Child Health Technical Adviser ; Jobs at Malaria Consortium

Position title:  Child Health Technical Adviser
Contract: 2 years Closing date: 02.12.13 Due to a number of upcoming funding opportunities, Malaria Consortium anticipates scaling up its work in malaria and child health over the coming year and is looking to strengthen its team in a number of technical and programme management areas.
The Child Health Technical Advisor will be a key member of this team, providing child health specific programmatic guidance to Malaria Consortium and its partners.

Job ID: #616641
Country:    Uganda
City:    based in Kampala
Organisation:    Malaria Consortium
Job years of experience:    3-5 years

Required Skills and Qualification
• Master's degree in child health, nutrition, early childhood development and/or equivalent relevant experience • Significant experience in child health and/or public health, with experience in health programme design, implementation, coordination and management in developing countries, preferably in Africa • Strong programme management and policy analysis skills relevant to child health including programme monitoring and evaluation, budgeting, strategy development and ability to work effectively with partners and stakeholders. Ability to provide vision and input to strategy development at country and global level • Experience in collaborating with MoHs and/or national child health programmes in Africa on the implementation of technically sound public health programmes, including child health • Demonstrated technical leadership, policy experience, and problem solving skills working on and providing expert oversight of complex projects • Experience training and providing capacity building to colleagues, partners and ministry officials

How to apply for this Job
For more information please visit our website www.malariaconsortium.org where you will have access to the full job description. Please send your CV, with a covering letter outlining how you meet the person specification and your current salary information, to Human Resources at HR.Recruitment@malariaconsortium.org We appreciate your application however, only short listed candidates will be contacted within three weeks after the closing date.
Applications Closing date: 02 Dec 2013