Technical Advisor, Institutional Strengthening & Delivery (Remote - US, UK, Nigeria, Ethiopia, or France)

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Resolve to Save Lives (RTSL) is a global health organization that partners locally and globally to create and scale solutions to the world's deadliest health threats. Millions of people die from preventable health threats. We collaborate to close the gap between proven, life-saving solutions and the people who need them. Since 2017, we've worked with governments and other partners in more than 60 countries to save millions of lives. We work toward a future where people live longer, healthier lives, communities flourish, and economies thrive. This is an ambitious vision, and it inspires us and our partners to make progress every day. Resolve to Save Lives' Prevent Epidemics program works closely with Ministries of Health and national public health institutes in Africa to strengthen epidemic preparedness capacity, accelerate disease detection and response, and effectively use data to inform action. In addition to direct partnerships with governments, we also work with implementing partners, including the US CDC, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and the Global Health Advocacy Incubator, to implement programs, prototype innovations, and ensure sustainability through increased national ownership, including domestic budget allocations. Our Leadership, G overnance and F inancing team (LGF) h elps build leadership and management capacities, fostering public health institution al strengthening . We also support countries improve access to and use of sustainable financing for multisectoral preparedness. Through leadership, systems thinking, and change management approaches, we help partners work collaboratively, leverage political commitment, and use resources effectively to support data-driven decision-making. We strengthen the institutional foundations that enable NPHIs to operate as high-reliability organizations, including leadership, governance, sustainable financing, partnerships, and the administrative systems needed to translate strategy into action. In countries such as Zambia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, we tailor our support to country context through embedded technical support , co-design with government teams, and structured, shared learning across countries. Position Purpose: Fast outbreak detection and response depend on systems most people never see: reagents procured in time, funds reaching response teams in days, the right staff hired before an outbreak peaks. When these fail, responses are late, and late responses cost lives. The Technical Advisor, Institutional Strengthening & Delivery advances RTSL's institutional strengthening agenda ensuring the "backbone" operational systems support the lifesaving work of NPHAs. The Technical Advisor will work across a portfolio of National Public Health Agencies in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Zambia, and DRC, as part of our Collaborative Surveillance project supported by the Gates Foundation. The role spans the full scope of NPHA organizational strengthening: leadership development, governance and legal mandate, financing and resource mobilization, partnership coordination, and administrative readiness. NPHA organizational strengthening is a growing emphasis of our work. Drawing on methodology developed and tested at Zambia's NPHI, the Technical Advisor will help NPHAs redesign the planning, finance, procurement, and HR systems that most constrain delivery, working directly with NPHI teams and Delivery Units through co-design workshops, management coaching, and execution support, while building what works into a replicable approach. The Technical Advisor will also help NPHIs access, absorb, and account for external funding from partners including the World Bank, Global Fund, and Pandemic Fund. This is a full-time remote role with working hours aligned largely to GMT or US EST time zones , depending on location. The Technical Advisor reports to the Principal Advisor, Country Preparedness, and collaborates with a dynamic team of global and country-level experts. This role is for a fixed term of 24 months with the possibility of extension. The role requires international travel. Core Duties and Responsibilities Institutional Strengthening -Country Accompaniment (Delivery) Provide hands-on technical assistance and coaching to NPHI teams across Ethiopia, Nigeria, Zambia, and DRC, spanning the full arc of institutional reform: Backbone strengthening (administrative readiness): Lead co-design workshops with backbone functions and their internal clients to define end-to-end workflows, service levels, turnaround times, and escalation rules Support implementation through technical assistance to Delivery Units to coordinate workstreams, track actions, and sustain transformation momentum. Install minimum management architecture - trackers, procurement pipelines, bottleneck logs - that generate decision-grade visibility for leadership. Diagnose root causes of institutional bottlenecks using structured and participatory methods

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