Recent Job Vacancies at Malaria Consortium, 22nd May, 2018

Malaria Consortium is one of the world’s leading non-profit organisations specialising in the comprehensive prevention, control and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases among vulnerable and under privileged populations. We increasingly find our work on malaria can be effectively integrated with other similar public health interventions for greater impact and therefore expanded our remit to include child health and neglected tropical disease interventions. We are recruiting to fill the position below:     Job Title: Nig FM - Finance Manager Location: Abuja Level: Finance Hours: 40 Benefits: National Job Type: Fixed Term Job Description

• The Finance Manager: SuNMaP2 will be responsible for all financial aspects of the project sub-award contracts, partner and project financial reporting, financial accounting and budget management ensuring good value for money is achieved on the project.
• They will ensure compliance within the project of both the donor regulations and Malaria Consortium’s policies and processes.

• Qualified accountant in recognised global body, ACA or CIMA
• Significant experience in a financial management managerial position
• Highly familiar with cost accounting standards and management of sub-contracts and sub-grants with partners
• Past exposure and experience working on large scale projects and managing teams across multiple locations
• Previous experience of providing data to evidence value for money on a project.

• The Supply Chain Specialist will manage the SuNMaP 2 project supply chain activities in line with organizational and project objectives and donor’s expectations and guidelines.

• Extensive experience in importing health commodities (including medical and nutrition supplies and pharmaceuticals) in Nigeria
• Educated at a Bachelors level in relevant discipline or equivalent professional experience.
• Supply Chain and/or Procurement Qualification (e.g. Supply Chain Masters or CIPS)
• Demonstrated success as a supply chain manager within regional or national environment.
• Strong knowledge of WHO Good Storage and Good Distribution Practices
• Experience with managing pharmaceutical supply chains

• Malaria Consortium is recruiting for a Malaria Diagnostics Specialist to join our team in Abuja, Nigeria.
• The Malaria Diagnostics Specialist will provide technical support under SUNMAP2 with a focus in the area of improving malaria diagnosis.
• The Malaria Diagnostics Specialist will contribute to strategy and technical direction for interventions to improve malaria diagnosis and assure the quality of the work undertaken to promote malaria diagnosis in the public and private sector.

• Post-graduate qualification in a Laboratory-related discipline, preferably with a strong malaria programme component
• At least 10 years’ experience in malaria/communicable disease diagnosis and operational research
• Should be conversant with basic epidemiological research methodology

• The Social Accountability Specialist will be the lead person on engaging citizens and institutions in the country’s malaria response and will support a better understanding of the gap between awareness and use of malaria interventions, and support efforts to promote positive behaviour change and the uptake of malaria interventions.
• They will lead technical aspects of the project of building the capacity and provide technical support to citizens and institutions in the country’s malaria response to effectively monitor and advocate for quality malaria service delivery.

• A postgraduate degree in Public Health, Institutional Development, or other relevant field
• Knowledge of and experience working with civil society sector in the Nigeria
• Knowledge and experience in designing and applying social accountability tools
• Experience developing and delivering training projects and providing assistance/coaching to communities
• Experience working with the international development projects (DFID experience is preferred).
• Strong communication skills, both interpersonal and written
• Fluency in English is required

• The Senior Evidence and Learning Specialist will be seconded to the National Malaria Elimination Programme. S/he will work closely with counterparts in NMEP to build capacity in the area of malaria evidence generation and use.
• This will involve ensuring the NMEP develops and maintains a coherent and relevant learning agenda and programme that strengthens programme design and implementation.

• Postgraduate degree in public health or development related fields, with a focus on learning approaches
• At least 10 years working in technical role with an excellent understanding of health systems
• Extensive experience of developing and supporting a framework for organisational learning and impact
• Familiarity with the challenges and opportunities of gathering and using evidence in public health programmes in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA)
• Strong experience in capacity building for effective outputs, ideally learning related
• Sound understanding and experience of monitoring and evaluation processes to measure and monitor activity and progress against objectives
• Familiarity with the Nigerian health system, including government planning processes at Federal and State levels.