Job Description
Job Description
This position will support the infectious diseases, HIV prevention, diagnostics, and health innovation portfolio. This is a high-impact role for a public health leader who is passionate about introducing new technologies, shaping national policy, and generating evidence that drives health system change. The successful candidate will work closely with MoHCC, implementing partners, research institutions, donors, private sector stakeholders, and PSI Global teams to identify, evaluate, and scale innovative approaches that improve health outcomes.
Through technical assistance, implementation science, and evidence generation, the Deputy Country Technical Lead will position PSI as a trusted partner supporting the adoption of innovative HIV prevention, STI diagnostic, and SRH interventions across Zimbabwe.
Duties and Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
• 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.
• Support the Country Lead in providing overall strategic and operational leadership for PSI Zimbabwe and in ensuring delivery against organizational priorities and country-level objectives.
• Serve as a key advisor to the Country Lead on strategic, programmatic, technical, operational, and organizational matters and contribute to senior management decision-making.
• Act on behalf of the Country Lead during periods of absence or as delegated, providing leadership and appropriate decision-making authority to ensure continuity of country operations, programs, partnerships, and external representation.
• Provide leadership across the country portfolio and work closely with program, technical, finance, operations, human resources, business development, and other functions to ensure effective organizational performance.
• Participate actively in the Senior Management Team and contribute to organizational strategy, annual planning, budgeting, resource allocation, performance reviews, risk management, and organizational development.
• Support oversight of organizational performance, risk, compliance, safeguarding, and adherence to PSI policies and donor requirements.
• Support the Country Lead in managing senior-level relationships with government, donors, implementing partners, private sector partners, and other strategic stakeholders, and represent PSI Zimbabwe in senior-level engagements as required.
• Provide leadership, management oversight, coaching, and mentorship to designated staff and teams and strengthen leadership capacity, accountability, collaboration, and performance across the organization.
• Support organizational change and adaptation in response to evolving program priorities, funding environments, staffing needs, and strategic opportunities.
• Contribute to business development, resource mobilization, partnership development, and diversification and sustainability of the PSI Zimbabwe portfolio.
Undertake other leadership and management responsibilities delegated by the Country Lead to support the effective functioning and strategic direction of PSI Zimbabwe.
Qualifications and Experience
What are we looking for?
• Bachelor of Medicine Degree is a minimum requirement.
• 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.
• Proven experience leading multidisciplinary teams and complex stakeholder partnerships.
• Strong technical expertise in infectious diseases, HIV prevention, STI management, diagnostics, and emerging health technologies.
• 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.
How to Apply
How to apply
Step 1: Complete the Application form:
(a) Open the following link to apply - https://forms.cloud.microsoft/r/RaHJqhteBS
Step 2: Send your updated CVs to recruitment@psh.org.zw
All Applications should be shared not later than September 17, 2026.
Please note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.