Uganda: Vector Control Specialist

Location: Kampala, Uganda

Contract: 2 years

Salary: $41,578-$46,773plus benefits

Closing date: 22nd October 2014

Malaria Consortium (MC) has currently got an opening for a Vector Control Specialist to join our team. The purpose of this role is to provide technical support to MC projects in different areas of disease prevention, particularly those related to entomological and vector control activities with a special emphasis to insecticide treated nets (ITNs). The Vector Control Specialist is responsible for the development and implementation of Malaria Consortium Africa’s portfolio of work in vector control and will provide technical support to various projects, ensuring technical quality of their vector control components.

The successful candidate will have:

• A post-graduate degree or a postgraduate qualification in Medical Entomology

• Extensive field experience in planning and implementation of malaria prevention and control in African countries, especially ITN programmes

• Experience in prevention of other vector-borne diseases desirable

• Experience in managing or supporting multi-country health projects

• Substantial experience in designing, implementing and managing operational research projects and in data analysis and writing scientific publications

• Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills

• Ability to collaborate with a range of partners

• Language fluency in English and French an advantage

The role involves frequent regional and international travel (ca. 40%)

For more information please visit our website http://www.malariaconsortium.org/ where you will have access to the full job description. Please send your CV, with a covering letter outlining how you meet the person specification and your current salary information, to Human Resources at HR.Recruitment@malariaconsortium.org

Malaria Consortium thanks you for your application. However, due to the volume of applications received, only short listed candidates will be contacted within three weeks of the closing date.