Regional Health Advisor - Latin America and the Caribbean (Consultant)

Corus International seeks a Regional Health Advisor to lead health initiatives across Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing on strategic positioning and stakeholder relationships.

• Regional Health Strategy and Technical Positioning (20%)
• Develop a strong understanding of the health landscape across LAC, with particular attention to Central America, including major health challenges, government priorities, donor investments, and gaps that align with Corus' technical capabilities.
• Support development and refinement of a regional health growth strategy aligned with Corus' global strategy, organizational capabilities, geographic presence, and anticipated donor priorities.
• Identify priority technical areas where Corus can establish a differentiated and competitive position, which may include:
• Global health security and health emergency preparedness and response
• Infectious disease prevention, detection, surveillance, and response
• Laboratory systems strengthening and diagnostic capacity
• Public health surveillance and health information systems
• Health workforce development
• Community health and primary health care
• Maternal, newborn, child, and reproductive health
• Migration and cross-border health
• One Health
• Infection prevention and control
• Supply chain and access to essential health commodities
• Digital health and data use for decision-making
• Provide technical guidance on regional and country-specific health trends and help translate these trends into actionable positioning and program development strategies.
• Identify areas where Corus' existing global technical capabilities and experience can be adapted or leveraged for the LAC context.
• Donor Engagement, Opportunity Identification, and Business Development (40%)
• Monitor and analyze the regional health funding landscape, with particular emphasis on anticipated opportunities from the U.S. Department of State, CDC, and other priority donors.
• Identify and communicate emerging health opportunities, donor priorities, procurement trends, and potential changes in the funding environment that could affect Corus' regional strategy.
• Develop donor and opportunity intelligence to help Corus prioritize investments in upcoming health procurements.
• Support early positioning and capture planning for priority opportunities, including analysis of:
• Donor objectives and priorities
• Competitive landscape
• Potential prime and subcontracting opportunities
• Corus' comparative advantages and capability gaps
• Key technical requirements
• Geographic priorities
• Government and stakeholder interests
• Support development of opportunity-specific capture strategies and recommend actions needed to strengthen Corus' competitive position before solicitations are released.
• Participate in donor, government, partner, and stakeholder meetings, as appropriate, to strengthen Corus' visibility and understanding of emerging priorities.
• Help position Corus as a credible technical partner in regional health programming through targeted engagement with donors, governments, regional institutions, implementing organizations, academic institutions, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Partnership Development and Regional Relationship Building (20%)
• Map relevant international, regional, national, and local organizations that could serve as strategic partners for priority health opportunities.
• Assess prospective partners based on technical capabilities, geographic presence, government relationships, donor experience, organizational capacity, and strategic fit with Corus.
• Develop and strengthen relationships with ministries of health, national public health institutes, U.S. Government stakeholders, regional health organizations, local civil society organizations, universities, research institutions, private-sector actors, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Identify high-value local and regional partners that can strengthen Corus' ability to design and implement locally led health programs.
• Support discussions with prospective partners regarding teaming arrangements and opportunity-specific collaboration.
• Recommend partnership strategies for priority countries and anticipated procurements.
• Help Corus strengthen relationships with relevant regional institutions and networks, including organizations supporting regional disease surveillance, laboratory strengthening, health security, migration health, and public health capacity development.
• Proposal and Program Design Support (15%)
• Play a technical leadership role in the design of priority health proposals in the LAC region.
• Support proposal teams in developing technically sound and competitive approaches responsive to donor requirements and regional needs.
• Lead or contribute to the development of:
• Technical strategies and approaches
• Theories of change
• Results frameworks and logical frameworks
• Technical narratives
• Implementation models
• Partner roles and responsibilities
• Monitoring, evaluation, research, learning, and adaptation approaches
• Ensure proposed approaches reflect current evidence, donor priorities, country context, government strategies, and Corus' institutional strengths.
• Participate in proposal design workshops, color team reviews, and other business development processes as requested.
• Identify technical experts, institutions, and other resources that may strengthen priority proposals.
• Learning, Representation, and Knowledge Development (5%)
• Document relevant regional health trends, donor intelligence, lessons learned, and recommendations to support Corus' ongoing regional positioning.
• Identify and share relevant research, policies, technical guidance, and regional developments that may influence Corus' health strategy.
• Support development of capability statements, technical briefs, presentations, and other positioning materials highlighting Corus' relevant health experience.
• Represent Corus, as appropriate, at technical meetings, conferences, donor consultations, and other regional forums.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing between Corus' global technical experts and regional teams to strengthen organizational understanding of LAC health priorities and opportunities.

• *Education: Master's degree or higher in public health, medicine, epidemiology, global health, health systems, health economics, international development, or a related field.