Technical Advisor II, Malaria

FHI 360; North Carolina; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Paid time off

International travel

Job summary

FHI 360 in the United States seeks a Senior Technical Advisor II – Malaria to provide senior-level technical guidance across malaria programs, ensuring quality and alignment with national policies.

The role covers supply chain, surveillance, case management, and partnerships with ministries, NMCPs, and donors, with travel up to 25%.

The ideal candidate has extensive field experience, leadership, and ability to translate evidence into policy.

Qualifications

• Senior-level technical leadership across malaria programming.
• Experience with supply chain, diagnosis, treatment, surveillance, and quality of care.
• Budgeting, regulatory compliance, and donor engagement experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of country malaria supply plans and dashboards.
• Provide technical leadership for malaria case management and MFT implementation.
• Support DHIS2 data use, surveillance, and performance reviews.
• Build partnerships with MoH, NMCPs, WHO, and donors.

Skills

Malaria program management

Technical leadership

Data analysis

Stakeholder liaison

Budget compliance

Tools

DHIS2

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

The Technical Advisor II – Malaria provides senior-level technical guidance to the AFGHS–FHI 360 core team, country programs, and national partners across the full scope of malaria programming. The role provides technical leadership from project start-up and workplan development through implementation, ensuring technical quality across existing projects and new buy-ins. Reporting to the Senior Technical Advisor, Malaria, the Advisor provides technical support to country teams, ensures budgetary and regulatory compliance, and supporting the team in the country to engage donors and stakeholders on malaria-related matters. The Advisor supports country teams to implement evidence-based interventions at health facility and community levels, in alignment with national policies, covering malaria supply chain management, diagnosis, treatment, surveillance, and quality of care. This includes supporting countries in modernizing commodity planning and gap analysis tools to reflect MOU guidelines, new malaria commodities, Global Fund GC8 data, and available supply chain information. The role is accountable for contributing to the development and implementation of technical, strategic, and operational plans, goals, and policies to advance malaria programming.

As part of the Technical Advisor II – Malaria's broader support to the malaria portfolio, the Advisor works with country teams to support the Ministries of Health, national malaria control/elimination programs (NMCPs/NMEPs), laboratories, and research partners to translate supply chain, clinical, prevention, and surveillance evidence into improved policies and services, particularly for underserved populations.

Malaria Commodities, Supply Chain Coordination, and risk analysis:

• Lead development of supply plans, including dashboards, risk summaries, and visual products that highlight current and projected stockouts, procurement delays, funding gaps, overstock, and expiry risks for internal and donor reporting.
• Data Analysis & Risk Monitoring including collecting, validating, analyzing, and synthesizing forecasting, inventory, procurement, shipment, and consumption data; develop and maintain methodologies to track stock-out/overstock risks, expiries, pipeline gaps, and funding shortfalls; and monitor supply chain performance indicators to enable proactive mitigation.
• Produce country-level and cross-country commodity availability analyses and collaborate with technical, program, and country teams to ensure data consistency and timely reporting.
• Provide technical leadership for malaria case management strategies, guidelines, training, and implementation at health facility and community levels.
• Support evidence-informed introduction and monitoring of multiple first-line therapies (MFT), where appropriate, to help preserve antimalarial efficacy and manage resistance risks.
• Advise on ITN product selection, campaign and routine distribution strategies, coverage and use, and durability and bioefficacy monitoring, in collaboration with supply chain teams.
• Support residual efficacy assessments, including cone bioassays, and timely corrective or mop-up actions where performance falls below agreed standards.
• Lead technical support for context-appropriate introduction, implementation, evaluation, and potential scale-up of spatial emanators and other promising vector control tools.
• Assess scientific evidence, PMI guidance, national regulatory requirements, product safety, acceptability, cost, and operational feasibility before recommending deployment.
• Develop implementation protocols, monitoring indicators, learning agendas, and practical guidance with national programs, product developers, and research partners.

Country Technical Assistance and Quality Improvement

• Provide remote and in-country support to country teams; review workplans, technical approaches, curricula, budgets, and monitoring plans.
• Assess clinical and operational performance through field visits, supportive supervision, and mentorship; Strengthen adherence to malaria diagnosis and treatment standards through clinical audits, job aids, quality indicators, and continuous quality improvement.

Community Case Management and Integrated Service Delivery

• Strengthen iCCM and referral pathways for malaria and common childhood illnesses, with emphasis on remote, mobile, displaced, and underserved populations.
• Build community health worker capacity in fever assessment, authorized diagnostic testing, appropriate treatment, danger-sign recognition, pre-referral care, and referral follow-up.
• Improve linkages between communities and facilities for supervision, reporting, commodities, and continuity of care; coordinate with maternal, newborn, child health, and nutrition teams.

Malaria Surveillance, Data Use, and Performance Monitoring

• Work with surveillance, monitoring and evaluation, and health information teams to improve completeness, quality, interpretation, and use of case management data.
• Support DHIS2 and other national reporting systems, dashboards, performance reviews, and routine use of diagnostic, treatment, referral, and outcome indicators.
• Use epidemiological and program data to inform risk stratification, subnational tailoring, resource prioritization, and corrective actions.
• Contribute to technical reports, evaluations, policy briefs, and learning products.

Partnerships, Innovation, and Program Development

• Represent FHI 360, as requested, in malaria case management, surveillance, diagnostics, and therapeutic efficacy technical forums.
• Build collaboration with Ministries of Health, NMCPs/NMEPs, WHO, donors, academic institutions, laboratories, and implementing partners.
• Assess emerging diagnostics, medicines, digital tools, and delivery approaches for safe, effective, and context-appropriate adoption; Strong analytical, technical writing facilitation, and presentation skills; ability to communicate scientific findings to policymakers and implementers.
• Demonstrated ability to support multidisciplinary teams, manage competing priorities, build partnerships, and work effectively across diverse country contexts.
• Commitment to scientific integrity, national ownership, safeguarding, and sustainable capacity strengthening.

The ideal candidate combines rigorous clinical and public health expertise with practical malaria program implementation experience, works effectively with senior government counterparts and frontline teams, and can translate emerging evidence into feasible improvements in service quality and treatment outcomes.

Additional training in malaria surveillance, malaria in pregnancy, malaria vaccines, supply chain, or vector control is desirable; project management certification is an advantage.

Project Management (PM) Certification preferred.

Demonstrated experience advising Ministries of Health and national malaria programs and developing case management policies, clinical guidelines, training materials, or quality improvement approaches.

Strong experience in malaria prevention, diagnosis and treatment, including facility- and community-based services, with experience integrating malaria services into maternal, newborn, and child health platforms.

Ability to analyze surveillance and program data and translate evidence into practical recommendations for policy and implementation.

Professional fluency in written and spoken English is required.

Proficiency in additional languages such as French an advantage.

Experience with major international donor-funded malaria programs and regional or multicountry technical assistance is an advantage.

Typical office environment.

Ability to spend long hours looking at a computer screen and doing repetitive work on a keyboard.

Laptop, Microsoft applications (i.e., Office 365, SharePoint, Skype/Zoom/Teams), cell phone/mobile technology, and standard office equipment.

Travel:

10 – 25% periodic international travel to malaria-endemic countries is required for technical assistance, program reviews, supervision, research collaboration, and partner engagement; When determining an offer amount, FHI 360 factors in multiple considerations, including but not limited to: relevant years of experience and education possessed by the applicant, internal equity, business sector, and budget.

FHI 360 contributes 7% of monthly base pay to a money purchase pension plan account. Additionally, all US-based staff working full-time, which is calculated at 40 hours/week, receive 18 days of paid vacation per year, 12 sick days per year, and 11 holidays per year. Paid time off is reduced pro rata for employees working less than a full-time schedule.

International hiring ranges will differ based on location

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