Senior Strategic Information Advisor, DOS LEAP Global - Zanzibar

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LEAP Program Description
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 originally used by USAID to battle against infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, neglected tropical diseases, and pandemic influenza. As of July 1, 2025, LEAP Global transitioned to the U.S. Department of State (DOS). This initiative aims to address the complex human resource challenges faced by national infectious disease programs in the USA-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 provides long-term, sustainable lifesaving support to empower host governments to lead and manage key aspects of their infectious disease portfolios and improve coordination between the U.S. Government and the host country.
About the Position
The Senior Strategic Information Advisor will support the Zanzibar Malaria Elimination Program (ZAMEP) in carrying out life-saving humanitarian assistance (LHA) in full alignment with the new Presidential Executive Order (EO) directives. The primary focus of the Senior Strategic Information Advisor will be providing technical guidance on all aspects of strategic information which includes data management, collection, analysis, and use, reflecting best practices designed to improve data quality and use, and ultimately advance malaria outcomes on daily basis to ensure the ZAMEP program is able to collect, analyze, and share data for decision making. The Senior Strategic Information Advisor will work with ZAMEP to support the planning, development and implementation of advanced data management and reporting systems within the program.
The Senior Strategic Information Advisor will be based at the ZAMEP office which is part of Ministry of Health (MOH). The Advisor will receive day-to-day directions from the ZAMEP Program Manager, who will serve as the onsite Manager/Supervisor. The Senior Strategic Information Advisor will write a report and submit it to the U.S. Department of State in Dar es Salaam at Office of Foreign Assistance (OFA) and ZAMEP on a weekly and monthly basis, as described below.
Responsibilities
Improve capacity of ZAMEP to collect, analyze and report key malaria indicators:
Build the capacity of the ZAMEP M&E Unit in malaria reporting, data management including data collection, data analysis and use, dissemination and reporting.
Identify ZAMEP knowledge gaps and support development of monitoring and data analysis tools to meet the needs of the program.
Provide technical assistance to the ZAMEP monitoring and evaluation unit in design visualizations, reports, and tools that help different target audiences easily digest the information and offer potential solutions to data gaps.
Participate in and support malaria program evaluations conducted by ZAMEP.
Participate in the review process of the ZAMEP strategic plan and monitoring and evaluation component and provide technical expertise on the improvement of data quality issues.
Provide guidance on the formulation, adoption and implementation of key performance indicators and targets for ZAMEP.
Support ZAMEP Monitoring and Evaluation Unit with writing malaria monitoring and evaluation technical documents and evaluation tools such as theories of change, logical frameworks, indicators and corresponding indicator reference sheets, reporting templates and systems, and analysis of work plans, protocols, and reports.
Support the adoption and utilization of malaria monitoring and evaluation framework in the national electronic malaria surveillance system in collaboration with other stakeholders.
Improved program performance as a result of efficient and effective monitoring and evaluation using evidence-based best practices
Advise ZAMEP leadership on ways of improving performance using information obtained from the monitoring and evaluation activities.
Provide a technical support to the development and implementation of strategies to improve data quality, data sharing, and data visualization and analytics, while establishing a culture of data-informed resource allocation within ZAMEP.
Provide a technical support to the routine review and analysis of key indicator performance on the national and regional levels and provide up-to-date findings and recommendations to relevant stakeholders.
Provide technical leadership and expertise to all areas of data management, including ensuring appropriate data collection (manual and automated), inventorying, and cataloguing in the existing ZAMEP monitoring and evaluation tools and data systems.
Work with the program to conduct rigorous analysis of data from a variety of sources to locate implementation obstacles and opportunities, and to employ cutting-edge approaches and tools to generate visualizations.
Work with ZAMEP M&E team to monitor and evaluate progress towards achievement of national targets on malaria, country operational plans, and expected outputs.
Support the ZAMEP in resolving problems at the national and sub-national levels that hinder the effective and efficient implementation of the malaria M&E activities.
Train and mentor, the ZAMEP Monitoring and Evaluation Unit in data analysis and visualization.
Support the ZAMEP team with the risk identification and management to improve program performance towards elimination
Strengthen coordination and implementation of operational/implementation researches
Provide technical assistance to the ZAMEP M&E Unit to design and implement malaria-related studies, surveys and evaluations if needed.
Support identification and prioritization of operational/implementation researches based on the malaria epidemiological trends, program implementation challenges and evidence gaps
Support development and periodical reviews and ZAMEP operational research agenda
Provide technical support on developing research concept, protocol, data collection tools, analytical plan and research reports
Facilitate collaboration with research institutes, universities, technical partners and implementing agency
Support the planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of approved operational studies
Promote appropriate ethical review, data quality, confidentiality, and research governance procedures.
Support the analysis, interpretation, documentation, and dissemination of operational research findings.
Facilitate the translation of research evidence into policy recommendations, operational guidelines, and programme improvement actions.
Monitor the implementation of recommendations generated from research studies and programme evaluations.
Improved Coordination of M&E Activities among stakeholders:
Organize regular consultations/meetings with ZAMEP, monitoring and evaluation experts, USG-supported malaria projects, other donor-funded projects in Zanzibar, and other stakeholders in malaria response in Zanzibar.
Provide support and technical guidance to USG malaria implementing partners on monitoring and evaluation aspects, including the selection, collection, reporting and analysis of malaria indicators.
Provide relevant information to ZAMEP from the different implementing partners monitoring and evaluation activities.
Contribute to the preparation of quarterly progress reports, annual project report, inception report, and ad-hoc technical reports for the MoH, Global Fund, DOS and other implementing partners in accordance with the required formats.
Participate in Zanzibar Malaria Elimination (ZME) technical working group meetings facilitated by ZAMEP and/or Ministry of Health.
Submit progress reports monthly as well as updates if specific requests/information are required to the U.S Department of State (Office of Foreign Assistance).
Participate in regular bi-weekly calls with the DOS malaria team.
Communications:
Regular meetings/ conference calls with ZAMEP, partners, U.S Department of State (Office of Foreign Assistance) and Washington to review progress, discuss activities and address emerging issues.
The Senior Strategic Information Advisor should provide information and avail himself /herself for calls/meetings with the U.S Department of State (Office of Foreign Assistance) as required.
The Senior Strategic Information Advisor will provide monthly reports to the U.S. Depa