Principal Technical Advisor (PTA)

Overview

The Principal Technical Advisor will act as the main M&E point of contact to assigned country teams within Jhpiego’s U.S. Government (USG)/Department of State (DOS) multi-country global health programming. Jhpiego’s global health programming supports integrated, sustainable health services including HIV; Sustainability, transition and integration, Global Health Security (GHS), maternal, newborn, and child health; and other priority health areas across multiple countries. The PTA will work in close collaboration with the DOS project’s core global team, relevant technical leads and contributors, and country offices to provide specialized support and guidance and to ensure timely completion of project milestones and deliverables.

This position is accountable for monitoring, evaluation, and performance-based financing (PBF) support to assigned country programs, ensuring alignment with global strategies, technical guidance, and organizational standards. The incumbent provides technical leadership for M&E and PBF planning during workplan development, monitors project performance, reviews and analyzes data to support evidence-based decision-making, and contributes to the quality assurance of narrative reports, verification memos, and key deliverables. Responsibilities include overseeing data quality assessments, advising on digital health and data management needs, regularly reviewing milestone achievement data, and proactively identifying and resolving implementation challenges in collaboration with country teams, technical leads, and senior management. The position also maintains regular engagement with Country Support Teams (CSTs) and in-country M&E/PBF staff through routine technical meetings, coaching, and problem-solving support.

Responsibilities

Technical Assistance & Quality Programming

• 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 that the programs that are assisted are technically sound, cohesive, evidence-based, and responsive to the priorities and needs of the countries and donors
• Ensures cohesive and integrated technical approach across project components to maximize impact.
• Leads the development of new solutions to extend program reach and achieve program objectives.
• Leads the development of guidance and learning resources as well as the lead for defining and testing new tools and innovations for accelerating achievement of results.
• Assesses and analyses data and identifies trends. Addresses complex programmatic and technical challenges by working across project and partner staff to develop or adapt technical interventions or approaches to accelerate progress.
• Obtains buy in from donors, partners and government stakeholders to ensure programming and technical approach is responsive to needs and priorities.

Global Strategy Development & Implementation

Provides thought leadership for development of Jhpiego’s global technical strategy and approaches for technical area based on knowledge of donor trends, stakeholder needs, and priorities across the organization.

Leads implementation of priorities identified in global technical strategy and workplan

Organizational Capacity Building

Builds technical capacity within Jhpiego and coaches and mentors staff accordingly, including developing and implementing annual training plans, learning activities, and materials to support capacity building

New Program Development & Donor Relations

Supports business development activities including identifying and supporting new opportunities and leading the technical design of new projects with the new business development team.

Negotiates complex partner and stakeholder relationships to design high-quality and feasible technical approaches responsive to donor requirements and stakeholder needs.

Organizational Representation

Identifies opportunities to demonstrate Jhpiego’s technical excellence in external fora

Positions the organization as an insightful thought leader through participation in external advisory or working groups, global meetings and events and international conferences

Knowledge Management & Learning

• Provides support to the realization of external communication priorities including supporting the development of success stories, blogs, and other program and technical related communication materials that demonstrate Jhpiego’s technical expertise, results, and programming excellence
• Supports field staff to present and disseminate learning from country implementation
• Contributes to the development of peer-reviewed publications

Supervision

• Responsible for the management of team members providing leadership, guidance, coaching, mentorship and counselling where needed
• Grows team expertise to align with organizational demand and direction while assessing team skills / capabilities and continually looking for ways to provide / enhance the value delivered
• Leads a high-performing team and provides ongoing feedback and performance reviews
• Tracks, monitors and effectively addresses performance of team members
• Manages employees in compliance with all HR policies, procedures and guidelines of conduct
• Shares knowledge, information, skills and subject matter expertise among the team and ensures the timely communication of issues while encouraging good working relationships with other functions / teams
• Recruits for hires to ensure a highly diverse, qualified workforce with the necessary capabilities needed to achieve goals

Required Qualifications

• Graduate Degree with 8-10 years of progressively responsible technical experience including implementing and/or managing MERL for international field-based programs
• Strong technical and programmatic background in MERL, especially management, technical support and programmatic direction
• Indepth knowledge of performance monitoring and data use for performance improvement
• Experience in developing MERL systems for projects and country programs
• Knowledge of health information systems
• Experience in designing and conducting program evaluations
• Experience in implementation research, including use of both quantitative and qualitative methods
• Experience in working in challenging environments in Africa, Asia or LAC regions
• Proven leadership skills and expertise in strategic program planning, implementation and management
• Proven technical experience in the design, implementation, or measurement of technical interventions
• Proven experience in leading highly skilled and qualified technical personnel
• Proven collaborator with ability to see and create connections across vertical health areas, as well as across functional areas
• Excellent understanding of the donor landscape for funding opportunities
• Excellent understanding of USG systems and other donor structure and processes
• Proven ability and experience developing productive working relationships with counterparts in other agencies and organizations worldwide
• Results oriented with strong change management and decision-making skills
• Proven ability to work in a complex, fast-paced, multi-cultural environment with multiple tasks and short deadlines
• Excellent inter-personal and communication skills, including strong technical writing and presentation

Fluency in French, Spanish or Portuguese preferred

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in public health (international health, epidemiology, biostatistics, population), statistics, research, economics, behavioral science, or related field
• The salary range for this role is expected to be: $102,944 - $134,039

Total Rewards

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