Technical Director, DRC Sanitation Activity

Based in Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)
10-25% international travel
Reports to Chief of Party
*Contingent upon award and must be authorized to work in DRC*

Who we are

PSI is a network of locally rooted, globally connected organizations working to achieve consumer-powered healthcare — people-centered health systems that ensure quality, affordable care wherever and whenever it is needed. Our origins in sexual and reproductive health have grown into a broader mission. Today, we work with the public and private sectors as well as local communities, prioritizing people’s voice and choice and developing solutions to meet their essential health needs. Over the past five decades, we have helped push boundaries, break taboos, set trends, and develop innovative solutions to complex global health challenges.

Join us!

PSI seeks a Technical Director for the anticipated $25 million USAID-funded DRC Rural and Peri-Urban Sanitation Activity. The Activity will implement high impact interventions that strengthen sanitation markets to increase sustained access to and use of basic sanitation services. The activity will build sanitation markets through interventions in the areas of sector governance, demand creation, finance, and supply side strengthening. The Activity will prioritize local capacity building, including a transition of implementation responsibilities to local entities.

The Technical Director will oversee and ensure coordination between all major technical components of the project, lead strategy development and technical work planning, and supervise the team responsible for implementation. The Technical Director will serve as a subject matter expert internally and represent the project externally with donors, partners, and other stakeholders.

Your contributions

• Lead development of coordinated technical approach to implementation, ensuring alignment of activities across the technical areas and the implementing partners.
• Supervise and support technical component leads.
• Lead development of technical aspects of work plans and reports.
• Ensure timely and quality delivery of technical milestones and deliverables
• Collaborate with monitoring and evaluation team to ensure appropriate data collection, entry, and analysis modalities and content and to develop and execute the technical learning agenda.
• Develop and manage strategic partnerships with external stakeholders and partners. Ensure effective collaboration between stakeholders and partners.
• Represent the project at internal and external meetings technical meetings, conferences, and donor meetings.
• Build the technical capacity of PSI and partner staff.

What are we looking for?

• Bachelor’s degree (or international equivalent) in a related field
• Master’s degree (or international equivalent) in a related field preferred
• At least 10 years of related experience. Equivalent combination of related education and experience may be substituted.
• At least 3 years of supervisory experience.
• Advanced knowledge in relevant departmental/functional area.
• Excellent leadership, employee development and management skills. Knowing when to coach, when to advise and when to provide specific direction.
• Excellent customer service, relationship building/management and consensus building skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills. Able to proactively identify opportunities, diagnose problems and develop client-centered and evidence-based solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. French and/or Spanish language skills preferred.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Must be authorized to work in DRC

The candidate we hire will embody PSI’s corporate values:

Measurement: You use hard evidence to make decisions and guide your work. You set clear goalposts in advance and explain clearly if you need to move them.
Pragmatism: You’ll strive to deliver the best possible result with the resources available. You won’t be paralyzed by a need to make things perfect.
Honesty: You own your mistakes and are open about your shortcomings – it’s the only way you’ll learn and improve.
Collaboration: You’ll quickly establish a mental map of whom you can rely on for what, on your team, at headquarters, and in our country offices – if you try to do it all yourself, you won’t succeed.
Trust: You accept limits to your sphere of control and give colleagues the benefit of the doubt.
Commitment: You are in it for the long-haul and want to grow with the organization, just like PSI serves its consumers and partners with host-country governments through thick and thin.

References will be required. The successful candidate will be required to pass a background check. For domestic positions: Must be authorized to work in the United States. N.B. PSI will not consider work visa sponsorship for this position.

PSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from qualified individuals regardless of actual or perceived race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, matriculation, political affiliation, family status or responsibilities, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions or breastfeeding, genetic information, amnesty, veteran, special disabled veteran or uniform service member status or employment status.

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