Project Overview (AFGHS-IMA)

The project, implemented by a consortium led by IMA World Health, is a global initiative that partners with governments and local stakeholders. JSI, as a country lead, works with Ministry of Health Ethiopia and partners in implementing and sustaining high-impact, integrated health programs. This role focuses on expanding access to priority maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) services, ensuring healthcare quality, and advancing primary health care reforms while building local capacity to transition key health functions to full government ownership. To maintain service delivery and operational resilience, the position also supports facility-level health systems and supply chain logistics, alongside assisting MOH Ethiopia in actively responding to disease outbreaks as they arise

 Position Summary

The Technical Director, under the leadership of the Chief of Party, provides senior strategic, technical, and managerial leadership to advance primary health care (PHC) reforms, drive health data utilization, optimize commodity supply chains, expand community demand creation and social accountability, and build long-term institutional resilience and transition capacity across project-supported regions, zones, woredas, facilities and communities. Working under the direction of the Chief of Party, this position oversees a multidisciplinary technical portfolio. The Team Lead leads strategic coordination with the Ministry of Health (MOH), Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI), Regional Health Bureaus (RHBs), and local partners to align with national healthcare reform agendas, institutionalize community- and facility-level capacities, and transition project-supported innovations into sustainable, government-owned PHC structures. Additionally, the role drives community mobilization, local demand creation, and social accountability mechanisms, while overseeing outbreak response operations to ensure rapid deployment of resources  during emergency health threats without compromising essential PHC services.

Job Requirements

Education:

• Master’s degree in Public Health (MPH), Health Systems Management, Health Supply Chain Management, Social and Behavioral Sciences, or a related advanced health field (MD + MPH strongly preferred).

Experience:

• Minimum 10 years of progressive technical leadership experience in large-scale primary health care (PHC) programs, MNCAH-N, community engagement/mobilization, health supply chain management, or system transition in Ethiopia.

• At least 5 years of senior technical leadership experience supporting US Government, preferably Department of State, or other donor-funded health initiatives in Ethiopia.

• Proven track record in supervising multidisciplinary teams of senior technical advisors, operationalizing national health reforms, implementing community accountability platforms, driving supply chain improvements, and executing rapid outbreak responses.

Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Portfolio Management

• Strategic Oversight: Provide technical direction and supervise the technical team, ensuring staff development and HR compliance.

• Work Plan Execution: Lead work plan development and ensure technical integration and donor compliance across all portfolios.

• Capacity Building: Oversee leadership training for facility managers and lead core programmatic review meetings.

• LIP Management: Direct local partner training and oversee implementation to ensure milestones are met.

PHC Reforms, System Transition & Clinical Quality

• PHC Reforms: Lead the roll-out of the relevant Health sector reforms and train frontline providers.

• QI & Accreditation: Direct facility-level Quality Improvement (QI) initiatives and guide select health facilities toward accreditation.

• MNCH: Oversee capacity building for Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance (MPDSR) and support MNCH program integration.

• Data Utilization: Institutionalize routine data use and oversee Data Quality Assessments (DQA/RDQA).

• Procurement: Oversee the distribution of critical system assets (equipment, materials, medical supplies) to strengthen facility operations.

• Community Mobilization & Social Accountability: Introduce and scale up demand creation and social accountability initiatives

Outbreak Response & Emergency Mobilization

• Rapid Response: Oversee the deployment of resources for disease outbreaks while safeguarding essential PHC services.

• Service Restoration: Direct activities to restore essential health services during and after emergencies.

Representation, Partnerships & Governance

• Stakeholder Liaison: Serve as the primary technical point of contact with government ministries, local partners, and donors.

• Coordination: Represent the project in national and regional coordination bodies and Technical Working Groups (TWGs).

• Reporting: Lead the submission of technical reports and document best practices and transition milestones.

• Any additional responsibilities, as assigned.

Skills & Competencies

• Deep understanding of the Ethiopian public health system, PHC structures, Community Health Strategies, EPHCG guidelines, national policies, and health sector reform agendas.

• Practical technical expertise in demand creation methodologies, social accountability frameworks (e.g., community scorecards), health information systems (HMIS/DHIS2), supply chain logistics, and clinical quality improvement.

• Strong analytical capabilities in both qualitative and quantitative methods, with a proven ability to use facility data dashboards for program adaptation, policy advocacy, and documenting project learning.

• Demonstrated ability to establish, manage, and sustain strategic partnerships with high-level government officials across MOH, EPHI, RHB levels, health facilities, international/local donors, and national counterparts.

• Excellent organizational, strategic planning, facilitation, resource management, and multi-budget execution skills under tight deadlines.

• Superior written and oral communication skills in English, including technical reporting, presentation capabilities, and solid computer literacy.

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