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Technical Director/USAID Accelerating Choice, Equity, & Sustainability for Services (ACCESS) Ac[...] - Washington DC
Company: Save The Children Location: Washington, DC
Posted On: 04/27/2024
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
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