Job Title: Project
Director – Visceral Leishmaniasis
Director – Visceral Leishmaniasis
Organization: Malaria Consortium
Project: Visceral
Leishmaniasis (VL)
Leishmaniasis (VL)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports To: Project Technical, Finance and Programme Management
Team
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.
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
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.
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 [email protected].
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 [email protected].
NB: A detailed Job Description/Profile of the
position is available here.
position is available here.
Deadline: 27th October, 2013
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