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The Senior Technical Advisor for Human Resources for Health (STA/HRH) provides technical leadership and assistance to global, bilateral and foundation funded projects in multiple countries, primarily in low-resource settings. S/he is also responsible for building the organization’s technical capacity to address the human resources for health crisis. Essential functions include:

ensure consistent high quality of HRH technical support, inputs and assistance to programs, build staff capacity and organizational capacity in HRH topics, work collaboratively with HRH advisors on multiple projects in multiple countries, providing technical input as requested.
The STA/HRH leads IntraHealth’s efforts to expand and apply our technical approaches and initiatives in health workforce strengthening with reference to international development in workforce issues that apply to low-resource settings.

He/she provides expertise and consultation on HRH issues and travels to assist in project implementation and quality assurance. The STA for HRH works with staff in headquarters and in country offices to ensure that they have HRH knowledge and skills appropriate to the job and that IntraHealth has the capacity to deliver excellent project results.

The Senior Technical Advisor for Human Resources for Health represents IntraHealth HRH work externally. This includes strategizing and planning with staff, donors, partners and colleagues. He/she provides technical leadership on HRH topics and program experience in global health fora.This position is based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and is supervised by the Director of Technical Leadership. He/she works closely with senior program managers, other technical leadership staff, and others involved in program design and implementation.