Malaria and Community Health Technical Officer

Technical Support:

• Work closely with the Senior Community Health Officer and the Senior Malaria Technical Officer to implement malaria and community health interventions at facility and community levels, including Integrated Community Case Management (iCCM), Home-Based Management of Malaria (HBM/HBMM), and other community-based malaria services.
• Plan and coordinate implementation of malaria and community health activities in close collaboration with the Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC), including MOPDD, MCCH, Community Health Program, and with District health counterparts.
• Support facility and community-levels implementation of the Multiple First-line Therapies (MFT) strategy by ensuring CHWs and facility providers understand and follow national MFT guidelines, monitoring basic adherence to ACT allocation, and coordinating with district and RMS counterparts to maintain availability of MFT-related malaria commodities.
• Conduct Training of Trainers (ToTs) and trainings for health care providers, Community and Environmental Health Officers (CEHOs), and Community Health Workers (CHWs) on malaria case management, malaria in pregnancy (MiP), iCCM, HBM, and other community malaria technical areas, including on-the-job training and mentorship.
• Support capacity-building of CHWs and health facility staff to strengthen malaria prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and referral in line with national guidelines.
• Collaborate with RISE Malaria & Emerging Infectious Diseases Mentors to support the implementation of targeted malaria interventions in malaria hotspots.
• Organize and coordinate supportive supervision and mentorship for malaria and community health activities at both facility and community levels, ensuring adherence to national standards and protocols.
• Monitor the implementation of project work plan activities related to malaria and community health, ensuring progress and timely execution of activities at district and sector levels.
• In collaboration with Senior Malaria Officer and senior Community Health officer, develop and monitor learning, documentation, and knowledge-sharing activities related to malaria and community health interventions.
• Lead efforts to translate program data and findings into programmatic recommendations, operational guidance, and policy inputs to strengthen malaria and community health programming.
• Prepare and coordinate distribution of training materials, job aids, and supplies in collaboration with the procurement and logistics teams, ensuring timely delivery to target sites.
• Update the supervisor on field findings, identify implementation challenges, propose solutions, and monitor corrective actions.
• Support the organization of meetings, trainings, workshops, field visits, and other project activities at district level.
• Contribute to project work plans, budgets, and technical reports as required by supervisors or donors.
• Assist finance staff with preparation of financial forms for advances/reimbursements, and review and reconciliation of payment documentation related to malaria and community health activities.
• Document successful approaches, tools, and best practices in malaria and community health to inform scale-up and learning.
• Perform any other programmatic or administrative duties assigned by the supervisor.

Reporting, Learning and Documentation:

• Document malaria activities and assist with identification of best practices at health centers and community levels.
• Document successes, lessons learned and challenges in implementation as well as reports of project activities and results to the project and donor, including routine quarterly and annual reports and other reporting requirements as requested, in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with Data use & M&E to ensure that the learnings from the project implementation are being tracked and information analyzed to inform the changes being brought in the project.
• Support program data analysis and interpretation, and use findings to plan interventions accordingly in supported activities.
• Author/co-author abstracts, presentations, and articles for journals and conferences

Representation in Technical meetings/Discussions :

• Represent RISE project/Jhpiego in relevant meetings organized by supported Districts.
• Participate in technical meetings with MOH/RBC and other partner meetings as may be requested from time to time.
• Present updates on community health and Malaria in internal quarterly technical meetings or as may be requested by supervisor.

• Bachelor s Degree in Nursing Sciences, Bachelor s Degree in Clinical medicine and community health or Bachelor s degree in Public health with background in nursing.
• Strong requirement of valid and current license to practice from relevant bodies (Rwanda Council of Nurses, Midwives (NCNM) or Rwanda Allied Health Professions Council (RAHPC).
• Additional trainings related to Malaria or Community Health and project planning and management
• Experience training in IMCI, Malaria case management and iCCM
• Minimum of 5 years of experience implementing health-related activities and programs.
• Previous experience in Malaria, iCCM and community health implementation projects
• Ability to cultivate strong collaboration with other team members and key stakeholders.
• Experience with a mix of practical technical skills in malaria necessary for strengthening Malaria service delivery at national, clinical and community-level.
• Skilled in Malaria surveillance, M&E and at least two or more of the following technical areas: strengthening service delivery programs, training, pre-service education, performance and quality improvement.
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of Rwandan healthcare system, particularly the public health system.
• Experience in living and working in Rwanda preferred.
• Familiarity with USG regulations, compliance and reporting procedures and systems
• Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in national programs and technical staff.
• Language requirement: (Fluent) speaking/reading English, French and Kinyarwanda is preferred.
• Computer literacy in MS Office applications including Word, Excel, Power Point, and Outlook.
• Willingness to travel 50-60% of working time.