AMREF Programme Leader - Malaria

AMREF is recruiting a leader for the development and implementation of AMREF’s Africa-wide malaria research, interventions and advocacy; adapting them to the changing needs of disadvantaged communities in Africa, ensuring that AMREF learns and shares its experiences on malaria and attracts new partners and funding to expand the Programme.

Stationed in Nairobi, the Programme Leader is a key position and part of AMREF’s senior management team, reporting to the Director of Health Programme Development, with a critical role to play in the accomplishment of AMREF’s mission and strategy.

Job Objective: To provide leadership for the development and implementation of AMREF’s Africa-wide malaria research, interventions and advocacy; adapting them to the changing needs of disadvantaged communities, ensuring that AMREF learns and shares its experiences on malaria; and to leading efforts to attract new partners and funding to expand its malaria programme.

Management Responsibility
  • Ensure that the Foundation’s work is cutting edge
  • Ensuring that AMREF learns and shares its experiences on malaria

  • Lead efforts to attract new partners and funding to expand malaria programme.
Description of Duties
  1. Provide strategic leadership for the Malaria Programme.
  2. Design and coordinate in the implementation of the corporate Malaria programme based on the needs of disadvantaged communities in Africa in line with the AMREF corporate strategy;
  3. Ensure implementation of the Malaria strategy throughout AMREF operational areas (countries) and provide technical support and other necessary resources;
  4. Set the operations research agenda for malaria prevention, treatment and support beneficiary disadvantaged communities in the same
  5. Liaise with AMREF partners and act as spokesman and advocate for corporate AMREF on malaria issues, and advocate globally for evidence based poverty-alleviation policies and
  6. Contribute to resource mobilisation as necessary, in partnership with AMREF fundraising offices locally and in the north and ensure that these efforts are maintained at country level;
  7. Monitor and evaluate the quality, content and delivery of AMREF’s malaria contribution and ensure that these are maintained at country level
  8. Ensure constant documentation and dissemination of lessons and best practices through the network of AMREF operational bases and create an enabling environment for documenting and sharing organisational knowledge;
  9. Deliver to the Director of Programmes the output agreed in annual work-plans and budget and provide all necessary technical financial reporting as required by AMREF and its investors.
  10. Keep AMREF abreast of latest developments in community-based prevention and control of malaria, anticipating emerging issues and ensuring that they are incorporated into AMREF’s programme at the earliest possible moment.
  11. Strengthen and increase the quality and funding of AMREF’s malaria programme.
Accountability
  • Supervision: Works independently under the authority of Director General and within strategy and policy guidelines
  • Decision Making: Has full responsibility of decisions.
  • Responsibility over data or information: Has access to important and highly confidential country data and information.
  • Responsibility over assets: Overall responsibility for Programme budget and assets.
  • Responsibility over Staff: N/A
Professional Qualifications: Medical doctor with Masters in Public Health or infectious diseases or PHD in Public health or related field

Relevant Experience
  • Practical field-based research and/or development experience relevant to community-based prevention and control of malaria (with a record of publications in peer-reviewed journals).
  • Wide experience of current state of knowledge and of issues related to the prevention and control of malaria in rural and urban communities, preferably in Africa.
  • Demonstrable network of contacts and high standing in his/her profession.
  • Proven record of building effective partnerships and strategic alliances.
  • Experience of international NGOs or UN bodies in Africa.
  • Extensive experience in strategic planning, programme development and proposal writing
Length of Experience: At least 7 years progressive working experience of conceptualizing, implementing and leading innovative malaria programmes, preferably in Africa.

Key Skills
  • Demonstrated initiative and creativity; a strategic thinker.
  • Demonstrable ability to anticipate emerging needs and integrate them speedily into priority setting.
  • Proven record in raising substantial research/development funds.
  • Superior analytical, communication and reporting skills.
Personal Attributes:
  • Strong interpersonal and people management skills – a team player, builder and leader.
  • Good command of written and spoken English.
  • Working knowledge of French will be an added advantage.
Performance Standard for this Job: Quality of work as indicated by achievement of specific outputs as detailed in the Programme work plan.

If your passion is to improve the health of the disadvantaged communities in Africa and you meet the above criteria, you are welcome to join us. Please quote the reference number CHR/10/08-11 and send your details including remuneration requirements and contact details of three work-related referees to, The Director of Human Resources, AMREF Headquarters by email to jobs@amref.org.

We encourage interested candidates to submit their applications by September 10, 2010 although the search will remain open until the position is filled.
AMREF is an equal opportunity employer and has a non-smoking environment policy.

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