The MENTOR Initiative (‘MENTOR’) is a humanitarian organisation specialising in disease control and improving access to healthcare in emergency settings currently across countries in Africa, the Middle East and South America. MENTOR is the leading organisation dedicated to the control of malaria and other vector-borne diseases in complex, challenging settings.
MENTOR delivers large scale disease control interventions working with remote and underserved communities affected by emergencies such as conflict and natural disasters. We also help build the technical and operational capacity of local and international partners to incorporate medium- and long-term disease control systems into their operations and country strategy.
In South Sudan MENTOR is focused on vector-borne diseases as well as neglected tropical diseases.
The Technical Coordinator will support MENTOR‘s overall implementation of disease control services for communities in vulnerable settings in South Sudan. The post holder will lead and coordinate technical teams across different sites within the country. Reporting to the Country Director (CD) and HQ team, this role will lead the technical aspects of programme activities. The critical task is to ensure the programme achieves its objectives in all the technically related activities in accordance with the programme grant/award(s). The consultant will be responsible, with the CD, in ensuring that MENTOR’s profile within South Sudan maintains the status of the leading vector-borne disease specialist.
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