Technical Director

Responsibilities

1. Provide leadership and strategic design and direction to ensure programmatic integrity and technical guidance to the project and local stakeholders, including in the following:
2. Event and indicator-based surveillance design, implementation, and evaluation
3. Strengthening of laboratory systems at national and subnational levels
4. Capacity building for detection, and response of emergency health and environmental threats
5. Coordination and collaboration for the successful implementation of the One Health approach
6. Design, development or strengthening of data systems and digital solutions that support national and subnational emergency responses
7. Ensure the project is technically sound, evidence-based and responsive to the needs of national partners, stakeholders and donor
8. Support implementation of activities/initiatives in alignment with global IHR standards to advance JEE scores
9. Ensure high-quality technical approaches, define measures of success for technical areas, and monitor country quality gaps and trends and recommend strategies to resolve them in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Pakistan, and One Health ministries
10. Provide mentoring and capacity building at the individual and organizational level, including with local partners in specific areas of expertise in at least one of the following areas: laboratory systems strengthening, surveillance systems, and/or emergency response in Pakistan
11. Ensure coordinated and quality provision of technical assistance to programs, including drawing upon global data and trends to identify strategic opportunities, identifying needed shifts in technical approaches and implementation and by identifying opportunities to fill critical knowledge gaps
12. Improve capacity of local government health authorities to conduct evidence-based and epidemiological analysis of local health systems for decision-making to inform strategic and programmatic direction
13. Work with Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) staff to develop M&E frameworks and effectively track data/results
14. Learn from other USAID GHS focus country programs (implemented by Jhpiego and other entities) and integrate learnings into the Pakistan GHS activity, and develop a cadre of GHS champions and national technical experts
15. Provide technical oversight to sub-partners to ensure they are able to deliver on project scope
16. Mentor, supervise and manage performance and provide timely feedback to technical and program staff
17. Lead the preparation, and timely submission of quality project reports to the donor
18. Contribute to knowledge management, research and learning to advance Global Health Security strategies and approaches globally
19. Represent Jhpiego and the project’s progress, achievements and lessons learned to donors, other key stakeholders, and through relevant technical advisory/working groups and professional forums, meetings, conferences
20. Provide management leadership to all operational aspects including administration, logistics, procurement, budgeting, finance and compliance, and property
21. Author/co-author abstracts, presentations, and articles for journals and conferences
22. Work with finance and project staff to develop and track project budgets
23. Coordinate efforts with the country team lead to ensure alignment with organizational strategy, mission and goals

Required Qualifications

Advanced degree in a relevant field such as public health, animal health, environmental science, health systems strengthening

Minimum of 8 years’ experience in a senior role managing large, complex, and integrated programs of similar scope, preferably in global health security in public and private facilities, local government institutions systems strengthening, developing and capacitating local organizations in Pakistan

Proven ability to work collaboratively with government, donors, the private sector, various ministries, development partners, community organizations, research organizations, and academic institutions to advance the health objectives

Previous or recent experience working in Pakistan with intimate understanding of local health and government system and gaps and opportunities in the above-mentioned technical areas, and preferably with established relationships with relevant Pakistani stakeholders

Demonstrated experience leading and managing multi-sectoral and multi-disciplinary teams to achieve project results in a fast-paced and complex environment

Previous experience working on USAID-funded projects, matched with an in-depth knowledge of USAID regulations, compliance and reporting requirements

Experience working with sub-/grantees, local and international and knowledge of capacity development approaches for locally-led development

Strong analytical and critical thinking skills and ability to translate data into action, and communicate results to wide ranging audiences

Demonstrated experience and knowledge in establishing project systems and overseeing project start-up and close-out

Experience hiring and supervising personnel and ensuring they acquire the necessary training and skills to meet evolving project needs

Excellent diplomacy skills and a proven ability to establish and maintain interpersonal and professional relationships with USAID, host-country counterparts and representatives from other key stakeholders such as NGOs and CSOs

Excellent skills in facilitation, team building, and coordination

Excellent verbal , written interpersonal and presentation skills in English

Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical capacity of technical staff

Ability to travel nationally and internationally

Preferred Qualifications

MD preferred Demonstrated experience in the field of GHS preferred

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