Advisor, Malaria,
US - DC - DC Home Office
Save the Children
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The Advisor, Malaria is a critical member of the Save the Children (SC) Child Health team and as such will provide institutional, technical and strategic guidance and support to Save the Children’s global work in malaria. The Advisor, Malaria will provide technical assistance to country offices to help assess needs and opportunities, and design and support the implementation of high quality, effective, state-of-the-art malaria programs in selected high priority country offices. The Advisor will also represent SC/US in the broader international malaria community, assist and support other SC/US teams, as appropriate, and collaborate with Save the Children International (SCI) members in defining and advancing SCI’s global malaria agenda.
Essential Duties, Responsibilities and Impact
Provides Technical Leadership and Support for SC Malaria program (40%)
In collaboration with the Senior Director, Child Health and the Global Health Senior Leadership Team define the vision, strategy and operational plan for SC’s global malaria work.
Be accountable for achieving the results set out in the strategic and operational plans and be able to articulate sector approach(es) to measuring global results and monitor progress towards agreed upon results
· Provides technical expertise and oversight to ensure programs apply evidence-based malaria interventions and approaches in our programs, and develop and support new state-of-the-art approaches.
· Serve as a principal expert in malaria within SC and with external partners.
· Provide technical guidance and support to SC country offices to ensure quality, sustainability and impact at scale.
· Work with SC country offices to build their malaria programming capacity, including approaches to integrating malaria into other health programming, and especially into Livelihoods, and HIV work as needed.
· Provides leadership, training and technical support for workshops, collaborates in developing training modules and other tools, as needed.
Mobilizes Public and Private Resources (30%)
· Collaborates and develops long-term funding strategies for SC’s technical and programming priorities in malaria.
· Establishes and maintains new/existing relationships with key donors (headquarters and regional/country level) and program partners to advance global sector malaria work within IP portfolio.
· Plays leadership role with SC US and country offices in identification, development and submission of quality proposals in malaria and child health.
Leads Program Learning and Innovation specific to Malaria within DGH and in coordination with other SC Departments and SCI (20%)
· Articulates key malaria program innovation and learning priorities, especially related to key gaps in the evidence base for programming, and the steps needed to inform policy, and translate policy into practice at scale.
· Identifies best practices from country programs and global work, documents these practices, and disseminates and promotes uptake within the agency.
· Shares SC best practices externally and introduces new evidence-based best practices into SC global and country level work.
· Supports monitoring and evaluation, with a focus on sound data collection, analysis, and interpretation for program management, proposal development, and documentation of project innovations and impact. Supports high quality baseline, midterm and final evaluations and other program planning assessments.
· Initiates planning and implementation of skill development/training/capacity building for Save the Children, specific to the DGH portfolio, including development and review of training materials.
· Collaborates with other SCI members on technical issues.
· Supports Global initiatives, as needed.
· In coordination with the Senior Director, Child Health, represent DGH on malaria-related matters with other offices within SC and through participation in coalitions such as Roll Back Malaria, and represents SC externally on specific technical topics with donors, academic institutions, and technical assistance organizations.
Technical Leadership for Policy and Advocacy (10%)
· Helps define SC’s global advocacy agenda to address key agency priorities.
· Contributes to building alliances and strategic partnerships to influence policy and support learning and innovation.
· Provides malaria expertise to implementation of larger agency advocacy efforts.
· Provides guidance for country level advocacy efforts as necessary and appropriate.
· Provides technical expertise to policy and advocacy related efforts to the malaria focus on global campaigns
Required Background and Experience, Skills and Behaviors
Save the Children invests in childhood – every day, in times of crisis and for our future. In the United States and around the world, we are dedicated to ensuring every child has the best chance for success. Our pioneering programs give children a healthy start, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. Our advocacy efforts provide a voice for children who cannot speak for themselves. As the leading expert on children, we inspire and achieve lasting impact for millions of the world's most vulnerable girls and boys. By transforming children's lives now, we change the course of their future and ours.
Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom Save the Children is in contact. As a humanitarian agency, Save the Children is obliged to create and maintain an environment that aims to prevent the sexual exploitation and abuse of children and promote the implementation of its child safeguarding policy. All representatives of Save the Children – employees, volunteers, interns, consultants, Board members and others who work with children on Save the Children’s behalf – are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.
Save the Children provides an attractive benefits package including competitive salaries, a matching retirement plan, health and welfare benefits, life insurance, an employee assistance program, generous time off and much more. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.
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