Jhpiego’s Mission
Jhpiego enhances the health and saves the lives of women and families in limited-resource settings. For over four decades, we have put evidence-based health innovations into everyday practice to overcome barriers to high-quality health care services for the world's most vulnerable populations. From our origins as technical experts in reproductive, maternal and child health, Jhpiego has grown to embrace new challenges, including HIV/AIDS, malaria and cervical cancer prevention — reflecting the increasing interconnectedness of global health.
Jhpiego’s Vision
At Jhpiego, we value our customers who have our respect, responsiveness, and commitment to excellence; our staff and global network of colleagues who bring cultural diversity, innovation, and a wealth of world experience; and our work culture, which is reflected in our team spirit, transparent communication, mutual respect, flexibility, and dedication.
Following the USAID requests for applications from qualified and eligible organizations to manage and implement the TRANSFORM/PRIMARY HEALTH CARE UNIT (PHCU) Program, a program with the goal of supporting the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) through the implementation of its new Health Sector Transformation Plan (HSTP) to Ending Preventable Child and Maternal Deaths (EPCMD), Jhpiego Ethiopia Country Office is bidding for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) funded, TRANSFORM/PRIMARY HEALTH CARE UNIT (PHCU) Program Award, as Leader/Prime. Jhpiego aims to lead a consortium of other notable international and local partner organizations operating in Ethiopia.
The USAID, through TRANSFORM/PHCU Program, intends to achieve the following key results over its five (5) year period: Improved performance of RHBs, zonal and woreda health offices to provide accessible, equitable, and quality care, including improved management capacity; Increased sustainable Quality Improvement/Assurance across the PHCU’s continuum of care; Increased capacity of healthcare providers to provide practical technical state-of-the-art interventions; Improved household and community practices and health seeking behaviors; and Enhanced program learning to impact EPCMD-related policy and programming.
Accordingly, Jhpiego Ethiopia seeks qualified and competent professionals for Senior Technical Director Position under the TRANSFORM/PHCU Program:
Position Title: senior Technical Director
Grade: G
Department/Duty Station: Ethiopia Department Office, Addis Ababa
Position Reports To: Chief of Party/Project Director - TRANSFORM, Ethiopia
Position Supervised: Team Leaders, Technical Advisors and other programmatic staff
Summary scope of work:
The Senior Technical Director is responsible to provide the state-of-the-art technical leadership in the full range of technical areas covered under TRANSFORM/PHCU. He/she will provide guidance in designing, implementing and managing the program and liaise and negotiate with key stakeholders including other donors, implementing partners and host country government on the thematic areas under the program. Responsibilities will include providing leadership and technical guidance in the development and implementation of RMNCH health activities under the leadership of the IDIQ Country Director, the Jhpiego Country Director and Jhpiego home office Technical Directors, and utilizing and contributing to cross-cutting approaches, as well as annual phasing in of activities. This position will ensure the technical and methodological soundness of activities and, in collaboration with the project team and partners, support the design of service delivery strategies, based on sound and current scientific evidence. This position is contingent upon an award from USAID.
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