About the role
Population Services International (PSI) is the world's leading non-profit social marketing organization. We are a diverse group of over 5,000 entrepreneurial development professionals located in over 40 countries committed to making it easier for all people to lead healthier lives and plan the families they desire. PSI is using its global presence and 50+ years of experience to help reimagine healthcare. We are working to shape market systems, shift policy and funding, and strengthen global capacity to better support consumer empowered healthcare. Join us!
PSI has established a new branch office in Zimbabwe after supporting the 23 year old PSI/Zimbabwe Trust – now renamed Population Solutions for Health – to deconsolidate and achieve full financial and operational independence as a deeply rooted Zimbabwean local entity. The new PSI branch office will remain with prime award responsibility across multiple existing funding streams with PEPFAR/USAID, the BMGF and the Embassy of Sweden through to the completion of those investments, with PSH moving into an independent subpartner role.
While PSH will lead implementation in Zimbabwe, PSI has an essential strategic and technical role to play in providing light touch TA to the mixed health system in the areas of insight gathering and application for improved programming, digital health and monitoring, and adaptive implementation and learning, including support for world class documentation and dissemination of the lessons learned, best practices, approaches and tools developed through existing programming in Zimbabwe to catalyze communities of practice in Zimbabwe and beyond.
In addition, PSI has a role to play in implementation areas unique to the international organization, such as independent fundholding under results based financing approaches and safe abortion advocacy, education and communications. The high capacity, deeply rooted PSI – PSH partnership has tremendous potential to deliver together on the vision of consumer powered health care and the global network strategy for shaping mixed health systems, shifting policy and funding, and strengthening capacity within the two entities and within the Zimbabwe mixed health system and beyond.
PSI seeks a Senior Technical Advisor to lead the PSI branch office in Zimbabwe in strategy development and implementation, provision of light touch technical assistance in a two-way capacity exchange with other network members operating in Zimbabwe, maintenance of prime award and first and second-tier subaward compliance on current and future funding streams, and in leading strategic implementation areas which are unique to the PSI branch office in Zimbabwe.
This position will support the adaptive implementation and learning, digital health and monitoring and HIV/SRHR network member technical teams in Zimbabwe, including facilitating the implementation of technical activities in line with PSI and global best practices and harnessing PSI global technical capacity across functional areas to support in-country implementation and capacity strengthening. S/he will facilitate the design of technical activities and the strategy for network members in Zimbabwe, including overseeing internal two-way capacity building efforts within Zimbabwe and with the broader PSI network.
This Sr. TA is an internal and external thought leader and renowned expert in their field. Responsibilities Your contributions Platform and Program Management: Lead operational planning, workplanning and implementation of those workplans according to annual operating budget and funded implementation and technical workstreams for PSI branch office-led work in Zimbabwe.
Oversee annual operating budget development and compliant implementation, prime award and first- and second-tier subaward compliance in close partnership with PSI global program management, grants and contracts and field finance support teams, and with other network members operating in Zimbabwe. Oversee adaptation of PSI policies and procedures to the Zimbabwe PSI branch office context and ensure compliance with regulatory and statutory requirements. 25% of the time.
Adaptive Implementation and Learning: As a high level subject matter expert, support in-country programs to design and implement a thoughtful adaptive implementation and learning agenda, analyzing evidence to determine best practices, supporting adaptive implementation accordingly, and sharing technical knowledge and expertise, best practices, and approaches to influence the broader community of practice in HIV programming in Zimbabwe and beyond. Drive the utilization of evidence-based tools and innovations to improve the PSI network's performance and reputation in HIV and SRHR programming. 25% of the time.
Technical: Lead PSI strategy development and implementation in Zimbabwe and support the strategic direction and technical strengthening of other network members operating in Zimbabwe, with a strong focus on driving HCD- and insight