U. S Personal Services Contract Senior Public Health Advisor

The Senior Public Health Advisor (SPHA) is the principal portfolio manager/administrator/technical advisor for selected public health areas. S/he is a senior manager within the Health Office serving as Team Leader of the five-member Health Services Team, responsible for maternal and child health (MCH), family planning (FP), nutrition, water and sanitation for health (WASH) and infectious diseases including HIV/AIDS.   S/he is responsible for strategically managing resources to achieve both the short-term and long-term results identified in USAID Mali’s five-year health strategy (2018-2023), managing specific portfolio activities, and helping ensure results, reporting information and analysis. S/he is also responsible for working with other Health Office teams including Health Systems, Malaria, and Program and Operations, as well as members of other Mission program areas in identifying and operationalizing ways to maximize interventions across the portfolio, i.e., identifying opportunities for complementarities in health and education, food security, humanitarian assistance, governance, communication and economic growth through agriculture.

The SPHA provides technical and administrative guidance on the development and execution of the USAID Mali Health Office interventions implemented by the collaborating agencies. S/he participates in the USAID process of programming allocated funding resources, and ensures that contractual and financial requirements are met. S/he works with a range of partners, such as US Private Voluntary Organizations (PVOs), local Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs), Cooperating Agencies and private partners, including those activities funded through USAID/W, to ensure that activities are consistent with the USAID/Mali Health priorities, USAID policy and practice, and that agreed-upon results are being achieved. The incumbent ensures communication flow between USAID public and private partners, and actively contributes to bringing the various actors together. S/he also consults with other donors active in the health sector and identifies opportunities for collaboration and coordination of interventions.

The SPHA leads the management of PEPFAR in the Health Office.  The Health Services Team contains the PEPFAR Infectious Disease Specialist who spends 50% of their time managing PEPFAR related activities. The SPHA is responsible for coordinating PEPFAR management, coordination and reporting with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), USAID’s West Africa Regional Office, and USAID’s Office of HIV/AIDS (OHA) and the Office of Global HIV/AIDS Coordinator (OGAC) in Washington.