Senior Technical Advisor, FCI Malawi - 2025830

Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten?  Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?

If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.

At this pivotal moment in time, we are rapidly expanding and growing our team to meet the increasing needs of our world. We are looking for people who want to use their gifts and talents to make a real and tangible difference in our world and the lives of the suffering.

 

If you’re looking for a purpose-driven career in which you can grow your talents, while also standing up for the rights of the vulnerable, we want you to join us today.

 

 

World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization whose mission is to boldly engage the world’s greatest crises in partnership with the church. The organization was founded in the aftermath of World War II to respond to the urgent humanitarian needs of war-torn Europe. Since then, for 80 years, across 100 countries, World Relief has partnered with local churches and communities to build a world where families thrive and communities flourish.

Today, organizational programming focuses on humanitarian and disaster response, community strengthening and resilience, and refugee & immigrant services and advocacy.

World Relief is seeking a Senior Technical Advisor (STA) for a three-year project in Malawi which will be funded by the Department of State. The overall objective of the project is to deliver cost-effective, high-quality integrated HIV, tuberculosis, maternal and child health, malaria and nutrition health services through government and a strengthened community and facility-based health worker networks using faith and community-based platforms, with a clear and time-bound plan to sustainably transition program activities to national and sub-national government and stakeholders. 

The STA will provide technical leadership for Malawi project activities aimed at ensuring that supported faith and community-based services are well coordinated and integrated into government systems, strengthening the health system across community, facility, district, and national levels. The STA will liaise with FCI consortium global management team on technical and MEL related topics. The role supports strengthening the program model’s service provision, governance, supervision, quality assurance systems, supply chain management, and workforce systems to ensure they align with and integrate into Ministry of Health structures. This will include technical leadership of efforts to strengthen workforce development plans and ensure hub-and-spoke models adopt national guidelines and sustainable support supervision and training methodologies through District Health Management Teams.  The STA will provide technical leadership to team who work design and accompany health systems strengthening interventions that improve access, quality of care, accountability, and sustainability, supporting transition to locally led service delivery models.