Head of Malaria - GL F - Defined

Position: Head of Malaria - GL F - Defined Duration until December 2028
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Head of Malaria - GL F - Defined Duration until December 2028

The Head of Malaria is the Global Fund’s lead voice and authority on accelerating progress in the fight against malaria both with external audiences and within the Global Fund Secretariat.
The Head of Malaria sets the vision and strategy for how the Global Fund’s investments contribute to the elimination of malaria as a global public health threat. They leverage the Global Fund’s investment scale and model, community of partners, the Malaria Team and the broader Secretariat with unique country-level insights to shape the global malaria health agenda. They ensure the Global Fund investments are equitable, impactful, prioritized and responsive to the needs of the most affected and underserved populations.

They ensure the strategy is effectively operationalized in line with Global Fund processes, supporting Global Fund Country Teams and country stakeholders with solutioning advice and practical recommendations, and in partnership with the malaria and broader health communities. They support catalytic people-centered malaria investments to maximize impact, equity, quality, integration, value for money, and sustainability, aligned with technical guidance, based on country owned plans tailored to the local context.
The Head of Malaria assertively drives the Global Fund partnerships towards the common goal of reducing malaria mortality and incidence, malaria elimination, supporting malaria endemic countries to meet the needs of populations at highest risk. In an evolving global health landscape, the Global Fund’s Head of Malaria is a key contributor to the Global Fund partnerships in many areas, including health and community systems, integration, equity and sustainability.
They drive market shaping for accelerating and sustaining malaria results, lead the introduction and scaling of technical and health product innovations, ensuring the optimal use of malaria health products and promoting integrated approaches to enhance program performance and address biological threats.
** Key Responsibilities
** As a senior leader in the Technical Advice and Partnerships Department Management Team, the Head of Malaria is responsible for steering the Secretariat and the Global Fund partnerships to accelerate country-level impact in the fight against HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria.

Their focus is on malaria, and they collaborate with and leverage expertise from other Global Fund domains (e.g., HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health, Community, Rights and Gender, Health Finance, Supply Operations), as well as working closely with these stakeholders to drive a more holistic, cross cutting, integrated and resilient health response.

The Head of Malaria is responsible for three specific outcomes:
* Leveraging and influencing the Global Fund’s partnership landscape to accelerate key Malaria priorities, in line with the Global Fund strategy.
* Increasing the quality of Global Fund’s investments in Malaria. Ensuring cross-Secretariat collaboration, particularly with the Grant Management Division, for ensuring Malaria Program results are progressing, sustainably and with increasing self-reliance; driving program quality, innovations, health service integration, cost effectiveness and better performance through strategic and technical leadership; identifying key challenges, strategic insights, issues and opportunities and how to respond through the levers of the Global Fund model.
* Developing a motivated, highly effective Malaria Team whose expertise in guiding strategic Malaria investments, program design and effective implementation to accelerate results is consistently valued and in high demand across the Global Fund Secretariat, particularly by Global Fund Country Teams.

Several core responsibilities facilitate the Head of Malaria’s achievement of these outcomes:
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