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Managing the implementation of the project interventions (60%)

• Under the strategic guidance of the Principal Advisor and the Senior Country Technical Coordinator, provide leadership to project staff, national and district-level health authorities, and implementing and research partners, ensuring that each partner is contributing to the project objectives.

• Lead the development of detailed work plans for each component of the intervention, working closely with the Principal Advisor, Senior Country Technical Coordinator, project staff, and partners.

• Oversee the timely implementation of the work plans, ensuring high quality outputs and taking corrective action where needed.

• Throughout all phases of project intervention, work closely with partners, national, and district-level health authorities to ensure effective lines of communication and collaboration are established and maintained, build buy-in for and ownership of the project among relevant stakeholders, and facilitate embedding the intervention within the health system.

• Liaise with the Logistics Manager to ensure timely procurement and distribution of goods and services commodities.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for the global/regional technical and programme teams for all queries relating to the project’s implementation in Uganda.

• Regularly report on progress in line with Malaria Consortium’s and funders’ reporting requirements, including regular update calls with the global/regional technical and programme teams, quarterly and annual progress reports.

• Coordinate partner quarterly and annual reports, in a timely manner to compile into one large report to submit to the donor with the PI’s guidance and sign-off.

• Act as budget holder for the project in Uganda, applying Malaria Consortium’s finance and procurement policies, and ensuring transparency and accountability.

• Monitor and regularly report on project spend in line with Malaria Consortium’s and funders’ reporting requirements, including regular reforecasting.

• Liaise with the Country Finance Manager and other finance staff to ensure payments to project implementers (e.g., field staff) are documented and processed appropriately.

• Where applicable, manage sub-grant agreements with local implementing bodies.

• Work closely with the project team to ensure the documentation of project activities and ensure implementation of monitoring and evaluation activities, providing support from Malaria Consortium staff as required.

• Liaise with the External Relations team and the Research Uptake Manager to develop communications, advocacy strategy, research uptake publications plan for the project.

• Participate in relevant national, or district level planning, review, and advocacy meetings.

Technical and research (20%)

• Support project staff in working with internal and external stakeholders to adapt and contextualise processes, tools and materials for each research component (planning; procurement and supply management; community engagement; training; response preparedness and implementation, supervision, monitoring & evaluation)

• Coordinate staff resource allocation and management for project implementation at national, subnational-field levels.

• Support the project team in quality assurance implementation of key activities, including planning meetings, training and supervision.

• Liaise with the project team/partners to ensure quality of research activities.

• Ensure that activities are appropriately budgeted for.

• Contribute to the development of technical and research reports and outputs.

• Contribute to research uptake activities.

General project management (20%)

• Participate in recruitment and line manage project team members as required, ensuring Malaria

• Consortium’s HR policies are applied.

• Negotiate office arrangements for project staff.

• Work with the Senior Country Technical Coordinator, Country Director and the Principal Advisor to develop and maintain a project risk register and ensure that any actions required to mitigate risks are implemented.

• Assume overall responsibility for the Project safeguarding Risk Assessment tool, safety and security of Malaria Consortium project staff, assets and reputation.

• Develop a national or sub-national safety and security plan and manage its implementation, ensuring the project team is equipped with the tools required to live and work in a safe and secure environment.

• Monitor available security information and establish contingency planning exercises in anticipation of major events, to provide requisite security whilst minimising programmatic disruption.

• Ensure the project staff and partners are compliant with contract requirements and donor regulations.