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Position Title: Project
Director – Visceral Leishmaniasis
Country: Uganda
City: Kampala
Organisation: Malaria Consortium
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 Project Director. 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 Project Director will provide leadership, strategic
direction and representation for this multi-country, high profile, high value
project, ensuring strong and productive relationships with host country
governments and other partners to ensure quality implementation at scale. S/he
will provide technical leadership in visceral leishmaniasis. THIS POST IS
DEPENDENT UPON SUCCESSFUL AWARD OF FORTHCOMING CONTRACT
The successful
candidate will have:
• Postgraduate and/or doctoral degree in international
health or related discipline
• Extensive
international experience at senior management level working in public health,
preferably and NTDs, particularly VL
• Proven leadership skills and team leading
• Partnership and consortium management
• Significant experience in project and budget management
• Donor liaison and reporting skills
• Excellent English language presentation, writing and
reporting skills
• Technical knowledge
and skills in control of malaria or NTDs, particularly VL
• Experience in
monitoring and evaluation of large scale projects
• Experience working with Ministries of Health, preferably
in Africa
• Understanding of DfID Value for Money approach
• Strong negotiation skills • Excellent personal and time
management skills
• Partnership
management and negotiation skills
How to apply:
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.
Job ID: #609076
Job years of
experience: 5-10 years
