The US Presidents Malaria Initiative (PMI) Impact Malaria project is PMI’s flagship global malaria service delivery project, helping to improve the quality and increase the delivery of malaria diagnosis and treatment services in up to 27 countries around the world. PMI Impact Malaria is a USAID contract hosted and led by PSI as the prime contractor.
PMI Impact Malaria works with national malaria control programs to help tackle these challenges by:
- Closing the gaps in malaria service delivery to get the right medicine, with the correct diagnosis, to patients in need, in the timeliest manner.
- Unlocking the potential of key drug-based approaches, by helping countries to introduce, implement, and scale-up proven innovations to move countries forward in their elimination efforts, according to each country’s unique malaria situation.
- Strengthening malaria health systems and the use of data for decision-making to link operational research and country-led dialogue with global technical leadership for the means of accelerating service delivery improvements and advancing key learnings.
The PMI Impact Malaria (IM) team is a results focused, multi-disciplined and multi-cultured team, based out of Washington DC, working through PSI country offices as well as through our partners Jhpiego, MCDI and UCSF.
The US President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) Impact Malaria project is PMI’s flagship global malaria service delivery project, helping to improve the quality and increase the delivery of malaria diagnosis and treatment services in up to 27 countries around the world. PMI Impact Malaria is a USAID contract hosted and led by PSI as the prime contractor.
PSI is seeking an experienced, dynamic and innovation-driven Malaria Senior Technical Advisor to sustain PSI’s efforts to scale up its malaria programs globally, capture and share best practices, as well as provide technical support to specific country programs to ensure high quality of and measurable impact through their malaria programs.
PSI’s new global strategy focuses on improving consumer powered healthcare through shaping market systems, shifting policy and funding and strengthening global capacity. For the Malaria Department this means moving quality malaria case management closer to consumers; bringing next generations LLINs to market; scaling response driven surveillance to accelerate malaria elimination progress and maximizing the control value of drug-based prevention interventions.
- Act as technical focal point for a large malaria service delivery award.
- Provide technical support to country offices in the execution of a large malaria service delivery contract.
- Provide regular updates to the Technical Director on technical implementation of activities in your portfolio of countries.
- Act as the primary technical focal point for malaria service delivery for a portfolio of countries, ensuring that activities are implemented according to technical guidance from the donor and global best practices.
- Provide in-country technical assistance on program design and troubleshooting (either directly or by working with internal and external resources).
- Coordinate technical assistance from sub-contractors to achieve workplan deliverables
- Review country workplan activities, performance indicators and targets, ensuring timely completion of activities against workplan deadlines.
- With the oversight of the Technical Director, lead the development of quarterly/ annual programmatic reports and weekly progress updates for your portfolio of countries.
- Produce and disseminate knowledge products and processes (toolkits, case studies, best practices, technical briefing documents, peer review publications, etc.) for national and international audiences to accelerate rapid transfer of best practices on the service delivery project.
- Proactively engage with partners to improve coordination at national and international levels.
- Represent the malaria service delivery project as required at relevant technical working groups, conferences, workshops, and policy-oriented forums using appropriate media.
The candidate we hire will embody PSI’s corporate values:
- Collaboration: You can work independently, but thrive within a team.
- Trust: You trust that your manager and team will have your back and care deeply about gaining that same trust from your teammates
- Pragmatism: You dive in and maintain momentum even when things are ambiguous and you don’t let perfect get in the way of good enough.
- Honesty: You aren’t afraid to speak up and speak your mind.
- Measurement: You set clear and challenging goals and hold yourself accountable to driving measurable results.
- Commitment: You’re independent and a free thinker, but you’re ready to buy in to the direction of the team and commit to its success.
The basics:
- Language: French professional proficiency required.
- Demonstrating Results: You have 10+ years track record demonstrating leadership generating tangible results in mobilizing resources for serving social needs in a developing country.
- A malariologist: You will have demonstrated knowledge on malaria control and proven experience in managing a malaria program activities.
- Forging Partnerships: You can coordinate and work effectively with diverse stakeholders in numerous locations and levels, including private partners, donors, government officials and bodies, technical experts, civil society organizations, community members and organizations and project support staff. You will have an existing professional network with leaders in the global malaria community
- Flexible Change Agent: You are a proactive leader who catalyzes innovation by both leading and working through others.
- Organized: You have excellent time management and organizational skills in managing a varied workload, with the ability to meet tight deadlines
What would get us excited?
- Sound technical knowledge of malaria case management and drug-based malaria intervention policy and context.
- Knowledge of the Malaria partnership landscape and familiarity with the international donor community.
- Experience in various aspects of malaria prevention and control, preferably in East Africa or West and Central Africa.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating and implementing activities with host country governments.
- Demonstrated fundraising and external engagement skills.
- Strong writing and presentation skills.
- Experience working with USAID preferred.
- References will be contact
- Must be able to complete a background check