Corus International is the parent of a family of world-class organizations working to end extreme poverty, a global leader in international development with subsidiaries including IMA World Health, Corus World Health, Lutheran World Relief, CGA Technologies, Ground Up Investing, and Farmers Market Brands. This is a Proposal Position. Corus seeks an experienced Global Health Security Technical Director to provide strategic and technical leadership for the design, implementation, and oversight of a multi-country global health security program that supports the transition of U.S.-funded health initiatives to Department of State-managed awards and strengthens countries' capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats. The Technical Director will drive integrated, country-led approaches to strengthen health systems and enhance outbreak preparedness and response aligned with One Health principles across priority countries including the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Mali, and South Sudan. Responsibilities include technical leadership and strategy development; leading integrated disease surveillance, early warning systems, and outbreak response; strengthening One Health approaches; health systems strengthening (health information systems, supply chains, laboratory systems, health workforce); partnerships and stakeholder engagement with Ministries of Health and donors; program oversight; monitoring, evaluation and learning; and transition to country ownership. Required: Master's degree or higher in public health, epidemiology, infectious diseases or related field; 8-10 years progressive experience in global health programs including leadership roles; expertise in global health security, outbreak preparedness, surveillance, rapid outbreak response, and health systems strengthening; experience with Ministries of Health in low- and middle-income countries, preferably in Africa. Preferred: experience with USAID and/or Department of State funding, integrated health programming (HIV, malaria, MCH, TB), and One Health approaches.
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