• Serves as STRIDES technical lead and key point of contact for relevant topics.
• Provides technical direction to develop country-specific workplans and budgets, ensuring alignment with STRIDES objectives and USG priorities and with global technical standards. 
• Ensures high quality technical deliverables—including workplans, required and ad hoc reports, and success stories highlighting technical achievements—are developed, submitted and approved on schedule and within budget parameters.
• Provides direction to ensure technical activities to ensure technical activities are compliant with STRIDES contract, government regulations, relevant quality standards and FHI 360’s policies and procedures.
• Responds to client requests and questions on technical matters; ensures timely drafts and submissions of consent, approvals and/or waivers.
• Ensures technical activities are designed to support STRIDES monitoring and evaluation activities; collaborates with the MEL Advisor and Project Director to finalize and submit country-specific technical indicators and report against their progress in quarterly, annual, and other reports.
• Assesses subcontractors’ performance on technical activities and directs adjustments, as needed.
• Collaborates with the MEL Advisor and Project Director and Communications lead to promote STRIDES successes by collecting, writing, and distributing success stories, case studies, photos, and outreach at events.
• Represent STRIDES at global health security-focused events; and technical working group meetings; collect and share information that could be valuable to the Activity.
• Supports performance management and professional development of direct reports, including ongoing feedback, coaching and career support.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Applied Knowledge & Skills:

• Comprehensive knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures with contract and project management and technical development.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Excellent and demonstrated organizational and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent and demonstrated project management and technical skills.
• Ability to influence, motivate, negotiate and work well with others.
• Ability to exercise judgment within generally defined practices and policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Comprehensive knowledge of concepts, practices and policies related to global health security.
• Proven ability to ensure that budgets, schedules, and performance requirements are met.
• Excellent and demonstrated leadership, organizational, and project management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, team building and management critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication and analytical skills in English; additional language skills a bonus.

Problem Solving & Impact:

• Works on problems of complex scope and require in depth evaluation of issues and assessment of intangible factors.
• Exercises judgment within broadly defined practices and policies to select methods and techniques for obtaining results.
• Decisions made generally affect overall success of functional, division or company operations.
• Problems encountered are complex, highly varied and require considerable judgment to obtain results.

Supervision Given/Received:

• Provides direct supervision to a team of Technical Advisors and Officers.
• Leads and directs staff to achieve strategic project goals, ensuring alignment with USG priorities.
• Coordinates across STRIDES Senior Management Team to set budgets, and goals.
• Develops procedures and training for project.

Education: **

• Master’s Degree or its International Equivalent in Public Health, Epidemiology, Microbiology, Infectious Disease, Laboratory Science, or Health Systems Strengthening.
• Project Management (PM) Certification preferred.

Experience: **

• Typically requires a minimum of 12+ years of relevant technical/project management experience (including 8+ years of leadership, strong business acumen and/or line management experience).
• Prior work experience working with MoHP, MoALD and their respective departments, divisions and centers and in an international non-governmental organization (NGO) is preferred.
• Prior experience implementing USG-funded contracts strongly preferred.

Travel Requirements: Up to 25% local and regional travel

Interested candidate please submit your application letter and CV by the latest on 15th February 2026 through the link below: CLICK HERE