Senior Director, Technical Excellence
Senior Director, Technical Excellence
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Title: Senior Director Technical Excellence
Location: Washington DC or EGPAF Presence Country Africa
Reports To: Vice President Program Management & Technical Excellence
Classification: Full-time exempt
Closing Date for Applications: Wednesday September 10 2025
The Senior Director Technical Excellence provides leadership and strategic direction for EGPAFs technical agenda with a focus on advancing maternal child and family-centered health programs that strengthen linkage to care and treatment. This role leads a team of technical experts partners with program and business development colleagues and represents the organization as a thought leader with donors Ministries of Health and other relevant stakeholders.
Job Responsibilities
- Lead mentor and inspire a global team of technical specialists fostering collaboration accountability and continuous learning.
- Lead the technical design of PMTCT and pediatric HIV interventions to eliminate vertical transmission and ensure children living with HIV are linked to treatment.
- Establish and uphold organizational standards for technical excellence evidence use and quality assurance.
- Strengthen systems for linkage initiation and retention in care across community and facility platforms.
- Ensure technical quality and effectiveness in country programs providing high-level guidance and support.
- Serve as a technical lead in identifying and pursuing new business opportunities aligned with EGPAFs capabilities and strategic vision.
- Work closely with the Business Development team to shape technical narratives develop proposal strategies and contribute to the design of competitive high-quality applications for bilateral and multilateral donors.
- Translate programmatic learning and institutional strengths into technical concepts and offerings that position EGPAF as a go-to partner
- Support partner engagement concept note development technical writing and pre-positioning efforts.
- Cultivate strategic partnerships that enhance the organizations technical credibility visibility and funding opportunities.
- Partner with cross-functional leaders to align technical priorities with organizational growth.
- Oversee monitoring evaluation and data analytics frameworks to measure impact and inform adaptive programming.
- Disseminate findings through technical briefs publications and global health forums to influence broader practice.
- Represent the organization as a senior technical leader with donors multilateral agencies and global technical working groups.
- Provide technical input into national and international guidelines policies and health strategies.
Qualifications :
- Advanced degree (MPH MD DrPH or equivalent) in public health medicine health systems or related field.
- Minimum of 15 years of progressive leadership experience in global health including significant technical expertise in maternal and child health HIV/TB or related fields.
- Demonstrated success in designing scaling and evaluating community mobilization and linkage-to-care models in diverse contexts.
- Proven experience leading and managing global technical teams across multiple geographies.
- Strong track record of influencing global health policy contributing to technical guidance and engaging with high-level stakeholders.
- Experience working with major donors (CDC U.S. State Department Global Fund etc.).
- Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with a range of staff in the US and Africa
- Strong analytic and strategic thinking required.
- Ability to travel internationally
Additional Information :
EGPAF is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to creating equal opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment regardless of race color sex (including pregnancy and related conditions sexual orientation or gender identity) national origin religion age equal pay disability or genetic information (including family medical history or genetic tests or services) or any other basis protected by law. In addition to country law requirements EGPAF complies with US laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the Foundation has facilities.
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Remote
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Key Skills
- FDA Regulations
- Management Experience
- Manufacturing & Controls
- Biotechnology
- Clinical Development
- Clinical Trials
- Drug Discovery
- Project Management
- Filing
- Team Management
- Leadership Experience
- Chemistry
