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Overview of the position:
The Union is seeking a Senior Technical Advisor for Defeat TB, a potential five-year USAID-funded project in Uganda. The project’s goal is to increase TB case detection and treatment success in Uganda to 90 percent of all TB cases by achieving the following interrelated results: (1) Increase TB screening and case detection; (2) Initiate and complete treatment for all patients diagnosed; (3) Increase Community engagement and awareness; and (4) Enhanced leadership at the National and sub-national level.
This position is subject to project award and funding

Main Responsibilities:
The Senior Technical Advisor (STA) will be responsible for providing technical assistance to the USAID’s Defeat TB project. She/he will work closely with members of a multidisciplinary team to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of interventions in The Union’s Defeat TB project. The STA will directly assist the Chief of Party in the design, implementation and monitoring of high impact TB control interventions.

The STA will employ a “hands-on” technical approach to USAID’s Defeat TB project and Uganda’s National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Program (NLTP) with specific emphasis on program management, quality DOTS implementation and DOTS expansion, focusing on increasing case detection and improving the quality of care, community-based DOTS, TB epidemiology, infection control, TB/HIV collaboration, MDR/XDR TB control and prevention.
• Supervising senior technical staff in the design and implementation of the project; and serving as a resource and team member to improve staff technical capacity of the project.
• Designing and leading initiatives to improve districts, health facilities and their served communities’ capacity to deliver high quality, high impact TB health interventions and services.
• Providing technical support, including capacity building, to project and NTLP staff focusing on specific project goals.
• Ensuring knowledge transfer and capacity building in the areas of decentralized planning, operational research, M&E, supervision, quality assurance, TB, and MDR/XDR TB epidemiology.
• Strengthening and implementing strategies and activities to improve operations at the central unit of the NTLP, as well as at their different programs and TB service delivery points.
• Developing approaches to improve monitoring and support supervision, in collaboration with the NTLP and the quality assurance department of the Ministry of Health.
• Developing and implementing guidelines on intensified case finding and isoniazid preventive therapy for the prevention of TB among HIV patients.

Qualifications:
• A Master’s Degree in Medicine, Public Health and eight (8) years of professional experience delivering TB or TB/HIV services;
• A minimum of eight (8) years of progressively increasing responsibility working for successful TB technical assistance programs;
• Demonstrates expertise and experience in service quality improvement and operational research approaches;
• Experience and expertise in designing and implementing successful facility- and community-based integrated health services;
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills;
• Experience in successfully engaging the private sector;
• Must have demonstrated leadership qualities, depth and breadth of management expertise and experience;
• Experience with integration of gender and youth analysis into health projects and services; and
• Excellent interpersonal, writing, and oral presentation skills.

HOW TO APPLY:
Please send your CV and a cover letter in English, including your salary expectations to hr@theunion.org with STA-TU in the object line of your email.