Require a DEPUTY COUNTRY TECHNICAL LEAD in Harare , Zimbabwe

• Provide strategic technical leadership across PSI Zimbabwe’s portfolio, ensuring programs are evidence-based, responsive to national priorities, and aligned with PSI’s global and regional strategies and technical standards.
  
• Lead the introduction, evaluation, adaptation, and scale-up of innovative HIV prevention products, HIV and STI diagnostics, SRH technologies, and differentiated service delivery approaches.
  
• Collaborate with PSI Global and regional technical teams to identify emerging technologies, innovations, and service delivery models with potential for introduction and scale-up in Zimbabwe.
  
• Assess health system, policy, provider, market, and implementation readiness and support the integration of new interventions into national programs and public and private sector delivery platforms.
  
• Provide high-level technical assistance to MOHCC, implementing partners, private sector stakeholders, and other partners to strengthen program design, implementation, quality, and scale.
  
• Lead the development and adaptation of technical strategies, implementation approaches, guidance, tools, and quality standards.
  
• Ensure strong technical quality across the portfolio, including appropriate quality assurance and continuous quality improvement systems.
  
• Facilitate in-country and cross-country technical learning and exchange, drawing on PSI’s regional and global experience to inform program design and accelerate adoption and scale-up.
  
• Represent PSI Zimbabwe in national, regional, and global technical and strategic forums and position the organization as a trusted technical and implementation partner.
  
• Build and maintain strong relationships with MOHCC, regulatory bodies, donors, technical working groups, implementing partners, research institutions, private sector partners, and other key stakeholders.
  
• Provide technical leadership to policy dialogue and support the translation of emerging evidence into national policies, guidelines, implementation frameworks, and service delivery approaches.
  
• Support policy, regulatory, market, and implementation readiness for the introduction and scale-up of new health technologies and interventions.
  
• Provide strategic oversight of implementation science, operational research, evaluations, and other evidence-generation activities that address priority programmatic and policy questions.
  
• Ensure research is implemented to high scientific and ethical standards and in accordance with applicable regulatory and Good Clinical Practice requirements.
  
• Provide oversight and mentorship to research and technical teams and strengthen organizational capacity for evidence generation, analysis, interpretation, and use.
  
• Lead and contribute to dissemination of evidence through policy briefs, technical reports, scientific manuscripts, conferences, technical forums, and other national, regional, and global platforms.
  
• Provide strategic oversight of program performance, monitoring, evaluation, learning, and technical reporting across the PSI Zimbabwe portfolio.
  
• Ensure that technical and programmatic activities are effectively planned, coordinated, implemented, and monitored against agreed workplans, milestones, results frameworks, deliverables, and donor commitments.
  
• Work across technical, program, operations, finance, and other functions to identify implementation challenges, address performance gaps, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality programs.
  
• Strengthen the development and use of performance indicators, monitoring systems, dashboards, learning agendas, and other tools to support effective program management and accountability.
  
• Promote systematic analysis and use of program and research data to inform management decisions, improve implementation, demonstrate results, and guide adaptation and scale-up.
  
• Ensure high-quality and timely technical and programmatic reporting to donors, MOHCC, PSI Global, and other stakeholders.
  
• Lead the synthesis of program experience, evidence, and lessons learned into actionable insights, technical presentations, briefs, dashboards, and other knowledge products.
  
• Promote systematic documentation and dissemination of lessons learned and best practices across PSI Zimbabwe and through national, regional, and global networks.
  
• Foster a culture of performance, accountability, innovation, collaboration, learning, and continuous improvement.
  

Requirements

• A Bachelor of Medicine Degree as a minimum requirement.
  
• A Master’s degree or higher in Public Health, Preventive Medicine or Epidemiology .
  
• Good Clinical Practice is a must.
  
• At least 7 years of experience in HIV, SRH, diagnostics, public health research, implementation science, or health systems strengthening.
  
• Demonstrated experience supporting the introduction or scale-up of new health technologies, diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, or service delivery innovations.
  
• Experience working with government, donors, regulatory authorities, and development partners.
  
• Strong technical expertise in infectious diseases, HIV prevention, STI management, diagnostics, and emerging health technologies.
  
• Proven experience leading multidisciplinary teams and complex stakeholder partnerships.
  
• Excellent understanding of implementation science, research methodologies, and health systems strengthening.
  
• Strong knowledge of research ethics, regulatory compliance, and policy development processes.
  
• Excellent strategic thinking, communication, stakeholder engagement, and influencing skills.
  
• Ability to translate evidence into actionable policies, programs, and health system solutions.