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. Serves as a department TB technical lead with project leadership, donors, ministries of health (MOH), national TB programs, implementing partners, and global stakeholders. 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.
• 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.
• Sets minimum technical standards, tools, and job aids for TB work across the portfolio and holds quality assurance sign-off on TB technical deliverables.

~ 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.
• 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.

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

• 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.

Staff Leadership and Training: ~ May supervise team members, monitor performance, and lead professional development efforts. ~ Project/Program Reporting:

• 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. 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.

organization policies.

• Establishes organization policies in a major segment of the technical area.
• Interprets, executes, and recommends modifications to organization-wide policies.
• 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.
• 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.

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

• Problems encountered often involve multiple departments, programs, or projects.
• 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:

• Overall responsibility for the planning and implementation of budgets within those functional areas.
• Master’s Degree or its International Equivalent in Public Health, Medicine, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Health Sciences, International Development, or a Related Field.
• Project Management (PM) Certification preferred.

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.
• 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 office environment.

• Ability to spend long hours looking at computer screen and doing repetitive work on a keyboard.
• Personal Computer/Laptop, Microsoft applications (i.e., Office 365, SharePoint, Skype/Zoom/Teams), cell phone/mobile technology, and standard office equipment.

Travel Requirements: ~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. Final compensation will be determined in accordance with applicable law and FHI 360 policy. 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. International hiring ranges will differ based on location This document should not be construed in any way to represent a contract of employment. Management reserves the right to review and revise this document at any time. FHI 360 is an equal opportunity employer whereby we do not engage in practices that discriminate against any person employed or seeking employment based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. All offers of employment will be subject to appropriate screening checks, including reference, criminal record and terrorism finance checks. FHI 360 also participates in the Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme (MDS), facilitated by the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response. FHI 360 will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws. FHI 360 will never ask you for your career site username or password, and we will never request money, goods or services during the application, recruitment or employment process. FHI 360 fosters the strength and health of its workforce through a competitive benefits package, professional development and policies and programs that support a healthy work/life balance.