Established in 2003, Malaria Consortium is one of the world’s leading non-profit organizations specializing in the comprehensive prevention, control and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases among vulnerable and under privileged populations. We increasingly find our work on malaria can be effectively integrated with other similar public health interventions for greater impact and therefore expanded our remit to include child health and neglected tropical disease interventions.
We work in Africa and Asia with communities, governments, academic institutions, and local and international organisations, to ensure effective delivery of services, which are supported by strong evidence.
Our areas of expertise include:
- disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment
- disease control and elimination
- systems strengthening
- research, monitoring and evaluation leading to best practice
- behaviour change communication
- national and international advocacy and policy development
With 95 percent of our staff working in malaria endemic areas, we currently have programmes and projects in 12 countries across Africa and Southeast Asia. Our West and Central Africa regional office is in Abuja, Nigeria, led by the West and Central Africa Programmes Director with support from a Regional Risk & Programmes Manager.
Country and project background
Seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) is a highly effective community-based intervention to prevent malaria infections caused by Plasmodium falciparum in areas where malaria morbidity and mortality are high and malaria transmission is seasonal. It involves the intermittent administration of antimalarial medicines to at-risk populations during the peak malaria season. Malaria Consortium has been a leading implementer of SMC since the World Health Organization issued its recommendation to scale up the intervention in 2012, providing technical and logistical support to national malaria programs in SMC-implementing countries spanning all SMC intervention components: planning & enumeration; procurement & supply management; community engagement; training; administration of SMC medicines; case management & pharmacovigilance; supervision; monitoring & evaluation. Across funding streams, Malaria Consortium supported SMC delivery to more than 20 million children in six countries in 2021.
The majority of Malaria Consortium’s funding for SMC comes from philanthropic sources. In 2022, we plan to deliver SMC to around 14 million children with philanthropic support in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Sudan, Togo and Uganda.
All philanthropically funded or co-funded projects are coordinated through our multi-country SMC programme, which involves sharing best practice from all the countries we support, as well as defining the parameters of our work and the standards to which we aspire. SMC programme focus areas include the future of SMC; research; quality of SMC delivery; monitoring and evaluation (M&E); external relations; digital; procurement and supply management; security; and finance. Programme oversight is provided by the SMC Programme Director, with support from above-country leads for each SMC programme focus area and guided by a range of country SMC programme strategies, frameworks and standards. At the country level, SMC programme country projects are coordinated by country project leads and country-level focus area leads. In the West & Central Africa region, there are currently SMC programme projects in Burkina Faso, Chad, Nigeria and Togo. We plan to expand our support to further countries in the region over the coming years.
Expériences / Formation
Person specification
Qualifications and experience:
Essential:
- Postgraduate degree in public health, management or related disciplines
- Extensive experience of programme management at senior level on large-scale development or public health programmes
- Extensive experience in project and financial management with a proven track record of timely submission of high-quality deliverables
- Experience of working with government and other senior-level stakeholders in a development or public health context
Desirable:
Experience of working in a senior position in a multi-country programme
Experience of working in development or public health programmes in west and central Africa
Experience of research, M&E, external relations or digital in a development or public health context
Experience of procurement and supply management or security management in a public health context
Extensive experience of developing programme-level strategies, standards and frameworks, as well as guiding their operationalisation at project level
Experience of setting up projects in new locations
Experience of mentoring project staff and developing project management capacity
Work-based skills:
Essential:
- Good understanding of global development and public health
- Excellent strategic thinking and problem-solving skills
- Ability to manage and prioritise workload
- Fluency in English and French
- Excellent communication, writing and negotiating skills
- Competent use of Microsoft Office
- Willingness to travel, sometimes for extended periods of time
Desirable:
- Understanding of malaria prevention and control
- Familiarity with development and public health issues in west and central Africa
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