exceptional leader to serve as Country Director for Cambodia. The Country Director holds overall responsibility for CHAI's strategy, operations, and programmatic impact in Cambodia. This individual will serve as CHAI's most senior representative in-country, building and sustaining trusted relationships with government, donors, and partners, while leading a high-performing team through a complex and dynamic operating environment.

The Country Director will be based in Phnom Penh.

• →Lead CHAI Cambodia, a team of ~65 staff from 13 nationalities across 11 health programs, to consistently achieve a strong track record of transformational impact, health system strengthening and integrated models of care;
• →Continue to elevate CHAI’s role within Cambodia Ministry of Health (MoH) to close advisor to Minister and Director General (DG) for Heath, working in close partnership with MOH to achieve health outcomes for Cambodians;
• →Lead program expansion, including designing new programs (in partnership with ministry of Health and impacted communities) and set up of Impact measurement (M&E) for each new program;
• →Steer and oversee quality of CHAI programmatic work to accompany Cambodia MoH to achieve transformational impact;
• →Lead CHAI Cambodia to become a trailblazer in innovative approaches to integrated Primary Health Care delivery;
• →Guide each program to achieve scale and sustainability of impact in Cambodia;
• →Establish strong relationships with all 15+ donors to CHAI Cambodia and secure new donors;
• →Lead and grow capabilities of Cambodia’s Leadership Team (decision-making body of all of CHAI Cambodia’s people managers);
• →Strengthen CHAI Cambodia office processes, tools and systems, across the whole employee journey (from hiring, onboarding, learning, performance management, promotion/exit) to build a culture of impact, curiosity, cross-pollination of ideas, and inclusion, and oversee all financial and operational processes in full compliance with local regulation;
• →Maintain strong relationships with international and local partners, share CHAI insights/lessons learned to influence Cambodia health partners’ strategy and share lessons learned globally;
• →Foster idea cross-pollination with other country directors in the Asia Pacific region, contribute to Asia Pacific regional strategy drafting and operationalization.

• Advanced degree in a relevant field such as business, public health, or a related discipline.
• 15+ years of progressive experience with a focus on strategic program management, preferably in the context of global health or international development.
• 5+ years of experience in a senior leadership and supervisory role, with demonstrated ability to recruit, manage, evaluate, and develop staff and contribute to the fostering of a diverse and results-oriented team.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to navigate complex organizational structures and challenges.
• Demonstrated success leading multi-team, integrated program strategies towards health impact.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills in English (written and verbal) with proven ability to develop and maintain trusted relationships with cross-functional teams, senior leadership, and external partners.
• Exceptional track record in overseeing diverse portfolios of programs and delivering impact at scale.
• Strong understanding of fundraising strategies with demonstrated success.
• Extensive experience managing technical teams to drive programmatic impact and meet ambitious goals.
• Proven ability to identify, cultivate, and manage strategic external partnerships, including experience engaging with key donors.
• Experience managing budgets and guiding program leads on the same.
• Experience working with decentralized teams.
• Experience working in / supporting low- and middle-income countries.
• Strong command of global health programs, including infectious diseases (HIV, TB, malaria, hepatitis), maternal and child health, non-communicable diseases and health system strengthening programs (digital health, health financing, health workforce, supply chains, laboratory systems, assistive technology).

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