Roll Back Malaria Case Management Working Group Project Coordinator

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 provides the secretariat of the CMWG in order to coordinate and support its co-chairs to take forward its activities. One of the four essential elements of the RBM strategy is access to prompt and effective treatment for malarial disease. Increasing drug resistance, warranting the use of new treatments, combined with weak health systems has made it difficult to ensure that prompt, effective treatment is available and affordable to those who need it. Scaling up access to effective treatment of malaria cases will be contingent on well coordinated, multi-disciplinary action towards defined objectives, systems, services and products.

The Roll Back Malaria Case Management Working Group aims to achieve consensus on complex strategic issues concerning scaling up implementation of policies for malaria case management, and on synthesizing and disseminating evidence-based best practice. This will be done without duplicating the essential responsibility of WHO expert committees and consultations, which is to advise on norms and standards for products and services and their appropriate use.

The successful candidate is expected to start in March 2012. Work permits are required for UK-based posts by all non-EC nationals. You therefore need to have the right to work in the UK; proof of this right will be required before any offer of employment is made.

The successful candidate will have: • Masters degree in public health or health in developing countries • Experience in managing budgets • Ability to communicate effectively at all levels to diverse audiences • Outgoing personality and able to deal with people from many different cultures and back grounds • Excellent written communications skills • Ability to create strong relations with partners • Advance computer skills

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 your skills and experience meet the Person Specification along with your CV and evidence that you have the right to work in the UK 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. If you have not been contacted within three weeks of the closing date we regret that your application has been unsuccessful.

Please continue, however, to periodically review our website for other suitable opportunities.

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