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• Provide technical oversight, strategic
  direction and ensure appropriate support for the implementation of program
  activities in HIV and TB
• Guide the integration of HIV and TB services
  with FP/RH, nutrition, maternal and newborn health, and malaria
• Refine evidence-based clinical training
  materials, job aids, and curricula, supervisory systems and other training
  materials needed for implementation of HIV and TB to meet the needs of
  USAID and the Government of Uganda
• Build and mentor the capacity gaps at
  individual and organizational level in HIV and TB including but not limited
  to:
• Voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) and
  provider-initiated testing and counseling (PICT)
• Promoting and supporting couples counseling;
• Expanding provider-initiated HTC, task shifting
  and demand creation, especially aimed at males;
• Increasing the percentage of persons tested and
  counseled for HIV;
• Increasing knowledge and positive attitudes of
  health care providers toward HIV services to encourage counseling, testing
  and referrals;
• Increasing supply and quality of HTC by
  providing facility-based services to adults and children;
• Facilitating the scale-up of routine,
  confidential CT services;
• Training lay counselors in household CT and
  deploying lay counselors in hard-to-reach areas;
• Ensuring quality HIV CT services are available
  to the most at-risk populations
• Prevention of mother to child transmission of
  HIV (PMTCT),
• Improving continuity of care and follow-up for
  HIV-positive mothers and infants;
• Ensuring the quality of rapid HIV testing and
  routine, confidential CT capacity;
• Strengthening the relationships between the
  community and the health facilities
• Integrating couples counseling within PMTCT
  services;
• Supervising the development of ANC as the main
  entry point for all PMTCT services and other RH activities
• Improving the TB clinical care and treatment of
  HIV/AIDS, STIs and related OIs
• Enhancing laboratory diagnostic capacity and
  the TB clinical care and treatment of OIs;
• Interventions for co-occurring diseases
  impacting HIV-infected patients including TB;
• Expanding HIV/STI/TB surveillance programs and
  strengthening laboratory support;
• Intensifying TB case identification, infection
  control and screening of TB in HIV-infected individuals
• Drive voluntary medical male circumcision
• Ensure sufficient health care providers are
  trained in order to rapidly scale up quality VMMC services
• Collaborate with the Health Ministry (MOH) to
  develop and/or revise comprehensive national Safe Male Circumcision
  Guidelines and protocols
• Implement innovative approaches to recruit and
  retain MC providers
• Develop and Implement a quality assurance
  system that ensures that MC services provided under this project meet
  internationally recognized standards of quality
• Take lead “train the trainer” sessions, site
  strengthening, in-service and/or pre-service education, follow-up and
  supportive supervision to project-supported health facilities, as required
  by program activities
• Work with other colleagues to develop a cadre
  of HIV and TB champions who will facilitate links to other community-level
  health programs/services
• Coordinate assessments, site strengthening,
  follow-up and supervision, advocacy, demand creation, policy support,
  capacity-building and M&E across program sites as required by program
  activities
• Lead the formulation of approaches for scale up
  of HIV and TB services, including accessing hard-to-reach populations and
  integration of services
• Actively participate in all Technical Advisory
  Group Meetings, and represent Jhpiego in professional forums by
  participating and presenting in pertinent meetings and conferences, as
  well as technical working groups
• Analyze potential HIV and TB strategies within
  the context of the program and explain these, as necessary, to
  policymakers, funding agencies, and/or program staff
• Work with health care providers, local
  authorities, community members and program team members to identify
  clinical, community-based service delivery issues that impede access to
  care
• Identify appropriate facility- and
  community-based strategies to address HIV and TB service delivery gaps
• Identify clinical training needs and assist in
  the design and implementation of measures to address those needs
• Formulate and test sustainable solutions to
  service delivery gaps, utilizing cross-cutting approaches such as
  performance and quality improvement and in-service training/pre-service
  education
• Advocate with national, regional and
  community-level health institutions to raise awareness about their role in
  improving health outcomes in HIV and TB
• Guide Ministry of Health, professional
  associations, other national stakeholders in the revision/development of
  evidenced-based standards for competency in HIV and TB
• Mobilize international level clinical/technical
  expertise to resolve clinical issues that shape or effect local public
  policy or program design
• Collaborate with all local stakeholders and
  implementing partners, especially the Ministry of Health and other
  implementing partners, in order to ensure that all activities conform to
  the requirements and regulations
• Conduct regular reporting to the Chief of
  Party, and program and technical staff, of successes, challenges and
  lessons learned in implementation related to areas of technical expertise
• Document and maintain an inventory of
  successful tools and approaches for HIV and TB
• Author and co-author abstracts and
  presentations for journals and conference
• Supervise technical staff
• Manage technical contributions of subgrantees,
  including providing scopes of work
• Maintain excellent relationships with USAID and
  in-country stakeholders and develop rapid responses to USAID/DC and Mission
  requests
• Work closely with the Chief of Party and/or
  Country Director on setting program priorities and directions, and
  responding to requests for support from local counterparts.
• Work with M&E staff to design, implement a
  plan to track data/results related to HIV and TB
• Provide technical leadership to the development
  the project strategic plan, work plan, and program monitoring, in close
  collaboration with the Ministry of Health, USAID and other stakeholders
• Ensure timely implementation of all program inputs
  related to HIV and TB, including planning and implementing assessments,
  site strengthening, follow-up and supervision, advocacy, demand creation,
  policy support, capacity-building and M&E across program sites, in
  close coordination and collaboration with USAID, relevant ministries of
  health
• Assist in the preparation of donor reports and
  project reports
• Oversee data collection, analysis and
  development of conclusions and recommendations to further strengthen
  program implementation
• Ensure availability of resources/facilitate the
  procurement of equipment and supplies required for project implementation
• Coordinate and monitor the efficiency and
  effectiveness of the work of short-term consultants as
• required

• The Technical Advisors should possess medical
  degrees (doctor or nursing) or Master’s degrees in Public Health
• At least seven years’ experience applying HIV
  prevention, care and treatment and TB;
• A minimum of five years’ experience in managing
  $10M per year in donor-funded projects and in the design and
  implementation of overseas health projects; preferably in the East and
  Southern Africa;
• Qualification as a “master trainer”; experience
  training health workers on clinical aspects related to family
  planning/reproductive health
• Experience building capacity at individual and
  organizational levels
• Skill in at least two or more of the following
  technical areas: strengthening service delivery programs, training,
  pre-service education, performance and quality improvement, monitoring and
  evaluation
• Prior work experience with a mix of practical
  technical skills in HIV and TB necessary for strengthening HIV and TB
  service delivery at the regional, national, clinical and community-level
• The ability to liaise with senior MOH officials
  and dignitaries, executives of NGOs, FBOs, CBOs, the for-profit business
  community, and senior members of the donor community;
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of Ugandan
  healthcare system, particularly the public health system, experience living
  and working in Uganda preferred
• Excellent oral and written communication and
  presentations skills in English
• Strong skills in word processing and Excel
  spread sheets
• Familiarity with USAID or other USG
  administrative, management and reporting procedures and systems
• Proven track record managing a project team
  composed of several technical experts and fostering team work
• Ability to coach, mentor and develop technical
  capacity in national programs and technical staff in the areas
• Excellent written, presentation, communication
  and organizational skills in both English
• Ability to travel up to 50% time
• Ugandan nationals strongly encouraged to apply

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