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Position Title: Case
Management Specialist/ Clinical Specialist - Visceral Leishmaniasis Project
Country: Uganda
City: Kampala
Organisation: Malaria Consortium
Job years of
experience: 5-10 years
Closing date: 27
Oct 2013
Background
Information:
Malaria Consortium is one of the world's leading non-profit
organisations dedicated to the comprehensive control of malaria and other
communicable diseases in Africa and Southeast Asia.
Malaria Consortium works with communities, government and non-government
agencies, academic institutions, and local and international organisations, to
ensure good evidence supports delivery of effective services, providing
technical support for monitoring and evaluation of programmes and activities
for evidence-based decision-making and strategic planning. The organisation
works to improve not only the health of the individual, but also the capacity
of national health systems, which helps relieve poverty and support improved
economic prosperity.
Malaria Consortium is bidding on a large
multi-million-pound, multi-country project focused on strengthening the
surveillance, control and treatment of Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL), a neglected
tropical disease. Malaria Consortium will lead a consortium of national and
international partners to implement this project in Ethiopia,
South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda.
Malaria Consortium is looking to select, and if successful
at bid stage, recruit, a Case Management Specialist/ clinical Specialist. The
post will be based in Malaria Consortium’s Africa Regional Office in Kampala, Uganda,
with significant international travel to country offices and project sites.
The post holder will provide technical leadership in
clinical case management of VL for this multi-country, high profile, high value
project, working closely with host country governments and other partners.
THIS POST IS DEPENDENT UPON SUCCESSFUL AWARD OF FORTHCOMING
GRANT.
The successful
candidate will have :
• Clinical experience
working with in tropical medicine or neglected tropical diseases
• Experience in working in Africa
• Experience in working in multidisciplinary teams including
with local partner organisations and Ministries of Health
• Experience in
training health personal and adapting training techniques to fit audiences
varying from community health workers to senior clinicians and government
officials
• Excellent writing,
reporting and and presentation skills
• Highly organized and able to work successfully in a team
that is geographically dispersed
• Good understanding
of public health principles
• Understanding of
aid effectiveness and utilisation of the principles in project design and
implementation
• Project management
and planning skills
• Able to delegate efficiently and technically support teams
with no direct line management responsibility over them
• Strong skills in negotiating with and engaging Ministry of
Health Officials
How to apply
For more information please visit our website
www.malariaconsortium.org where you will have access to the full Job
description. Please send a covering letter outlining how you meet the person
specification along with your CV to Human Resources at HR.Recruitment@malariaconsortium.org
Please quote the position and country in the subject line of your application.
We appreciate your application however, only short listed
candidates will be contacted within three weeks after the closing date.
