Overview
Job Title: Consultant, Unitaid New Nets Project
Department: Malaria Department
Based: Africa, Country Selection TBD
Open positions: Multiple
Who we are
With over 45 years of experience, working in over 60 countries, Population Services International (PSI) is the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization. PSI is reimagining healthcare, by putting the consumer at the center, and wherever possible – bringing care to the front door. We are working to fix market failures, shape future health markets and shift policy and funding to better support consumer empowered healthcare.
There are over 7,000 “PSI’ers” around the world. We are a diverse group of entrepreneurial development professionals with a wide range of backgrounds and experience. All with unique skills that we bring to the critically important work that we do.
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Gains in malaria control achieved over the past decade are threatened by the emergence and spread of pyrethroid resistance, which poses significant risk to the future efficacy and impact of vector control tools. Access to new resistance-breaking long lasting insecticidal nets (LLINs) is restricted by insufficient evidence to support policy recommendations, high prices, lack of evidence of cost effectiveness compared to pyrethroid-only LLINs, and consequent poor demand in an uncertain market. The Unitaid-funded New Nets Project aims to address these challenges. The project, a consortium led by Innovative Vector Control Consortium (IVCC), aims to establish a sustainable market for a broader set of LLIN tools, which perform in areas of pyrethroid resistance. As part of this project, PSI is responsible for the provision of technical and planning support to countries in partnership with the Alliance for Malaria Prevention (AMP) and RBMs Country Regional Support Partner Committee (CRSPC) to enable NMCPs and LLIN procurers to integrate Dual Active Ingredient (Dual AI) LLINs into their strategies informed by resistance and epidemiological data.
To facilitate this process, PSI is looking to develop a roster of consultants to help support countries in sub-Saharan Africa to provide technical assistance for and evaluation of (e.g. in-country process assessment or remote desk review) various aspects of LLIN mass campaign and / or LLIN continuous distribution planning and implementation processes.
The location of these consultantices will be in Africa.
Sound like you? Read on!
Responsibilities
Your contribution
LLIN Campaign Operations Support
- Provide expertise on the integration of Dual AI LLINs into both continuous and campaign distribution channels.
- Collaborate with pilot countries’ campaign teams to design a strategy for the incorporation of Dual AI LLINs into the campaign (household registration, ITN allocation, beneficiary identification, ITN distribution), as well as writing of the implementation guideline or plan of action for Dual AI LLINs.
- Work with budgeting and financial planning team to ensure effective delivery of Dual AI LLINs.
- Develop timelines and budgets to align to activities with the broader campaign or continuous distribution.
- Develop or modify data collection tools and design data management and reporting systems for tracking effective delivery of Dual AI LLINs.
- Develop or revise training, supervision and monitoring tools, as needed, for areas receiving Dual AI LLINs.
- Develop methodology for monitoring and evaluating pilot area’s campaign performance and documenting and applying lessons learned.
- Implement in-country process assessments or remote desk reviews to evaluate the pilot area’s campaign performance with a focus on documentation and future application of lessons learned.
- Adapt national quality control processes for Dual AI LLIN components of the campaign or continuous distribution planning process, including protocol development and experience with sampling.
- Support countries to incorporate post campaign monitoring and evaluation including durability monitoring.
Communication / SBCC Support
- Liaise with and support pilot countries’ communication planning teams to develop communication / SBCC activities for campaigns and / or continuous distribution.
- Adapt national malaria social and behavior change communication strategy or develop supplemental strategy to meet the needs of the unique aspects of Dual AI LLIN campaign or continuous distribution.
- Work with campaign teams to develop campaign communication implementation guide, creative briefs, and / or communication materials for Dual AI LLINs, as needed.
- Develop health promotion and / or social and behaviour change communication activities to support the promotion and practice of behaviors associated with Dual AI LLINs
- Engage at various levels and with different stakeholders, including both public and private sectors about resistance mitigation and the need for better access and use of Dual AI LLINs.
- Translate data and research about acceptance, use, care, and use/misuse of Dual AI LLINs and standard ITNs into focused activities and messages to address challenges.
- Develop or adapt training, supervision and monitoring tools for communication for areas receiving Dual AI LLINs, as needed.
- Monitor and evaluate communication activities and performance.
- Implement communication-focused in-country process assessments or remote desk reviews to evaluate the pilot area’s campaign performance with a focus on documentation and future application of lessons learned.Qualifications
What are we looking for?
The consultants we hire will embody PSI’s corporate values:
Measurement: You use hard evidence to make decisions and guide your work. You set clear goalposts in advance and explain clearly if you need to move them.
Pragmatism: You’ll strive to deliver the best possible result with the resources available. You won’t be paralyzed by a need to make things perfect.
Honesty: You own your mistakes and are open about your shortcomings – it’s the only way you’ll learn and improve.
Collaboration: You’ll quickly establish a mental map of whom you can rely on for what, on your team, at headquarters, and in our country offices – if you try to do it all yourself, you won’t succeed.
Trust: You accept limits to your sphere of control and give colleagues the benefit of the doubt
Commitment: You are in it for the long-haul and want to grow with the organization, just like PSI serves its consumers and partners with host-country governments through thick and thin
Our ideal consultants will possess:
- You hold a master’s degree in public health, logistics management, marketing, or supply chain management.
- At least 6 years of demonstrated successful experience in malaria programs, vector control and/or supporting LLIN distribution at the country level.
- Direct experience in previous LLIN campaigns and/or anticipated experience in upcoming mass LLIN campaign.
- LLIN continuous distribution experience
- Proven experience in overall planning and execution of large-scale health campaigns
- Demonstrated ability to supervise and monitor health service programs
- Proven team building and training skills
- Has good working relationships with Alliance for Malaria Prevention, Global Fund, Presidents Malaria Initiative, and UNITIAD.
- Strong analytical, communication and problem-solving skills
- Excellent technical writing and oral presentation skills
- Fluency in French language required
- Strong skills with use of Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- You are a team player. You work well with others, but you know how to take initiative to get things done. Even when people don’t report to you, you know how to motivate them to adopt new initiatives or change their approaches.
- You know what it means to be “thrown in the deep end”. You’ll have support, but your personal initiative to learn quickly and your willingness to try new things will be critical. You don’t wait to be told what to do. You see a need and you meet it, you’re bold. You know that deadlines are important, and you stick to them. In everything you are always driving to achieve results, to make this market more sustainable and more effective at delivering health impact.
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