OverviewThe Senior Technical Director leads Jhpiego’s broad portfolio of work in HIV, TB and other Infectious Diseases. They align the short and long-term goals of HIV/TB and other Infectious Diseases with those of the organization, ensuring that Jhpiego remains at the forefront of sustaining and achieving global health goals.The Senior Technical Director provides strategic leadership to ensure technical excellence across the organization, serves as a global thought leader and fosters new strategic partnerships and relationships with donors grow Jhpiego’s portfolio and revenue and strengthen its reputation as a global leader.The Senior Technical Director leads and drives the performance of senior staff to assure programmatic excellence across the portfolio or projects and achievement of strategic objectivesResponsibilitiesTechnical Assistance & Quality Programming

• Ensures that Jhpiego’s programs are of high quality and structured to achieve impact. Ensures that the programs that are assisted are technically sound, evidence-based, and responsive to the priorities and needs of the countries and donors.
• Works collaboratively across other technical implementation units to identify synergistic opportunities and to harmonize and integrate approaches across all clinical, technical and program areas
• Creates and leads multi-dimensional, crosscutting initiatives that improve health programs
• Ensures application of Jhpiego’s quality assurance standards for health systems, ensures high-quality technical approaches, and defines measures of success for Jhpiego’s programs (including gathering, using and presenting appropriate data).
• Provides senior level, high quality technical assistance by combining industry knowledge and best practices with strategic program expertise, guidance and advice for country programs
• Ensures coordinated and quality provision of technical assistance to country programs, including drawing upon global data and trends to identify strategic opportunities, quality issues and trends across the portfolio, and identifies needed shifts in technical approaches and implementation.
• Drives consensus among donor, partner, government or other stakeholder group to ensure successful project outcomes and to maintain Jhpiego’s reputation as a technical leader.
• Develops strong stakeholder networks within project settings and leverages relationships and experience to position the organization for future growth.

Global Technical Strategy Development & Implementation

• Through a variety of approaches, demonstrates, builds and enhances brand-recognition of Jhpiego as a global leader in Infectious Disease including HIV/TB/Malaria and others.
• Drives the vision and development of a cohesive and complementary strategic plan for the next five year of sustaining the HIV gains and leading in innovations. Ensures an integrated approach across the breadth of the program and technical approaches across units.
• Leads a broad team for the conceptualization and development of new innovations and programmatic approaches to accelerate public health impact.
• Sets priorities and makes substantial contributions to departmental and organizational strategic objectives.

Capacity Building

• Identifies and anticipates capacity gaps and designs organizational wide approaches for building capacity among staff and local partners that advance Jhpiego’s competitive advantage.
• Provides leadership for capacity building, coaching and mentoring of staff and local partners. Provides direction for and implements development of capacity building plans based on unit priorities, global trends, updates and quality assurance data.
• Empowers teams to take in new challenges, pursue new ideas and embrace change.
• Keeps abreast of and ensure latest technical guidance is widely disseminated and applied. Conceptualizes and leads implementation of organizational-wide strategies to institutionalize best practices and the most up to date technical and clinical practices.

New Program Development & Donor Relations

• Positions Jhpiego in the near and long term to expand and grow technical portfolios. Cultivates and builds new partnerships with organizations, private enterprises and stakeholders to expand Jhpiego’s capabilities.
• Positions the organization in new markets and secures new commitments and partnerships.
• Develops and grows excellent professional relationships with colleagues, counterparts, and donors worldwide to maximize Jhpiego’s impact.
• Actively 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.

External Representation

• Ensure global leadership for Jhpiego by serving on external advisory or working groups and representing Jhpiego in key global and regional technical meetings and committees.
• Serves as a global expert in international meetings, conferences and events to strengthen Jhpiego’s reputation as a global leader.

Supervision and Team Management

• Oversees senior level staff leading work in the unit and ensure effective operations of the team.
• Work in close collaboration with Hub leaderships
• Provides guidance and support to technical staff, deploys and maximize human resources across the unit, assigns work functions, and identifies and acquires new talent.

Required Qualifications

• Advanced degree in medicine, public health, pharmacy, nursing or related degree
• 12+ years of progressively responsible technical experience including implementing and/or managing international field-based programs
• At least 5 years of experience in supervisory roles
• Demonstrated global leadership and recognition among leaders in the technical area in HIV, TB and ID
• Broad professional networks, including high-level working relationship with USAID Washington and other donors
• Proven, demonstrable leadership skills and expertise in strategic program planning, implementation and management
• Strong technical and programmatic background
• Strong change management, results oriented and decision-making skills
• Deep understanding of low and middle-income countries (LMIC) health systems and country-specific barriers limiting effective healthcare delivery
• Strategic thinker with exemplary record of developing and operationalizing vision and strategy
• Proven leadership and track record of managing highly skilled and diverse skill sets, working effectively with and leading diverse teams of professionals
• Excellent inter-personal and communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively in a multi-cultural environment and in challenging LMIC country settings
• Proven ability to work in a complex, fast-paced, multi-cultural environment with multiple tasks and short deadlines
• Ability to lead as a team player, mentor and manager, demanding top performance from self and in partnership with the entire team
• Excellent understanding of USG- USAID, CDC, DoD, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and other donor opportunities, systems, structures and processes
• Experience working in challenging environments in Africa, Asia or LAC regions
• Ability to travel nationally and internationally up to 20% of time

Preferred Qualifications

• Clinical degree in relevant area
• Fluency in English required. Fluency in French, Portugues, Spanish or other language preferred

The salary range for this role is Annual expected to be: $168,894- $209,585.Total Rewards:The referenced salary range is based on Johns Hopkins University’s good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level. Johns Hopkins offers a total rewards package that supports our employees’ health, life, career and retirement. More information can be found here:Please refer to the job description above to see which forms of equivalency are permitted for this position. If permitted, equivalencies will follow these guidelines:
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Expected salary: $168894 per year

Location: Baltimore, MD

Job date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 02:08:27 GMT

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