Chief of Staff - Vice President of HIV, Hepatitis, and TB

Clinton Health Access Initiative•or CHAI Program Country,

About The Position

The Chief of Staff is the strategic partner to the Vice President leading CHAI’s HIV, Hepatitis, and TB cluster, a growing portfolio of programs working with governments, suppliers, communities, partners, and donors. The role supports high-visibility work across the cluster, including donor pitches and board presentations, and helps shape programs serving people in low- and middle-income countries. The position focuses on communication and synthesis, and leadership of special projects. The Chief of Staff gathers input from program teams and turns it into executive-ready decks, briefs, pre-reads, and talking points, using analytical judgment to work through data and pressure-test arguments. The role also scopes and manages cross-cutting projects sponsored by the VP, bringing together stakeholders and driving work to completion. The Chief of Staff prepares the VP for key meetings, tracks follow-up, triages requests, and helps prioritize the VP’s time in partnership with program leadership, which retains ownership of technical work. The base location is flexible, provided the employee can consistently work East Coast hours. Some travel is required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and, as a guide, six or more years of professional experience in management consulting, global health, strategy, operations, or a comparable environment.
Demonstrated ability to independently produce executive-quality PowerPoint decks, concept notes, briefs, and talking points; strong visual and data storytelling skills.
Strong technical writing skills and ability to synthesize information at an executive level.
Sound judgment regarding confidentiality and ability to handle sensitive information and communications discreetly.
Fluency with AI tools for everyday research, synthesis, and drafting, with the judgment to check their output and recognize limitations.
Proven project management skills, including building plans across diverse stakeholders and driving complex projects to completion with minimal supervision.
Experience developing fundraising or business-development materials such as proposals, concept notes, or pitches.
Exceptional research, writing, and structured problem-solving skills, with sound judgment about what the VP needs.
Ability to create structure for new or loosely defined work and willingness to handle a range of tasks.
Confidence managing up and taking initiative, with the presence to work effectively with senior leaders.
Candour, including willingness to disagree with the VP.
Deep commitment to CHAI’s mission and values.
Ability to work consistently East Coast hours.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment such as strategy consulting, investment banking, or pharma.
Exposure to HIV, TB, hepatitis, or infectious-disease programming, or to market shaping, procurement, or access-to-medicines work.
Experience developing proposals and pitches in a fundraising or development function in the social-impact space.
Experience working remotely with a decentralized team.
Experience working in or supporting low- and middle-income countries.

Responsibilities

Work with program leadership to create presentations, briefs, memos, pre-reads, and talking points that help senior leaders understand complex topics, make decisions, and communicate priorities.
Produce clear, rigorous, visually polished presentations for board, CEO, and donor audiences, often on short timelines.
Translate cost-effectiveness analysis and market and epidemiological data into actionable narratives for non-specialist audiences.
Maintain a high standard for all materials produced by the VP’s office.
Lead cross-cutting projects sponsored by the VP by defining the problem, building work plans, engaging stakeholders, and driving projects to completion.
Provide surge support on urgent VP priorities, including project-managing the development of investment cases.
Track project milestones, owners, and dependencies, and coordinate consultants and vendors to deliver work on time and to standard.
Identify gaps and troubleshoot challenges, taking ownership and working with cluster leadership to resolve them.
Develop donor-facing concept notes, proposals, budget narratives, and pitch decks with teams.
Prepare the VP for donor and partner meetings through briefings, positioning, talking points, and follow-up tracking.
Develop analyses and actionable recommendations on cluster priorities in partnership with relevant program leads.
Help the VP prioritize competing demands, frame decisions, weigh trade-offs, and anticipate developments across workstreams.
Connect the cluster’s OKR process to the VP’s agenda and flag off-track work or issues requiring VP input.
Triage requests to the VP’s office, synthesizing and routing items that require a decision.
Prepare the VP for CEO, board, senior leadership, and partner engagements.
Follow up on agreed actions, identify blockers, and escalate issues requiring the VP’s intervention.
Build relationships across HIV, TB, and Hepatitis leadership and the wider organization to anticipate risks and support alignment.
Manage the cadence of cluster leadership meetings, including agendas, decisions, and follow-ups.