Technical Coordinator Vacancy at Malaria Consortium in Cambodia

Post:                    Technical Coordinator
Organisation:    Malaria Consortium
Location:             Cambodia.
Salary:                 Attractive. 

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 one of the key partners working with the National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control (CNM) to implement its national malaria control strategy and is a Sub-Recipient (SR) of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) Round 9 (GFR9) grant: “Containing artemisinin-resistant Plasmodium falciparum parasites and moving towards malaria pre-elimination status in Cambodia.” As a SR, Malaria Consortium works closely with CNM (the Principal Recipient, or PR) and provides technical assistance.
In 2010, Malaria Consortium (MC) was one of 40 agencies to successfully bid for funding from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) under a funding stream called the Programme Partnership Agreement (PPA). The Cambodia MC team has been granted with several PPA projects that will assess the critical aspects needed to achieve elimination in Pailin province and among mobile population groups on each of the three borders of Cambodia. An area of future focus will be the development of projects focused on non-malaria fevers caused by other vector borne diseases and developing strategic partnerships to develop MCs role in this area. The successful candidate will have: • Extensive experience with designing and coordinating operational research particularly in the malaria field • Experience in the design and implementation of malaria and other tropical diseases projects • Strong skills in using statistical packages such as STATA, EpiData, and SPSS • Strong analytical skills in monitoring and evaluation of programmes and projects • Demonstrated skills in effective verbal and written communication, including presentations • Fluency in English required • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including ability to work and interact with government and non-government colleagues and partners as well as in a multi-cultural team in the Greater Mekong Region.

How to apply: 
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.
Job ID: #606015
Closing date: 15 Oct 2013
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