VACANCIES IN A DONOR-FUNDED DEVELOPMENT WORK

Malaria Consortium (www.malariaconsortium.org) is one of the world’s leading non-profit organizations dedicated to the comprehensive control of malaria and other communicable diseases in Africa and Southeast Asia. Malaria Consortium 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 program and activities for evidence-based decision –making and strategic planning.

Malaria Consortium (MC) recently received a grant with focus on bringing seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) to scale in seven Countries in the Sahel. Its major responsility is to impement monthly drug administration to children during malaria transmission period and Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention (SMC) for prevention and reduction of malaria effect.

Malaria Consortium has been in operation in Nigeria since 2008. To fully expand it terms of establishment, it now seeks to recruit a programme Officer for employment opportunity in its Country office located in Abuja:

POSITION; PROGRAMME OFFFICER: (Abuja)

The Programme officer will provide operational and financial coordination to the programme partnership agreement (PPA) activities and other assignmed projects within Malaria Consortium Nigeria. She/he will report directly to the Country Programme Manager and work closely with the in – Country Programme Management Team, Technical Coordinator and the UK/PPA Coordinator.

 key responsibilities will include;

·         Coordinate all inputs from the Country Office towards completing all grant application and planning documents for PPA initiatives

·         Manage and organize maintenance of project registers, development of PPA initiatives progress report and briefing on the implementation of the PPA initiatives.

·         Work closely with the Finance team to follow up with all the PPA grants in Nigeria.

·         Contribute to business development, preparation of proposals and conducting of field research.

·         Create and maintain constant declaration to the terms of reference and reports.

·         Provide support on filing documentation and other secretarial assignment

·         Provide support in the organization of the seminar programme or workshop and training

Qualifications: Interested candidate must have a degree in Public Health, Social Sciences, Project management or related discipline. Must have at least 5 years’ experience in project management with demonstrable experience in project planning, evaluation and monitoring. The ideal candidate must be result oriented, motivated with excellent communication skills. The candidate must have certificate In the use of Microsoft office packages.

METHOD OF APPLICATION: Interested candidates who meet the above requirements should submit a copy of their recent CV using the name of the position as the subject of the email through the appropriate link at www.gridconsulting.net. All applications must be submitted latest Tuesday, 18^th December, 2014.

Source: Tuesday Guardian, 9^th December, 2014.