African Health Placements (AHP) is a dynamic South African-based social profit organization working to address the extreme inequities in access to healthcare on the continent through human resource solutions. AHP currently offers culture strategy consulting, health workforce planning, recruitment, workforce retention initiatives and an expanding portfolio of human resources in health advisory services. The organization’s mission targets health access for the most indigent, partnering governments, civil society and private sector.
AHP defines itself as “social profit” because its work, while mostly donor-funded, delivers profit measured in improved healthcare and social indicators. Its burgeoning team of approximately 60 professionals, specialists and administrative staff, while mostly based in Johannesburg, are spread throughout the field, both locally and internationally.
The team is divided into three capability areas:
Enabling: The purpose of this function is to enable the organization to deliver pragmatic solutions through fundraising, brand awareness (story telling) and internal infrastructure.
Innovative Planning: The purpose of this function is to take stakeholder requirements and through innovative analysis of data, input from people and research, define pragmatic solutions.
Delivery: The purpose of this team is to find, place and keep healthcare workers in alignment to planned solutions.
Purpose: To manage the submission of compliant documentation to ensure successful processing of applications by regulatory bodies.