AVoHC Kofi Annan Scholars Program – Strategy Development Expert (AfCDC) 2026 – YOA

Deadline: April 2, 2026

Applications are open for the AVoHC Kofi Annan Scholars Program – Strategy Development Expert (AfCDC) 2026. The Kofi Annan Scholars Program (PHSP) deploys skilled African public well being professionals, together with specialists from the African Diaspora, into time-sure, outcomes-oriented placements inside Ministries of Health, National Public Health Institutes, and different strategic nationwide or continental well being establishments. These deployments are designed to offer excessive-degree technical help, strengthen techniques, assist institutional transformation, and ship clearly outlined outputs aligned with Africa CDC priorities.

Recognizing the African Diaspora because the sixth area of the African Union since 2012, the Scholars Program additionally serves as a structured mechanism to harness diaspora experience in assist of Africa’s well being safety, institutional resilience, and sustainable financing for well being.

Within this framework, Africa CDC seeks to ascertain a roster of certified Strategy Development Expert underneath the AVoHC mechanism as part of the Kofi Annan Scholars Program. Inclusion within the roster doesn’t represent recruitment right into a employees place; quite, it allows paid, time-sure skilled deployments based mostly on programmatic wants, availability of funding, and agreed deliverables. Scholars engaged via this mechanism obtain remuneration and advantages in accordance with relevant AU guidelines, laws, and enumeration pointers, reflecting the seniority, experience, and outputs anticipated from the project.

The overarching goal of the Scholars Program is to ship excessive-high quality technical outputs, strengthen nationwide and regional public well being techniques, and advance Africa CDC’s mandate on well being safety and sovereignty, whereas fostering management, information switch, and sustainable capability constructing throughout the continent.

The Strategy Development Expert will assist nationwide governments and public well being establishments within the design, improvement, and implementation of strong, proof-knowledgeable methods. These methods could embody, however should not restricted to, nationwide public well being workforce methods, institutional improvement plans, emergency preparedness methods, and well being system strengthening frameworks. The skilled will guarantee alignment with Africa CDC’s New Public Health Order and the strategic priorities of the Member State.

Responsibilities

• Conduct situational analyses and functionality mapping to tell nationwide or institutional strategic path.
• Identify coverage, operational, and useful resource gaps in public well being techniques and suggest applicable options.
• Lead or contribute to the drafting of nationwide or institutional methods aligned with AU and nation-particular priorities.
• Facilitate strategic planning consultations and co-creation workshops with related stakeholders.
• Develop strategic frameworks, roadmaps, implementation instruments, and monitoring mechanisms.
• Produce excessive-high quality technical paperwork, coverage briefs, and planning steering.
• Support international locations in useful resource mobilization, accomplice coordination, and integration of strategic initiatives.
• Contribute to the design of monitoring, analysis, and studying (MEL) techniques to trace progress and affect.

Benefits

• Stipend offered throughout deployment.
• All journey, lodging, and deployment-associated bills coated by Africa CDC.
• OPPORTUNITY to work on excessive-affect assignments with authorities and regulatory authorities throughout Africa.

Eligibility

• Master’s or Doctoral diploma in Public Health, Health Policy, Health Systems Management, Strategic Planning, or a associated discipline.
• At least 7 years of expertise in strategic planning, nationwide coverage improvement, or institutional reform within the public well being sector.
• Demonstrated expertise in main or contributing to technique improvement processes is required.
• Strong understanding of well being techniques and coverage environments throughout Africa.
• Proven capability to develop and implement nationwide strategic frameworks or plans.
• Experience working with Ministries of Health, NPHIs, improvement companions, and civil society.
• Familiarity with Africa CDC’s initiatives and AU strategic paperwork (e.g., Agenda 2063) is a bonus.
• Excellent strategic writing and coverage communication abilities.

Required Skills

Functional Skills

• Advanced abilities in coverage evaluation, strategic planning, and institutional improvement.
• Ability to translate technical insights into actionable technique paperwork.
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder engagement abilities.
• Proficiency in managing multi-stakeholder processes.

Personal Abilities

• High resilience and flexibility in dynamic or useful resource-constrained settings.
• Strong emotional intelligence and cultural sensitivity.
• Capacity to work independently whereas sustaining efficient staff collaboration.
• Commitment to service, integrity, and affect.

Language Requirement

• Proficiency in no less than one AU working language (English, French, Arabic, Portuguese, Spanish, Swahili).
• Knowledge of two or extra further AU working languages is an added benefit.

Application

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For extra data, go to AVoHC Kofi Annan Scholars Program.