Role and Responsibilities

• Provide technical, managerial, coordination and programmatic support to USAID / CDC in-country PMI (President’s Malaria Initiative) programs and portfolio including strategic planning (for PMI and National Malaria Programs), M&E, policy analysis and HSS.
• Support annual USAID MOP (malaria operation plan) development.
• Support host country malaria control and prevention programs at the national, district, and community levels with planning, analysis, coordination structures, prioritization and target of activities  etc.
• Undertake in-country scoping visits, consultations and research, to understand country context and elimination/control efforts and challenges.
• Support supervision and monitoring of malaria activities in the field thereby ensuring that malaria programs deliver as agreed upon in the statements of work (SOWs) and work-plans and meet PMI guidelines.
• Stakeholder engagement, networking and information exchanges
• Interact / collaborate with USAID colleagues (in-country and in Washington, such as Wash D.C PMI and HIV/AIDS Offices), host- country public health officials, local implementing partners (IPs), the CDC, the Gates Foundation, the WHO and GF, etc.
• Serve a malaria SME to the USAID Mission
• Note: the PMI supports the implementation of evidence-based interventions at-scale, including malaria diagnosis with microscopy and malaria diagnostic tests; malaria treatment with artemisinin-based combination therapy; vector control with insecticide-treated mosquito nets and indoor residual spraying; chemoprevention, such as intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy and seasonal malaria chemoprevention; surveillance; supply chain strengthening; and social and behavior change.

Qualifications

Education: Minimum of a Master’s degree in Public Health, International Development, Social Sciences or Public Administration.

Prior Work Experience: Seven to ten years leading international health development programs, with approximately four years spent  managing and technically advising malaria programs and projects for an international development agency, a government body and/or a non-governmental organization.

Experience with budget development, implementation, and monitoring is a plus. In addition, experience with project design, implementation, and reporting, and monitoring and evaluation of programs is required. Experience mentoring staff and working with government and stakeholder counterparts in a leadership or advisory position is desirable.

Experience with USAID and PMI  programs and implementation is desirable

Skills:  Excellent computer skills (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other relevant software) is required. Data skills a plus.
Language:  Ability to communicate clearly and concisely – both orally and in writing – in English is required.  French, Portuguese  and Spanish a strong plus.