Job Description
Position Title: Health and Environment Advisor
Job Location: Onsite in Tunis, Tunisia
Level of Effort: 40 hours per week
Requesting Office: USAID/Tunis Program Office
Position Duration: November 2023 - May 2024
TDYs: 3 site visits in Tunisia per quarter; 1 visit to MERP in base period
Security Clearances: Facility Access Clearance
Vistant (formally PMCG), recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies across the country and the region by Inc. 5000, Financial Times, Washington Technology, and the Baltimore Business Journal, is a public-sector management consulting firm serving federal international development, healthcare, and social services agencies.
Vistant is seeking a Health and Environment Advisor in support of USAID/Tunis Program Office. As a member of USAID/Tunisia, the Health and Environment Advisor will provide technical guidance, strategic planning, and technical assistance for health programming and environmental compliance across all USAID/Tunisia activities. Under the supervision of the Program Office Director or designee, and in collaboration with
other technical staff at USAID/Tunisia, U.S. Embassy Tunisia, USAID’s Bureau for Global
Health (GH), USAID’s Bureau for the Middle East Technical Support Office, and USAID’s Middle
East Regional Platform Regional Environmental Advisor, the Health and Environment Advisor
will be responsible for supporting technical and operational quality in the planning, execution,
and oversight of Washington-funded health programming and special program initiatives funded by the mission, as well as for maintaining relationships with in-country health stakeholders within the government, civil society, and donor community. Additionally, the Health and Environment Advisor will be responsible for overseeing, guiding, and monitoring environmental compliance procedures for USAID programming.
This is a full-time position for a period of 6 months, with possibility of extension, determined by
the mission support needs. The work will be based in Tunis, Tunisia through a combination of
onsite and telework.
Major Duties and Responsibilities
Health - 50%
- Build and maintain close working relationships with key health stakeholders, such as the
- Ministry of Health and other development partners
- Participate in health stakeholder meetings and deliver presentations, as needed
- Serve as an activity manager for grants to assigned jurisdictions
- Support documentation of lessons learned and sharing of them with other health
- department jurisdictions in the state and more broadly
- Collect and track Tunisian health indicator information, including COVID and
- vaccine-related data, and other key health indicators as appropriate
- Provide technical advice, guidance, and programmatic support for the implementation of
- scaled USG health activities, including close coordination with other USG partners
- Monitor performance of health program implementing partners
- Support the identification of facilitators and barriers to effective pandemic response
- Support the development and implementation of strategies to effectively address
- identified barriers
- Assist with developing strategies for the most effective, efficient, and rapid allocation of
- money from various funding streams
- Support USAID/Tunisia in other health related needs, as opportunities arise.
Environment - 50%
- Provide advice on designing, monitoring, and modifying activities and Activity Approval Memoranda in order to:
- Ensure that the environmental impacts of actions taken by USAID are
- considered and that appropriate environmental safeguards are adopted, as
- required by 22 CFR 216; and,
- Assist Tunisian partners to understand and effectively evaluate potential
- environmental impacts of proposed USAID activities, as needed.
- Serve as USAID/Tunisia’s main point of contact on environmental compliance for the
- Regional Environmental Advisor (REA).
- Support the development and execution of effective environmental review procedures
- consistent with strategic and operational plans, including the following:
- Initial Environmental Examinations (IEEs);
- Determinations of Categorical Exclusion (CEs);
- Determinations of Exemption (under 22 CFR 216.2(b)(I)(ii) or (iii) and
- 216.2(b)(2)) from further environmental reviews;
- Deferrals under 22 CFR 216.3(a)(1)(iii) and 22 CFR 216.3(a)(7);
- Scoping Statements and subsequent Environmental Assessments (EAs);
- Programmatic Environmental Assessments (PEAs); and,
- Environmental Impact Statement (EISs) undertaken under the National
- Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) U.S. domestic procedures including 40 CFR
- 1500.
- Assist and advise Activity Managers or COR/AORs and their implementing partners and contractors in preparing environmental compliance and climate change impact documents as related to new activities and monitoring compliance on ongoing activities, including the following:
- Monitoring ongoing activities for compliance with approved Initial Environmental
- Examination (IEE), Categorical Exclusion (CE), Environmental Assessment (EA),
- Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA), or Environmental Impact
- Statement (EIS) recommendations, conditionalities or mitigative measures; and,
- Advise the A/COR as needed to modify or end activities that are not in
- compliance with provisions and conditions of approved environmental
- documents.
- Identify opportunities and need for the REA to provide supplementary professional support, training, compliance auditing, compliance evaluations, and regional coordination.
Specific Deliverables: (Illustrative)
- Health Factsheets on USAID programming
- Summaries and briefings about stakeholder meetings
- Environmental Compliance tracker and updates
- Environmental Compliance Mission Order
Position Requirements:
- Education: Requires at least a masters degree in Public Health or applied Social Sciences. Medical Doctor, Nursing or other medical certification preferred.
- Prior Work Experience: Requires at least 5 years of relevant public health work experience, preferably working in collaboration with, or in support of the Tunisia Ministry of Health, or for international public health donors in Tunisia. Other examples of relevant experience include COVID-19 response and prevention, vaccination program implementation, infectious disease control, epidemiology and disease surveillance, medical store and supply chain management, health communications, project management, budgeting, monitoring, evaluation and reporting.
- Language Proficiency: Fluency (Level IV) in spoken and written English, Arabic and French (level 4 s/r/w), is required.
- Job Knowledge: Recent experience working with Tunisia Ministry of Health or other health service delivery programs. Must have in-depth, professional-level knowledge of the Tunisia Ministry of Health, as well as global public health principles, concepts, and practices. Must also demonstrate familiarity with environmental compliance concepts and procedures.
- Skills and Abilities: Excellent interpersonal skills are required. The ability to plan, organize, and manage policy and programmatic activities is required. Must demonstrate the ability to establish relationships with MOH counterparts, especially related to pandemic response. Written and oral communication skills, tact, and diplomacy are also required for working with USAID staff, clients, and implementing partners. Ability to work effectively in a team environment, and to achieve consensus on policy, project, and administrative matters. Ability to draft and edit documents directly using Google Suite and Microsoft Office software.
Minimum Requirements:
The applicant selected may be subject to a background investigation and must meet suitability requirements for eligibility in a timely manner.
The applicant selected will also need to pass a medical clearance for this position.
About the Organization
Vistant (formally PM Consulting Group), recognized as one of the fastest growing companies across the country and the region by Inc. 5000, Financial Times, Washington Technology, and the Baltimore Business Journal, is a public-sector management consulting firm serving Federal international development, healthcare, and social services agencies.
