Provincial Coordinator

Overview

CHISU supports the Thailand Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) in the final stretch of eliminating malaria in the country. Despite having made significant progress in reducing malaria incidence and deaths over the decades, political instability in Myanmar has resulted in a 400% increase in malaria cases particularly along the Thai-Myanmar border provinces.

This position will work closely with the newly established Coordination Center in Tak province responding to the upsurge of malaria cases along the border. The Provincial Coordinator will support capacity strengthening to improve the utilization of data for action, health policy, and advocacy. The Provincial Coordinator will also participate in meetings, trainings, and workshops as required to ensure best practices and lessons learned are captured and disseminated.

**Responsibilities**:

- Communicate and coordinate with DVBD, provincial health teams and other stakeholders to provide on-going monitoring of activities and identify needed resources for the effective continuation and support of priority activities, such as monitoring and forecasting commodity needs based on population dynamics (65%)
- Develop and manage relationships with government, non-governmental and other technical and community stakeholders involved in malaria response and prevention;
- Support provincial health teams to prepare data products that directly inform provincial coordination and response activities;
- Use data to rapidly identify outbreaks, communicate and coordinate with stakeholders to identify key interventions and mobilize the resources needed to effectively respond (30%)
- Monitor and interpret subnational and sub-group trends in malaria cases
- Mentor subnational counterparts to effectively analyze and use data to tailor, implement, and monitor and evaluate malaria control activities
- Support provincial health teams to ensure data quality and routine reporting into the Malaria Information System, including data on treatment of primaquine and tafenoquine.
- In collaboration with the Resident Advisor, develop data presentation templates for provincial staff, including weekly/monthly data tabulations, reports, and presentations;
- Support CHISU project management (5%)
- Support preparation of progress reports on the status of project implementation; contribute to other project reports such as annual work plans;
- Participate in key meetings with DVBD, USAID, and implementing partners;
- Perform other program and project activities as assigned.

**Qualifications**:
Bachelor's Degree in biology, public health, epidemiology or biostatistics, or other related field and 8 years of experience working in global public health and malaria disease control and outbreak response, or Master's degree and 6 years of experience, or PhD and 1 year of experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

**_Skills & Abilities_**
- Excellent communication (written and verbal), coordination and organization skills
- Excellent working knowledge of malaria surveillance and malaria control strategies in Thailand
- Proven experience in using data to drive disease control and response efforts, with a preference for malaria experience
- Strong skills in negotiation and diplomacy
- Excellent knowledge of MS Word, PowerPoint, Excel
- Data cleaning, analysis, and visualization skills
- Ability to multi-task
- Ability to work well with others
- Ability to work independently
- Attention to detail and accuracy

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