Senior Technical Advisor

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership & Thought Partnership:

• Develop and implement Pathfinder’s capacity-strengthening strategy—designing and producing practical tools, resources, briefs, and guidelines for country offices and partners.
• Co-design and operationalize organizational capacity strengthening strategies with country offices and HQ teams to elevate Pathfinder’s program quality and operational agility.
• Shape Pathfinder’s global positioning through external thought leadership, contributing to evidence, dialogue, and innovation in localization and locally led development.

Program Design & Technical Leadership:

• Lead and support the design of integrated, context-specific institutional development programs that center on improving the overall well-being of women and girls.
• Develop and disseminate evidence-based tools, frameworks, and models to guide capacity strengthening efforts across countries.
• Serve as technical lead on capacity development components in multi-country programs and large-scale partnerships

Capacity Strengthening & Coaching:

• Work alongside Country Directors and leadership teams to identify organizational capacity gaps, develop plans with KPIs,  and co-create solutions. Lead the end-to-end capacity assessment process—developing assessment frameworks, tools, and resources; conducting organizational capacity evaluations; and creating tailored capacity-strengthening plans.
• Support sub-grantees, local NGOs, and government counterparts with tailored capacity strengthening packages on leadership, governance, program implementations, and institutional effectiveness interventions.
• Lead training, mentorship, and peer learning platforms to support country-level transformation.

• Develop, facilitate, and maintain an internal community of practice for capacity strengthening and leadership

Government & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with ministries, policies, and regional intergovernmental institutions.
• Support country teams in developing strategic partnerships with local actors and positioning Pathfinder as a key player in local capacity strengthening, policy advocacy and systems strengthening.
• Support government and local stakeholder capacity strengthening

Technical Input into Proposals & Business Development:

• Serve as a technical lead, program design lead, or contributor on proposals involving institutional development, systems strengthening, or capacity building.
• Collaborate with Business Development and Partnerships teams to ensure alignment of program design with funder priorities and local realities.
• Contribute to capture efforts and strategic planning around upcoming capacity strengthening opportunities.

Representation & Global Advocacy:

• Represent Pathfinder at high-level fora, technical working groups, and global platforms focused on systems change, localization, and SRHR integration.
• Serve as an ambassador for Pathfinder’s institutional transformation work and its contribution to global health and development goals.

Capacity Building:

• Work with the Budgeting and Reporting Manager to provide training to country office staff to improve the financial management capacity of staff.

Quality Assurance & Cross-Team Collaboration:

• Support learning agendas, MEL frameworks, and performance management systems that assess organizational capacity and leadership outcomes.
• Collaborate with Pathfinder’s Senior Technical Advisors, Gender and Social Inclusion specialists, and Innovation and Learning teams to document best practices and drive synergies across programming.
• Foster internal cross-learning and integration across thematic and geographic areas.