Deputy Director, Strategic Evidence and Learning 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: Deputy Director, Strategic Evidence and Learning

Location: Abuja (FCT)
Job type: Full-time

Job Summary

• The Deputy Director of Strategic Evidence and Learning (Deputy Director of SEL) leads and shapes Malaria Consortium’s global evidence and learning agenda, ensuring that high-quality, policy- and practice-relevant evidence is generated, translated, and used to improve health outcomes and influence disease control/elimination strategies.
• It has a particular focus on the systematic use of evidence in decision-making for results and impact in malaria programmes and into adjacent extensions from malaria control/elimination into other health conditions.
• The role provides strategic direction, and oversight of research, surveillance, monitoring, evaluation, and learning across the organisation and facilitates implementation science methodologies.

Requirements
The successful candidate will have:

• Substantial experience in the systematic use of evidence to support decision-making for impactful health programmes
• Substantial experience in global health with a focus on evidence generation activities and knowledge translation in malaria, vector borne diseases, child health and other communicable diseases
• A PhD, or equivalent extensive experience, in epidemiology, public health, health economics or related field
• Extensive experience in leading research and evidence functions at senior level in global health
• Experience in organisational strategic planning
• Significant management experience in an international NGO, academic institution or multilateral health agency
• Experience in LMIC settings and engaging with ministries of health and health development partners
• Has strong networks in the global health community
• Strong experience in mentoring senior, high-calibre technical staff
• Significant and current experience in writing funding proposals
• Experience communicating evidence to diverse audiences
• Right to work in the UK or a specific location where there is a Malaria Consortium office.

Salary
£96,186 gross per annum.

Application Closing Date
23rd November, 2025.