Technical Advisor TB/County Focal Person (Vihiga)
Full time @PATH posted 6 days ago in Health Care Shortlist Email JobJob Detail
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Experience 7 Years
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Qualifications Master’s Degree
Job Description
Job Responsibilities for Technical Advisor role:
- Provide technical support and mentorship to county and sub-county health teams for TB and TB/HIV service delivery.
- Coordinate planning, implementation, and performance review of TB activities with the CHMT and SCHMTs.
- Strengthen integration of TB, HIV, and primary healthcare services.
- Support data-driven decision-making through TIBU, DHIS2, and project reporting systems.
- Represent the project in county and national TB technical working groups and stakeholder forums.
- Promote sustainability of TB interventions through local capacity building and system strengthening.
- Carry out any related tasks that may be assigned from time to time by the supervisor.
Job Responsibilities for the County Focal Person role:
- Provide administrative leadership for the project in Vihiga County.
- Serve as the project’s point person with all the relevant departments at the County.
- Serve as the performance leader/manager for the technical and administrative project staff in the County.
- Represent the project in forums within Vihiga County.
- Carry out any related tasks that may be assigned from time to time by the supervisor.
Background, Experience & Requirements:
- A bachelor’s degree in a clinical-related area such as Clinical Medicine, Nursing.
- Those with a master’s degree in public health, Epidemiology, or a related field will have an added advantage.
- Minimum of 7 years’ experience in TB/TB-HIV programming, with 3 years in a technical leadership role within a donor-funded project.
- Proven experience working with county health systems and NTLD-P structures.
- Proven experience leading a multi-disciplinary team of technical and monitoring/evaluation staff.
- Strong data analysis, mentorship, and coordination skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Problem-solving skills and initiative.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Good time management skills and the ability to prioritize.
- Proficiency in Ms Office applications especially MS word and excel.
