Job Summary
The STRengthening Infectious disease DEtection Systems (STRIDES) Technical Officer supports technical focus areas across the Activity to enhance global health security in priority countries. They will align STRIDES technical frameworks, approaches, tools, and activities with relevant normative guidelines and technical standards. This may include identifying specialized partnership needs and engaging qualified partners to ensure technical performance. STRIDES Technical Officer works closely with Project Director, the Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Advisor and local subcontractor technical staff to implement the Activityโs technical approach and ensure adherence with the United States Governmentโs (USG) global health security priorities across country-level work plans. They are supporting the successful delivery of all technical aspects across STRIDES from initiation through delivery and closeout, supporting the completion of technical deliverables on schedule and within budget and that meet or exceed quality standards.
Accountabilities
Provides support to the development of country-specific workplans, ensuring alignment with STRIDES objectives and USG priorities and with global technical standards.
Ensures high quality technical deliverablesโincluding workplans, required and ad hoc reports, and success stories highlighting technical achievementsโare developed, submitted and approved on schedule and within budget parameters.
Provides support to ensure technical activities are compliant with STRIDES contract, government regulations, relevant quality standards and FHI 360โs policies and procedures.
Support the response to client requests and questions on technical matters; ensures timely drafts and submissions of consent, approvals and/or waivers.
Ensures technical activities are designed to support STRIDES monitoring and evaluation activities; collaborates with the MEL Advisor and Project Director to finalize and submit country-specific technical indicators and report against their progress in quarterly, annual, and other reports.
Assesses subcontractorsโ