PROGRAMME IMPACT ADVISOR, COMMUNITY HEALTH AND HIV, AFRICA
This role will support the development of community health initiatives (including malaria and HIV) implemented
by partner organizations across Christian Aid’s Africa programme. It will involve: the provision of technical
support to country programme teams to enable them to develop community health programmes that integrate
malaria, TB and HIV; give support to effective monitoring and evaluation of health programmes, the
development of fundraising proposals to institutional donors and networking to ensure that Christian Aid is
linked into key community health networks across Africa. It will give support to the development of learning and
best practice across the Africa Division of Christian Aid, ensuring that this is fed into global positioning and will
give support to the development of Christian Aid Africa and global policy as well as support to the development
of Christian Aid policy and positioning on malaria, HIV and community health. The post will involve a significant
amount of travel within Africa but will also include remote work with teams in other countries.
You will have substantive experience of community health interventions in Africa, with a particular focus on
malaria and HIV. You will have significant experience of working with donors, programme development,
monitoring and evaluation and the capacity development of local organizations. You will have experience of
supporting others, including partner organizations to develop programmes. You will have demonstrated the
ability to secure funding from institutional donors and to support the implementation of donor funded projects.
You will have good knowledge of the links between health and gender and rights-based programming. You will
have excellent written and spoken English and preferably a knowledge of French. You will have excellent word
processing, Excel and other relevant computer skills. To fulfill this post you will have a Masters degree in Public
or Community Health.
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