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 8,000 “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.
Areas of Responsibility:
- 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 Senior Technical Advisor 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 Senior 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.
Educational Background:
Relevant post-graduate degree (MPH, MBA, MSc, ME, etc.) or equivalent implementation experience.
Skills/Experience:
- Demonstrating Results: You have 5+ years track record demonstrating leadership generating tangible results in mobilizing resources for serving social needs in a developing country.
- A malariaologist You will have demonstrated knowledge on malaria control and proven experience in managing a malaria program
- Forging Partnerships: You are able to 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.
- Flexible Change Agent: You are a proactive leader who catalyzes innovation by both leading and working through others.
- Curious: You are a fast learner and adaptable to new contexts.
- Simplify: You quickly distil complexity to essential and simple concepts and approaches.
What would get us excited?
- Sound technical knowledge of malaria policy and context.
- Field Experience working with or delivering Malaria Case Management in a control setting
- Knowledge of the global malaria partnership landscape and familiarity with the international donor community.
- Experience working with USAID preferred
- Strong writing and presentation skills.
- Fluency in written and spoken English; French highly preferred.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States.
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Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Feb 18 2018
Active Until:
Mar 19 2018
Hiring Organization:
Population Services International
industry:
Nonprofit