Senior Country Technical Coordinator
Malaria Consortium
Posted
Mar 13, 2026
Location
Remote
Type
Full-time
Mission
What you will drive
**Health
**Community
**Response
Senior Country Technical Coordinator
Salary
Competitive
Location
Abuja
Expiry Date
26/03/2026 23:59
Mergefield Title
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The Vacancy
Malaria Consortium is recruiting for a Senior Country Technical Coordinator to join our team in Abuja.
Job purpose
To provide technical strategic direction, technical leadership and technical quality assurance to the technical team members and the projects in the Nigeria Malaria Consortium office. To ensure that up-to-date technical knowledge, technical methodologies and national and international best practices are used in programme implementation and programme quality improvement. To ensure that experiential learning and lessons learning are captured, documented, disseminated and inform adaptive management in the project portfolio. To identify relevant research priorities and work with team members, the global technical team and key national stakeholders to design suitable studies and submit proposals for funding.
Scope of work
The position holder will be responsible for technical oversight for all projects and programmes within MC Nigeria portfolio. S/he will lead technical quality assurance activities of the country portfolio using a continuous quality improvement approach. S/he will ensure that programmes are effectively coordinated to achieve coherent technical direction and a complementary/balanced portfolio. The position holder will play an active role in strategic and technical development and expansion of the Nigeria programme portfolio and will provide technical inputs to the Ministry of Health and other key stakeholders that are of technical quality and add value to the engagement S/he will actively participate in relevant technical working groups at national and other levels to foster evidence-informed dialogue and decision-making. S/he will be involved in catalytic-solution building between government and non-government actors. S/he will be an advocate for health and wellbeing and communicable diseases control. S/he will be a role model for colleagues and a mentor for direct reports.
Key working relationships
The CTC will have a dotted reporting line to the Technical Specialist West and Central Africa and report directly to the RPD-WCA / CD. S/he will line manage in-country technical team as the technical lead. She will also work with the Global and Senior Technical teams above-country as well as the Country Management Team and external stakeholders such as National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP), National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), donor agencies, partner organisations and academic institutions S/he will actively participate in rolling out of Malaria Consortium’s strategy with Nigeria portfolio and capture lessons to be disseminate within MC NG and with the rest of the organisation. S/he will provide supervision of direct reports and dotted line working arrangements with selected team members.
Key accountabilities
Strategic accountability (20%)
- Work with the Regional Programmes Director for West and Central Africa/ Country Director and with inputs from Technical Specialist WCA to lead the development and revision of the technical aspects of the MC strategic roll-out in Nigeria country office
- Support the Regional Programmes Director for West and Central Africa/ Country Director in business development, identifying areas of technical need and developing concept notes, evidence summary and contributing to proposal development to sustain a balanced portfolio of projects in Nigeria
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Take lead on the technical aspects of proposal development in accordance with donor tender documentation and requirements
Technical accountability (40%) -
Ensure all programmes are implemented to high technical quality and based on national and international evidence and best practices
- Provide technical input towards rapid and smooth programme start up and close out, including programme transition to national stakeholders
- Coordinate identification of technical support needs for programmes and work with the WCA technical specialist, and Technical Director as well as other members of the Global Technical Team to ensure that technical support is provided on time and to high quality
- Support the development of MEL plans and utilization of appropriate MEL tools and systems for the country office and its programmes
- Contribute and support implementation of VFM framework to measure MC strategy and interventions
- Provide technical support to key stakeholders including the Ministry of Health in strategy and policy development and review on communicable diseases control and represent MC on technical coordination platforms in consultation with the WCAPD
- Support identification, selection and oversight of short-term technical assistance to take on defined scopes of work and arrange for the quality assurance of their deliverables
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Work with the West and Central Africa Technical Specialist to provide technical inputs to activities of the West & Central Africa Technical Team (WCATT) and Global Technical Team (GTT)
Technical human resource development (5%) -
Support the Regional Programmes Director for West and Central Africa/ Country Director to identify technical resource gaps in the country office team and provide inputs to the recruitment of qualified technical staff
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Lead the technical mentorship of direct reports and other technical team members
Documentation and positioning (10%) -
Lead the development and implementation of internal mechanisms for experiential and lessons learning to inform continuous quality improvement of programmes
- Periodically report to the Regional Programmes Director for West and Central Africa/ Country Director on the technical progress of programmes and highlight any critical technical issues and risks, and advise on solutions and mitigations
- Provide leadership, direction and mentorship in writing of technical publications such as policy briefs, case studies, literature reviews, approach papers, learning briefs, technical briefs, conference abstracts and peer review publications.
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Identify key relevant advocacy issues related to the project portfolio and work closely with External Relations team in the Country Office and UK to develop suitable advocacy outputs and their dissemination
Programme Management (5%) -
Take on the role of Principal Investigator (PI) on priority / relevant research studies
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Act as budget holder on key programmes or research studies as agreed with the Regional Programmes Director for West and Central Africa/ Country Director when relevant
Representation (10%) -
Represent Malaria Consortium at relevant technical working groups at the national level to share and use up-to-date technical information for evidence-based decision-making. This will involve sharing results from our work, current technical perspectives, approaches and best practices.
-
Represent Malaria Consortium at regional and international meetings/workshops on specific technical areas as appropriate, including relevant networks to showcase the work the country team are doing and to position the organization as one of the leading technical organisations
Business Development (10%) -
Work with Regional Programmes Director for West and Central Africa / Country Director, Head of Technical WCA and the BD team to identify new business development opportunities which will include identifying areas of interest, responding to relevant opportunities, and writing funding proposals
- Support the NMEP/MOH in resource mobilisation activities such as GF Concept Note writing.
- Facilitate the identification of ideas, research questions aligned with the country strategy
Person specification
Qualifications and...
Profile
What makes you a great fit
**Health
**Community
**Response
Senior Country Technical Coordinator
Salary
Competitive
Location
Abuja
Expiry Date
26/03/2026 23:59
Mergefield Title
{Mergefield Value}
**
*
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
*
The Vacancy
Malaria Consortium is recruiting for a Senior Country Technical Coordinator to join our team in Abuja.
Job purpose
To provide technical strategic direction, technical leadership and technical quality assurance to the technical team members and the projects in the Nigeria Malaria Consortium office. To ensure that up-to-date technical knowledge, technical methodologies and national and international best practices are used in programme implementation and programme quality improvement. To ensure that experiential learning and lessons learning are captured, documented, disseminated and inform adaptive management in the project portfolio. To identify relevant research priorities and work with team members, the global technical team and key national stakeholders to design suitable studies and submit proposals for funding.
Scope of work
The position holder will be responsible for technical oversight for all projects and programmes within MC Nigeria portfolio. S/he will lead technical quality assurance activities of the country portfolio using a continuous quality improvement approach. S/he will ensure that programmes are effectively coordinated to achieve coherent technical direction and a complementary/balanced portfolio. The position holder will play an active role in strategic and technical development and expansion of the Nigeria programme portfolio and will provide technical inputs to the Ministry of Health and other key stakeholders that are of technical quality and add value to the engagement S/he will actively participate in relevant technical working groups at national and other levels to foster evidence-informed dialogue and decision-making. S/he will be involved in catalytic-solution building between government and non-government actors. S/he will be an advocate for health and wellbeing and communicable diseases control. S/he will be a role model for colleagues and a mentor for direct reports.
Key working relationships
The CTC will have a dotted reporting line to the Technical Specialist West and Central Africa and report directly to the RPD-WCA / CD. S/he will line manage in-country technical team as the technical lead. She will also work with the Global and Senior Technical teams above-country as well as the Country Management Team and external stakeholders such as National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP), National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), donor agencies, partner organisations and academic institutions S/he will actively participate in rolling out of Malaria Consortium’s strategy with Nigeria portfolio and capture lessons to be disseminate within MC NG and with the rest of the organisation. S/he will provide supervision of direct reports and dotted line working arrangements with selected team members.
Key accountabilities
Strategic accountability (20%)
- Work with the Regional Programmes Director for West and Central Africa/ Country Director and with inputs from Technical Specialist WCA to lead the development and revision of the technical aspects of the MC strategic roll-out in Nigeria country office
- Support the Regional Programmes Director for West and Central Africa/ Country Director in business development, identifying areas of technical need and developing concept notes, evidence summary and contributing to proposal development to sustain a balanced portfolio of projects in Nigeria
-
Take lead on the technical aspects of proposal development in accordance with donor tender documentation and requirements
Technical accountability (40%) -
Ensure all programmes are implemented to high technical quality and based on national and international evidence and best practices
- Provide technical input towards rapid and smooth programme start up and close out, including programme transition to national stakeholders
- Coordinate identification of technical support needs for programmes and work with the WCA technical specialist, and Technical Director as well as other members of the Global Technical Team to ensure that technical support is provided on time and to high quality
- Support the development of MEL plans and utilization of appropriate MEL tools and systems for the country office and its programmes
- Contribute and support implementation of VFM framework to measure MC strategy and interventions
- Provide technical support to key stakeholders including the Ministry of Health in strategy and policy development and review on communicable diseases control and represent MC on technical coordination platforms in consultation with the WCAPD
- Support identification, selection and oversight of short-term technical assistance to take on defined scopes of work and arrange for the quality assurance of their deliverables
-
Work with the West and Central Africa Technical Specialist to provide technical inputs to activities of the West & Central Africa Technical Team (WCATT) and Global Technical Team (GTT)
Technical human resource development (5%) -
Support the Regional Programmes Director for West and Central Africa/ Country Director to identify technical resource gaps in the country office team and provide inputs to the recruitment of qualified technical staff
-
Lead the technical mentorship of direct reports and other technical team members
Documentation and positioning (10%) -
Lead the development and implementation of internal mechanisms for experiential and lessons learning to inform continuous quality improvement of programmes
- Periodically report to the Regional Programmes Director for West and Central Africa/ Country Director on the technical progress of programmes and highlight any critical technical issues and risks, and advise on solutions and mitigations
- Provide leadership, direction and mentorship in writing of technical publications such as policy briefs, case studies, literature reviews, approach papers, learning briefs, technical briefs, conference abstracts and peer review publications.
-
Identify key relevant advocacy issues related to the project portfolio and work closely with External Relations team in the Country Office and UK to develop suitable advocacy outputs and their dissemination
Programme Management (5%) -
Take on the role of Principal Investigator (PI) on priority / relevant research studies
-
Act as budget holder on key programmes or research studies as agreed with the Regional Programmes Director for West and Central Africa/ Country Director when relevant
Representation (10%) -
Represent Malaria Consortium at relevant technical working groups at the national level to share and use up-to-date technical information for evidence-based decision-making. This will involve sharing results from our work, current technical perspectives, approaches and best practices.
-
Represent Malaria Consortium at regional and international meetings/workshops on specific technical areas as appropriate, including relevant networks to showcase the work the country team are doing and to position the organization as one of the leading technical organisations
Business Development (10%) -
Work with Regional Programmes Director for West and Central Africa / Country Director, Head of Technical WCA and the BD team to identify new business development opportunities which will include identifying areas of interest, responding to relevant opportunities, and writing funding proposals
- Support the NMEP/MOH in resource mobilisation activities such as GF Concept Note writing.
- Facilitate the identification of ideas, research questions aligned with the country strategy
Person specification
Qualifications and...