Senior Malaria Technical Officer

Reporting to the Senior Malaria Advisor, the Senior Malaria Technical Officer  provides technical and programmatic support for malaria prevention and control activities at the facility level and serves as an integral member of the Reaching Impact, Saturation, and Epidemic Control (RISE) team. RISE supports the Ministry of Health (MOH) in responding to Global Health Security (GHS) emergencies and strengthening malaria interventions through technical assistance, service delivery, research, and cross-cutting health systems support.

Under the leadership of the Senior Malaria Advisor, the Senior Malaria Technical Officer provides technical guidance for the implementation, and monitoring of malaria case management, vector control, surveillance, and related facility level interventions. The Senior Malaria Technical Officer works closely with the RISE technical team and MOH/RBC counterparts to implement evidence-based strategies that improve the quality, availability, and utilization of malaria services. Key responsibilities include providing technical guidance and oversight for malaria case management and prevention activities; assessing training and capacity-building needs for health care providers; strengthening malaria commodities and supply chain systems; reviewing and adapting technical guidelines and training materials; leading training, mentorship, and supportive supervision; supporting data use for decision-making; and documenting and disseminating lessons learned to inform program improvements and scale-up of effective malaria interventions.

Technical role

• Provide technical support to ensure appropriate implementation of malaria prevention and case management activities at facility and district levels.
• Identify appropriate facility- and district-level strategies to address gaps in malaria service delivery, including case management, surveillance, and vector control.
• Formulate sustainable solutions to address malaria programmatic gaps, using cross-cutting capacity-building approaches such as mentorship, supportive supervision, and targeted quality improvement at facility and district level.
• Adapt and/or develop evidence-based malaria training materials, curricula, clinical guidelines, supervisory systems, dashboards, and registers aligned with Government of Rwanda and RISE project requirements.
• Plan and implement capacity-building activities for healthcare providers on malaria case management, diagnostics, treatment, and preventive interventions, in collaboration with districts and partner organizations.
• Provide mentoring, and capacity strengthening related to malaria case management, surveillance, and preventive interventions, ensuring adherence to national protocols and RISE standards.
• Provide guidance, and day-to-day technical support to Malaria Technical Officers to ensure effective implementation and monitoring of malaria activities across facilities and districts.
• Support activities related to Multiple First-line Therapies (MFT) for malaria, including readiness at facility level, provider training, and monitoring of MFT implementation.
• Strengthen the malaria commodities supply chain at facility and district levels, including monitoring stock availability, supporting timely resupply, and collaborating closely with district pharmacists and supply managers to address stock-related challenges.
• Ensure strong collaboration and coordination with RBC/MOPDD, MCCH, RMS, and other partners to align malaria activities with national guidelines, policies, and commodity management systems.
• Work with healthcare providers, local authorities, and program team members to identify and address service delivery gaps that impede access to quality malaria services.
• Document and maintain an inventory of successful malaria programmatic tools, approaches, and best practices.
• Contribute to the development of technical reports, knowledge products, and publications related to malaria program implementation and lessons learned. 

 Management

• Work closely with the Senior Malaria technical advisor, the Senior Community Health officer and Malaria and community health technical officers based in various districts
• Maintain excellent relationships with MOH,RBC-MOPDD, the State department and other in-country stakeholders.
• Work with M&E staff to design and implement plans to track data/results related to Malaria and use data/findings to plan interventions accordingly.
• Provide technical support during program monitoring and development of annual work plans.
• Prepare and share periodic reports and update all technical staff on successes, challenges and lessons learned in implementation of health facilities activities; and
• Perform any other tasks as assigned by the supervisor.

• Master of Public Health or related relevant field with strong experience in implementation of Malaria interventions.
• A minimum of 6–7 years of experience implementing and/or supporting Malaria and /or community health programs.
• At least 6 years’ experience in implementing large donor-funded projects preferably within malaria-focused programs.
• Proven professional experience working or supporting the MoH and RBC as well as Malaria technical working group.
• Qualification as a person able to train and mentor other trainers, experience in training health providers on Malaria packages will be an added value.
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of the Rwandan healthcare system especially the current Malaria prevention and control interventions
• Familiarity with USG administrative, management and reporting procedures.
• Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity in national programs and technical staff in Malaria prevention and control interventions .
• Strong oral and written communication and presentations skills in English; French and Kinyarwanda is preferred.
• Must be familiar with Microsoft Office package and internet navigation.
• Ability to travel nationally (frequently).

Application submission deadline: 24th December 2025

Note: The position is on a national contract and only applicants holding permit to work in Rwanda can apply. Only shortlisted candidates will receive an invitation for an interview. For further information about Jhpiego, visit our website at www.jhpiego.org. The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.

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