Malaria Consortium Career Jobs – Project Director

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Organization: Malaria Consortium
Project: Visceral
Leishmaniasis (VL)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports To: Project Technical, Finance and Programme Management
Team
About MC:
Malaria Consortium is one of the world’s leading non-profit
organisations dedicated to the comprehensive control of malaria and other
communicable diseases in Africa and Southeast Asia. Malaria Consortium works
with communities, government and non-government agencies, academic institutions,
and local and international organisations, to ensure good evidence supports
delivery of effective services, providing technical support for monitoring and
evaluation of programmes and activities for evidence-based decision-making and
strategic planning. The organisation works to improve not only the health of
the individual, but also the capacity of national health systems, which helps
relieve poverty and support improved economic prosperity.  Malaria Consortium is a global  leader in the prevention, diagnosis and
treatment of malaria, the control of neglected tropical diseases and the
promotion of child health. 
Project Background:
Malaria Consortium is bidding on a large multi-million-pound,
multi-country project focused on strengthening the surveillance,  control and 
treatment of visceral 
leishmaniasis (VL), a neglected tropical disease. Malaria Consortium
will lead a consortium of national and international partners to implement this
project in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan and
Uganda.
 Job Summary: The Project Director will provide
leadership,  strategic direction and
representation for  this multi-country,
high profile, high value project, ensuring strong and productive relationships
with host country governments and 
other  partners  to ensure 
quality implementation at scale.  
S/he will provide technical leadership in visceral leishmaniasis.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Provide
    strategic direction to ensure project deliverables are of high quality and
    delivered on time.       
  • Work closely
    with the Ministries of Health in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda to
    increase their ability to effectively manage VL programming.
  • Liaise with
    other organisations working in the VL sector within the targeted countries
    as well as globally to ensure coherence of approach and sharing of lessons
    learned.
  • Develop and
    implement programme management and M&E frameworks.
  • Build and
    manage relationships with named implementation and STTA partners, ensuring
    each meets the terms of their contract on time.
  • Serve as
    budget holder, ensuring that staffing and activity costs come in at or
    under budget.
  • Work closely
    with the Finance Team to ensure correct an timely billing.
  • Oversee
    provision of behavior change communication activities.
  • Actively
    mitigate the project’s financial, reputational, technical and security
    risks.
  • Line manage
    the technical, programme management and finance teams. 
  • Share project
    learning through publishing journal articles and/or presenting at conference
    and other forums. 
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
  • The applicant should
    possess a Postgraduate and/or doctoral degree in international health or
    related discipline
  • Significant international
    experience at senior management level working in public health,  preferably and NTDs, particularly VL
  • Proven leadership
    skills and team leading
  • Partnership and consortium
    management
  • Significant experience
    in project and budget management
  • Donor liaison and
    reporting skills
  • Strong human resource
    management
  • Experience and
    understanding of the context of targeted East African countries 
  • Excellent English
    language presentation, writing and reporting skills
  • Clinical experience is
    desirable
  • Technical knowledge
    and skills in control of malaria or NTDs, particularly VL
  • Experience in
    monitoring and evaluation of large scale projects
  • Experience working
    with Ministries of Health, preferably in Africa
  • Good understanding of
    DfID Value for Money approach
  • Strong negotiation
    skills
  • Excellent personal and
    time management skills
  • Partnership management
    and negotiation skills
 How to Apply:
All suitably qualified candidates who fully meet the above requirements
should submit a detailed CV, a covering letter explaining how and why you are
suited to the role, and the contact details of three professional referees to HR.Recruitment@malariaconsortium.org. 
NB: A detailed Job Description/Profile of the
position is available here.
Deadline: 27th October, 2013
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