Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, management, and monitoring of project activity implementation and ensure adherence to PMI technical guidance and global best practices in collaboration with key personnel, USAID, Government of the Republic of Zambia, and relevant national and subnational stakeholders.
• Provide technical support as requested on malaria program policy, strategy, and implementation and actively participate in malaria-related technical working groups.
• Manage introduction and scale-up of technical interventions.
• Lead development of project implementation plans and guide the design of specific, quantifiable performance indicators and targets for project activities, and reporting results.
• Contribute to identifying and scaling-up best practices in malaria diagnosis and case management, malaria in pregnancy, and community case management.
• Provide technical support to the MOH on the introduction of the malaria vaccine.
• Lead documentation and dissemination of project activities.
• Identify and resource short-term technical assistance needs, and supervise PATH technical consultants and oversee their input to program activities.
• Provide guidance to local partners in the development of workplans, ensuring technical quality and fidelity to the project implementation plan, and work with the Director of Finance and Operations to support local partners in their budget development.
• Lead relationships with local partners in support of capacity-strengthening efforts.
• Work with NMEP and other offices within the MOH to facilitate the integration of malaria control activities into the broader primary health care system.
• Work with the MOH to actively use data for decision-making and to identify how malaria control activities and impact can be sustained over time.
• Assist the Chief of Party in developing annual work plans, budgets, and performance reports.

PATHRequired qualifications and experience

• Minimum of a master’s degree in public health, medical sciences, epidemiology, or other related area.
• Minimum of 10 years of providing technical leadership in designing and implementing malaria control or related programs in service delivery activities, collaborating closely with national malaria  programs and other government and civil society stakeholders in southern Africa.
• Demonstrated national and international credibility as a leader on malaria surveillance, control, and elimination.
• In-depth knowledge of malaria and the public health system in Zambia.
•  Demonstrated ability to create and maintain effective working relations with senior-level representatives of ministries of health and other national government stakeholders, international organizations, other bilateral donor and civil society organizations, and private sector organizations.
• Demonstrated management, leadership, decision-making, and interpersonal skills.
• Full professional proficiency in English, with excellent oral and written communications skills required.
• Available to travel nationally and internationally up to 25%.