Technical Director Job Vacancy at Jhpiego, Dar es salaam December 2025

🦟 Technical Director – Malaria Project (RISE-Tanzania)

Here is a well-arranged summary of the job advertisement for the Technical Director role with Jhpiego’s upcoming DoS-funded malaria project in Tanzania.

🎯 Overview and Role Summary

Jhpiego seeks a Technical Director to provide technical leadership and project oversight for comprehensive malaria interventions in Tanzania (including Zanzibar). This role is part of the multi-country RISE project funded by the U.S. Department of State (DoS).

• Primary Goal: Support the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP), the President’s Office, Regional Administration and Local Government (PO-RALG), and the Zanzibar Malaria Elimination Program (ZAMEP) to implement activities that reduce malaria morbidity and maternal and child mortality.

• Reporting: Operates under the leadership of the RISE-Tanzania Chief of Party.

• Location: Tanzania (will work with technical teams in regions/Zanzibar).

• Application Deadline: December 14, 2025.

⚙️ Key Technical Interventions

The Technical Director will oversee and provide expertise in the following areas of comprehensive malaria interventions:

• Integrated Vector Management (IVM).

• Malaria diagnosis, treatment, and preventive therapies.

• Malaria in Pregnancy (MIP).

• Routine distribution of Insecticide-Treated Nets (ITNs).

• Surveillance monitoring and entomological monitoring.

• Malaria case diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, including malaria vaccination.

• Laboratory diagnostic capacity strengthening.

🔑 Core Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Provide strategic direction and technical oversight for all project activities, ensuring integration, quality, and sustainability.

• Quality Assurance: Establish and implement a system to ensure the technical quality and fidelity of project activities across target regions and districts.

• Materials Development: Develop and/or update evidence-based training materials, standards, job aids, curricula, and supervisory systems.

• Stakeholder Liaison: Serve as the technical liaison with the NMCP and maintain excellent relationships with the DoS, PMI, and in-country counterparts.

• Capacity Building: Provide mentoring and capacity building in health systems strengthening, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health, and malaria control/treatment.

• Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E): Work with M&E staff to track data/results, inform adjustments, and document successes and lessons learned.

• Staff/Partner Management: Supervise technical staff and manage the technical contributions of subgrantees, including defining scopes of work.

🎓 Required Qualifications

Specialized Malaria Knowledge Must Include at least one of the following:

• Malaria prevention, including MIP services (IPTp, malaria immunization).

• Routine distribution of ITNs.

• Malaria diagnosis (RDT and microscopy).

• Malaria case management, particularly for pregnant women and children under five.

📧 Application Details

• Application Link: Apply at www.jhpiego.org/careers

• Submission: Applicants must submit a single document to include: cover letters, resume, and references.

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