Malaria Consortium is one of the world's leading non-profit organisations dedicated to the comprehensive control of malaria and other communicable diseases in Africa and Southeast Asia. Malaria Consortium works with communities, government and non-government agencies, academic institutions, and local and international organisations, to ensure good evidence supports delivery of effective services, providing technical support for monitoring and evaluation of programmes and activities for evidence-based decision-making and strategic planning. The organisation works to improve not only the health of the individual, but also the capacity of national health systems, which helps relieve poverty and support improved economic prosperity.
Malaria Consortium is going to implement a two year grant to carry out operational research on pneumonia diagnostic tools in Cambodia, Ethiopia, Uganda and South Sudan. Acquisition of a non-invasive clinical sample, distinguishing clinical disease from disease carriage, continues to present a problem in pneumonia diagnosis. In rural settings where integrated community case management is available, community health workers (CHWs) have been trained to diagnose pneumonia using colored beads and/or a simple respiratory rate timer available from UNICEF. This timer is not without its challenges, with the correct respiratory rate count often affected by factors such as movement of the child, irregularities in the child’s breathing requiring the health worker to start counting all over again, and frequently the health worker may count the tick of the timer’s clock rather than the child’s breathing rate. If after the respiratory rate is determined and antibiotics are not indicated, the result is often challenged by the parent or caregiver as they strongly believe that their child should receive treatment, irrespective of the respiratory rate measurement.
To overcome the challenges with existing respiratory rate counting devices, several research groups have developed easy to use applications (“Apps”) for use on mobile phones. A limited number of the mobile phone respiratory rate Apps have been evaluated in small, often statistically underpowered clinical studies, but there has not been a comprehensive comparison of the clinical performance, usability and acceptability of multiple Apps in an endemic setting. Similarly, technologies such as accelerometry have been applied to respiratory rate measurement and the clinical performance and usability of these methods in endemic settings is unknown. A priority need is clinical evaluation of these new technologies compared to the UNICEF timer, including an assessment of the acceptability and usability of these new approaches from the perspective of the short trained community health worker, clinical staff working in peripheral facilities and below the level of registered nurse, as well as the caregiver. Responsible for the overall management, coordination and harmonisation of the South Sudan component of the multi-country programme. Lead project implementation activities ensuring consistency with the overall multi-country programme’s performance framework, and in line with Malaria Consortium’s core values. Lead the project team in country and liaise closely with the Programme Coordinator of the multi-country programme. The successful candidate will: • A Master’s degree in Medicine, health sciences, development or related discipline • A minimum of 4 years’ experience working in public health research programme implementation with previously published scientific works.
• Significant experience in project management and organisational work, including financial management, human resources and donor reporting. • Experience of working closely with government and non-government partners to successfully deliver on project objectives. • Ability to lead, motivate and coordinate a team of technical and non-technical staff within a project. • Excellent communication, report writing and presentation skills are essential • Good computer skills. • Excellent written and spoken communication in English
To overcome the challenges with existing respiratory rate counting devices, several research groups have developed easy to use applications (“Apps”) for use on mobile phones. A limited number of the mobile phone respiratory rate Apps have been evaluated in small, often statistically underpowered clinical studies, but there has not been a comprehensive comparison of the clinical performance, usability and acceptability of multiple Apps in an endemic setting. Similarly, technologies such as accelerometry have been applied to respiratory rate measurement and the clinical performance and usability of these methods in endemic settings is unknown. A priority need is clinical evaluation of these new technologies compared to the UNICEF timer, including an assessment of the acceptability and usability of these new approaches from the perspective of the short trained community health worker, clinical staff working in peripheral facilities and below the level of registered nurse, as well as the caregiver. Responsible for the overall management, coordination and harmonisation of the South Sudan component of the multi-country programme. Lead project implementation activities ensuring consistency with the overall multi-country programme’s performance framework, and in line with Malaria Consortium’s core values. Lead the project team in country and liaise closely with the Programme Coordinator of the multi-country programme. The successful candidate will: • A Master’s degree in Medicine, health sciences, development or related discipline • A minimum of 4 years’ experience working in public health research programme implementation with previously published scientific works.
• Significant experience in project management and organisational work, including financial management, human resources and donor reporting. • Experience of working closely with government and non-government partners to successfully deliver on project objectives. • Ability to lead, motivate and coordinate a team of technical and non-technical staff within a project. • Excellent communication, report writing and presentation skills are essential • Good computer skills. • Excellent written and spoken communication in English
How to apply:
How to apply For more information please visit our website www.malariaconsortium.org where you will have access to the full Job description. Please send a covering letter outlining how you meet the person specification along with your CV to Human Resources at HR.Recruitment@malariaconsortium.org Please quote the position and country in the subject line of your application. We appreciate your application however, only short listed candidates will be contacted within three weeks after the closing date.
