Senior Health Technical Lead/Specialist
Overview
Provides technical leadership and quality assurance for health and nutrition service delivery and health system strengthening activities for an upcoming World Bank-funded health project in Sudan.
Key Responsibilities
- Provides technical leadership and quality assurance across health and nutrition service delivery and health system strengthening activities.
- Ensures service delivery is technically sound, aligned with national health strategies and World Bank requirements.
- Leads facility readiness assessments and IPC protocols.
- Oversees nutrition programming and evidence generation.
- Supports health workforce strengthening, referral pathways, and differentiated delivery models.
- Provides technical guidance on DHIS2/HMIS, disease surveillance, outbreak preparedness and emergency response, climate-resilient facility and WASH improvements, laboratory and blood systems, digital health, and supply chain/pharmaceutical management.
- Coordinates closely with Consortium partners.
- Represents the IRC-led consortium in relevant technical coordination mechanisms.
- Liaises with WHO, UNICEF, and Federal/State Ministries of Health.
- Reinforces government-led systems.
- Ensures technical activities comply with World Bank Operational Policy 7.30, the Procurement Regulations, and the Environmental and Social Framework, including SEA/SH prevention and response.
- Supports the Third-Party Monitoring mechanism, IRC's Community Feedback Mechanisms and the project's Grievance Redress Mechanism.
- Supports continuity of SRH and GBV services across the Consortium.
- Supports the phased, consultative handover of SHARE I sites into SHARE II.
- Contributes to sustainability and responsible exit planning.
- Provides technical inputs to project reporting, including results framework/indicator tracking.
- Supports capacity building of MoH and local partner staff.
Required Experience
Minimum 10-15 years' progressive experience in health systems strengthening and/or PHC and hospital service delivery programming, including significant experience in Sudan or comparable fragile, conflict-affected, or access-constrained settings. Demonstrated technical expertise in health and nutrition and relevant technical areas including PHC/hospital service delivery, nutrition (CMAM/IYCF), communicable and non-communicable disease management, reproductive/maternal/newborn health, GBV/SRH, mental health, disease surveillance and outbreak response and health information system. Prior experience on large health and nutrition projects financed by the World Bank or other major institutional donors; familiarity with health cluster coordination. Experience working with, or through, Ministry of Health structures and health-sector coordination mechanisms (Health Cluster, WHO, UNICEF). Strong data analysis, facility assessment (HeRAMS), and technical report writing skills, and demonstrated experience supporting multi-partner consortium coordination.
Qualifications
Medical degree (MD/MBBS) or an advanced degree (Master's) in public health, health systems management, or a related field.
