Website Against Malaria Foundation

We help protect people from malaria.

Against Malaria Foundation is looking for a Senior Operations Manager to join their team.

Overview:

  • Full-time position
  • Language: English and French
  • Location: Remote working within Africa/UK/Europe time zones (all the AMF team work remotely), with a preference for UK based; Please note that we won’t review applications from outside these time zones
  • Salary: £50,000 to £60,000 per year
  • Applications closing: until filled

Job Description

Our activities and commitments are steadily increasing, and 2025 and 2026 will be particularly busy years of distributions, with a plan for distributing over ~100m nets. In light of this, AMF is recruiting a Senior Operations Manager to join the operations team and play an important role in ensuring the success of the net distributions.

We are looking for someone who has strong interpersonal and intellectual skills who is able to work collaboratively. The ideal candidate will be comfortable taking on significant responsibility by leading on several of AMF’s programmes.

The role will include involvement in all stages of a distribution campaign (pre-agreement, net procurement, post-agreement, during distribution, and post distribution) across two main areas:

  • Work with National Malaria Control Programmes (NMCPs)
  • Work with AMF’s independent monitoring partners

Responsibilities

The Senior Operations Manager will lead on several of AMF’s programmes. They will work closely with NMCPs, in country partners, AMF independent monitors, the AMF Operations and Technology teams to ensure the success of AMF distributions. More specifically, they will manage the distributions through the following stages:

  • Pre agreement
    • Establishing the funding gap
    • Establishing the net need, malaria burden, insecticide resistance data
    • Working with the Ministry of Health to negotiate and put in place an agreement for the programme
  • Net procurement
    • Working with AMF’s procurement lead to order nets in time for the distribution
  • Post-agreement
    • After signature of the agreement, working with countries to put in place the plans for key elements, in particular
      • Electronic data collection o 5% re-visits
      • Net tracking
    • Tender for and select an independent partner for distribution monitoring, and work closely with this partner that will be AMF’s eyes and ears in country
  • During the distribution
    • Track information coming from monitoring partners
    • Analyse with the Head of Analytics registration and distribution data and take actions if needed
    • Account for all AMF nets
  • Post distribution
    • Tender for and select an independent partner for post distribution monitoring, and work closely with this partner to carry out surveys at 9, 18 and 27 months post-distribution
    • Share results with in-country partners and encourage appropriate actions to be taken

Through these stages, it will be important to maintain strong relationships with the key partners. Notably the National Malaria Control Programmes, distribution partners and cofounding partners to ensure that distributions are carried out according to the agreements signed between the Ministry of Health and AMF.

These relationships will ensure that solutions can be found constructively to issues that arise during implementation of AMF’s programmes. Aside from the areas above, there will be other work related to AMF Group Operations, dependent on the candidate’s skill set.

Role Requirements

We are looking for someone who has strong interpersonal and intellectual skills, who works collaboratively in a team and relishes responsibility and the opportunity to learn and develop their abilities.

The ideal candidate will be motivated to help improve the lives of those affected by the wider impacts of malaria.

Required:

  • Fluent French and English
  • Excellent interpersonal skills to build and maintain strong working relationships
  • Strong analytical skills and be able to use Excel confidently
  • A self-starter who is highly organised with the ability to work independently and manage working time effectively
  • Strong project management skills and comfort handling meetings with senior staff
  • Comfort in dealing with and learning about financial matters, willing to examine budgets in detail
  • At least four years work experience. The skills and potential of the candidate take priority over prior experience and we welcome applications from a range of backgrounds and experiences
  • An interest in driving down malaria rates through procedure changes and the use of technology

Of interest (but certainly not required):

  • Experience working on projects based in Africa or in international development
  • Malaria knowledge or background in malaria prevention or other global health campaigns

How to apply?

Applicants should send a one-page cover letter explaining why they are interested in and suitable for the position, and their CV to senioropsmanagerH2G6@againstmalaria.com.

We encourage early applications as we will be reviewing applications on an ongoing basis.

To apply for this job email your details to senioropsmanagerH2G6@againstmalaria.com.