We are currently recruiting for a Technical Director to be based in Harare, Zimbabwe. The Technical Director will be responsible for supporting the Chief of Party (COP) with technical leadership of the program, and contribute to operational oversight. The position holder will serve as a resource for up-to-date technical information on malaria control to USAID PMI and key stakeholders.
The successful candidate will have:
- Medical degree or degree in a health related discipline
- MD, DVM or MPH/ PhD with a strong background in malaria epidemiology
- Minimum of eight years’ experience in malaria control in Africa, including some at international level
- Experience and understanding of working with Ministries of Health in policy and strategy formulation
- Significant experience in project management including but not limited to any formal training in project design, management, monitoring and evaluation.
- Experience and understanding of Zimbabwean health system
- Strong technical knowledge and skills in malaria control and comfortable being a technical leader in this regard
- Familiar with public health principles
- Familiar with monitoring and evaluation of large scale malaria control programmes
- Excellent English writing, reporting and presentation skills
- Strong analytical ability
- Excellent project management and planning skills
- Good budgeting skills
- Good communication skills with a variety of audiences inside and outside the organisation
- Able to delegate efficiently and technically support teams with no direct line management responsibility over them
- Strong skills in negotiating with and engaging Ministry of Health Officials at all levels of the health system
- Excellent personal and time management skills
- Ability to work effectively with peers and teams located physically away from the position holder
- Attention to detail
Frequent travel within the country (50%), some international travel is required.
This position is dependant on winning new project.
For full job description please visit:http://www.malariaconsortium.org/HRDocuments/TDZJOBDESCRIPTION.pdf
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