Expression of Interest: Africa-Based Global Health Security & Diplomacy Consultant Roster
On-siteAbuja, FCT, Nigeria
Abuja, FCT, NigeriaOn-siteFull TimeFinancial ServicesLarge
Full TimeLargeFinancial Services
Job Summary
Conduct strategic assessments, health sector analyses, and technical advisory services for U.S. Department of State Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy opportunities across Africa. Deliver capacity-strengthening initiatives, health financing planning, and proposal development support to governments, ministries, and local partners. Manage stakeholder engagement, partnership development, and short-term surge responses for emerging GHSD programs while advancing health security, resilience, and sustainable country ownership. Submit a cover letter detailing availability and relevant language proficiencies.
Required Qualifications
- An advanced degree in public health, medicine, epidemiology, health economics, health policy, international development, or a related discipline.
- Extensive experience supporting donor-funded health programs in low- and middle-income countries.
- Demonstrated experience working with ministries of health, ministries of finance, national public health institutions, local organizations, and development partners.
- Expertise supporting sustainable, country-led approaches that strengthen local systems and institutional capacity.
- Strong experience translating technical concepts into practical, measurable implementation strategies.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, facilitation, communication, and technical writing skills.
- Experience designing or implementing programs with a strong focus on accountability, performance, efficiency, and measurable outcomes.
- Availability
- Relevant language proficiencies
- Substantial progressional experience in countries
Desired Qualifications
- Health System Sustainability and Country Ownership
- Health systems strengthening
- Health financing and domestic resource mobilization
- Public financial management for health
- Transition and sustainability planning
- Human resources for health
- Governance and institutional strengthening
- Health sector reform
- Public-private partnerships in health
- Private sector engagement, faith-based health systems, and strategic partnerships
- Digital health, health information systems, data analytics, interoperability, and data use for decision-making
- Supply chain and pharmaceutical systems strengthening
- Outbreak preparedness and response
- Disease surveillance systems
- Laboratory system strengthening
- Emergency preparedness and coordination
- HIV/AIDS
- Tuberculosis
- Malaria
- Maternal, newborn, and child health
- Immunization systems
- Nutrition, including integration with maternal, newborn, child health, immunization, and infectious disease programming
- Integrated disease prevention and control programs
- Community-based service delivery and risk communication, including approaches that strengthen trust, demand generation, and local preparedness
- Government capacity strengthening
- Local partner development
- Organizational effectiveness
- Workforce development and training
- Change management
- Strategic planning
- Performance improvement
- Results-based management
- Monitoring, evaluation, learning, research, and implementation science
- Commercial diplomacy, trade and investment facilitation, and regulatory reform
- Infrastructure and investment development
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