Sr. Technical Advisor

Reporting to the Director for Maternal and Newborn Health, the Sr. Technical Advisor is accountable for applying clinical expertise and knowledge to deliver, adapt, and/or modify high-quality technical approaches that reflect evidence-based practices in maternal and newborn health. They will identify and assess changes in needs, priorities, requirements, and operating conditions, ensuring technical approaches are aligned with and responsive to organizational, client and donor needs, and requirements.

As a representative of Jhpiego, the Sr. Technical Advisor will work across global and country project teams to institutionalize best practices and innovations across the portfolio, acting as an advocate for the adoption of new, innovative solutions as regular practice. They will support Jhpiego’s global positioning and reputation in Maternal & Newborn Health by representing the organization externally and will support the development of new strategic partnerships. The Sr. Technical Advisor will mentor, build capacity, identify learning, design technical approaches for new business opportunities by leading the development and implementation of workplan priorities.

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

Special Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:

• Specialty area within maternal and newborn health programming in one (or more) of the following areas: clinical capacity-building, quality improvement strategies (including use of programmatic data for decision-making), clinical mentorship, team-based training, simulation training, introduction, delivery, and scale of evid