Technical Director

Key Responsibilities 

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following among other duties: 

• Support the Chief of Party to provide technical direction and supervision for all program activities and interventions to ensure integration, coordination, and collaboration across all result areas.  
• Ensure that project objectives, outcomes, and deliverables are met and that reporting requirements of the donor are followed. 
• Ensure quality activity implementation and employ use of project M&E tools and ensure compliance with donor requirements. 
• Promote sustainability of project activities through effective networking, linkages to other programs, capacity building of project staff, and institutional strengthening of partners. 
• Provide operational, technical, programmatic, financial, and management guidance and support for project activities; identify, consider and resolve issues or problems. 
• Oversee and ensure efficient monitoring of subcontracts and grants to partners.
• In the absence of the COP, represent the project to USAID, the government of Zimbabwe, project partners, and other stakeholders. 

About You 

To succeed in this role, you must have: 

• A Master’s degree or higher in public health, medicine, management, or social sciences or related field. 
• Seven (7) years’ experience managing at a similar level or senior technical advisor level in donor funded programs of similar scope in Zimbabwe or a developing country. Demonstrated capacity to provide management oversight to large complex programs.
• At least 10 years’ experience working in family planning and sexual and reproductive health, including recent experience and in-depth understanding of the major issues affecting FP in Zimbabwe. 
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience of USAID or other donor planning and reporting systems, operations, programming, structure, and sub-award compliance.
• A proven track record of building teams and fostering collaboration in order to achieve goals, meet milestones, and produce high quality project deliverables on time, and on budget. 
• Demonstrated expertise in developing partnerships with local government, donors, multilateral organizations, academia, private sector, and local community, preferably in Zimbabwe. 
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English, Shona, and Ndebele.