Job opportunity: Chief of party, Mozambique
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Chemonics seeks a long-term chief of party for an anticipated USAID-funded malaria prevention and control project in Mozambique. Part of the President's Malaria Initiative, the project will focus on reaching pregnant women and children under age five with proven preventive and therapeutic interventions including artemisinin-based combination therapies, insecticide treated bednets, intermittent pregnancy treatment, and indoor residual spraying. The chief of party will oversee implementation of prevention, case management, monitoring and evaluation, and behavior change communications activities.
Qualifications:
* Advanced degree in public health management, public administration, health finance, health economics, or related discipline
* Excellent communications skills in both oral and written English; preferably in Portuguese as well
* Demonstrated success in providing technical assistance to a developing country ministry of health
* Work experience in Mozambique, southern Africa, other developing country a plus
* Recent experience overseeing a long-term health technical assistance program of similar nature and scope, including negotiating work plans; interfacing with donors, ministry, and other development partners; developing terms of reference; and identifying technical assistance resources
* Demonstrated excellent interpersonal and cross-cultural skills
* Skills and experience in the following: negotiation; advocacy; health policy development and strategic planning; information management; health human resources; decentralization of health systems and local health planning; managing community participation; health care quality improvement; and technical areas of maternal, reproductive and child health, nutrition, and malaria.
Application Instructions:
Send electronic submissions to malariaCOP@chemonics.com <mailto:malariaCOP@chemonics.com> by May 02, 2007. No telephone inquiries, please.
Finalists will be contacted.
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Mané Beglaryan
Manager | Project Development and Support
Chemonics International
P 202.955.7410 | F 202.955.7520
mailto:mbeglaryan@chemonics.com
http://www.chemonics.com