About the Project
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 used by USAID to battle against infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, neglected tropical diseases, and pandemic influenza. This initiative aims to address the complex human resource challenges faced by national infectious disease programs in USAID-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 will provide long-term, sustainable mentoring and capacity building for program staff, empower host governments to lead and manage key aspects of their infectious disease portfolios, and improve coordination between USAID and the host government.
About the Position
The purpose of the Global Fund Senior TB Technical Advisor is to provide state-of the-art technical expertise to improve capacity of the Lesotho National TB Program (NTP) to effectively implement and coordinate the Global Fund (GF) grants and the national TB strategic plan through the scale up of TB preventive interventions, diagnosis, treatment and care for both DS-TB and DR-TB. The TB Technical Advisor shall identify programmatic bottlenecks and facilitate solutions through coordinated technical assistance in Lesotho.
Responsibilities
Provide support to NTP in the implementation and scale up of TB and DR- activities, national strategic plan, policies, practices, and coordination of the TB national strategic plan (30% LOE).
Provide technical support to NTP in the implementation of the Global Fund Grant (30% LOE).
Enhance coordination and liaison with USG, GF, WHO, other donors and international partners on planning and provision of needed TA (30% LOE).
Support innovation, research, and capacity building to the NTLP (10% LOE).
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Skills
Please apply through Dexis’ external careers page:
https://dexisonline.com/jobs/?gh_jid=4397678005
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