Jobs at Malaria Consortium

The Senior Capacity Development Specialist will lead the design, implementation and evaluation of MC’s technical training and performance management strategies, tools, programme activities and evaluations. The postholder will lead the technical capacity strengthening strategy and processes for the organization. The postholder will lead needs assessments, design, development, implementation, and evaluation of training curricula for technical programmes. Spearhead capacity and institutional strengthening initiatives relating to technical programmes and research to improve health services in countries where MC works. The postholder will contribute to writing technical capacity strengthening components of proposals and other business development activities.

The successful candidate will have:

• Health professional with a post graduate degree in adult learning, curriculum design, or health education.
• Experience of health systems analysis and capacity strengthening interventions for health systems, including analysis and contribution to national policy.
• Substantial experience and evidence of designing and developing curricula and training tools for health workers and community health workers including proficiency in adult learning techniques and approaches.
• Demonstrable experience in training of health staff at all levels of the health system, community to national.
• Strong technical and or clinical experience.

This is a fixed term contract, initially for a three year period however this may be extended.

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The Senior Technical Advisor – Programme Quality and Learning provides technical oversight to Malaria Consortium’s SMC programme, with a focus on quality, quality improvement and learning across all intervention components. A particular focus will be on creating and maintaining strong linkages between the quality framework and the other SMC programme focus areas. The post-holder will also be responsible more broadly for provision of expert technical and strategic advice across Malaria Consortium’s projects and programmes on issues relating to the quality delivery of at-scale interventions and capturing learning for quality improvement.

The successful candidate will have:

• Postgraduate degree in a relevant discipline, for example medicine, nursing, disease control, epidemiology, pharmacology or public health
• Extensive experience in the implementation of communicable diseases control programmes
• within government, a public sector agency, a not-for-profit organisation or research institution
• Substantial experience of leading, implementing and monitoring quality improvement and learning initiatives for community-based health programmes
• Substantial experience of using evidence-based quality improvement and learning practices in a health programme environment
• Extensive experience of field work in low- and middle income countries, particularly in Africa
• Experience providing technical support or technical assistance to at-scale projects or programmes
• Track record of publishing in peer-reviewed journals and communicating findings to academic and non-academic audiences