Laboratory and Diagnostics Advisor – Outbreak Preparedness and Response

🕒 September 10

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $89k - $120k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

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FHI 360

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1971

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

💼 Consulting

Healthcare • Food & Beverage • Consulting

FHI 360 is a global nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. Operating in over 60 countries, FHI 360's work spans across a wide range of areas including health, education, nutrition, environment, economic development, and governance. The organization focuses on creating partnerships, integrating research, and leveraging resources to enable people to reach their full potential. With a strong emphasis on equity, health, and well-being, FHI 360 is committed to building a more equitable world through innovative programs and partnerships.

📋 Description

• Provide technical guidance and support for FHI 360’s USG-funded STRIDES outbreak response and preparedness laboratory and diagnostic systems portfolio • Lead diagnostic capacity expansion, validation, laboratory network strengthening, biosafety and biosecurity, quality systems, and workforce development • Guide laboratory readiness and address laboratory systems challenges in outbreak response and preparedness countries, including Ebola response • Advise on diagnostic methods, technologies, assay validation, platform selection, procurement alignment, and diagnostic algorithms • Collaborate with ministries of health, national public health institutes, reference laboratories, implementing partners, and regional preparedness stakeholders • Interpret quality system gaps, biosafety risks, and diagnostic performance data and recommend evidence-based improvements • Provide input on national laboratory policies, essential diagnostics lists, specimen referral strategies, governance mechanisms, and guidelines • Design, develop, plan, and implement laboratory and diagnostic components of STRIDES projects • Create laboratory and diagnostics portions of project plans • Oversee day-to-day laboratory and diagnostic activities, readiness assessments, platform deployments, testing algorithm optimization, and specimen referral and transport systems • Track project outputs, budgets, timelines, donor requirements, and technical deliverables • Coordinate country-office requests for laboratory technical assistance • Lead global technical strategies for outbreak diagnostics, decentralized testing, laboratory governance, biosafety, biosecurity, and diagnostic network optimization • Develop and adapt readiness assessment tools, diagnostic algorithm job aids, guidance, and quality-systems instruments • Ensure implementation meets international best practices, national policies, technical standards, and contractual obligations • May supervise junior staff, Laboratory/Diagnostics Officers, subcontractors, and consultants • Provide oversight of technical project administration, finance compliance, team management, and subcontractor work • May serve as a daily technical point of contact with clients • Develop and implement technical training and capacity-building interventions • Identify strategies to address training gaps • Report to the STRIDES Senior Laboratory/Diagnostics Advisor • Travel approximately 10%–25%

🎯 Requirements

• Master’s Degree or an International Equivalent in Biological or Laboratory Sciences, Microbiology, Clinical Diagnostics, Public Health or a related field • 8+ years of relevant experience implementing applicable laboratory and diagnostic network strengthening programs and services • Infectious disease outbreak response experience and knowledge preferred • Experience strengthening laboratory/diagnostic capabilities in a low- or middle-income country, or other complex context or setting • Experience providing laboratory and diagnostic network support for low- and middle-income countries • Competence in diagnosing infectious diseases, including near point-of-care and molecular diagnostic testing • Knowledge and experience strengthening laboratories to achieve international quality standards • Familiarity with international biosafety regulations • Prior work experience in an NGO, government agency, or private organization • Comprehensive knowledge of infectious disease diagnostics and applied knowledge of field implementation and project management • Demonstrated project and technical leadership • Experience implementing USG-funded contracts • Excellent oral and written communication skills • Ability to work flexibly in response to shifting country, regional, global, and USG priorities • Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and effectiveness under deadlines • Ability to use Microsoft Office 365, SharePoint, Skype/Zoom/Teams, personal computer/laptop, mobile technology, and standard office equipment • Project Management Certification preferred but not required • Willingness to undergo reference, criminal record, terrorism finance, and other appropriate screening checks • Personnel must sign FHI 360’s code of conduct

🏖️ Benefits

• FHI 360 contributes 7% of monthly base pay to a money purchase pension plan account • 18 days of paid vacation per year for full-time US-based staff • 12 sick days per year for full-time US-based staff • 11 holidays per year for full-time US-based staff • Competitive benefits package • Professional development • Policies and programs that support a healthy work/life balance • Screening checks and safeguarding procedures • Equal opportunity employment