Senior Malaria Technical Officer

Technical role

• Provide technical support to ensure appropriate implementation of malaria prevention and case management activities at facility and district levels.
• Identify appropriate facility- and district-level strategies to address gaps in malaria service delivery, including case management, surveillance, and vector control.
• Formulate sustainable solutions to address malaria programmatic gaps, using cross-cutting capacity-building approaches such as mentorship, supportive supervision, and targeted quality improvement at facility and district level.
• Adapt and/or develop evidence-based malaria training materials, curricula, clinical guidelines, supervisory systems, dashboards, and registers aligned with Government of Rwanda and RISE project requirements.
• Plan and implement capacity-building activities for healthcare providers on malaria case management, diagnostics, treatment, and preventive interventions, in collaboration with districts and partner organizations.
• Provide mentoring, and capacity strengthening related to malaria case management, surveillance, and preventive interventions, ensuring adherence to national protocols and RISE standards.
• Provide guidance, and day-to-day technical support to Malaria Technical Officers to ensure effective implementation and monitoring of malaria activities across facilities and districts.
• Support activities related to Multiple First-line Therapies (MFT) for malaria, including readiness at facility level, provider training, and monitoring of MFT implementation.
• Strengthen the malaria commodities supply chain at facility and district levels, including monitoring stock availability, supporting timely resupply, and collaborating closely with district pharmacists and supply managers to address stock-related challenges.
• Ensure strong collaboration and coordination with RBC/MOPDD, MCCH, RMS, and other partners to align malaria activities with national guidelines, policies, and commodity management systems.
• Work with healthcare providers, local authorities, and program team members to identify and address service delivery gaps that impede access to quality malaria services.
• Document and maintain an inventory of successful malaria programmatic tools, approaches, and best practices.
• Contribute to the development of technical reports, knowledge products, and publications related to malaria program implementation and lessons learned.

Management

• Work closely with the Senior Malaria technical advisor, the Senior Community Health officer and Malaria and community health technical officers based in various districts
• Maintain excellent relationships with MOH,RBC-MOPDD, the State department and other in-country stakeholders.
• Work with M&E staff to design and implement plans to track data/results related to Malaria and use data/findings to plan interventions accordingly.
• Provide technical support during program monitoring and development of annual work plans.
• Prepare and share periodic reports and update all technical staff on successes, challenges and lessons learned in implementation of health facilities activities; and
• Perform any other tasks as assigned by the supervisor.

• Master of Public Health or related relevant field with strong experience in implementation of Malaria interventions.
• A minimum of 6 7 years of experience implementing and/or supporting Malaria and /or community health programs.
• At least 6 years experience in implementing large donor-funded projects preferably within malaria-focused programs.
• Proven professional experience working or supporting the MoH and RBC as well as Malaria technical working group.
• Qualification as a person able to train and mentor other trainers, experience in training health providers on Malaria packages will be an added value.
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of the Rwandan healthcare system especially the current Malaria prevention and control interventions
• Familiarity with USG administrative, management and reporting procedures.
• Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in national programs and technical staff in Malaria prevention and control interventions .
• Strong oral and written communication and presentations skills in English; French and Kinyarwanda is preferred.
• Must be familiar with Microsoft Office package and internet navigation.
• Ability to travel nationally (frequently).