Senior Country Technical Coordinator

Qualifications and Experience:

• Master’s degree in Public or International Health, Communicable or Infectious diseases, Epidemiology or related discipline
  
• Medical qualification and familiarity with the Nigerian health system
  
• Extensive experience working in public health programmes or communicable disease control, with significant experience in a senior role
  
• Significant experience managing projects or programmes funded by major institutional donors and agencies such as DFID, USAID, the UN or EU
  
• Substantial first-hand experience in malaria control
  
• Experience working with actors in the public and private health care sectors
  

Strategic accountability (20%)

• Work with the Regional Programmes Director for West and Central Africa/ Country Director and with inputs from Technical Specialist WCA to lead the development and revision of the technical aspects of the MC strategic roll-out in Nigeria country office
  
• Support the Regional Programmes Director for West and Central Africa/ Country Director in business development, identifying areas of technical need and developing concept notes, evidence summary and contributing to proposal development to sustain a balanced portfolio of projects in Nigeria
  
• Take lead on the technical aspects of proposal development in accordance with donor tender documentation and requirements
  

Technical accountability (40%)

• Ensure all programmes are implemented to high technical quality and based on national and international evidence and best practices
  
• Provide technical input towards rapid and smooth programme start up and close out, including programme transition to national stakeholders
  
• Coordinate identification of technical support needs for programmes and work with the WCA technical specialist, and Technical Director as well as other members of the Global Technical Team to ensure that technical support is provided on time and to high quality
  

Technical human resource development (5%)

• Support the Regional Programmes Director for West and Central Africa/ Country Director to identify technical resource gaps in the country office team and provide inputs to the recruitment of qualified technical staff
  
• Lead the technical mentorship of direct reports and other technical team members
  

Documentation and positioning (10%)

• Lead the development and implementation of internal mechanisms for experiential and lessons learning to inform continuous quality improvement of programmes
  
• Periodically report to the Regional Programmes Director for West and Central Africa/ Country Director on the technical progress of programmes and highlight any critical technical issues and risks, and advise on solutions and mitigations
  
• Provide leadership, direction and mentorship in writing of technical publications such as policy briefs, case studies, literature reviews, approach papers, learning briefs, technical briefs, conference abstracts and peer review publications.
  

Programme Management (5%)

• Take on the role of Principal Investigator (PI) on priority / relevant research studies
  
• Act as budget holder on key programmes or research studies as agreed with the Regional Programmes Director for West and Central Africa/ Country Director when relevant
  

Representation (10%)

• Represent Malaria Consortium at relevant technical working groups at the national level to share and use up-to-date technical information for evidence-based decision-making. This will involve sharing results from our work, current technical perspectives, approaches and best practices.
  
• Represent Malaria Consortium at regional and international meetings/workshops on specific technical areas as appropriate, including relevant networks to showcase the work the country team are doing and to position the organization as one of the leading technical organisations
  

Business Development (10%)

• Work with Regional Programmes Director for West and Central Africa / Country Director, Head of Technical WCA and the BD team to identify new business development opportunities which will include identifying areas of interest, responding to relevant opportunities, and writing funding proposals
  
• Support the NMEP/MOH in resource mobilisation activities such as GF Concept Note writing.
  
• Facilitate the identification of ideas, research questions aligned with the country strategy