Senior Technical Advisor, TB

About this role

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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…