Senior Global Health Security Advisor (DOS/LEAP Global) - Guinea

Who We Are

ZemiTek, LLC is a Woman-Owned, SBA-certified 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) based in the Washington, DC metro area. We have a strong record delivering innovative and high-quality solutions. Since 2007, ZemiTek has provided technical assistance, project management, information technology (IT), knowledge management, monitoring and evaluation, training and learning development, and institutional support services.

Position Description

Global Solutions Ventures (GSV) – a joint-venture partnership between ZemiTek, LLC and Dexis Consulting Group – is implementing the Long-term Exceptional Technical Assistance Project (LEAP Global), a mechanism originally used by USAID to battle against infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, neglected tropical diseases, and pandemic influenza. As of July 1, 2025, LEAP Global transitioned to the U.S. Department of State (DOS). This initiative aims to address the complex human resource challenges faced by national infectious disease programs in the USA-supported countries.

The intervention of this project is to hire and embed technical expert advisors and subject matter experts within government entities. By directly embedding the technical expertise within the national programs, LEAP provides long-term, sustainable lifesaving support to empower host governments to lead and manage key aspects of their infectious disease portfolios and improve coordination between the U.S. Government and the host country. 

 

The Senior Global Health Security (GHS) Advisor will work closely with relevant multi-sectoral government departments and agencies within the Ministry of Health, and, when appropriate, with the Ministries of Livestock, and Environment. The Advisor will promote the effective adoption and implementation of life-saving interventions aimed at preventing, detecting, and responding to infectious disease threats with public health significance, including zoonotic diseases. The Senior GHS Advisor will identify programmatic challenges and facilitate solutions by coordinating technical support and leveraging resources from GHS projects and, where applicable, the Pandemic Fund. The Advisor will be based within the designated Ministry and will receive guidance from Ministry staff, who will act as the onsite manager or supervisor. Experience with USAID programming and C/AOR responsibilities is highly desirable, as the Advisor will support the implementation of the GHS portfolio. The Advisor will provide weekly and monthly reports to the U.S. Department of State.

Responsibilities

Support multisectoral ministries in effective delivery of life-saving humanitarian assistance (LHA) through utilization of domestic and donors’ (e.g. the Pandemic Fund, Global Fund, World Bank Fund).

• Assist the relevant ministries with effective delivery of LHA GHS services, including but not limited:
  • community-based active surveillance,
  • systems capacity for detecting priority diseases/threats,
  • data systems for monitoring, analyzing, and reporting on threats,
  • infection prevention and control (IPC), including commodities and WASH in healthcare facilities,
  • case management; and Emergency Management including Emergency Operating Centers (EOC) and Point of Entry Screening,
  • Risk Communication and Community Engagement,
  • Emergency outbreak response.

 

• Provide technical support and actively engage with field work to implement programmatic and response interventions at national and sub-national levels.
• Provide technical support during the country Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) and implementation plan development.
• Assist in monitoring the progress of GHS program implementation and provide recommendations for improvements of service delivery.
• If relevant for the country, review and analyze performance reports submitted to the Pandemic Fund, Global Fund (GF), and other partners.
• Help organize regular discussions among the multisectoral stakeholders and partners to ensure alignment of technical approaches in the respective GHS portfolio.
• Provide support to the appropriate multisectoral ministries in identification of performance gaps, potential barriers and bottlenecks, and facilitate consensus on targeted interventions to improve performance on key indicators attributable to:
  • reduction in incidence and mortality for epidemic and pandemic prone diseases;
  • strengthening systems to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats;
  • rapid and effective responses to infectious disease outbreaks which are threats for public health.

 

Support the implementation and expansion of best practices in GHS and outbreak response nationwide.<