Technical Director

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategic contributions to organisational development (10% FTE)

1. Contribute to the development of the organisation's strategy and ensure its effective implementation, taking the lead on technical strategy and oversight.
2. Contribute to the development of organisational policies and procedures.
3. Be an active member of the SMT, which oversees the overall performance, development and risk management of the organisation. 
4. Provide input to Tropical Health Board meetings. 
5. Contribute to organisational and project performance reviews, including budget development and review.
6. Lead the identification of new donor interests, new public health developments or other technical areas of interest with potential for organisational development, proposing innovative approaches as appropriate. 
7. Identify strategic opportunities to demonstrate Tropical Health's technical excellence 
8. Represent Tropical Health at high-level engagements.

Technical leadership and quality assurance (20% FTE)

1. In collaboration with the SMT, define and implement a coherent technical staff structure.
2. Design technical capacity building approaches to meet our own and our local partners' organisational development needs.
3. Build Tropical Health's reputation as a global leader in technical working groups, scientific committees and technical meetings to influence changes in policy and practice in our field.
4. Keep abreast of current developments in public health, related fields and in the field of MERL, including but not limited to qualitative and quasi-experimental survey and evaluation designs, new and innovative approaches to e.g. statistical methods, participatory MERL, methods making a safe use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). 
5. Ensure systems are in place to meet technical compliance, data management, ethical and security requirements.
6. Establish quality standards and provide quality assurance for project proposals, technical approaches and outputs to ensure that they are of the highest possible quality within available resources and that up-to-date technical knowledge and practices are applied.
7. Provide troubleshooting and recommendations for technical problem solving across the portfolio. 
8. Translate technical successes and challenges into actionable learning for all staff and future projects.
9. Oversee and write for peer-reviewed publications.

Personnel management and development (10% FTE)

1. Support the recruitment of new talent. 
2. Line manage direct reports who perform technical work.
3. Provide leadership, appraise performance, motivate and support the development of line managed technical staff.
4. Promote team spirit and peer exchange/review among the technical team and associate consultants.
5. Actively participate in fortnightly team management meetings.
6. Co-organise and co-facilitate bi-annual technical and management staff meetings.

Business Development (40% FTE)

1. Represent Tropical Health and actively participate in relevant global technical fora, networks, committees and working groups.
2. Develop new partnerships and foster collaboration with relevant institutions and represent Tropical Health’s interests as required with partners and clients. 
3. Contribute to the identification and acquisition of additional business, including through relationships.
4. Lead the methodological design for major proposals, including defining project inputs required to inform budgeting.
5. Review dissemination documents and ensure wide sharing of Tropical Health’s learning, results and successes.

Consultancy services (20% FTE)

1. Provide direct senior consultant services to projects and national health authorities and partners on selected strategic assignments, which may include design, oversight of primary data collection, secondary data management, data analysis, report writing, dissemination of results.