Technical Director

The Technical Director leads and directs technical focus areas across the Activity to enhance global health security in priority countries. This position 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 Nepal Technical Director works closely with technical leads, the Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning (MEL) Advisor and Director and Program Management Project Director to cascade the Activity’s technical approach and ensure adherence with the USG GHS priorities across country-level work plans. The Technical Director is accountable for the successful delivery of all technical aspects and reporting across STRIDES from initiation through delivery and closeout, ensuring completion of technical deliverables on schedule and within budget and that meet or exceed quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Serves as STRIDES technical lead and key point of contact for relevant topics.
• Provides technical direction to develop country-specific workplans and budgets, ensuring alignment with STRIDES objectives and USG priorities and with global technical standards.
• Ensures high quality technical deliverables, including workplans, required and ad hoc reports, and success stories highlighting technical achievements are developed, submitted, and approved on schedule and within budget parameters.
• Provides directions to ensure technical activities are compliant with STRIDES contract, government regulations, relevant quality standards, and FHI 360’s policies and procedures.
• Responds 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 subcontractors’ performance on technical activities and directs adjustments, as needed.
• Collaborating with the MEL Advisor and Project Director and Communications leads to promoting STRIDES successes by collecting, writing, and distributing success stories, case studies, photos, and outreach at events.
• Represent STRIDES at global health security-focused technical events; and technical working groups meeting; collect and share information that could be valuable to the Activity.
• Work closely with the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD) and their relevant departments, divisions, and centers as well as technical working groups.
• Supports performance management and professional development of direct reports, including ongoing feedback, coaching and career support.
• Coordinates across Senior Management Team to set budgets, goals, and develop procedures and training for projects.
• Leads and directs staff to achieve strategic project goals, ensuring alignment with USG priorities.
• Perform other relevant duties as assigned by supervisors and Country Representative.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or its international equivalent in public health or other relevant health-related fields with five to seven years of relevant experience; or a Bachelor’s degree with eight years of experience in these areas.
• Project Management certification preferred.
• Prior experience implementing USG-funded contracts strongly preferred.
• Comprehensive knowledge of concepts, practices, and procedures with contract and project management and technical development.
• Ability to exercise judgment within defined practices and policies in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.
• Prior experience working with MoHP, MoALD, and their respective departments, divisions, and centers, as well as experience in an international non-governmental organization (INGO), is considered an advantage.
• Comprehensive knowledge of concepts, practices, and policies related to global health security.
• Proven ability to ensure that budgets, schedules, and performance requirements are met.
• Proactive at managing multiple tasks, supervising others, and working in the virtual work environment, must be open to managing time for collaborating with teams in different time zones as needed.
• Excellent interpersonal, Leadership, organizational, communication, project management, team building and management, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written English and Nepali including documentation skills.

The final deadline for application is 5:00 p.m. December 28, 2025.

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