Director of Monitoring and Evaluation Location: London

Application Closing Date: Nov 16th, 2011

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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.

As a key member of Malaria Consortium’s technical team the Director Monitoring and Evaluation will lead the M&E cluster of the organization as well as provide technical leadership, development and oversight of Malaria Consortium’s work on monitoring and evaluation (M&E). This will include contributing to M&E of malaria control internationally, advising on the M&E component of Malaria Consortium’s programmes and contributing to M&E of Malaria Consortium as an organisation.

The successful candidate will:
• Postgraduate degree in public health with focus on epidemiology/bio-statistics or demography
• Extensive experience working in M&E in developing countries within government, an international organization or research institution, preferably in Asia and/or Africa
• Sound knowledge in communicable disease control and particularly malaria
• Significant experience in the management of project M&E systems
• Significant experience in survey design and implementation
• Management and mentoring skills with respect to senior and mid-level staff
• Ability to manage and lead a team
• Significant experience in the development of data bases, data entry systems (PDA or phone-based) and statistical analysis software (EpiData, Excel, Access, Stata)
• Excellent writing and presentation skills

How to apply

For a full job description please follow the link. Please send a covering letter outlining how your skills and experience meet the Person Specification along with your CV to Human Resources at HR.Recruitment@malariaconsortium.org . Please quote the position in the subject line of your application.

Work permits are required for UK-based posts by all non-EC nationals. You therefore need to have the right to work in the UK; proof of this right will be required before any offer of employment is made.

We appreciate your application however, only short listed candidates will be contacted. If you have not been contacted within three weeks of the closing date we regret that your application has been unsuccessful. Please continue, however, to periodically review our website for other suitable opportunities. Thank you for your interest in Malaria Consortium.

Please note that the closing date for this position has been extended, if you have applied you do not need to submit a fresh application.