🇸🇱 Job Vacancy @ Jhpiehgo – Consultant Technical Officer
Background
PMI Impact Malaria
The U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) Impact Malaria project is PMI’s flagship global service delivery project, supporting countries in their efforts to fight malaria and save lives by strengthening diagnosis, treatment, and drug-based prevention for those most at risk—particularly young children and pregnant women. PMI Impact Malaria is a USAID contract hosted and led by PSI as the prime contractor and Jhpiego as an implementing partner in Sierra Leone.
PMI Impact Malaria is helping national malaria control programs tackle malaria service delivery challenges by working to:
∙ Close the gaps in malaria diagnosis and treatment to get the right medicine, with the correct diagnosis, to patients in need, in the timeliest manner.
∙ Unlock the potential of key drug-based prevention approaches by helping countries introduce, implement, and scale-up proven interventions.
∙ Strengthen malaria health systems and data for decision-making to accelerate service delivery improvements and advance key learnings.
The PMI Impact Malaria (IM) team provides global technical leadership along with implementation support and technical assistance in health facility and community settings in up to 27 countries around the world. We are a focused, multi disciplined, and multi-cultured team based out of Washington DC, working through partner offices in the respective counties.
In Sierra Leone the project supports the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS) and the NMCP to implement key malaria service delivery interventions at the national level and across ten focus districts. IM SL supports the NMCP to strengthen malaria case management at the community and facility levels, with an emphasis on addressing severe malaria and MIP, bolstering the national laboratory diagnostics system, and building capacity in the collection and use of data for decision-making.
In Sierra Leone, IM, in support of the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP), seeks to improve Case Management (CM) and prevention of Malaria in Pregnancy (MIP) services through two of the three overall objectives of the project, namely:
Objective 1: Improve the quality of and access to malaria case management and malaria prevention during pregnancy.
Objective 3: In support of Objective 1, provide global technical leadership, support operational research, and advance program learning.
The following vacant position is available for immediate filling:
Consultant Technical Officer – Impact Malaria
Job Location: Freetown, Sierra Leone
Duties and Responsibilities:
∙ Support MIP TA in writing and submitting monthly program updates to HQ for liquidation ∙ Work with the MIP TA to gather data and develop an Abstract on the CHW internship field test, a comparative analysis
∙ Finalize, with MIP TWG support, and validate the MIP mentorship resources for NMCP handover ∙ Help TA provide support for MIP TWG engagements including communications, reminders, and follow-ups ∙ Be integrated into the IM team to provide support as needed especially for OTSS+, quarterly, and annual/final report
∙ Participate with the MIP TA in all periodic check-ins, CST meetings, and other program meetings and deputize MIP TA in the unlikely event of his absence in these meetings and engagements.
March, 2023
∙ Provide support to other IM team members including MTA, and CoP, primarily for MIP but also in other areas where their (consultant) is requested.
∙ Primarily responsible to the MIP TA with matrix relationship with Jhpiego CD
Required Qualifications and Experience:
Minimum qualification: Midwife, Community Health Officer/Clinical Health Officer, SRN. Experience: Minimum of two years’ experience in implementing Malaria or similar program will be advantageous.
Qualified persons are required to send their Curriculum Vitae (CV) and application letter to:
Clearly state the position you are applying for, if not clearly stated your application will not be considered.
Deadline for the submission of applications: 7th April 2023. Please note that given the likely high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
