Senior Technical Advisor - Health Programs

Education:

• Master’s Degree or its International Equivalent in either Public Health, Global Health, Epidemiology, clinical medicine, or a Human Development or Related Field.Project Management (PM) training is of added advantage.

Experience:

• 8+ years of relevant experience in the technical implementation of large Health (including HIV, TB, and other related) projects and/or programs in Uganda.
  
• Experience working with PEPFAR-supported programs and local or international organizations implementing health programs in Uganda.
  
• Documented experience providing technical assistance and capacity building to government and/or partner organizations.
  
• Program development or program management experience are strongly preferred.
  

• Provide technical leadership in integrated HIV, TB, Malaria, and related health services in Uganda in collaboration with the EpiC Technical Director; Creates and/or refines technical portion of the project workplan, within the given resource and financial constraints. 
  
• Demonstrates good judgment in addressing challenges, selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining solutions, with some supervision.
  
• With technical oversight, provide technical leadership in the design, development, planning, and implementation of the EpiC project in Uganda.
  
• Contributes to staff and partner capacity-building on implementing and monitoring integrated health services, including adopting a whole facility strengthening approach.
  
• Leads the day-to-day technical activities and tracks delivery of project results as guided by the technical director.
  
• Supervises and oversees staff members’ Level of Effort (LOE) allocations, ensuring optimal resource coverage and alignment with program needs.
  
• Maintains constructive dialogue and technical exchange with country counterparts and technical staff members of implementing partners.
  
• Develops tools for the design and implementation of specific technical components of the project workplan, as needed.
  
• Supervises technical staff members, sub-partners, and others implementing technical project work.
  
• Develops and implements technical training and capacity building interventions for sub-partners. Identifies strategies to address training gaps.
  
• Drafts donor technical reports.
  
• Prepares and delivers presentations to donors and the Government of Uganda stakeholders on project progress.
  
• Gathers and aggregates data to provide a summary / high-level overview.