Our client, a global health organization with the aim of improving the health of people in developing countries is looking for a well-organised and a proactive Technical Director to help with their operations in Ghana.<\/p>\n
Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Title:\u00a0Technical Director<\/strong><\/p>\n Scope of Work<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 The Technical Director is a member of the organisation\u2019s senior management team Roles\/Responsibilities<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Provide strategic and technical direction for key functions of the Ghana social Marketing Program, ensuring that the project\u2019s objectives are met Qualification Required & Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 A Masters of Public Health, MBA or a second degree in the humanities preferred Requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Proven track record managing a project team composed of several technical experts and fostering team work Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Accra<\/p>\n How to Apply<\/strong><\/p>\n To apply, send CVs to: techdirect.pjkt@gmail.com<\/p>\n Closing Date: 15 March, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our client, a global health organization with the aim of improving the health of people in developing countries is looking for a well-organised and a proactive Technical Director to help…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-7zr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 He or she will provide overarching technical leadership for the USAID-funded Ghana social Marketing program
\n\u2022 The Technical Director will operator under the leadership of the Chief of Party (COP) and will deputize for the COP in his adsense
\n\u2022 The Tecnical Director, in addition, will directly line manage family planning (FP), maternal and child health (MCH), water and sanitation (WASH) technical, staff, research staff and procurement staff and work to ensure that these functions are fulfilled in a high-quality manager that meets project deliverables
\n\u2022 The Technical Director will also be responsible for donor reporting and compliance and new business development (fundraising).<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Directly manage key technical staff in FP (Family Planning), MCH (Maternal Child Health) and WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene)
\n\u2022 Oversee completion of high quality, timely donor reports and other compliance requirements
\n\u2022 Provide technical input into annual workplans
\n\u2022 Lead the organisation\u2019s procurement function, ensuring timely compliant procurement processes are executed by procurement staff
\n\u2022 Lead the organisation\u2019s new business development, i.e fundraising, by maintaining up-to-date knowledge on funding landscape, engaging with donors and leading proposal development process
\n\u2022 Support the COP (Chief of Party) develop and maintain strong working relationships with other USAID implementing partners (IPS) and other key stakeholders, including the Ghana Health Service, to maximize complementarity of efforts
\n\u2022 Develop the organisation\u2019s research department by building its capacity and overseeing development and execution of annual research plans as well as mainstreaming of evidence into programming approaches
\n\u2022 Work with M&E staff to design and implement a plan to track data\/results related to FP, MCH, WASH and SBCC interventions to inform adjuestments in project implementation
\n\u2022 Provide mentoring and capacity building at the individual, organisational and institutional level in specific areas of expertise in FP, MCH and wASH
\n\u2022 Work closely with the COP on setting project direction and priorities, identifying and pursing opportunities for expansion of product and health technology portfolio
\n\u2022 Work closely with the COP to implement the transition from the old to the new local organisation, total family health organisation (TFHO).<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 At least 8 years experience designing and successfully implementing complex health projects in West Africa<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 Familiarity with USAID and other donor administrative, management and reporting procedures and systems
\n\u2022 Background in use of evidence for programming sufficient to manage a research team
\n\u2022 Demonstrated experience providing capacity building assistance at individual and organisational levels (e.g, local NGOs and CBOs)
\n\u2022 Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal and presentation skills in English
\n\u2022 Experience implementing health projects that support or otherwise engage with the private health sector preferred
\n\u2022 Demonstrated experience in procurement management preferred
\n\u2022 Experience in new business development including proposal preferred<\/p>\n