Technical Advisor III - Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) & Malaria Program Quality at Catholic Relief Services in Baltimore, Maryland

Job Description:

Position title: Technical Advisor III - Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) & Malaria Program Quality

Location: United States | (Remote)


Responsibilities:

Roles and Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to ensuring implementation of global and national strategies, standards, tools, and best practices in SMC & other malaria interventions according to countries’ work plans that effectively engage partners, donors, and governments. Ensure a cross-sectoral approach that integrates gender, protection mainstreaming, and disaster risk reduction.
• Monitor progress made by countries in malaria activities implementation including SMC if relevant, case management and malaria in pregnancy, identify gaps and support countries to find solutions to issues identified.
• Provide technical solutions for REACH Malaria countries for strategic planning and how to best apply and adapt program design and implementation standards, best practices, partnership principles, tools, and Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning (MEAL) in SMC & other malaria interventions. Create quality assurance feedback systems to ensure continual improvement of uptake of SMC and other malaria interventions per work plan activities in designated REACH Malaria countries.
• Provide technical support to countries where CRS is leading REACH Malaria activities to ensure high malaria program quality implementation, alignment with CRS and donor quality principles and standards, and support county teams to respond to donor requirements and recommendations on time.
• Oversee and lead the delivery of capacity strengthening initiatives in SMC & other malaria activities according to country work plans for staff and partners through helping develop learning and training strategies and agendas/curriculums; organizing and/or facilitating trainings, workshops and conferences; and mentoring and coaching staff in innovative REACH Malaria approaches and tools. Provide mentoring and coaching to national counterparts, as well as country program and regional staff.
• Lead the REACH Malaria consortia knowledge management and learning agenda in SMC through helping implement conditions for collective learning that ensure the capturing, documenting, and sharing of key successes, promising practices, lessons learned, and evidence-based implementation research, internally and externally, including publications in peer reviewed journals.
• Provide support to countries in identifying and developing promising practices from REACH Malaria implementation activities across all malaria activities in work plans, as well as their dissemination though publications to different audiences.
• Represent REACH Malaria at global forums, RBM Partnership to End Malaria technical working groups and annual meetings, Congress, and other forums to present REACH Malaria work and research in SMC to influence technical partner approaches, future funding opportunities, and policies. Network with relevant organizations to increase REACH Malaria profile in SMC, and influence in the regional or global SMC community.
• Support the development of localization strategies to help build the capacity of local stakeholders to take an increasing role in the delivery, monitoring, and quality assurance of malaria activities.
• Provide general leadership support to and as act as Senior Coordinator as needed and requested.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications

• Master's Degree in Public Health, or other similar program areas required. PhD or equivalent degree (e.g., MD, DrPH, EdD) a plus.
• Minimum of seven years of work experience in public health (preferably in malaria) with progressive responsibilities, ideally with an international NGO, with three years overseas in multiple regions as a technical advisor and/or program manager of a malaria and/or multi-sectoral project with a malaria component.
• Strong understanding and application of technical principles and concepts in SMC. Good knowledge of related disciplines to ensure proper cross-sectoral approach.
• Expertise in the development and production of curricula, tools, and other products to support SMC and malaria programming in general. Demonstrated experience to transfer knowledge to diverse audiences through training, mentoring, and other formal and informal methods.
• Experience with program monitoring and evaluation including development of indicators, data collection tools and methodologies, data analysis, and data presentation.
• Experience and skills to represent the REACH Malaria consortia at meetings with donors, government, international NGOs, local partners – faith-based and civil society.
• Understanding of partnership principles.
• Proficient in MS Office packages (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Web Conferencing Applications and strong understanding of information and budget management systems and knowledge-sharing networks.
• Technical and/or academic publications a plus.
• Experience working on a PMI contract a plus.

Required Languages – English required, and French strongly preferred.

Travel - Must be willing and able to travel up to 30%.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent relationship management skills with ability to influence and get buy-in from people not under direct supervision and to work with individuals in diverse geographical and cultural settings.
• Very strong strategic, analytical, problem-solving and systems thinking skills with capacity to see the big picture and ability to make sound judgment and decisions
• Very strong written and oral communication skills
• Very strong presentation, facilitation, training, mentoring, and coaching skills
• Proactive, resourceful and results-oriented

Agency REDI Competencies (for all CRS Staff):

Agency competencies clarify expected behaviors and attitudes for all staff. When demonstrated, they create an engaging workplace, help staff achieve their best, and help CRS achieve agency goals. These are rooted in the mission, values, and guiding principles of CRS and used by each staff member to fulfill his or her responsibilities and achieve the desired results.

• Personal Accountability – Consistently takes responsibility for one’s own actions.
• Acts with Integrity - Consistently models values aligned with CRS Guiding Principles and mission. Is considered honest.
• Builds and Maintains Trust - Shows consistency between words and actions.
• Collaborates with Others – Works effectively in intercultural and diverse teams.
• Open to Learn – Seeks out experiences that may change perspective or provide an opportunity to learn new things.

Agency Leadership Competencies:

• Lead Change – Continually looks for ways to improve the agency through a culture of agility, openness, and innovation.
• Develops and Recognizes Others – Builds the capacity of staff to reach their full potential and enhance team and agency performance.
• Strategic Mindset – Understands role in translating, communicating, and implementing agency strategy and team priorities.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Key Working Relationships:

Internal: REACH Malaria Senior Coordinator and other REACH Malaria staff, Senior Technical Advisor – Malaria Lead, other HQ technical staff, regional offices, country programs

External: REACH Malaria Consortia Prime & Partners, USAID and PMI, National Malaria Programs, local organizations, WHO and other UN agencies, constituent of technical working groups

CRS prioritizes candidates who are citizens/ permanent residents of the countries where we have CRS offices.

CRS is proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Selection and hiring decisions are made without regard to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, age, disability, religion, national origin, color, veteran status or any other protected area.

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