PMI Resident Advisor, USAID/West Africa-Cameroon

The PMI Resident Advisor shall provide specialized, senior-level technical expertise in malaria, as well as leadership, guidance and overall direction on the development and execution of the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) in collaboration with the PMI Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Malaria Advisor. The PMI Resident Advisor shall liaise with backstops for the PMI in USAID Washington, CDC counterparts in country and Atlanta, and USAID personnel working within and overseeing the Mission’s activities related to malaria control and other health areas. These responsibilities include providing expert malaria technical guidance and advice to national malaria control program and regional level counterparts, and other malaria control partners, including other United States Government (USG) entities working in malaria prevention and control.  The PMI Resident Advisor shall exercise extensive independent judgment in planning and carrying out tasks, in representing the USG in critical technical and policy forums, in resolving problems and conflicts, and in taking steps necessary to meet deadlines.  The PMI Resident Advisor will also represent USAID at functions; approve policy documents; provide technical guidance and/or directly manage contracts and grants; budget; and develop planning documents and work plans.  

The incumbent must possess specific technical expertise in public health and malaria treatment, prevention and control in particular, and possess an understanding of the social, economic and cultural determinants and implications of the epidemic in Cameroon and neighboring countries, as well as have the experience and skills required to help formulate the USG position on malaria and make important policy decisions as a key representative of USAID in Cameroon