Job Description
Job Purpose
To provide strategic leadership, management, and direction for the development and wider rollout of symbiont-based disease control approaches.To initiate contact with, advise and negotiate new contracts with Governments to ensure wider rollout of these approaches.To oversee international teams working in two consortia on the control of dengue virus using Wolbachia and developing malaria control using symbionts.To provide day-to-day management and co-ordination of the two consortia. The postholder will co-ordinate a portfolio of initiatives, manage and monitor project budgets, provide the PI with detailed project status reports, and assist in reporting on the progress and achievements to the consortia funders. Main Duties and Responsibilities 1. Lead the strategic planning process for uptake of symbiont-based disease approaches and shape the long-term strategic direction of symbiont-based dengue control interventions.2. Ensure the current pr...