Country and project background

Malaria Consortium Chad is one of the country offices in the West and Central Africa Region with a regional office in Abuja, Nigeria. Malaria Consortium Chad is currently responsible for implementing a seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) project in 30 health districts in N’Djamena, Chari Baguirmi, Hadjer Lamis, Mayo Kebbi Est, Batha and Barl El Gazal. In the future, the intention is to extend interventions to range from national level policy support to direct implementation of control programmes for malaria, pneumonia, nutrition and neglected tropical diseases. The office in N’Djamena is the centre for the programmes in Chad.

Job purpose

The Chad Country Technical Coordinator will lead in providing technical support to all Chad-based projects, directly line manages technical staff including the Data Analyst-epidemiologist-SMC, the Research Coordinator, the commodity manager and have dotted report to the Head of West Central Africa Region. Overall management to our portfolio focusing on operational research, technical assistance and malaria control as well as cross cutting technical specialist functions, including business development advocacy and M&E.

Key working relationships

The CTC will lead technical assistance support to Ministry of Health and the National Malaria Control Programme. The Technical Coordinator will work closely with the Senior Programme Manager and the Country Director in determining the strategic direction of the programme, with a focus on technical approaches and public health priorities and play an active role in new business development. The CTC is expected to be an integral part of the senior management team in country and work closely with the management, technical and operations team in country.

Key accountabilities 

Strategic accountability (20%)

• Work with the Country Director to lead the development and revision of the technical aspects of the Chad country office strategic plan in line with the organisation’s global strategic plan.
• Support the Country Director in business development, identifying areas of technical need and developing concept notes and contributing to proposal development.
• Take lead on the technical aspects of proposals development in accordance with donor tender documentation and requirements.

Technical accountability (35%)

• Ensure all programmes are implemented to high technical quality and based on evidence and best practice.
• Provide technical input towards rapid and smooth programme start up and termination, including programme transition, to national stakeholders.
• Coordinate identification of technical support needs for programmes and work with the relevant regional and global Technical teams, and technical cluster leads to ensure that technical support is provided on time and to high quality.
• Support the development of M&E plans and utilization of appropriate M&E tools and systems for the country office and its projects.
• Contribute and support implementation of VFM framework to measure country strategy and interventions.
• Provide technical support to key stakeholders including the Ministry of Health in strategy and policy development and review on communicable diseases control.
• Serve as technical adviser on selected specialist areas on selected projects as agreed with Country Director and West and Central Africa Programme Coordinator; sign off on terms of reference and reports for related activities.
• Support identification, selection and oversight of short-term technical assistance to take on defined scopes of work and arrange for the quality assurance of their deliverables.
• Act as Principal Investigator on key research studies, when relevant and when necessary.
• Act as budget holder on key programmes or research studies as agreed with the Country Director when relevant.

Recruitment and development of Technical staff (5%)

• Support the Country Director to identify technical resource gaps in the office and provide input to the recruitment of technical staff.

Documentation, Reporting and Communication (25%)

• Contribute to the development and implementation of internal mechanisms for organisational learning
• Periodically report to the Country Director on the technical progress of programmes and highlight any critical technical issues
• Participate in the writing of policy briefs on key technical topics
• Contribute to advocacy materials development

Representation (15%)

• Represent Malaria Consortium at regional and international meetings/workshops on specific technical areas, including relevant networks.
• Represent Malaria Consortium in technical meetings with donors, coordination bodies and Government representatives, as required.