Technical Advisor Malaria - Jobs at Malaria Consortium

Job title: Technical Advisor
About the Job : POST IS DEPENDENT UPON SUCCESSFUL AWARD OF FORTHCOMING CONTRACT 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. If successful in securing additional contracts, we are looking to recruit a Malaria Technical Advisor to be a key member of this team, providing malaria-specific programmatic guidance to Malaria Consortium and its partners.
 
Job ID: #616674
Country:    Uganda
City:    based in Kampala
Organisation:    Malaria Consortium
Job years of experience:    3-5 years
 
Skills and qualifications
The successful candidate will have: • Master’s degree in public health or related health discipline • Significant experience in malaria 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 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 collaborating with Ministries of Health and/or NMCPs in Africa on the implementation of technically sound public health programmes, including malaria control prevention and treatment interventions • Demonstrated technical leadership, policy experience, and problem solving skills working on and providing expert oversight of complex projects

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