Malaria Consortium is recruiting for a Senior Technical Advisor to join our team in London, UK.

The Senior Technical Advisor for surveillance and data-informed decision-making will be an organisation expert in the following specialist areas :

• Communicable diseases surveillance and response, in particular routine surveillance ;
• Epidemiology of communicable diseases, in particular malaria epidemiology and malaria elimination ;
• Data-informed decision-making approaches ;
• Operations research design and implementation.

The post-holder will be responsible for evidence-based technical assistance, strategic advice, thought leadership, research and programme design on surveillance and data-informed decision-making to guide the elimination of communicable diseases. The post-holder will provide technical support and be technically involved in specific projects and will be actively involved in organisational activities such as business areas and/or communities of practice. The post holder will lead the Business area on data-informed decision-making.

The successful candidate will have :

• Global health practitioner with first-hand experience in low and middle-income countries in surveillance and response, results measurement, data-informed decision-making and operations research ;
• Postgraduate qualification in global/public health, epidemiology or related field ;
• Experience in communicable disease control, in particular malaria ;
• Health systems strengthening experience ;
• Extensive international experience, with experience working in LMICs in Africa and/or Asia ;
• Experience in applying quality improvement approaches or adaptive management ;
• Experience working in a technical support capacity with Ministries of health, international agencies and Non-Governmental organisations ;
• Experience working with key donors such as USAID/PMI/CDC, BMGF, Unitaid, GFATM, Unicef ;
• Experience mentoring and strengthening the knowledge and skills of health workers in surveillance and response, and data-informed decision-making ;
• Experience in a technical support role at mid to senior level ;
• Experience in the development and use of databases and statistical analysis software such as EpiData, Access, STATA, R.

To apply for this position you will need to have the legal right to work in the UK. Malaria Consortium are not able to sponsor visa’s for this vacancy.

We are currently hybrid working but you may have some requirements to work at the London office.