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Global Health Security (GHS) Specialist – Senegal Jobs in Dakar, Dakar Region, Senegal at Panagora Group
Title: Global Health Security (GHS) Specialist – Senegal
Company: Panagora Group
Location: Dakar, Dakar Region, Senegal
Background
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 focused on market-based and integrated local solutions that strengthen country capacity; and on learning, communications, and technology solutions to accelerate and heighten impact.
Panagora Group seeks a Global Health Security (GHS) Specialist in Senegal for the USAID-funded Localize Global Health Security (LGHS) project. LGHS supports local partners to address gaps in health security as identified in national health security capacity assessments. LGHS complements the multisectoral cross-technical approaches of other GHS programs to move countries closer to achieving Global Health Security Agenda targets. As a result of this support, local partners will be able to address critical caps in health security through grants and technical assistance in prioritized technical areas, strengthen the organizational capacity of local entities to effectively manage the implementation of health security technical interventions and expand global knowledge base on approaches and best practices for local entities conducting global health security interventions. In Senegal, LGHS will do this by establishing and managing a grants program that finances local organizations to address subnational health security gaps using a One Health approach, with a focus on Risk Communication and Community Engagement (RCCE) and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) programs.
The GHS Specialist will serve as the project’s main in-country focal point for GHS, lead GHS technical capacity strengthening, and ensure quality implementation for LGHS grantees. . The GHS Specialist is also responsible for understanding and addressing grantees’ needs. The GHS Specialist will oversee implementation of the grantee capacity strengthening plans, technical support and monitoring and evaluation of grantee performance on implementation of RCCE and AMR activities, and support learning and adaptive management.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Support the onboarding and orientation of grantees to the technical components of the LGHS project.
Support the grantees in the planning, budgeting, monitoring, and adaptive management of their RCCE and AMR activities. This includes support in developing workplans and monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) plans. The GHS Specialist should ensure activities are strategic, based on evidence, aligned with national priorities and plans, and are leveraging existing materials and partners.
Coordinate the assessment of grantees’ technical health security capacity, facilitate the identification of their technical needs and priorities, and support the development of their capacity strengthening plans.
Lead, support and coordinate training, mentorship, and technical assistance to grantees to enhance program implementation and performance, in line with LGHS’s capacity strengthening approach. Where it is within the GHS Specialists’ area of expertise, this includes delivering GHS technical support and training.
Ensure the provision of high-quality, strategic technical assistance and capacity strengthening by evaluating technical support providers prior to engaging them; orienting and training selected providers in USAID/Senegal’s GHS priorities and approaches; supervising and monitoring providers throughout the delivery of technical services …
