Senior Global Health Security Advisor DOS LEAP Global - Ethiopia

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.

 

About the Position

The Senior Global Health Security (GHS) Advisor will support carrying out life-saving humanitarian assistance (LHA) service delivery in full alignment with Presidential Executive Order (EO) directives and U.S. Government priorities.  The primary focus of the Advisor will be technical and strategic support with a special emphasis on preparing for, preventing, detecting, and responding to and recovering from infectious disease threats which impact public health. The Senior GHS Advisor will support the Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) for the effective adoption and implementation of life-saving interventions focusing on preparing for, preventing, detecting and responding to and recovery from infectious disease threats with public health impacts, such as major epidemic prone diseases, health events, and border health. The Senior GHS Advisor will identify programmatic and strategic bottlenecks and facilitate solutions through coordinated technical and strategic support and facilitation of efforts through the GHS projects and other health emergency related funds and projects. The Senior GHS Advisor willbe based within the EPHI.  The Senior Advisor will receive directions from EPHI, who will serve as the onsite Manager/Supervisor.  Familiarity with Department of State, Foreign Assistance programming, and C/GOR experience are highly desirable as the Advisor is expected to support the implementation of the Department of State GHS portfolio. 

 

Work Location: Ethiopia

Responsibilities

Support EPHI in effective delivery of life-saving humanitarian assistance (LHA) through utilization of domestic and donors’ Assist the EPHI with effective delivery of LHA GHS activities, including but not limited to:

• Strengthening the Realtime diseases surveillance system (event-based surveillance, indicator-based surveillance) by supporting the digitization efforts such as DHIS-2, Electronic PHEM, Epidemic intelligence from open source, and use of AI for Health Emergency 
• Support the Health security evidence generation system by supporting the generation of real-time Bulletin and Situation reports through the digital platform
• Establishment and strengthening of the national and sub national Emergency operation center and regular simulation exercises
• Support the establishment of early warning and alerting system
• Strengthening the diseases modeling and forecasting system
• Support the community engagement and risk communication efforts of the PHEM during outbreak response 
• Provide technical support and actively engage with field work to implement programmatic and response interventions at national and sub-national levels.
• Strengthen the capacity of national and subnational Public Health Emergency Management (PHEM) officers in data management, Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Emergency Operations Center (EOC) management, and Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) to improve detection and response to disease outbreaks.

Assist in monitoring the progress of GHS program implementation and provide recommendations for improvements in delivery. 

 

Help organize regular discussions among multisectoral stakeholders and partners to ensure alignment of technical approaches in