(01) ASSOCIATE, EMERGING TALENT GLOBAL TALENT ACQUISITION

Associate, Emerging Talent – Global Talent Acquisition

Country : Senegal

City : Dakar Type

Full Time : Program (Division)

Human Resources

Additional Location

Description

There’s a strong preference for this position to be based in one of our program countries in West Africa – pending country leadership approval and work authorisation.

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, 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.

Global Talent Acquisition (TA) Team Overview

The Global Talent Acquisition (TA) team partners with hiring managers, program leadership, and country teams to identify, engage, and hire the people who help CHAI achieve its mission. The team supports full-cycle recruitment and sourcing across programs and country offices, using direct outreach, referrals, and internal candidates alongside job postings. Members of the team advise hiring managers on the talent market and the right approach for each search, and build inclusive, equitable practices into every step of the process. At CHAI, we work in a fast-paced, results-driven environment. Our teams are respectful, collaborative, and humble, and we hold ourselves to a high standard.

Position Overview

CHAI’s future talent pipeline depends on building strong, sustained relationships with the right universities globally, and this role is central to making that happen. Working closely with programme leads and staff across the organization, the Emerging Talent Senior Associate manages CHAI’s university partnerships and intern programme, ensuring CHAI is known and well regarded at the institutions that matter most.

The role is hands-on and outward-facing, involving attendance at careers events, coordination with university careers services and student societies, and working with CHAI alumni from target institutions to bring them back as advocates and speakers. It also involves supporting the end-to-end management of CHAI’s intern cohorts. 

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain active relationships with target universities globally, including their careers services, relevant faculty and student societies, ensuring CHAI has a consistent and visible presence at the institutions that matter most. 
• Coordinate CHAI’s attendance at university careers events and fairs, organising logistics, preparing materials and representing CHAI directly to students in a way that is engaging and grounded in the CHAI mission. 
• Work with CHAI programme leads and staff who are alumni of target universities, activating them as advocates and speakers and coordinating their involvement in campus activities. 
• Support the end-to-end coordination of CHAI’s intern programme, managing the application process, communications, and logistics for each cohort and ensuring every intern has a well-organised, well-supported experience. 
• Maintain a clear pipeline of emerging talent from target institutions, tracking engagement, applications, and outcomes in iCIMS (our ATS) with strong data integrity. 
• Work with the wider TA team to develop and refine CHAI’s approach to university partnerships, including which institutions to prioritise and what engagement at each looks like in practice. 
• Liaise with the Brand & Attraction Specialist to ensure CHAI’s presence at target universities is consistent with the broader employer brand and that materials are up-to-date and compelling. 
• Produce straightforward reporting on university engagement and intern programme activity for the TA team. 

Qualifications

• Experience in a campus recruiting, university partnerships or early careers role, or a role with significant involvement in events coordination and external relationship management. 
• Comfortable representing an organisation directly to student audiences, with the confidence and interpersonal skills to make CHAI’s story land with people who are early in their careers. 
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail, with experience coordinating programmes or events across multiple stakeholders and locations. 
• Comfortable working with data and tracking tools, able to maintain accurate records and produce clear reporting on engagement activity. 
• An understanding of what good early careers and intern programme management looks like, from application through to the end of a placement. 
• A working knowledge of global health or international development sufficient to speak credibly about CHAI’s mission to students and university partners.
• Fluency in both English and French. Portuguese or Spanish is a plus.

Skills and Traits 

Hard Skills

• University and external relationship management, building consistent and productive partnerships with careers services, faculty, and student organisations over time. 
• Events coordination, managing logistics for careers fairs, campus visits and speaking engagements across multiple institutions and geographies. 
• Intern programme coordination, managing cohort communications, schedules, and logistics from application through to completion. 
• ATS management and data integrity, maintaining accurate records of university engagement, applications, and pipeline activity in iCIMS. 
• Content and materials support, working with the Brand & Attraction Specialist to ensure all university-facing materials are current, compelling and on-brand. 

Soft Skills

• Personable and confident in external settings, able to represent CHAI warmly and credibly to students, careers professionals and university partners. 
• Highly organised and able to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously, keeping university engagement, intern coordination and reporting all moving at the same time. 
• Self-motivated and proactive, able to identify what needs to happen next without being directed at every step. 
• A genuine interest in early careers and in connecting talented people to meaningful work in global health. 
• A collaborative working style, working closely with programme leads, CHAI alumni and the wider TA team to make the partnerships work in practice. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in or recruiting for international NGOs, global health or international development organisations, with an understanding of the mission-driven candidate landscape. 
• Experience working across multiple geographies and with universities in different regions, with an understanding of how student and institutional engagement varies by market.