Technical Director - Guatemala Health Security Activity
About Palladium:
Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.
This Proposal Opportunity:
The goal of the USAID-funded Health Security Activity in Guatemala is to provide tailored and targeted technical support in areas of highest need and priority to key actors and entities in Guatemala to strengthen the health system and human resource capabilities that build resilience and self-reliance to prevent, mitigate and respond to the health and economic impacts of emerging infectious disease pandemics.
Under the supervision of the Chief of Party (COP), the Technical Director (TD) leads technical aspects of the project in compliance with USAID and Palladium rules and regulations to achieve project objectives. They will also regularly engage with and maintain good relationships with relevant actors. The TD will provide support to the COP in liaising, programmatic, strategic development, and quality control duties. They shall have depth and breadth of technical expertise and experience, a solid professional reputation, interpersonal skills, and professional relationships to fulfill the activity's requirements. They will serve an acting capacity in the absence of the COP.
Reporting and Supervision:
This position will report to the Guatemala Health Security Chief of Party.
*This is a proposal position and is contingent upon award from USAID.*
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Serve as a member of the project’s senior leadership team. Co-leading with the COP and overseeing programmatic functions, i.e., development of work plans, budgets, quarterly/annual reports, and ensure effective implementation of program strategy.
Maintain effective and open communication throughout the project with Chief of Party, USAID, Project Director, Objective Leads, project operation and monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) teams.
Provide technical guidance and strengthen capacity of local One Health stakeholders, ensuring that public health infrastructure and workforce needs are addressed to handle health security challenges, including emerging threats and outbreaks.
Provide technical oversight to sub-partners to ensure delivery on project scope.
Maintain effective and open communication throughout the project with relevant Guatemalan One Health stakeholders such as professional associations, relevant government ministries and departments, civil society organizations, and research institutions to maximize activity alignment.
Work with the Chief of Party and other project staff to continuously refine implementation processes by integrating lessons learned and best practices.
Key Competencies Required:
Minimum 10 years’ experience in developing activity work-plans, budgets, managing implementation, staff, and short-term technical assistance.
Knowledge of USG contract management, policies, procedures, regulations and reporting requirements.
Proven ability to develop and communicate a common vision among diverse partners and the ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams.
Strong leadership and interpersonal skills proven by a demonstrated ability to collaborate and work within and across teams.
Written and spoken fluency in Spanish and English.
Related work experience in Central America.
Ability to travel nationally and internationally.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion - Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.
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