Malaria Consortium is recruiting for a Head of Technical (East and Southern) to join our team in UK (location in Uganda will be considered).
The job purpose is to ensure high quality technical oversight of the programmes and projects located in the East and Southern Africa region and to foster a practice of continuous quality improvement in the implementation of programmes and projects.
Scope of work is to oversee technical leadership of Malaria Consortium’s programmes in the East and Southern Africa region and its strategy development and direction. To ensure that the organisation achieves its strategic objectives with high technical quality through technical oversight of programmes and projects in the region. To contribute to organisational strategy development, business development directions and external positioning as a member of the Senior Technical team (STT).
The successful candidate will have:
Medical, clinical, nursing, public health or science undergraduate degree
Postgraduate level qualification in disease control, epidemiology or public health or equivalent work experience
Extensive experience in the implementation of communicable diseases control programmes in particular malaria
Extensive experience in health care service delivery, in particular health facility-based service delivery.
Experience working in programmes with a component of quality management and improvement
Experience providing technical support or technical assistance to programmes or projects
Track record of publishing in peer-reviewed journals
Previous engagement in successful proposal development
Experience working in Africa
Strong analytical skills
Problem solving mentality
Familiar with continuous quality improvement approaches or models
Able to use results-based management of team members
Comfortable operating within a global team
Excellent planning and organising skills
Excellent communication and presentation skills (including both written and spoken English)
Excellent report and manuscript writing skills
Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to foster a positive team spirit
Right to work in the UK if UK-based. Right to work in Uganda if Uganda-based.
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