Senior Technical Advisor, TB

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🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

💵 $140k - $170k / year

⏰ Full Time

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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

• Set FHI 360’s technical direction for TB programming across projects, covering prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, care, contact investigation, and differentiated service delivery • Lead technical support to ministries of health and national TB programs on policy, planning, service delivery, surveillance, and performance improvement • Direct approaches for finding and treating drug-susceptible and drug-resistant TB, including active case finding, contact investigation, linkage to care, adherence support, and treatment-outcome management • Set approaches to TB diagnostic networks, specimen referral, laboratory-clinical linkages, rapid molecular testing, quality assurance, and diagnostic/surveillance data use • Provide technical direction for integrated TB services, including TB/HIV, pediatric and adolescent TB, TB preventive treatment, and primary healthcare/community linkages • Establish technical positions on TB service-delivery innovations, digital tools, and data use • Lead TB transition and sustainability planning • Coordinate with global and country partners, donors, ministries, implementing partners, and stakeholders • Set minimum technical standards, tools, and job aids and provide quality-assurance sign-off • Build TB technical capacity through workforce development and mentoring • Design TB technical components of country workplans and country buy-ins • Provide budget considerations and technical leadership for design, development, planning, implementation, and capacity building • Support proposal research and design and contribute to new-business strategy • Develop relationships with clients, funders, partners, technical agencies, government organizations, and NGOs • Prepare sponsor reports, presentations, TB technical reports, guidelines, policies, and external communications • Lead presentation of deliverables, outputs, and results to donors • Lead peer-reviewed publications and external communications • Review technical-component effectiveness and recommend enhancements • Identify risks and create mitigation plans • May supervise team members, monitor performance, and lead professional development • Establish competency and continuing-education systems • Direct technical functional areas across multiple countries • Contribute to the organization’s strategic plan and oversee budgets • Typically report to a Director

🎯 Requirements

• Master’s Degree or its International Equivalent in Public Health, Medicine, Epidemiology, Infectious Diseases, Health Sciences, International Development, or a Related Field • 15+ years of relevant experience in a specialized technical field • At least 10 years’ experience in TB programming in low- and middle-income countries • Direct technical responsibility for TB prevention, diagnosis, treatment, care, or surveillance activities • Experience providing technical leadership to ministries of health, national TB programs, or equivalent government entities • 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 • 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 an NGO, government agency, or private organization • English fluency required • Fluency in French an added advantage • Ability to use personal computer/laptop, Microsoft applications including Office 365, SharePoint, Skype/Zoom/Teams, cell phone/mobile technology, and standard office equipment • Ability to travel 10%–25% • Ability to spend long hours looking at a computer screen and doing repetitive keyboard work • Ability to sit and stand for extended periods • Ability to lift/move up to 5 lbs

🏖️ Benefits

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