Associate Director, Lead Exposure (Market Shaping)

Lead CHAI’s global lead exposure market shaping work

Manage multiple complex multi-stakeholder projects in parallel, ensuring high-quality, on-time delivery of outputs.

Inform and help shape the long-term vision for the lead exposure program, incubating CHAI’s role and positioning the organization as a trusted partner in the global lead ecosystem.

Identify new market shaping opportunities and lead early-stage scoping of new concepts.

Design and implement global supply- and demand-side strategies to increase access to safer inputs and reduce lead exposure at scale.

Cover coordination across multiple CHAI country teams to ensure coherent strategy design and effective implementation.

Oversee analyses of market dynamics, cost-effectiveness, and supply chains; negotiate with suppliers to improve affordability and availability of key products.

Build and maintain partnerships with governments, NGOs, multilaterals, suppliers, and other stakeholders to advance the global lead exposure agenda.

Lead donor engagement, proposal development, and program reporting, ensuring timely, high-quality communication and accountability to funders, and mobilizing resources for lead exposure programming.

Represent CHAI externally with donors, with technical partners, and at international fora.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus at least 10 years’ work experience, or advanced degree plus at least 8 years’ work experience, or equivalent work experience.
• Strong track record of managing complex projects and multi-stakeholder teams in dynamic environments.
• Exceptional analytical (qualitative and quantitative) and communication (written and verbal) skills.
• Demonstrated experience in global health, environmental health, or related field.
• Experience living or working in low- and middle-income countries.
• Experience building high-performing teams.
• Ability to navigate complex government processes and influence decision-making collaboratively.
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

Advantages

• Experience in market shaping, supply chain, or environmental health interventions.
• Experience in the private sector (strategy consulting, investment banking, pharmaceutical/biotech/diagnostic/chemical industries) or similarly fast-paced, results-oriented environments.
• Demonstrated success in fundraising and donor relationship management.
• Experience conducting cost-effectiveness modelling or economic evaluation in a public health or social impact context.
• Experience working remotely with decentralized teams across geographies.
• Professional fluency in additional languages such as French, Hindi, or Swahili.