Tuberculosis Strategic Information Technical Advisor, Public Health Institute
Category : Alumni
Opportunity Description
GH serves as the Agency’s primary source of technical expertise, leadership, and donor coordination for the health sector. Through its staff of approximately 456, GH provides critical support to USAID missions and field programs in more than 80 countries. USAID obligated $5.75 billion during fiscal year (FY) 2015 for health programs, including 48 percent or $2.76 billion through GH centrally designed and managed programs (including Presidential Initiatives, global partnerships, and field support). The GH Bureau comprises seven technical and support offices, one of which is the Office of Infectious Disease (ID). The Tuberculosis (TB) Division provides technical leadership, project management, country support, and support agency requirements to lead the US Government’s (USG) international TB program.
The TB Division strategically directs the financial and human resources to achieve the USAID Global Accelerator to End TB, USG global TB strategy as well as the USAID implementation plan goals and objectives. The TB Division provides support through prevention and care programs in countries implementing USAID supported TB activities, focusing on accelerating detection and treatment of TB, expanding prevention and treatment of multi-drug resistant TB programs, scaling-up of TB-HIV integration, and developing TB service delivery platforms. The Division manages USAID’s TB research programs to identify new and improved drug regimens, other technologies to prevent and treat TB, and improved approaches to implementing TB programs. The TB Division represents USAID and the USG in international fora as well as leads international TB activities for the USG.
The Tuberculosis SI Technical Advisor (Advisor) will serve in the Bureau for Global Health’s Infectious Diseases Office, within the Tuberculosis Division (GH/ID/TB) and will support the TB Team. The Advisor will aim to strengthen the SI with a particular focus on improving the country-level data transparency, quality, and use in USAID’s priority countries and other countries where USAID contributes to and provides technical assistance. They will provide technical expertise on SI consistent with the USAID’s Global Accelerator to End TB, US Government Tuberculosis Strategy, National Action Plan on MDR-TB, USAID’s technical implementation approach, and other international policies and guidelines. This will include mapping and analyzing current SI related interventions for USAID/TB supported, developing models of best practices, and supporting the implementation and improved quality of SI interventions.
Job Requirements
The Advisor will work as part of a team to identify gaps in TB SI and reporting gaps and provide technical assistance to support countries and USAID Missions. The Advisor will support a small team with the analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of TB-related data, that will facilitate decision making among USAID stakeholders. The Advisor will proactively analyze data; develop data packages, reports, and slide decks for global and country levels’ performance and provide SI support to the USAID/W TB team, TB country backstops and TB Missions. S/he will support local governments, project staff, and local partners in the implementation of the latest SI technical guidance and related issues.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
The Advisor will support the TB Division’s efforts to ensure effective TB SI reporting and surveillance strengthening through technically sound approaches. The primary responsibilities of the Advisor include:
- Strategic SI TB technical support to USAID/GH/ID/TB
- Strengthened SI programmatic guidance and expertise to USAID’s country-level implementation on the Accelerator to End TB
Minimum Qualification Requirements
- Masters’ degree with 5 years’ experience or Bachelor’s degree and years’ 7 experience or higher
- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience with two or more technical disciplines (such as TB, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Monitoring and Evaluation, public diplomacy, project management, etc), job duties/responsibilities related to PD requirements
- Minimum five (5) years in international affairs or relevant field, with at least three (3) years of that experience in an international or resource-challenged setting.
- Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
- A strong team player with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment under tight deadlines while producing quality content.
- Ability to travel internationally (25%).
- US Citizenship or US Legal Permanent Residency required.
Desired Qualifications
- Demonstrated experience in public health SI strategy, program development, and monitoring of quality programs, preferably in international settings.
- Knowledge of and familiarity with US Government health programs.
- Knowledge of and/or experience working with global health community stakeholders including multilateral organizations, technical agencies, and other key partners, and the ability to establish effective relationships among a wide range of partners.
- Proven ability to work in resource-challenged settings with governments, local partners, and communities
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