Resolve To Save Lives · 1 day ago
Senior Technical Advisor, Country Preparedness - Remote (United States, United Kingdom, France, Ethiopia, or Nigeria)
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Responsibilities
Offer real-time coaching to mid- and senior-level government officials, fostering sound decision-making in complex situations. Use active listening, judgment and creativity to empower leaders, helping them develop practical, actionable solutions.
Facilitate the adoption of governance frameworks (e.g., Country Health Architecture, WHO NAPHS toolkit, 7-1-7) to enhance multisectoral coordination and political alignment.
Design and implement training programs that build technical (e.g., health systems, health security) and organizational (e.g., leadership, program management) capacities, utilizing frameworks such as the Program Management for Epidemic Preparedness (PMEP).
Help countries access and efficiently manage and utilize financing (particularly from external sources such as the World Bank or Global Fund) by streamlining processes, generating evidence, and providing recommendations on key reforms.
Enable critical assessments (e.g., JEE, SPAR) and planning exercises (e.g., NAPHS development) to deliver measurable improvements in national and subnational preparedness, governance, and accountability systems.
Lead or support change management efforts by helping countries integrate new approaches to leadership, governance and financing to enhance existing structures to ensure long-term sustainability
Use human-centered design and quality improvement tools (e.g., bottleneck analysis, implementation tracking) to simplify and accelerate the implementation of NAPHS and IHR.
Document lessons learned and identify opportunities to scale high-impact practices and innovations across countries.
Ensure assigned projects are strategically aligned with RTSL’s epidemic preparedness objectives and integrate effectively across other Prevent Epidemics initiatives.
Manage grants and budgets and ensure the timely delivery of strategic reports to senior management and external partners.
Build and maintain strong relationships with relevant national and international partners (e.g., WHO, Global Fund, US CDC, World Bank) to foster effective country-driven leadership, governance, and financing for health security.
Collaborate with RTSL’s operations team to maintain effective, sustainable, and efficient country-level operations aligned with program goals.
Qualification
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Required
Master’s degree or higher in Public Health, Global Health, International Development, or a related field.
10+ years in public health, global development, or health systems strengthening, with at least 5 years managing complex programs in low- or middle-income countries (LMICs).
3+ years working directly with government entities in LMICs, supporting public health programs, leadership development, governance reform, and/or health financing initiatives.
Proven experience leading strategic assessments and planning exercises (e.g., JEE, SPAR, NAPHS) or managing large-scale public health initiatives.
Demonstrated ability to design, deliver, and evaluate training programs for mid- and senior-level government officials, with a focus on leadership, program management, and health security.
Familiar with organizational leadership, management, governance in contexts of limited resources and political complexity.
Leadership and Management Acumen: Demonstrates a deep understanding of leadership and organizational theory and applies it towards wicked public health challenges.
Capacity Development: Ability to train and coach mid- to senior-level leaders, improving decision-making and addressing complex public health challenges.
Project Management: Skilled at managing multifaceted projects, overseeing budgets to meet objectives.
Cross-functional Collaboration: Can lead both with and without formal authority, navigating ambiguity, and managing competing priorities.
Data-Driven Insights: Leverages data to identify patterns, challenge assumptions, and drive strategic breakthroughs in public health programs.
Agile and Participatory Problem-Solving: Uses quality improvement frameworks (e.g., Lean, Six Sigma) to experiment, iterate, and refine solutions in real-time, embedding feedback loops for continuous learning. Applies participatory approaches to develop solutions such as bottleneck analysis and implementation tracking that enhance program efficiency and impact.
Engaging Diverse Audiences: Skilled in facilitating workshops and trainings for both technical and non-technical stakeholders, adapting content to meet audience needs.
Strategic Communication: Can create compelling reports, proposals, and presentations for senior leadership, donors, and external partners.
Knowledge Sharing and Learning: Effectively captures insights from country teams and translates them into actionable improvements for continuous innovation.
Cultural Agility: Demonstrates empathy, curiosity, patience and humility when engaging with diverse perspectives to build trust and foster collaboration across cultural contexts.
Resilience: Uses emotional intelligence to navigate complexity and ambiguity with a growth mindset, applying agile problem-solving to overcome challenges.
Preferred
Credentials in management or quality improvement (e.g., MBA, PMI, Lean Six Sigma)
Experience or knowledge of health financing issues in developing countries
Experience or knowledge in health economics
Proficiency in Portuguese, Arabic, French or other languages
Experience working in lusophone or francophone Africa
Hands-on experience in epidemic response and preparedness, e.g., in an Emergency Operations Center, Joint External Evaluations (JEE), or After-Action Reviews (AARs)
Familiar with practical applications of behavioral economics or social psychology principles in management and public health
Experience working within multilateral organizations (e.g., WHO, World Bank, Africa CDC) on large-scale health security programs
Benefits
Health insurance for you and your dependents
Contributions toward retirement
Paid annual leave and sick leave, in addition to public holidays
Two paid, week-long organization-wide breaks at mid-year and end-of-year
Professional development and home office setup benefits
Up-to-date computer equipment
Company
Resolve To Save Lives
Resolve to Save Lives is a health organization that aims to save lives from cardiovascular disease and prevent epidemics.
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