Closing date: 21 Jul 2009 -- (CLOSED)
Location: Chad - Abeche
Summary
Job Title: Deputy Prevention Coordinator
Work Base: MENTOR Chad – eastern Chad Programme – Abeche and surrounding areas
Responsible to: Country Director - Chad
Duration: 6 months August 2009 – January 2010 (renewable)
Terms of Consultancy: 3500 – 4000 USD/month; comprehensive medical insurance; In country living allowance 500 USD/month; accommodation; international return flight.
Responsibilities
Responsible for providing technical support and implementation of malaria prevention activities in eastern Chad under the Direction of the Country Director, who is responsible for prevention planning. Specific tasks include the following:
Prevention Coordination
- Responsible for implementation of prevention programme plans designed in coordination with the Deputy Prevention Coordinator and overall management of prevention support programmes in eastern Chad.
- Support the Country Director in technical manuscript, report and proposal writing
- Develop and provide monthly activity plans and submit to the Country Director with copy to inform them of support needs for field activities (finance, transport, materials; distribution support, other logs support etc).
- District level needs assessments of health, WATSAN and education implementing partners working with IDPs, refugees and host communities in relation to malaria prevention
- Responsible for the daily management of national team members working on training of malaria prevention activities, community education/mobilization.
- Working closely with the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP / PNLP) – Division of Malaria Control to co-ordinate and ensure all activities are in line with the NMCP strategic plan and national guidelines.
- With the Deputy Prevention Coordiantor and National Prevention Coordinator facilitate the training of partners working in eastern Chad - to scale up the implementation of the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) standardised protocols and best practice in the following area of prevention:
a. distribution plans for Long Lasting Insecticide Treated Bed Nets (LLINs)
b. Organization and implementation of Indoor Residual Spray Campaigns (IRS) campaigns in the most at risk areas of eastern Chad.
c. Wide Scale Malaria Education (IEC/BCC) Campaigns targeting with key messaging related to malaria prevention and case management. Prevention campaigns to be designed using NMCP, MENTOR materials – and not limited to radio, posters, theater, etc
d. Monitoring and Evaluation of malaria prevention programmes: LLIN retention surveys;
Responsible for the delivery of standardised community messages that will educate
households:
- malaria transmission,
- how to reduce high risk behaviours/groups,
- effective use of prevention tools,
- early recognition of illness
- early treatment seeking behaviour and the choice of new effective anti malaria drug treatments (new national policy)
- encourage pregnant women to attend ante natal clinics (or other facilities) to receive intermittent preventive therapy (IPT) for malaria
- Responsible for the monitoring and mapping of prevention activity delivery and tool coverage, usage and condition over time.
- Responsible for ensuring the dissemination of standard technical materials/guidelines (where available) for malaria prevention to all health providers in the programme area.
- Responsible for ensuring effective and continuously updated data bases for prevention data, and where possible collation of all malaria prevention and IEC data from supported communities and partners, plus appropriate data management and analysis.
Report and Grant Writing:
- Responsible for providing weekly updates (normally as part of the programme weekly report) on implementation progress of prevention activities etc. May be asked to lead weekly report writing for the Mandera programme.
- Responsible for leading the development of all malaria prevention related sections of donor quarterly and final reports, in a timely manner.
- Responsible for leading all reports when directed by the country director
- Responsible for leading the development of new donor proposals for prevention related activities and for full proposals when directed by the Country Director.
Prevention Logistics:
- Responsible for ensuring good prevention stock management
- Work with the logistics team to ensure that storage, loan and provision of MENTOR equipment and materials to health partners in related programme areas is supervised and recorded.
Prevention Administration:
- Responsible for accurate ordering of prevention programme supplies
- Responsible for ensuring that prevention activity expenditures are managed within the framework of the related programme budget lines.
Other:
- Support new emergency assessment trips as required.
- Support relevant areas of technical manuscript production, proposal writing and design of new interventions.
- Backstop the Country Director at their request for all logistics, administration and security related tasks.
- Potential transfer to another country programme, in a similar role, during the period of the contract.
- Represent the organisation for malaria prevention and / or MENTOR with other organisations at local and national when requested.
Qualifications
Essential Qualifications:
- Fluent in both FRENCH and ENGLISH
- Degree in Public Health or relevant field
- Willing to work in insecure environments and to travel daily to field sites.
- Extensive overseas experience managing health programmes
- Proven experience managing teams – providing high quality supervision, line management and support to staff.
- Proven experience conducting training and coaching and eliciting community participation.
- Considerable experience of working in a highly insecure environment with responsibility for security monitoring and management
- Excellent interpersonal and consultative skills, including the ability to communicate, present, negotiate and influence a variety of audiences
- Experience of developing and maintaining relationships with other NGOs, government and other relevant stakeholders.
- Able to create and maintain an innovative and enthusiastic working environment at all levels
- Experience of providing leadership and coordination in planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation.
- Proven data analysis, research, epidemiological skills and report writing.
- Strong communication skills, with excellent written and spoken English/
- Experience of a flexible approach to managing and prioritising a high workload and multiple tasks in a fast paced environment with tight deadlines
- Experience of proactively identifying and addressing issues
Desirable Qualifications:
- Previous experience in Chad
- Masters in Public Health, Epidemiology or a similar field.
- Previous responsibility for malaria programming.
Reference Code: RW_7TVUAL-27
