Project Director – Visceral Leishmaniasis (Malaria Consortium)-Career opportunity in Uganda

Job Title:Project Director – Visceral Leishmaniasis
Organization: Malaria Consortium
Location:Kampala,Uganda
Deadline: 27 Oct 2013
Malaria Consortium is one of the world's leading non-profit organisations dedicated to the comprehensive
control of malaria and other communicable diseases in Africa and Southeast Asia. Malaria Consortium works with communities, government and non-government agencies, academic institutions, and local and international organisations, to ensure good evidence supports delivery of effective services, providing technical support for monitoring and evaluation of programmes and activities for evidence-based decision-making and strategic planning. The organisation works to improve not only the health of the individual, but also the capacity of national health systems, which helps relieve poverty and support improved economic prosperity. Malaria Consortium is bidding on a large multi-million-pound, multi-country project focused on strengthening the surveillance, control and treatment of visceral leishmaniasis (VL), a neglected tropical disease. Malaria Consortium will lead a consortium of national and international partners to implement this project in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda.

Malaria Consortium is looking to select, and if successful at bid stage, recruit, a Project Director. The post will be based in Malaria Consortium’s Africa Regional Office in Kampala, Uganda, with significant international travel to country offices and project sites.

The Project Director will provide leadership, strategic direction and representation for this multi-country, high profile, high value project, ensuring strong and productive relationships with host country governments and other partners to ensure quality implementation at scale. S/he will provide technical leadership in visceral leishmaniasis. THIS POST IS DEPENDENT UPON SUCCESSFUL AWARD OF FORTHCOMING CONTRACT

The successful candidate will have:
 • Postgraduate and/or doctoral degree in international health or related discipline
 • Extensive international experience at senior management level working in public health, preferably and NTDs, particularly VL
 • Proven leadership skills and team leading
• Partnership and consortium management
• Significant experience in project and budget management
• Donor liaison and reporting skills
• Excellent English language presentation, writing and reporting skills
• Technical knowledge and skills in control of malaria or NTDs, particularly VL
• Experience in monitoring and evaluation of large scale projects
• Experience working with Ministries of Health, preferably in Africa
• Understanding of DfID Value for Money approach
• Strong negotiation skills
• Excellent personal and time management skills
• Partnership management and negotiation skills
How to apply:
For more information please visit our website www.malariaconsortium.org where you will have access to the full Job description. Please send a covering letter outlining how you meet the person specification along with your CV to Human Resources at HR.Recruitment@malariaconsortium.org Please quote the position and country in the subject line of your application. We appreciate your application however, only short listed candidates will be contacted within three weeks after the closing date.