Consultant, Support to the Alliance for Malaria Prevention Partnership Core Group
Remote | Pristina
- Organization: IFRC - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- Location: Remote | Pristina
- Grade: Consultancy - Consultant - Contractors Agreement
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Occupational Groups:
- Humanitarian Aid and Coordination
- External Relations, Partnerships and Resource mobilization
- Malaria, Tuberculosis and other infectious diseases
- Public, Private Partnership
- Closing Date: 2024-01-30
Organizational Context
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Job Purpose
The overall objective of this consultancy is to support the AMP Core Group to define its roles and responsibilities vis a vis the AMP staff team, its partners, its donors, and most importantly, the countries that it serves. In reviewing examples of how other public health partnerships are governed, the Core Group wishes to ensure that AMP’s governance structure is fit for purpose in terms of the size and scope of AMP’s work, and to adopt better practices for managing a global public health partnerships.
To achieve this objective, the consultant will:
- Document in more detail the evolution of the structure and responsibilities of the Core Group.
- Document the current roles and responsibilities of the Core Group.
- Review and share the governance structure of comparable global health partnerships.
- Make recommendations to the AMP Core Group on possible changes to the partnership’s governance structure based on what other global health partnerships are doing in terms of ‘best practice’; including ways to avoid conflicts-of-interests or clearly state conditions if / when Core Group members can also work in a consultant capacity for AMP / receive payments from AMP.
- Develop a decision-making matrix with various governance structure scenarios to support the Core Group to take decisions on possible changes to its composition, roles and responsibilities based on the outcome of the steps above.
Job Duties and Responsibilities
Consultancy outputs:
- A decision matrix with recommendations to support the AMP Core Group to take decisions on the Core Group’s composition, roles and responsibilities and most appropriate governance structure.
- A supporting document to illustrate different government structures that could result based on the decision matrix, along with clearly defined pro’s and con’s for each scenario.
Required activities to achieve these outputs:
- Desk review of AMP’s core documents
- Individual and/or group interviews with AMP Core Group members
- Individual and/or group interviews with AMP staff
- Interviews with key AMP stakeholders, including representatives of national malaria programmes.
- Review of documents and/or interviews with representatives of similar global public health partnerships to learn about their governance structures.
It is envisaged the decision matrix and recommendations will be supported by a written report which summarizes the outcome of the actions above and proposes other decision points the AMP Core Group may consider.
Management of consultancy
The consultant will report to the AMP Core Group. The day-to-day management of the consultancy will be done by the AMP Core Group Chair.
Location
There will be no travel associated with this consultancy.
All work can be done from the consultant’s home location.
Support documents
The following support documents will be provided at the start of the consultancy:
- Final AMP Core Group Criteria
- AMP Annual Reports
- AMP Annual Workplans
Knowledge, Skills and Languages
Required
- Fluently spoken and written English.
Competencies, Values and Comments
Application Instructions
Please submit your application in English only.
Please include in your motivation letter your availability and your current Daily Fee Rate in CHF.
IFRC values equal opportunity, diversity and inclusivity. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates, irrespective of sex, gender, sexual orientation, marital or parental status, nationality, class, political opinions, ethnic or social origin, disability, religion, or belief.