PSI Editor, Consultant in Arlington 126 views

Position: Short term Editor (Consultant)

Department: PMI Impact Malaria

Location: TBD, remote acceptable

Period of Performance: Max 25 days, October 5 – November 6, 2020

Who we are

We’re Population Services International (PSI), the world’s leading non-profit social marketing organization. We work to make it easier for people in the developing world to be healthy and plan the families they desire by providing access to products and services that range from mosquito nets to HIV testing to contraceptives.

There are about 7,000 “PSI’ers” around the world. We’re an eclectic mix of people with a diverse range of backgrounds from the international health sector to the marketing industry to the behavior change field. PSI’s new global strategy focuses on improving consumer powered healthcare through shaping market systems, shifting policy and funding and strengthening global capacity.

PMI Impact Malaria Program

The US Presidents Malaria Initiative (PMI) Impact Malaria project (IM) is PMI’s flagship global malaria service delivery project, helping to improve the quality and increase the delivery of malaria diagnosis and treatment services in up to 27 countries around the world. PMI Impact Malaria is a USAID contract hosted and led by PSI as the prime contractor.

PMI Impact Malaria works with national malaria control programs to help tackle these challenges by:

• Closing the gaps in malaria service delivery to get the right medicine, with the correct diagnosis, to patients in need, in the timeliest manner.
• Unlocking the potential of key drug-based approaches, by helping countries to introduce, implement, and scale-up proven innovations to move countries forward in their elimination efforts, according to each country’s unique malaria situation.
• Strengthening malaria health systems and the use of data for decision-making to link operational research and country-led dialogue with global technical leadership for the means of accelerating service delivery improvements and advancing key learnings.

The IM project is contractually required to submit an annual report in November highlighting achievements across the project’s core and country specific work. The annual report is anticipated to be a 300-450 page document that includes narrative, tables and graphs, images, and success stories.

The IM project seeks a consultant to edit and format the annual report once final drafts have been received from country offices. It is anticipated that the bulk of editing work would be required starting the week of October 12^th – October 30^th with the potential for some sections be available for review the week of October 5^th and finalization of some elements taking until the week of November 2^nd.