Senior Technical Advisor, TB

Job Summary:

The Senior Technical Advisor, Tuberculosis (STA, TB) is an advanced subject matter expert accountable for the technical design, direction, and quality of tuberculosis (TB) work across project(s) within the FHI 360 Health Programs portfolio. Sets the technical agenda for TB prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, care, and program strengthening, and guides how technical resources are invested against it. Serves as a department TB technical lead with project leadership, donors, ministries of health (MOH), national TB programs, implementing partners, and global stakeholders.

Accountabilities:

Technical Requirements:

- Sets FHI 360’s technical direction for TB programming across project(s) within the portfolio, covering TB prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, care, contact investigation, and differentiated service delivery.

- In collaboration with project leadership and country teams, leads technical support to MOH and national TB programs to strengthen policy, planning, service delivery, surveillance, and performance improvement in alignment with national strategies and applicable global guidance.

- Directs technical approaches for finding and successfully treating people with drug-susceptible and drug-resistant TB, including active case finding, contact investigation, linkage to care, adherence support, and management of treatment outcomes.

- Sets the approach to TB diagnostic networks, including specimen referral, laboratory-clinical linkages, rapid molecular testing, quality assurance, and the use of diagnostic and surveillance data for program decisions.

- Provides technical direction for integrated TB services, including TB/HIV collaborative activities, pediatric and adolescent TB, TB preventive treatment, and linkages with primary health care and community systems.

- Establishes FHI 360’s technical position on TB service delivery innovations, digital tools, and data use, including criteria for adoption, scale-up, and sustainability within country systems.

- Leads the TB component of transition and sustainability planning and defines the technical capacities, systems, and financing arrangements that should be demonstrably in place during program transition.

- Coordinates technically with global and country partners so that FHI 360 support aligns with national priorities and complements rather than duplicates existing provision.

- Sets minimum technical standards, tools, and job aids for TB work across the portfolio and holds quality assurance sign-off on TB technical deliverables.

- Builds TB technical capacity within FHI 360 and country teams, including workforce development and mentoring components of country programs.

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Project Design Implementation:

- Designs the TB technical component of country workplans and country buy-ins within the resource envelope agreed with project and country leadership.

- Provides budget considerations to project program and finance backstopping teams and country teams.

- Provide technical leadership in TB design, development, planning, implementation, and capacity building.

- Influences design and scope of initiatives and projects.

- Ensures technical implementation is consistent with best practices in the industry / subject and meet client / funder contractual obligations for one or more large, highly complex technical units of a functional domain.
- Develops strategies and tools for the design and implementation of specific technical components.

- Continually maintains a dialogue and technical exchange with field counterparts and technical staff members of implementing partners.

- Overall responsibility for ensuring that all global activities are conducted and reported in accordance with requirements.

- Ensures country TB designs are grounded in epidemiologic and program data, aligned with national TB strategic plans, and coordinated with other partners working in the same system.

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Business Development and Client/Funder Support:

- Supports proposal research and design.

- Develops and maintains relationships with potential clients/funders, partners, peers, and technical agencies to develop new business.

- Contributes to strategy for driving new TB technical business.

- Prepares sponsor reports and presentations.

- Serves as a point of contact with clients/funders for TB technical activities.

- Maintains collaborative relationships with donor/client organizations, relevant government agencies, bilateral and multilateral organizations, and NGOs, and is consistently viewed as a knowledgeable resource in TB.

- Participates in client/funder meetings and drafts reports and presentations.

- Leads TB technical design for country buy-ins, follow-on funding, and new business, including technical strategies, intervention packages, staffing assumptions, and inputs to budgets and performance frameworks.

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Staff Leadership and Training:

- May supervise team members, monitor performance, and lead professional development efforts.

- Establishes competency and continuing education systems

- Ensures that staff members are qualified for delegated tasks.

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Project/Program Reporting:

- Prepares TB technical reports

- Leads the presentation of deliverables, outputs, and results to donors.

- Leads the development of peer reviewed publications and external communications arising from project work.

- Ensures the accuracy and English correctness of all reports / outputs.

- Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates the effectiveness of the technical components of a project and makes recommendations for enhancements.
- Creates local, national, and/or regional guidelines and normative policies for subject matter areas of expertise.

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Quality Assurance:

- Ensures technical deliverables and implementation are consistent with best practices in the industry / subject and meet client / funder contractual obligations for one or more large, overly complex technical units of a functional domain.

- Proactively identifies risks or challenges to technical deliverables and creates mitigation plan.

- Ensures the quality of implemented technical activities and systems at all levels.

- Ensures TB technical approaches, tools, and deliverables are evidence-informed, aligned with national policy and applicable global guidance, and supported by timely identification and mitigation of risks to quality and continuity of services.

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Applied Knowledge & Skills:

- Assists senior management in determining organization objectives, and interprets

- organization policies.

- Establishes organization policies in a major segment of the technical area.

- Interprets, executes, and recommends modifications to organization-wide policies.

- Demonstrates realistic budgeting and fiscal accountability.

- Represents the organizational unit as internal and external contact.

- Conducts briefings and technical meetings for top management and customer representatives.

- Considered an expert in their technical field of study or knowledge area.

- Informed of current project developments in division/unit/technical area.

- Oversee and lead projects, set realistic priorities, and plan for the successful implementation of activities.

- Familiar with donor/client funded projects and corresponding regulations and communication styles.

- Written and published materials related to technical area e.g., journal articles, job aids, training curricula, and other tools.

- Interacts with equivalent level managers concerning matters of significance to the company.

- In-depth understanding of the external environment and how it affects the industry in general and organization, including political, legal, environmental, financial, and social influences.

- In-depth and deep understanding of the structure, operations, human resources and finances of the organization and the complexities of their interdependencies.

Problem Solving & Impact:

- Often advises and creates plans based on analysis of issues and trends, and how these link to the responsibilities, capabilities, and potential of the technical area.

- Scans an ever-changing, complex environment in anticipation of emerging crises and opportunities.

- Erroneous decisions will affect the financial, employee or public relations posture of the organization.

- Faulty decisions or recommendation will result in failure to achieve major goals and objectives of the organization.

- Problems encountered often involve multiple departments, programs, or projects.

- Problems are often complex, broad in scope and implications, and often unprecedented with no clear resolution.

- Resolution requires in-depth analysis, cross-functional assessment and understanding of the organization’s strategic direction and must consider the complex interdependencies related to the problem.

Supervision Given/Received:

- Directs and controls the activities of one or more technical functional areas within multiple countries.

- Completed work is reviewed, from a long-term perspective, for desired results.

- Contributes to development of organization’s strategic plan.

- Develops well-informed advice and strategies that are sensitive to the various needs of multiple stakeholders and partners, reflect the strategic direction of the department and position the company for success.

- Overall responsibility for the planning and implementation of budgets within those functional areas.

- Typically reports to a Director.

Education: **

- Master’s Degree or its International Equivalent in Public Health, Medicine, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Health Sciences, International Development, or a Related Field.

- Doctorate Degree Preferred.

- Project Management (PM) Certification preferred.

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Experience: **

- Typically requires a minimum of 15+ years of relevant experience in a specialized technical field of study, with at least 10 of those years’ experience in TB programming in low- and middle-income countries, including direct technical responsibility for the design or improvement of TB prevention, diagnosis, treatment, care, or surveillance activities.

- Demonstrated experience providing technical leadership to ministries of health, national TB programs, or equivalent government entities on policy, strategy, service delivery, or program performance.

- Demonstrated expertise in one or more priority areas such as drug-resistant TB, TB/HIV, pediatric TB, TB preventive treatment, TB diagnostics, active case finding, or surveillance and strategic information.

- Experience with U.S. Government-funded or other major donor-funded TB programs and associated technical, reporting, and compliance requirements.

- Demonstrated ability to translate evidence and global guidance into practical country-level strategies, tools, and capacity-strengthening approaches.

- Documented experience as invited speaker/presenter at relevant conferences/meetings, authorship of technical/service delivery guidelines, and significant contribution to peer-reviewed publications.

- Experience developing strategy and/or performance standards for projects/services in the technical area.

- Prior work experience in a non-governmental organization (NGO), government agency, or private organization.

- International or domestic (US) program development or program management experience preferred.

- English fluency required; fluency in French an added advantage.

Typical Physical Demands:

- Typical office environment.

- Ability to spend long hours looking at computer screen and doing repetitive work on a keyboard.

- Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time.

- Ability to lift/move up to 5 lbs.

Technology to be Used:

- Personal Computer/Laptop, Microsoft applications (i.e., Office 365, SharePoint, Skype/Zoom/Teams), cell phone/mobile technology, and standard office equipment.

Travel Requirements:

- 10% - 25%

The expected US Based hiring salary range for this role is listed below. FHI 360 pay ranges represent national averages that vary by geographic location. When determining an offer amount, FHI 360 factors in multiple considerations, including but not limited to: relevant years of experience and education possessed by the applicant, internal equity, business sector, and budget.  For internal candidates, salary placement will also follow FHI 360’s current promotional increase guidelines. Final compensation will be determined in accordance with applicable law and FHI 360 policy.

Base salary is only one component of our offer. FHI 360 contributes 7% of monthly base pay to a money purchase pension plan account. Additionally, all US based staff working full-time, which is calculated at 40 hours/week, receive 18 days of paid vacation per year, 12 sick days per year, and 11 holidays per year. Paid time off is reduced pro rata for employees working less than a full-time schedule.

US Based Hiring Salary Range: USD $140,000 - $170,000 annually

International hiring ranges will differ based on location

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