Technical Director/USAID Accelerating Choice, Equity, & Sustainability for Services (ACCESS) Ac[...]
Company: Save The Children
Location: Washington
Posted on: April 26, 2024
Job Description:
Technical Director/USAID Accelerating Choice, Equity, &
Sustainability for Services (ACCESS) Activity Job Category:
Director Requisition Number: TECHN006843 Apply now
- Posted : March 22, 2024
- Full-Time Locations Showing 1 location Hybrid-Washington,
DC
899 N Capitol St NE
Washington, DC 20002, USA
DescriptionSummary Save the Children seeks a qualified candidate
for the position of Technical Director for the upcoming USAID
Accelerating Choice, Equity, and Sustainability for Services
(ACCESS) activity. The purpose of the award is to improve family
planning (FP) and other sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and
related health outcomes among adolescents/youth and other
underserved and underrepresented populations by advancing
excellence, innovation, and best practices in service delivery. The
Technical Director will be responsible for providing overall
technical leadership and oversight for the program to assist
ACCESS-supported countries to advance access to and use of
equitable, quality, and rights-based voluntary FP, SRH, and other
related health services. This will include overseeing strengthening
the technical and operational capacity of local government agencies
and local partners to expand access to high-quality FP/SRH services
especially for adolescents and youth and other underserved and
underrepresented populations, including persons with disabilities,
indigenous peoples, migrants, and LGBTQI+ people. The Technical
Director should be a recognized leader in the FP/SRH sector and
should bring knowledge and cutting-edge skills in rights-based,
social norms shifting, and gender-responsive FP/SRH to ensure
implementation is based on the latest global best practices and
most updated guidelines. They should possess strong project
management skills, previous experience working with staff and
stakeholders in multiple countries, and they will be responsible
for coordinating and providing direction to technical team leads
across the ACCESS program. This position will be under the
supervision of the Project Director. The position is subject to the
availability of funds and approval by USAID. The location is TBD
with preference for either Washington, DC or West Africa. What
You'll Be Doing (Essential Duties)
- Provide technical assistance in the delivery of high-impact
service delivery, social and behavior change, and enabling
environment FP practices, with an operational strategy and policy
for the integration of practices into the delivery of existing SRH
and primary care and support services at the community level and in
the public and private sector.
- Provide technical assistance and guidance to the project's
social norms shifting, social and behavior change approaches to
strengthen access to SRH including voluntary FP services.
- Lead technical planning and program implementation, ensuring
programming is evidence-based and rights-based as well as grounded
in global best practices and guided by the most up-to-date
guidelines, tools, and approaches.
- Provide technical expertise and guidance in the development
and/or updating of national policies, strategies, protocols, and
guidelines related to FP and SRH in ACCESS-focused countries.
- Ensure programming advances gender equity and equality and the
meaningful engagement of adolescents/youth, women, and other
underserved and underrepresented groups in program design,
implementation, monitoring, and sustainability planning.
- Lead technical capacity strengthening efforts to program staff,
local government counterparts, and local program partners in the
provision of high-quality, gender-responsive FP/SRH
programming.
- Contribute to the development of a model for the adoption,
replication, and scale up of key FP high impact practices
regionally and across ACCESS-supported countries.
- Support monitoring and reporting of project progress to ensure
quality, timeliness, and completeness of activities, interventions,
and technical deliverables.
- Assist program leaders to rapidly identify and address any
FP/SRH technical issues related to project implementation.
- Synthesize and disseminate evidence-based results and lessons
learned through reports, working groups, country-level workshops,
and regional platforms.
- Contribute to project learning, equity, and rights-based FP/SRH
programming and the global evidence-base by collaborating with
donors, host governments, technical working groups, FP/SRH
coalitions, and implementing partners to share and discuss
progress, achievements, and challenges.
- Contribute to internal communication, organizational
development, and the promotion of the visibility of Save the
Children. Required Qualifications
- Hold at least a post-graduate degree in public health, nursing,
obstetrics, or a related health field. Academic specialization in
FP/SRH is an asset.
- Have at least 12 years of experience working at graduated
levels of responsibility, with at least five (5) years in FP/SRH
technical and project management roles with similar scope, size,
and complexity.
- Experienced in providing training, coaching, mentorship, and
capacity strengthening in gender-responsive, equity-centered FP/SRH
programming, including youth-centered programming, in various
country contexts.
- Demonstrated experience contributing to the internal and
external body of evidence in FP/RH programs for youth and/or other
underserved populations.
- Extensive knowledge of current advances in FP and SRH,
particularly for adolescents/youth and other underserved and
underrepresented populations.
- Experienced in managing staff and coordinating and
collaborating with multiple teams with emotional intelligence,
cultural humility, and respect.
- Knowledge of USAID rules and regulations or experience working
on USAID-funded projects.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skill in English
(written and oral). French language skills desired.
- Ability to travel to the focus countries and to regional
events. Why you should join the Save the Children Team---Save the
Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health,
dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term
disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b),
generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave,
parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and
much more.Clickhere to learn more about how Save the Children US
will invest in YOU!About Save the ChildrenNo matter your role when
you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge
yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing
the world for kids. It's an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no
matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a
writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one
of the hundreds of dozens of roles we're looking to fill every
day.You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a
future. In the United States and around the world, we give children
a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection
from harm. We do whatever it takes for children - every day and in
times of crisis - transforming their lives and the future we
share.Our work for children and their families requires that we
commit-at every opportunity-to work together to identify and
dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality,
and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond.
As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate
discrimination in any form-in our employment practices, amongst our
staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in
solidarity withallpeople to fight for equal rights, justice,
inclusion, and belonging.We provide equal employment opportunities
(EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment
without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or
expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age,
handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save
the Children complies with all applicable laws.Save the Children is
committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner
that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the
children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children
representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any
activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition,
it is Save the Children's policy to create and proactively maintain
an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and
omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children
at the risk of any kind of child abuse. Allour representatives are
expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this
commitment and obligation.Save the Children is committed to
minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees,
ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce
their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for
children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual,
is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.Equal
Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with
DisabilitiesThe contractor will not discharge or in any other
manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they
have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the
pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have
access to the compensation information of other employees or
applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot
disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals
who do not otherwise have access to compensation information,
unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or
charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding,
hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the
employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to
furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
#J-18808-Ljbffr
Keywords: Save The Children, Alexandria , Technical Director/USAID Accelerating Choice, Equity, & Sustainability for Services (ACCESS) Ac[...], IT / Software / Systems , Washington, Virginia
Didn't find what you're looking for? Search again!
Loading more jobs...