Senior TB Prevention, Treatment and Care Advisor, DOS LEAP Global - Zimbabwe

Who We Are

Zemi Tek, LLC is a Woman-Owned, SBA-certified 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Business (SDB) based in the Washington, DC metro area. We have a strong record delivering innovative and high-quality solutions. Since 2007, Zemi Tek has provided technical assistance, project management, information technology (IT), knowledge management, monitoring and evaluation, training and learning development, and institutional support services.

Global Solutions Ventures (GSV) – a joint-venture partnership between Zemi Tek, 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.

Zimbabwe remains a high TB and TB/HIV burden country and is implementing a comprehensive national response guided by the National TB Strategic Plan (NSP) and aligned with global commitments to end TB. To accelerate progress towards ending TB, the NTP is introducing new diagnostic, treatment, preventive, and digital innovations to improve TB case detection, treatment outcomes, and patient-centered care.

The Department of State will second a Senior TB Prevention, Treatment and Care Advisor to provide targeted technical assistance to the NTP, while being administratively based at an Implementing Partner. The Advisor will strengthen TB treatment and care delivery, support grant implementation, and accelerate the uptake and scale-up of innovations within the Zimbabwe TB program.

The Advisor will support the NTP in carrying out life-saving humanitarian assistance (LHA) service delivery in full alignment with the new Presidential Executive Order (EO) directives.

The Senior TB Prevention, Treatment and Care Advisor will provide strategic and operational technical assistance to the NTP to improve the quality, coverage, and effectiveness of TB treatment, care, and prevention services. The position will support capacity strengthening, training and mentoring systems, adoption of new tools and digital technologies, and effective implementation of TB grants, while addressing cross-cutting health system and programmatic challenges.

TB Treatment, Care, and Prevention

• Support systematic screening, diagnosis, and management of TB-related comorbidities, including HIV, diabetes mellitus, malnutrition, substance use disorders, and mental health conditions, in line with national policies.
• Provide technical support to the NTP to strengthen delivery of standardized TB treatment and care services for drug-susceptible TB, and TB/HIV collaborative activities.
• Support implementation of evidence-based strategies to improve treatment adherence, retention in care, and treatment outcomes.
• Support scale-up of TB prevention interventions, including systematic contact investigation and provision of TB Preventive Treatment (TPT).
• Support development and implementation of differentiated and patient-centered care models that address clinical, psychosocial, and socioeconomic barriers to treatment adherence and completion.
• Provide technical input into national guidelines, SOPs, and service delivery tools to ensure integration of TB and comorbidity management across levels of care.
• Support implementation and expansion of the TB & HIV Public–Private Mix (PPM), including engagement of private providers in DR-TB detection, referral, and care.
• Contribute to the development, review, and dissemination of national TB policies, guidelines, SOPs, and operational tools.

Innovations, Diagnostics, and Digital Technologies

• Provide technical assistance for the introduction, uptake, and scale-up of new TB tools and innovations, including near point-of-care diagnostic technologies.
• Support deployment and scale-up of Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) using artificial intelligence for chest X-ray screening, in line with national policies.
• Support adoption and scale-up of digital health technologies that enhance TB case finding, treatment adherence, patient follow-up, and program monitoring.
• Design and support implementation of technically sound, context-appropriate TB case-finding strategies, including differentiated and targeted approaches.

Training, Mentorship, and Capacity…