Operations Officers at Malaria Consortium

Malaria Consortium is one of the world's leading non-profit organizations which is dedicated to the comprehensive control of malaria and other communicable diseases in Africa and Southeast Asia. Malaria consortium(MC) works with communities, Government and non-Governmental agencies, academic institutions, local and international organizations to ensure good evidence support delivery of effective services, providing technical support for monitoring and evaluation of programmes and activities for evidence-based decision making and strategic planning.

Malaria Consortium has recently become a sub-recipient for the integrated Community Case Management (iCCM) component of the New Funding Model (NFM) grant dedicated to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Malaria Consortium is also the implementing partner for the UNITAID funded project titled Achieving Catalytic Expansion of SMC in the Sahel to Save Lives (ACCESS-SMC) in Nigeria. Both projects are seeking to recruit competent staff to fill the position below:

Job Title: Operations Officer

Locations: Sokoto, Zamfara
 
Job Description

• The project seeks to employ an Operations Officer, who will be responsible for providing Technical support to the operations in the state offices for efficient Programme implementation.
• The officer will among others things ensure technical quality around MDA commodities including supply chain management.

Additional responsibilities will include;

• Support the state coordinator by providing input into state work plans, micro plans, budgeting, scheduling and coordination of state level activities;
• Monitor and report on project performance framework and indicators including SMC commodity distribution, training, and data management;
• Provide support to Pharmacovigilance activities, working with state PV coordinator in keeping track of all adverse reaction and reporting.;
• Manage and record distribution of SMC drugs and other commodities to LGAs and wards;
• Develop a commodities distribution plan, which will include supervision, quality control, evaluation and reporting;
• Support state level Monitoring and Evaluation activities, including surveys;

Qualifications

• Candidates must have a degree in medicine, pharmacy, public health or a related field with a minimum of 5 years' experience in public health programs.
• A masters degree in public health will be an advantage.
• S/he must have demonstrable experience working with Mass Drug Administration and campaigns as well as experience in logistics management.
• S/he must also have experience in the design and implementation of health related project assessment, monitoring and evaluation.
• Knowledge of health system structure within the Nigerian context would be an advantage.

Application Closing Date
1st July, 2016.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should submit a copy of their recent CV using the name of the position as the subject of the email to: [email protected]

Note: Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.