Techincal Coordinator Location: South Sudan

Application Closing Date: Nov 14th, 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.

Malaria Consortium is keen to build on its success in South Sudan to continue to strengthen and expand its work in support of South Sudan’s national health service delivery and disease control targets.

The purpose of the role is to provide technical support and oversight to all projects within the South Sudan programme, to play an active role in the strategic and technical development and expansion of the South Sudan programme and to provide technical support to the Ministry of Health.

The successful candidate will have:

· Qualifications as a doctor, nurse or midwife.

· Masters degree in Public/International Health, Epidemiology or Communicable Disease Control

· Minimum of 3 years’ experience working in public health implementation or communicable disease control

· Excellent knowledge and demonstrable experience of both malaria control and health systems strengthening in terms of project design, implementation and evaluation

· Demonstrable experience and capacity in the design and implementation of monitoring and evaluation plans

· Demonstrable experience working in a technical advisory capacity to Ministries of Health and other partners, including relating to policy and guidelines review or development, and programme reviews

· Demonstrable experience of working in the field on implantation of health care programmes including trainings of MoH staff at national, sub-national and facility level

· Experience of building positive working relationships between NGOs and MoH

· Excellent written and spoken English.

How to apply

For more information please click on the link for a full Job Description. 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 and country in the subject line of your application

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.