The Ugandan Jobline

• Driving
  new market shaping interventions that range from facilitating negotiations
  between manufacturers and importers to bring low cost diagnostics and
  treatments into the country and launching new product innovations;
• Overseeing
  CHAI’s relationship with the National Drug Authority (NDA) of Uganda by
  supporting the registration of new products to increase patient access and
  developing and monitoring policy initiatives such as recommended retail
  prices for essential medicines.
• Providing
  technical guidance to the MOH’s National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP)
  on matters related to private sector engagement for malaria-related
  commodities.
• Managing
  the office’s strategy for engaging private, not-for-profit (PNFP)
  providers, developing interventions to improve dispensing behavior for key
  commodities and working with suppliers to increase availability of these
  products.
• Analyzing
  large volumes of market data, coming from such sources as national retail
  audits, supplier sales, and CHAI’s own Monitoring and Evaluation division.

• Take
  ownership of a variety of short and long term strategic initiatives to
  improve the availability and affordability of optimal products for
  diagnosing and treating the main childhood illnesses in Uganda’s private
  retail sector
• Oversee
  all relationships with important health sector partners ranging from
  government officials to pharmaceutical sales representatives
• Lead
  the office-wide relationship with the NDA to achieve and expedite
  programmatic deliverables, such as the registration of new products
• Potentially
  identify and pursue new areas of work with the NDA that will have dramatic
  and leveraged impact on health outcomes
• Collect
  and compile market data from multiple sources, including national retail
  audits, supplier sales, and NDA import records
• Manage
  regular, deep and sophisticated quantitative analysis of market data on
  relevant diarrhea/pneumonia/malaria commodities
• Actively
  coordinate access to data with CHAI team members, and work with them to
  make sure that the data can be made available effectively

• The
  applicant should preferably hold a Master’s Degree in business
  administration, logistics or a related field;
• Past
  experience working in developing countries (specifically East Africa) is
  desired
• Prior
  experience working in a consumer-driven culture is an added advantage
• The
  applicant should possess at least three years’ experience in a rigorous
  private or public position, with increasing levels of responsibility and
  leadership (preferably in the pharmaceutical industry or in an intensive
  consultative capacity);
• Exceptional
  communication and relationship management skills with ability to clearly
  communicate complex ideas;
• Proven
  excellence in quantitative statistical analysis and problem solving
  (including excellent Microsoft Excel and/or Access skills and experience
  with STATA or equivalent;
• High
  capacity to synthesize monitoring data into effective presentation of
  results to help guide recommendations on performance improvement; Ability
  to create compelling, logical presentations and reports, using PowerPoint,
  Word and other media;
• Comfort
  and flexibility to work independently with a diverse set of counterparts;
• Relevant
  personal qualities including resourcefulness, entrepreneurialism,
  flexibility, independence, humility, and work ethic.

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