Overview and Role Summary

Jhpiego seeks a Technical Director to provide technical leadership and project oversight for comprehensive malaria interventions in Tanzania (including Zanzibar). This role is part of the multi-country RISE project funded by the U.S. Department of State (DoS).

Primary Goal: Support the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP), the President’s Office, Regional Administration and Local Government (PO-RALG), and the Zanzibar Malaria Elimination Program (ZAMEP) to implement activities that reduce malaria morbidity and maternal and child mortality.

Reporting: Operates under the leadership of the RISE-Tanzania Chief of Party.

Location: Tanzania (will work with technical teams in regions/Zanzibar).

Key Technical Interventions

The Technical Director will oversee and provide expertise in the following areas of comprehensive malaria interventions:

• Integrated Vector Management (IVM).
• Malaria diagnosis, treatment, and preventive therapies.
• Malaria in Pregnancy (MIP).
• Routine distribution of Insecticide-Treated Nets (ITNs).
• Surveillance monitoring and entomological monitoring.
• Malaria case diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, including malaria vaccination.
• Laboratory diagnostic capacity strengthening.

Core Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Provide strategic direction and technical oversight for all project activities, ensuring integration, quality, and sustainability.
• Quality Assurance: Establish and implement a system to ensure the technical quality and fidelity of project activities across target regions and districts.
• Materials Development: Develop and/or update evidence-based training materials, standards, job aids, curricula, and supervisory systems.
• Stakeholder Liaison: Serve as the technical liaison with the NMCP and maintain excellent relationships with the DoS, PMI, and in-country counterparts.
• Capacity Building: Provide mentoring and capacity building in health systems strengthening, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, and malaria control/treatment.
• Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E): Work with M&E staff to track data/results, inform adjustments, and document successes and lessons learned.
• Staff/Partner Management: Supervise technical staff and manage the technical contributions of subgrantees, including defining scopes of work.

Required Qualifications

• Provide strategic direction and technical oversight for all project activities, ensuring integration, quality, and sustainability.
• Establish and implement a system to ensure the technical quality and fidelity of project activities across target regions and districts.
• Develop and/or update evidence-based training materials, standards, job aids, curricula, and supervisory systems.
• Serve as the technical liaison with the NMCP and maintain excellent relationships with the DoS, PMI, and in-country counterparts.
• Provide mentoring and capacity building in health systems strengthening, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, and malaria control/treatment.
• Work with M&E staff to track data/results, inform adjustments, and document successes and lessons learned.
• Supervise technical staff and manage the technical contributions of subgrantees, including defining scopes of work.

• Technical Leadership
• Quality Assurance
• Materials Development
• Stakeholder Liaison
• Capacity Building
• Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E)
• Staff/Partner Management
• Diplomacy
• USG Familiarity
• Specialized Malaria Knowledge (Malaria prevention, MIP services, ITN distribution, Malaria diagnosis, Malaria case management)

• A clinical degree (doctor, nursing, midwifery) with a Master of Public Health (MPH) is required.
• At least 9-10 years’ experience implementing and/or providing technical assistance for malaria control/elimination projects.
• At least 8 years’ experience implementing and/or providing technical assistance to large, donor-funded multi-year international health sector projects (malaria prevention and control).
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of the healthcare system in Tanzania, particularly the public health system.
• Experience living and working in Tanzania is required.
• Proven track record managing a project team composed of several technical experts and fostering teamwork.
• Excellent diplomacy skills and proven ability to establish and maintain relationships with USG, PMI, host-country counterparts, NGOs, FBOs, CSOs, and the private sector.
• Familiarity with USG administrative, management and reporting procedures and systems.
• Must Include at least one of the following: Malaria prevention, including MIP services (IPTp, malaria immunization); Routine distribution of ITNs; Malaria diagnosis (RDT and microscopy); Malaria case management, particularly for pregnant women and children under five.