Panagora Group
Panagora Group
Panagora Group
United States
United States,
Organization: Panagora Group
Country: United States
City: Washington
Office: Panagora Group in Washington, United States
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Project/Activity USAID/Malaria Vector Control
Industry USAID
City Washington, DC
State/Province District of Columbia
Country United States
Zip/Postal Code 20001
HIghest Level of Education Master’s Degree
Work Experience 10-15 years
Job Description
Panagora Group is a small business providing novel and integrated solutions in global health and international development. Our goal is to provide innovative solutions that build national capacity and promote sustainability through robust local participation and capacity building, utilizing highly integrated and private sector solutions. Throughout our work, we embrace a virtuous circle of knowledge stewardship, collaborative learning, and the application of evidence to heighten and accelerate positive health and development outcomes.
Panagora Group seeks a Gender and Social Inclusion Director as part of the anticipated Prevention of Malaria through the Vector Control program. The Director will assume a leadership function in mainstreaming/strengthening gender, social, and other special population groups inclusion strategies within the design and implementation of activities that support entomological monitoring, indoor residual spraying (IRS), and insecticide-treated mosquito net (ITN) programs and other proven, life-saving malaria vector control interventions with the overall goal of reducing the burden of malaria and accelerating progress towards elimination.
Responsibilities:
Provide technical leadership and oversight to strengthen and mainstream gender, social, and inclusive development considerations to prevent malaria through vector control.
Support National Malaria Control Programs (NMCPs) and other frontline malaria vector control implementing partners to implement innovative solutions for strengthening gender and social inclusion institutional practices.
Design research to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of innovative gender and social inclusion strategies for malaria vector control strengthening activities.
Collaborate and develop strategic frameworks for integrating gender and social inclusion best practices and solutions within National Malaria Control Programs (NMCPs) and frontline Malaria vector control implementation partners.
Lead and contribute to national malaria vector control-oriented gender and social barrier analyses to inform the design of capacity-building activities.
Identify opportunities to include women, young people, and special population groups and better integrate a gender lens into malaria control activities
Work closely with NMCPs and other stakeholders to outline activities, meet outcomes, assessments, and results, and successfully strengthen gender activities.
Contribute to thought leadership and outreach to influence and shape gender and social activities gender in malaria control and prevention activities.
Requirements
Master’s degree in Public Health, Gender Studies, Business Administration, Anthropology/Sociology, International Development, or other relevant fields.
At least ten years of professional experience in global health or international development.
Experience with health systems strengthening, Malaria, MNCH, and HIV/AIDS programming preferred.
Extensive practical experience effectively leading gender-sensitive projects and programs.
Demonstrated experience designing and implementing effective projects that reduce gender and other social disparities and empower women, girls, and members of traditionally disadvantaged groups, including project design and implementation, policy design, and training interventions and tools.
Panagora Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran disability or genetic information or any other reason prohibited by law in employment.
