Senior Technical Advisor, TB

Job Summary: The Senior Technical Advisor, Tuberculosis (STA, TB) is an advanced subject matter expert accountable for the technical design, direction, and quality of tuberculosis (TB) work across project(s) within the FHI 360 Health Programs portfolio. Sets the technical agenda for TB prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, care, and program strengthening, and guides how technical resources are invested against it. Serves as a department TB technical lead with project leadership, donors, ministries of health (MOH), national TB programs, implementing partners, and global stakeholders. Accountabilities: Technical Requirements: Sets FHI 360 ’s technical direction for TB programming across project(s) within the portfolio, covering TB prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, care, contact investigation, and differentiated service delivery. In collaboration with project leadership and country teams, leads technical support to MOH and national TB programs to strengthen policy, planning, service delivery, surveillance, and performance improvement in alignment with national strategies and applicable global guidance. Directs technical approaches for finding and successfully treating people with drug-susceptible and drug-resistant TB, including active case finding, contact investigation, linkage to care, adherence support, and management of treatment outcomes. Sets the approach to TB diagnostic networks, including specimen referral, laboratory-clinical linkages, rapid molecula