Manager - Waste Management at Malaria Consortium

Malaria Consortium is one of the world’s leading non-profit organisations specialising in the comprehensive prevention, control and treatment of malaria and other communicable diseases among vulnerable and under privileged populations. We increasingly find our work on malaria can be effectively integrated with other similar public health interventions for greater impact and therefore expanded our remit to include child health and neglected tropical disease interventions.

We are recruiting to fill the position below

Job Title: Manager - Waste Management

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Fixed Term Contract
Duration: 2 years (depending on funding)

The Vacancy

• Malaria Consortium is recruiting for a Health Care Waste Manager to join our team in Lagos, Nigeria.
• The Manager – Waste Management will manage all medical related waste at health facility level and at community commodities for which Malaria Consortium is responsible for in Nigeria and will also maintain oversight of all commodities for which Malaria Consortium Nigeria is accountable for.

Requirements
The successful candidate will have:

• Degree in Environmental or Medical Sciences or any other Science course with Master's Degree in any of these courses (Public Health, Environmental / Medical Sciences, any other relevant courses),
• At least five (5) years of progressive experiences in HCWM;          
• The postholder is expected to have previous experience in the preparation of HCWM technical instruments recognized by the World Bank, strong country knowledge and of World Bank safeguard policies, experience in hazardous/HCWM activities;            
• At least five years’ experience in developing training manuals or other training documents for programs/projects funded by multilateral agencies specifically on hazardous/HCWM, working experience in Nigeria or developing country under similar condition;
• Good technical and organizational background in performing hazardous/HCWM for programs/projects, and ability to cooperate and interact with stakeholders including facilitating meetings and workshops.
• Good knowledge of the healthcare waste streams generated in Nigeria.

Salary
Competitive against market.

Application Closing Date
31st July, 2023.