Malaria Specialists

Job Description

GH-TAMS is seeking senior malaria specialists to build its talent pool for anticipated, upcoming short-term consultancies for USAID. Assignments will generally range from one to six-months in duration and be based in-country supporting Health Offices at USAID Missions in Africa and Asia. Hybrid assignments, mixing remote work with in-country presence are sometimes possible.

Broadly, assignments will be a mix of technical advice and leadership, activity coordination, implementation, strategic planning, program design, M&E and reporting.

Illustrative roles, responsibilities and qualifications are below.

Role and Responsibilities

• Provide technical, managerial, coordination and programmatic support to USAID / CDC in-country PMI (President’s Malaria Initiative) programs and portfolio including strategic planning (for PMI and National Malaria Programs), M&E, policy analysis and HSS.
• Support annual USAID MOP (malaria operation plan) development.
• Support host country malaria control and prevention programs at the national, district, and community levels with planning, analysis, coordination structures, prioritization and target of activities etc.
• Undertake in-country scoping visits, consultations and research, to understand country context and elimination/control efforts and challenges.
• Support supervision and monitoring of malaria activities in the field thereby ensuring that malaria programs deliver as agreed upon in the statements of work (SOWs) and work-plans and meet PMI guidelines.
• Stakeholder engagement, networking and information exchanges
• Interact / collaborate with USAID colleagues (in-country and in Washington, such as Wash D.C PMI and HIV/AIDS Offices), host- country public health officials, local implementing partners (IPs), the CDC, the Gates Foundation, the WHO and GF, etc.
• Serve a malaria SME to the USAID Mission
• Note: the PMI supports the implementation of evidence-based interventions at-scale, including malaria diagnosis with microscopy and malaria diagnostic tests; malaria treatment with artemisinin-based combination therapy; vector control with insecticide-treated mosquito nets and indoor residual spraying; chemoprevention, such as intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy and seasonal malaria chemoprevention; surveillance; supply chain strengthening; and social and behavior change.

Qualifications

Education: Minimum of a Master’s degree in Public Health, International Development, Social Sciences or Public Administration.

Prior Work Experience: Seven to ten years leading international health development programs, with approximately four years spent managing and technically advising malaria programs and projects for an international development agency, a government body and/or a non-governmental organization.

Experience with budget development, implementation, and monitoring is a plus. In addition, experience with project design, implementation, and reporting, and monitoring and evaluation of programs is required. Experience mentoring staff and working with government and stakeholder counterparts in a leadership or advisory position is desirable.

Experience with USAID and PMI programs and implementation is desirable

Skills: Excellent computer skills (MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other relevant software) is required. Data skills a plus.
Language: Ability to communicate clearly and concisely – both orally and in writing – in English is required. French, Portuguese and Spanish a strong plus.

About the Organization

International Business & Technical Consultants, Inc. (IBTCI), is the prime contractor implementing the $125 million USAID-funded Global Health Technical Assistance and Mission Support Project (GH-TAMS) activity. Along with its subcontractor, Dexis Consulting Group (Dexis), IBTCI provides the Bureau for Global Health (GH) and USAID field missions with high quality technical expertise to achieve the Agency's foreign assistance global health mission (October 2019-October 2024). GH-TAMS technical assistance supports over 65 Missions and 19 GH Offices and other Bureaus covering a broad range of technical areas and cross-cutting issues such as HIV/AIDS, family planning, MNCH, infectious disease, TB, health finance, reproductive health, organizational development, OVC, project design, facilitation, M&E and strategic planning.

Project assignments are located in Washington D.C. and worldwide in Africa, Asia and elsewhere. Assignments typically range from two weeks to six months in duration.