Qualifications and Experience:

Essential:

• Postgraduate or Masters’ degree in Public Health, Health Policy, Epidemiology or another relevant specialty is a minimum requirement.
  
• Extensive experience of working at national or state level in developing countries.
  
• Excellent project planning, management and monitoring & evaluation skills.
  
• Experience managing project budgets.
  
• Proven leadership skills and team leading.
  
• Experience in advocacy and policy influencing.
  
• Excellent written and spoken English.
  

Project Management (70%)

• Work with the programme team and other relevant personnel in the country office to deliver successful SMC in the state,
  
• Line management – build and performance manage an effective and technically fit SMC project team in the state,
  
• Lead in all planning (annual workplans, macro plans, microplanning, selection of implementers at the local levels, training, database finalization, last mile distribution, SPAQ admin and reverse logistics),
  

Technical contributions (20%)

• Support M&E activities, including reporting of SPAQ admin and end of cycle (EoC) survey using lot quality assurance sampling (LQAS),
  
• Support programme review including end of cycle (EoC) reviews, end of round (EoR) reviews and EoR coverage survey,
  
• Work with the project Senior M&E Officer, M&E Manager and Country MEAL Specialist to ensure that high quality project data is collected, analysed and disseminated to relevant stakeholders at all levels,
  

Representation & Knowledge Management (10%)

• Work with the Country Director, Senior Country Technical Coordinator, Programme Director and ZPM to participate in national level meetings and workshops to represent Malaria Consortium at programmatic and coordination events, especially at the state level,
  
• Work with the Country Director, Senior Country Technical Coordinator, Programme Director and SZPM to keep key national stakeholders abreast with the project,
  
• To exert influence and to advocate for Malaria Consortium’s key technical positions and promote best practice in SMC interventions,