Technical Director, Gender and Adolescent and Youth Health (AYH)

Jhpiego is seeking a Technical Director to provide vision, leadership and oversight for Jhpiego’s Gender and Adolescent and Youth Health(AYH) activities across the organization and will ensure technical excellence across the portfolio of projects. The Technical Director will guide the development and implementation of the Gender and AYH strategies and ensure the organization achieves strategic objectives.

The Technical Director will provide strategic and thought leadership for programming, represent Jhpiego globally and develop and maintain relationships that grow Jhpiego’s portfolio of stand-alone gender and youth programming as well as gender and youth integration across health areas, and strengthen its reputation as a global leader in gender transformative programming and Adolescent and Youth Health.

The Technical Director will also oversee and ensure quality technical assistance to country programs, supervise and manage technical staff, oversee progress towards unit workplans, and provide technical guidance to DEIB manager on gender and youth mainstreaming within diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.

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, evidence-based, and responsive to the priorities and needs of the countries and donors.
• Conceptualizes, designs, and develops plans for seamless integration and implementation of activities/initiatives in alignment with the vision, strategic plan, and organizational priorities of Jhpiego.
• Works collaboratively across other technical units to identify synergistic opportunities and harmonized quality programming and maximum integration of approaches across all Jhpiego clinical, technical, and program areas. (This includes collaboration with the DEIB Team to develop and implement policies and programming relating to sexual harassment and safeguarding; gender and age disparities in leadership; opportunities for career growth for women, gender minorities, and young professionals; and unconscious bias and discrimination.)
• Ensures coordinated and quality provision of technical assistance to country 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.
• Ensures high-quality technical approaches, defines measures of success for technical area, identifies country and global quality issues and trends and recommend strategies to resolve them.
• Identifies and actively seeks opportunities to integrate priorities across the organization and works with Jhpiego country colleagues to operationalize strategic objectives and activities in different country settings.
• Assesses and analyzes issues that impede progress and develops and tests appropriate strategies for long-term, sustainable resolution.
• Establishes methods, metrics and quality standards to measure the success of designated initiatives in supported countries/programs.

Global Strategy Development & Implementation

• Sets the vision, strategy, and approach for Jhpiego’s gender and AYH programming. Oversees implementation of the strategy and the development and execution of the workplan and budget, maintaining accountability for achieve priority objectives.
• 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 and Technical Excellence and other technical teams and offices within the organization to ensure strategies are aligned with project and organizational needs and realities.

Organizational Capacity Building

• Provides leadership for capacity building, coaching, and mentoring of staff and local partners.
• Designs sustainable capacity building approaches that address organizational needs and priorities and positions the