Chad: Project Country Lead

Malaria Consortium is recruiting for a Project Country Lead to join our team in N'Djamena, Chad*.*

The TDDAP is an anticipated two-year global health security programme to be funded by DFID in response to the lessons from the Ebola crisis and various other outbreaks in recent years. The TDDAP will focus on building the ability of countries and institutions to prevent and respond to the health emergencies, while at the same time recognising that populations and health systems— are weakened by everyday preventable diseases in Africa. Consequently, the programme will take both a health systems strengthening approach in a non-disease specific way, alongside building surge capacity to respond to particular high-risk epidemic diseases. The overall objective is to reduce impact of communicable disease outbreaks and epidemics on African populations.

This will be delivered with WHO AFRO, civil society and national governments by:

• Providing technical support on the IHR according to identified needs from the assessments and existing support;
• Enhancing demand-side governance reform;
• Building data, evidence and accountability at national and sub-national levels with linkages to the region.
• Overseeing the delivery of an emergency preparedness response, under the contingency mechanism, through a call-down contract measures including: mobilising the requisite technical and operational skills, innovations, institutional linkages, financial and administrative management and value for money.

The Project Country Lead will be part of the programme’s senior leadership and will be responsible for the country strategy by overseeing both the technical and operational implementation of the programme activities within budget in Chad. In addition, s/he will be responsible for performance management and providing leadership to the programme staff and consultants in Chad.

The successful candidate will have:

• A post-graduate degree in public health, infectious diseases, health information and health system management or related fields

• Demonstrated experience in working on global health security: detection, preparedness and response. This includes coordinating across multiple stakeholders at different levels; understanding political and policy dynamics; and knowledge of working with multilateral and bilateral partners

• Prior experience working in the region. Experience working in fragile states and challenging environments desirable

• Proven ability to lead implementation of programmes with complex partnership structures and motivate and manage the performance of teams

• Demonstrable focus on capacity building and sustainability in challenging contexts

• The selected candidate must be willing to travel within the country as well as the West African region

• Fluency in written and spoken English and French

• Available to start in August 2018

*Preference will be given to Chadian nationals

**Please submit CVs in English

***Please note this role is dependent on Malaria Consortium securing a forthcoming grant. Due to the urgency of the role CVs will be reviewed on an ongoing basis and the vacancy may be closed before the deadline

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