Technical Director / Deputy Chief of Party- TOGO 31 views0 applications

Technical Director / Deputy Chief of Party- TOGO

Program Overview:

Pathfinder is seeking a Technical Director / Deputy Chief of Party for the USAID Amplify Family Planning and Sexual and Reproductive Health Activity (Amplify-FP). The Amplify Family Planning and Sexual and Reproductive Health Activity (Amplify-FP) is the flagship family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) project of the USAID/West Africa RHO. Amplify-FP will emphasize key high impact practices (HIPs)1 to help achieve the goals of the Ouagadougou Partnership of achieving 2.2 million additional FP users by 2020. Building on the successes and lessons learned from AgirPF, other projects and bilateral missions in West Africa, and other recent notable achievements including the recent adoption of task shifting policy by the ECOWAS Assembly of Health Ministers, Amplify-FP aims to strategically and deliberately support replication and scale up of key FP HIPs in large urban and peri-urban centers, in order to sustainably build and scale these approaches within four target countries and model this for the region.

Position Purpose:

The Technical Director / Deputy Chief of Party will be responsible for the replication of Amplify’s HIPs, including development of a sustainable certification system for quality assurance of Amplify’s HIPs. S/he should have extensive experience with a wide range of pedagogic methods. S/he will serve as acting Chief of Party when necessary. S/he should have strong project management skills, staff supervision skills, and prior experience working with staff and stakeholders across multiple countries.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Technical Leadership

• Lead the technical design and implementation of project strategies, create a realistic and donor-responsive timeline, and continuously evaluate project progress towards achieving organizational strategic goals.
• Be fully conversant on best practices globally to develop and adapt for the Uganda setting.
• Provide technical leadership to project staff and partners in support of project objectives.
• Collaborate with headquarters and all partners to ensure programming aligns with agency mission and vision and that project best practices and lessons learned are shared for agency-wide dissemination
• Utilize a participatory approach to developing and updating the project strategic plan, ensuring programmatic directions are technically-sound, evidence-based, and consistent with international standards.
• Provide technical assistance and capacity building to local partners in support of sustainable impact

Program Management

• Assist the COP in the successful programmatic and technical implementation of the project including the timely completion of high-quality work plans, accurate reports, and other mandated deliverables.
• Assist the COP in monitoring project progress vis-à-vis expected objectives, utilizing tools and methods developed by Pathfinder, and ensuring effective usage of resources and compliance with donor requirements.
• Oversee subgrantees/subcontractors ensuring quality implementation of programming and achievement of agreed upon objectives and targets in accordance with established schedules and timelines.
• Document technical components of materials and project achievements for communications materials such as annual reports, brochures, and website updates.
• Identify, select, manage performance of, and mentor project staff ensuring professional and capacity building; facilitate necessary international technical assistance to promote project goals and objectives.
• Support other country programs, provide technical assistance, and foster cross-country collaboration.

Organizational Representation and Collaboration

• Assist COP in addressing technical and programmatic issues related to the project.
• Liaise with donors, partners, host government agencies, and other key stakeholders to share progress, accomplishments, and challenges to ensure dissemination and incorporation of best practices.
• Cultivate strong relations with headquarters to achieve organizational goals and provide periodic updates to staff worldwide on the progress, challenges, successes, and lessons learned in managing the project.
• Serve as COP, assuming overall field responsibility for project, in absence of the COP, as necessary.

Basic Requirements:

• Master’s degree required in public health, public administration, sociology, education or other relevant development field
• At least 10 years of experience in a teaching/training organizational development role, with significant expertise in developing and implementing a wide range of training/learning methods required.
• Experience with developing certification systems for sustainable quality assurance highly preferred.
• Strong experience required with direct supervision, and working with teams and staff from multicultural backgrounds.
• Prior experience in public health and family planning programming is strongly preferred.
• Prior experience in West Africa is strongly preferred.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the health context and structural issues in West Africa including socioeconomic, institutional and policy issues that are related to essential services in population, health, and nutrition.
• Proven ability to create and maintain effective working relations with senior Government personnel, international organizations, NGO partners, host country governments, and U. S. Government Agencies.
• Fluency in French (3S/3R minimum) and English (at 4S/4R) are required.

Pathfinder International is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex,national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.