Director, Global Mental Health

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 to dramatically reduce the price of life-saving drugs and increase 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 to maximize sustainable impact at scale, ensuring that governments lead the solutions, 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 diverse 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 has recently established a dedicated Innovation group to develop and incubate promising and impactful new program areas for the organization. The Innovation group has identified Mental Health the first of a number of critical new areas of focus for CHAI. The Director will join the Innovation team to incubate CHAI’s org-wide mental health work, and ultimately spin off this new endeavor into its own full line of programming.

The Director, Mental Health, will play a pivotal role in advancing CHAI's global mental health initiatives. Reporting to senior leadership, the Director will be responsible for leading strategic efforts to expand access to mental health services in low- and middle-income countries. This will primarily focus on the incubation of new programs to address severe mental health conditions in CHAI countries such as severe clinical depression, severe anxiety disorders and PTSD, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The Director will collaborate closely with CHAI’s Ministry of Health partners to ensure effective mental health service integration and strengthen systems for lasting change.

As the Director of Mental Health, you will:

• Lead the execution of CHAI’s mental health strategy, focused on:
• Market shaping for products, with a particular focus on drug access for individuals with severe mental health conditions such as schizophrenia
• Integrating mental health services, including within PHC systems and specific disease programs (such as HIV, TB, maternal health, etc)
• Strengthening mental health systems, including work on policies, financing and health workforce
• Lead the creation of scalable, high-impact interventions targeting severe mental health conditions across the focus areas noted above
• Coordinate the implementation of mental health programs across CHAI program countries, ensuring alignment with CHAI's mission and goals
• Collaborate with governments, NGOs, and private sector partners on a broader advocacy and ecosystem shaping agenda to drive more attention and resources to mental health
• Manage partnerships and drive resource mobilization for mental health interventions, including fundraising and proposal development
• Develop and execute an ambitious learning and research agenda to answer outstanding questions that are pertinent to CHAI’s mental health strategy
• Ensure that mental health programs address the unique needs of vulnerable populations, including those with HIV and other chronic diseases.

We are seeking exceptional and highly-motivated individuals with a genuine desire to maximize global health outcomes. An ideal candidate will be described as:

• Intellectually curious – You have a desire to dig deeper than the surface, asking questions like: Why does this intervention perform better than another? What does this new information mean for my current conclusions? How might this intervention look different in another country?
• Effective leader – You are able to find a balance between delegation and control when managing a team, giving more junior team members opportunities to learn and grow whilst ensuring high-quality team output
• Incubator – You have experience taking nascent ideas and turning them into impactful realities
• Fundraiser – You are excited by the prospect of mobilizing significant resources to solve important problems
• Insightful – You draw cogent conclusions from large amounts of analysis, sharing what is relevant for real-world challenges the Incubator team is trying to address
• Practical – You demonstrate judgment in how you allocate your efforts when balancing multiple priorities, focusing on the most decision-critical aspects, and dynamically changing these priorities in response to changing circumstances
• Analytical – You are comfortable working with large amounts of quantitative and qualitative data and effectively extracting logical conclusions and recommendations from this analysis
• Communicative – You can respectfully and effectively navigate varied and sensitive stakeholder environments, including in-country teams to senior donor executives
• Rigorous – You take pride in your work and have high standards for what you produce, creating analysis that can stand up to the scrutiny of internal and external parties
• Passionate – You are passionate about helping improve global health as much as possible
• There is no ‘perfect’ candidate for this role. We are seeking dedicated and passionate individuals who want to make a difference in global health outcomes. Whatever your background, if this role excites you, please apply!

Requirements:

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment.
• Prior experience in the global mental health space is non-negotiable
• Demonstrated success in incubating and launching cost-effective and impactful new lines of programming
• Demonstrated success in raising philanthropic resources for mental health programming
• Demonstrated success in cultivating strong partnerships with like-minded organizations
• Experience conducting rigorous research and presenting findings to diverse audiences
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
• English language fluency, both written and verbal
   

Advantages:

• Background in policy, advocacy and communications for mental health
• Experience working remotely with a decentralized team
• Professional fluency in additional languages such as French, Spanish, Hindi, or Swahili
• Experience designing and conducting program monitoring and evaluation

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