Consultant, Support for AMP Technical Assistance Provision, Quality Control of Deliverables, and Optimizing ITN Access in Africa Project Activities

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is the world’s largest humanitarian organization, with a network of 191-member National Societies. The overall aim of the IFRC is “to inspire, encourage, facilitate, and promote at all times all forms of humanitarian activities by National Societies with a view to preventing and alleviating human suffering and thereby contributing to the maintenance and promotion of human dignity and peace in the world.” The IFRC works to meet the needs and improve the lives of vulnerable people before, during and after disasters, health emergencies and other crises.

The IFRC is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (the Movement), together with its member National Societies and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The work of the IFRC is guided by the following fundamental principles: humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality. At Geneva level, the Health and Care Department’s (HCD) New Strategic Direction 2023 focuses on Health Systems Strengthening and WASH Systems Strengthening through four pillars: Global Health Security, Global Health Protection (UHC), Global WASH Services and Transformative Partnership.

The Global Health Protection (UHC) pillar houses and chairs the Alliance for Malaria Prevention (AMP), a global partnership including government, private sector, faith-based and humanitarian organizations, focused on three main activities: (1) coordination of partners involved in insecticide-treated net (ITN) campaign and continuous distribution (CD) activities; (2) development of operational guidance for planning and implementing of ITN distribution based on an iterative process; and (3) providing technical assistance to national malaria programmes and partners based on requests. AMP’s activities support achievement of the WHO Global Technical Strategy (GTS) targets for high coverage and use of ITNs. AMP is a workstream within the RBM Partnership to End Malaria’s Country Regional Support Partner Committee (CRSPC). Harnessing the global leadership and management systems of IFRC, AMP is uniquely positioned to support and advance country-level efforts to optimize ITN distribution and ensure that the right nets reach the right people at the right time through both campaign and continuous distribution channels.

In 2023, IFRC/AMP was awarded a three-year grant by the Gates Foundation focused on optimizing ITN access in the face of limited resources for the fight against malaria. In this grant, AMP will focus on implementing activities across five workstreams designed to address identified gaps. The primary objectives are to enhance data utilization for informed decision-making and to leverage digital tools for optimization of ITN campaigns. These workstreams ultimately aim to reduce the malaria burden through effective malaria prevention with ITNs.

The overall objective of this consultancy is to support the IFRC/AMP malaria team with activities related to the OPITACA project, particularly under Workstream 5 (supplemental capacity building, mentoring, and technical assistance), as detailed below:

Deliverables Overview

Light touch TA to countries: 30 days

Alignment to the IFRC’s objectives and strategy:

The Alliance for Malaria Prevention’s mandate aligns to the Federation’s Strategy 2030 as it supports the achievement of strategic aims:

1) Save lives, protect livelihoods and strengthen recovery from disasters and crises

2) Enable healthy and safe living

Project objectives and timelines:

Objective #1: Scaling up and maintaining universal coverage targets of malaria prevention with ITNs through all available channels including mass distribution campaigns and continuous distribution channels.

Desired outcomes: Successful support to the AMP team with technical assistance provision and high-quality TA outputs.

Support to be provided to the consultant:

The consultant will be supported by the Lead – Malaria Programmes, Senior Officer – OPITACA and the Officer – AMP Country Support.

Time Allocation, for budget purposes:

This consultancy is based on an estimate of 40 billable days.

Compensation for distance support within the consultancy is based on a daily rate, with eight billable hours equaling one day for billing purposes.

The consultancy timeframe will be from 1 November 2025 to 15 October 2026.

Notes

The consultant will be contracted by the IFRC and the standard contractual terms will apply.

Required

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in ITN campaigns and malaria control.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in logistics and supply chain management related to health interventions, preferably malaria programs.
• Demonstrated experience in providing remote and/or in-country technical assistance for health campaigns.
• Experience collaborating with Ministries of Health (MoH) and National Malaria Control Programs (NMCPs).

Required

• Proficiency in English (written and spoken).

Preferred

• Proficiency in Portuguese and/or French.
• Familiarity with AMP deliverables and quality standards.

Application Instruction

Please submit your application in English only.