Solutions Advisor: Global Health Security Institutional Support Contractor

**Job Information**:
Date Opened
- 01/08/2025

Number of Positions
- 1

Project/Activity
- USAID/South Africa TSS

Industry
- USAID

Job Type
- Short Term Technical (consultant)

City
- Pretoria

State/Province
- Gauteng

Country
- South Africa

Zip/Postal Code
- 0002

HIghest Level of Education
- Master’s degree with significant study in or pertinent to the specialized field, including but not limited to medicine, veterinary medicine, epidemiology, public health, social science, or infectious disease.

Work Experience
- 10-15 years
- Panagora Group is a social enterprise dedicated to providing high-quality, high-impact international health, development, and learning consulting. We are a dynamic woman
- and employee-owned small business partner focused on market-based and integrated local solutions that strengthen country capacity and independence; and on learning, communications, and technology solutions to accelerate and heighten impact. As a small business, we are able to implement novel and innovative approaches using highly participatory approaches to mobilize community, civil society, and government energy in defining and owning solutions, and to promote inclusive development that benefits all groups.

**Position Summary**
- Background on Technical Support Services (TSS) Activity

The Technical Support Services (TSS) Activity helps USAID/Southern Africa’s Regional Health Office (RHO) address technical priorities, develop creative, innovative solutions to strategically allocate resources, strengthen connections with partners, and replicate best practices and effective program models. Through the TSS contract, Panagora Group augments capacity by providing technical, operational, and administrative support to USAID’s health portfolio. TSS deploys advisors in response to USAID requests for priority work with government stakeholders, implementing partners, and/or other entities. TSS supports Health Office staff and teams to integrate creative solutions into routine work. TSS also provides international and local expertise for surge support, as needed, for USAID Program Cycle requirements, planning, development, outreach, communications, and Health Office human resource functions.

General Summary or Background

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) plays a pivotal role in the U.S. government’s response to global health challenges, including HIV, AIDS, Tuberculosis (TB), Emerging Epidemics, and Global Health Security (GHS). USAID’s GHS portfolio is designed to strengthen countries' multisectoral capacities to reduce the risk and impact of emerging and reemerging disease threats of significant public health concern. The portfolio emphasizes building country capacities and strengthening systems in critical health security technical areas such as: zoonotic disease prevention and control, national laboratory systems, infectious disease surveillance, health workforce development, risk communication and community engagement, infection prevention and control, and antimicrobial resistance.

USAID’s GHS program embraces a One Health approach, recognizing the interconnected roles of human, animal, and environmental health in preventing and managing emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) with epidemic and pandemic potential. Activities are implemented at national, subnational, and community levels, including efforts to mitigate zoonotic disease spillover risks at their source, particularly within livestock, agriculture, and environmental sectors. GHS initiatives also leverage USAID’s broader programming in health systems strengthening, food security, economic growth, and disaster assistance. This comprehensive approach ensures that activities reduce zoonotic disease risks and support agricultural development, safe food supplies, and economic growth.

USAID/Southern Africa (SA) manages one of the Agency’s largest missions, with the Bilateral Health Office (BHO) serving as its largest technical office. BHO is responsible for implementing a robust bilateral PEPFAR portfolio, a comprehensive TB program, and the largest COVID-19 and Global Vax support program globally. In 2024, BHO designed and launched a new GHS program aligned with the International Health Regulations (IHR), further advancing the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA). The GHSA, a global initiative launched in 2014, aims to create a world safe and secure from infectious disease threats and to elevate global health security as a priority for national leaders. USAID’s GHS program supports countries in achieving GHSA objectives and meeting requirements under the WHO’s IHR and related animal health regulations, as measured by WHO’s Joint External Evaluation (JEE).

Basic Function of the Role

The Global Health Security Advisor will lead USAID’s GHS team in South Africa, providing strategic leadership, technical oversight, and program management to strengthen the country’s prevention, detection, and response capacities for emerging infectious disea