Malaria Consortium Regional Programme Manager

Malaria Consortium is one of the world's leading non-profit organizations 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 organizations 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 organization 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 a key partner to Cambodia’s National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology, and Malaria Control (CNM). As a sub-recipient of the Global Fund Round 9 grant “Containing artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum parasites and moving towards malaria pre-elimination status in Cambodia”, Malaria Consortium is responsible for the programmatic, financial, and monitoring and evaluation management of its sub-sub-recipients (SSRs). Malaria Consortium works closely with CNM and provides technical assistance and capacity development to the national programme and implementing partners of the GFR9 grant.

Under the direction of the Asia Programmes Director and as part of the Asia Management Team, the Regional Programmes Manager (RPM) will support the implementation of the organisational strategic plan and the country specific strategic plans. The RPM will oversee programs and projects in Cambodia and will support projects in Thailand and Myanmar as required.

The RPM will be responsible for ensuring the establishment & management of processes to support high quality project development and implementation across the Asia Region. The RPM will also manage, and support, the Head of Office in Cambodia ensuring best practice in both people and programme management, while maintaining close communication with the Asia Regional Office.

The successful candidate will have:

• Post-graduate degree or extensive experience in managing large scale programmes • Extensive Programme Management experience • Demonstrable passion for Malaria Consortium’s mission; a strategic manager with integrity and a desire to work in a dynamic environment • Mature and proactive, with evidence of having implemented project according to best international practice • Strong analytical skills and experience interpreting a strategic vision into an operational model • Deep understanding of and experience with programme management, evaluation, budgeting and financial monitoring including human resource management • An effective communicator at all levels in the organization, with strong oral and written skills and a willingness to share information • Willingness to undertake international travel at short notice • Ability to work effectively and sensitively in developing countries • A collaborative and flexible style, with a strong service mentality • Creativity, with experience funding activities in ways that both cover costs and generate operating margins

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 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. Thank you for your interest in Malaria Consortium.