Technical Coordinator, Tuberculosis

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN PUBLIC HEALTH

FHI 360 is an international non-governmental organization that, in Vietnam, promotes the health and well-being of the Vietnamese people, particularly vulnerable and marginalized populations. It works with the Vietnam Ministry of Health and other national bodies, as well as provincial and district-level health services to achieve project aims. FHI 360 is currently implementing programs to address HIV prevention, testing, and treatment, TB case finding
and treatment, clinical research, anti-microbial resistance, health system strengthening, maternal and child health and nutrition, diagnostics and laboratory services.

We are currently seeking a qualified and highly motivated Vietnamese national candidate to serve as Technical Coordinator, Tuberculosis (TB) for the USAID Uustainable HIV and TB responses From Technical assistance (USAID SHIFT) project, based in Hanoi. Vietnamese nationals living abroad are encouraged to apply.

USAID SHIFT is a five-year contract managed by FHI 360 originally awarded to help local stakeholders achieve and sustain epidemic control. The purpose of USAID SHIFT is to strengthen human, organizational, and systems capacity to lead the national HIV and TB response and deliver innovative enhancements in HIV and TB services.

USAID SHIFT is organized around two main areas to address both HIV and TB:

Provide direct service delivery to achieve targets in priority provinces and transition services in maintenance and priority provinces:

• Task 1.1: Scale-up services along the entire continuum of prevention to care CoPC in PEPFAR/Vietnam priority provinces and USAID TB priority provinces to achieve “90-90-90” HIV case-finding, care, and treatment targets, and to achieve TB and multi-drug resistant TB (MDR-TB) active case-finding, treatment and prevention targets.
• Task 1.2: Maintain direct service delivery (DSD) and then fully transition ownership of remaining sites in maintenance provinces supported through the USAID SMART TA project.

Provide demand-driven HIV/AIDS and TB technical assistance:

• Task 2.1: Establish a demand-driven mechanism for technical assistance (TA) provision.
  
  • Subtask 2.1.1: Provide demand-driven TA at the national level and provincial levels to build sustainable HIV/AIDS and TB services and systems.
  • Subtask 2.1.2: Deliver demand-driven TA at the site level in priority and maintenance PEPFAR/Vietnam provinces and in USAID TB priority provinces to ensure quality and maintainable HIV/AIDS and TB services.

Position description:

The Technical Coordinator, TB will serve as key technical staff supporting the FHI 360 Vietnam country program to advance sustained local ownership of a state-of-the art response to TB. Under the leadership of the USAID SHIFT Chief of Party and the Associate Director, TB the Technical Coordinator will help to monitor the local adoption of more effective and efficient TB practices. This includes intensified TB/MDR-TB case finding, linkages to diagnostics and treatment, and retention in care. Technical Coordinator will also support efforts to transition financial and technical ownership of quality TB services to GVN via social health insurance and local TA provider network mechanisms. The Technical Coordinator will help ensure priority provinces meet their TB case finding and TB treatment completion targets.

Main responsibilities:

• Facilitates the coordination and advancement of sustained local ownership of a state-of-the art response to TB in Vietnam via social health insurance mechanisms.
• Facilitates development of sustainable local TA provider network and timely delivery of demand-driven and needs-based technical assistance for TB case findings/treatment enrollment and retention.
• Prepares technical protocols, SOPs and training materials.
• Transfers skills and technical knowledge to build the capacities of local staff and other counterparts to archive high-quality TB programs and continuously improve TB services.
• Oversees intensified TB case finding, linkages to diagnostics and treatment, and retention in care.
• Provides technical assistance to ensure quality services.
• Supports the timely and accurate use of data to improve activities and meet case finding targets.
• Supports the development of work plans, sub-awards, subcontracts, consulting agreements, and other contractual or procurement mechanisms that comply fully with FHI 360 and donor policies, procedures and regulations.
• Performs other relevant duties as requested.

Experience and abilities for the position:

• University degree in the medical or public health fields or equivalent years of experience; and experience with coordinating resources for large-scale international health projects
• Considerable experience in providing TB services or technical assistance in Vietnam
• Experience with U.S. government contractual requirements and experience working in an international NGO environment desirable
• Well-developed written and oral communication skills in both Vietnamese and English
• Ability to travel as necessary

FHI 360 offers competitive compensation and excellent benefits.

Interested candidates are invited to visit FHI 360’s career page at https://www.fhi360.org/careers and apply the position ONLINE by September 5, 2019.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.

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