Job ID

2023-5737

Location

US

Category

Global

Employment Status

Contingent Upon Award

Jhpiego seeks a Technical Director / Deputy Chief of Party to provide vision, leadership and direction to ensure the strategic, epidemiologic, programmatic and technical excellence for an upcoming global health security project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development. The project, valued at up to $300 million, will support in-country counterparts in 50 focus countries to enhance the capacity of national and sub-national laboratory networks and surveillance systems; develop and strengthen data collection, analysis, and reporting relating to surveillance and detection systems; and provide targeted technical assistance during outbreaks for detection, surveillance, and data analysis and management. 

The Technical Director / Deputy Chief of Party, as a chief epidemiologist/scientist, will have the overall responsibility of leading the technical design and providing high quality technical support to countries in alignment with the International Health Regulations to advance USAID’s goal of data driven prevention, timely detection and response to current and future outbreaks.   This position will guide, oversee, and integrate innovations, new approaches and technical priorities in prevention, detection and response to accelerate country strategies in global health security.  The position will oversee the technical work of Jhpiego staff and resource partners in target countries. 

This position is contingent upon award and annual funding from USAID.

• Provide leadership and strategic design and direction to ensure programmatic integrity and technical guidance to the project and local stakeholders, including in the following:
  • Event and indicator-based surveillance design, implementation, and evaluation
  • Strengthening of laboratory systems at national and subnational levels
  • Capacity building for detection, and response of emergency health and environmental threats
  • Coordination and collaboration for the successful implementation of the One Health approach
  • Design, development or strengthening of data systems and digital solutions that support national and subnational emergency responses.
• Support all 50 focus countries to conceptualize, design, and develop plans for seamless integration and implementation of activities/initiatives in alignment with global IHR standards to advance JEE scores
• Ensure high-quality technical approaches, define measures of success for technical areas, monitor country and global quality gaps and trends and recommend strategies to resolve them.
• Provide mentoring and capacity building at the individual and organizational level in specific areas of expertise in at least one of the following areas: laboratory systems strengthening, surveillance systems, and/or emergency response for all 50 focus countries
• Work with all 50 focus country programs to develop a cadre of GHS champions and global technical experts who will facilitate links to other programs/services and represent Jhpiego in national and global for a
• Ensure the project is technically sound, evidence-based and responsive to the needs of national partners, stakeholders and donor
• Ensures 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.   
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with USAID Bureau of Global Health, USAID missions, local implementing partners, private sector partners and other key stakeholders to maximize resources and avoid duplication of effort
• Represent Jhpiego and the project’s progress, achievements and lessons learned to donors, other key stakeholders, and through meetings, conferences, and presentations
• Contributes to knowledge management, research and learning to advance Global Health Security strategies and approaches globally
• Supports quality review, preparation, and timely submission of project reports to donor
• Mentor, supervise and manage a team of highly qualified staff and consultants and align their efforts to ensure rapid and sustainable results
• Work with Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) staff to develop M&E frameworks and effectively track data/results
• Work with the Chief of Party to ensure compliance with the terms of the award
• Work with finance and project staff to develop and track project budgets over the course of the program activities
• Conceptualizes global technical strategies and approaches that will transform the delivery and implementation of interventions across the organization and achieve organizational priorities.   
• Conceptualizes, designs, and provides portfolio-level oversight for donor-funded projects to achieve project goals and strengthen performance.   
• Provides strategic and thought leadership to guide, oversee, and integrate innovations, new approaches. and technical priorities to drive and accelerate progress within country programs.   
• Works closely with Jhpiego Country Office staff, Global Programs Office, and other technical teams and offices within the organization to ensure strategies are aligned with project and organizational needs and realities.  
• Works collaboratively across other technical units to identify synergistic opportunities and harmonized quality programming and maximum integration of approaches across clinical, technical, and program areas.  
• Ensures high-quality technical approaches, defines measures of success for technical area, identifies quality issues and trends and recommends strategies to resolve them.   
• Identifies and actively seeks opportunities to integrate priorities across programs and works with country colleagues to operationalize contextualized strategic objectives and activities. 
• Develops and grows excellent professional relationships with colleagues, counterparts, and donors worldwide to maximize Jhpiego’s impact.  
• Develops new business opportunities, secures funding, and contributes to positioning, leads development, and proposal design and production. Analyses business development opportunities to inform decisions around which opportunities to pursue.  
• Defines and supports strategic opportunities to communicate Jhpiego’s technical expertise and position the organization through communication products that demonstrate Jhpiego’s technical expertise, results, and programming excellence. 
• Frequent international travel to support buy-in countries (up to 50%)

• Advanced degree in public health or a related field;
• 10+ years' experience successfully managing large, multi-partner, multi-country, multi-year international health sector development projects that have implemented successful activities in global health security
• Demonstrated global leadership and recognition among leaders in one or more of the key approaches of Global Health Security (predict, prevent, detect, respond)
• Strong technical and programmatic background and familiarity with global initiatives, partners, and historical trends in pandemic response and global health security
• Strong technical background and experience in one or more of health security pillars (Surveillance, laboratory systems, emergency response, infectious diseases epidemiology)
• Proven experience in utilizing data for analysis and decision-making to continuously realign organizational or project approaches with epidemiologic trends
• Experience designing and leading GHS-related capacity building activities for donor-funded programs in the field of public health
• Previous experience working in international settings (Africa, Latin America, and/or Asia) with intimate understanding of local health system and gaps and opportunities in health security, infection prevention and control, disease surveillance and response, risk communication, community engagement
• 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
• Direct USAID experience
• Strong working familiarity with USAID regulations and policies. Understanding of USAID localization policies and tools
• Expertise in research to practice—identifying and adapting best practices to specific project contexts
• 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 in global and national projects in technical staff
• Ability to travel internationally at least 50%

• MD preferred
• Excellent verbal, written interpersonal and presentation skills one additional language (French, Spanish, Portuguese) preferred

This role is exclusively open to candidates who are already located in any of the countries where Jhpiego currently operates

Total compensation will be based on the country of hire and Jhpiego’s local compensation plan.

Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package.

Please apply at www.jhpiego.org/careers

Applicants must submit a single document for upload to include: cover letter, resume, and references.

For further information about Jhpiego, visit our website at www.jhpiego.org

Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.

Jhpiego is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer

Jhpiego, a Johns Hopkins University affiliate, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, other legally protected characteristics or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. Jhpiego promotes Affirmative Action for minorities, women, individuals who are disabled, and veterans.

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