Analista en Salud Malaria

The Malaria Health Analyst will provide technical and strategic direction for the Malaria component under the UNDP Bolivia health portfolio, coordinating with national and subnational actors to support malaria control and elimination efforts. The role involves programmatic planning, monitoring, technical assistance, risk management, and knowledge management to ensure effective implementation of malaria interventions.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and strategic direction for the Malaria component as the Principal Recipient of the Global Fund for Malaria.
• Support the national program in strategic analysis of program implementation and monitoring of results, products, indicators, and targets.
• Provide technical inputs for activity supervision and support evidence-based decision making.
• Coordinate with Ministry of Health and Sports, National Vector-Borne Diseases Program, Departmental Health Services, sub-recipients, civil society, and other relevant actors to maintain effective collaboration.
• Provide specialized technical assistance at national, departmental, and local levels to strengthen malaria intervention implementation.
• Facilitate coordination, monitoring, and program progress analysis spaces.
• Develop, monitor, and update the Malaria component work plan ensuring alignment with project objectives, budget, schedule, indicators, and targets.
• Monitor physical and programmatic progress of activities and identify gaps to propose corrective measures.
• Ensure timely implementation of planned actions according to UNDP and Global Fund norms and procedures.
• Monitor and advise on preparation and follow-up of agreements, contracts, terms of reference, technical specifications, and other instruments required for project implementation.
• Prepare and validate technical requirements, distribution charts, specifications, and documentation necessary for activity execution.
• Ensure technical relevance, programmatic coherence, budget alignment, and regulatory compliance.
• Coordinate and technically supervise acquisition, reception, allocation, distribution, use, and control of medicines, reagents, diagnostic tests, mosquito nets, equipment, materials, and supplies for the Malaria component.
• Guarantee traceability, availability, and proper use of strategic project goods.
• Identify and follow up on supply gaps, delays, or risks that may affect service continuity.
• Prepare, consolidate, and validate technical and programmatic information for periodic reports including PUDR and other reports required by the Global Fund, UNDP, and national counterparts.
• Identify, analyze, monitor, and report technical, operational, and programmatic risks, proposing mitigation and follow-up measures to ensure project objectives are met.
• Work with the national program to assure quality, consistency, and timeliness of information on indicators, progress, results, and program execution.
• Support evaluation of programmatic and monitoring and evaluation capacities of the national malaria program and key sub-recipients, proposing development plans to strengthen them.
• Lead preparation and implementation of capacity strengthening and transition strategies to enable national entities to assume the Principal Recipient role.
• Maintain proactive alliances with key actors, policy makers, and donor partners.
• Support documentation, systematization, and dissemination of lessons learned, best practices, successful experiences, and knowledge products generated by the Malaria component.
• Promote knowledge exchange or training in the use of evidence to strengthen decision-making, continuous improvement, and sustainability of interventions.
• Assist the national program in preparing technical documents, systematizations, studies, presentations, and other products oriented to knowledge management and institutional learning.
• Perform other functions within the functional profile as necessary for efficient office and organizational operation.

Requirements

• Master's Degree or equivalent in Public Health and/or Epidemiology is required.
• Bachelor's Degree in Health Sciences with two additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a Master's degree.
• Postgraduate degree in Project Management is desirable.
• Applicants with a Master's degree do not require professional work experience.
• Applicants with a Bachelor's degree must have a minimum of two years of relevant professional experience in health management.
• Experience working in the health sector in Bolivia, with knowledge of the organizational structure of the National Health System and its main institutional actors.
• Experience in analyzing the national epidemiological situation, preferably related to communicable diseases and malaria prevention, control, and elimination programs.
• Experience in application, implementation, or monitoring of national and international regulations, guidelines, and protocols related to integrated malaria management or other public health relevant diseases.
• Experience in using digital tools for information management and analysis, including Microsoft Office, Windows, Internet, Power BI or other data analysis software.
• Experience in malaria epidemiological surveillance.
• Experience working in the Bolivian Amazon (Pando, Riberalta or Guayaramerin).
• Experience in supply management, medicines and malaria inputs.
• Experience managing funds from international cooperation.
• Experience in inter-institutional coordination and collaborative work with government actors, international organizations, strategic partners, and other stakeholders linked to development or public health projects.
• Fluency in Spanish is required.

Skills

• Public Health
• Epidemiology
• Health Management
• Project Management
• National Health System Knowledge
• Epidemiological Analysis
• Communicable Disease Control
• Malaria Control
• Malaria Control Programs
• Malaria Elimination Programs
• Regulations and Protocols Implementation
• Integrated Malaria Management
• Digital Information Management
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Power BI
• Epidemiological Surveillance
• Supply Chain Management
• Medicines Management
• International Fund Management
• Institutional Coordination

Languages

Spanish