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• Plan and coordinate provider skills
  strengthening activities for all components of MDR-TB care including
  MDR-TB prevention, active case finding including childhood TB diagnosis,
  enrollment, treatment response monitoring
• Offer technical support supervise and
  facilitate the hospital TB care teams to effectively implement and report
  activities (including provision of virtual support through telephone,
  e-mail or other)
• Coordinate the implementation of the
  minimum package of MDR-TB services at the supported hospitals including
  TB/HIV, contacts management, TB infection control, patient support, TB
  logistics management, and treatment response monitoring
• Formulate quarterly and annual MDR-TB work
  plans and reports
• Develop TB M&E capacity for the
  hospital TB care teams in collaboration with the District and Zonal TB and
  Leprosy Supervisors ensuring timely submission of National and activity
  reports
• Work with NTLP to identify and address
  priority technical and programmatic gaps in increasing case notifications,
  diagnosis and treatment of Pediatric TB through project supported
  interventions
• Coordinate supervision and mentorship of
  MDR-TB DOT facilities
• Ensure availability and utilization of
  standard MOH MDR-TB tools
• Monitor the implementation of planned
  activities through periodic consultations, progress review meetings,
  reports review, and field visits; providing feedback for improving
  performance
• Conduct and document MDR-TB Operations
  research activities
• Identify and document innovations and best
  practices
• Support application of CQI to improve
  MDR-TB care

• The applicants for the USAID Defeat MDR-TB
  Program Officer career opportunity must hold a Bachelor’s Degree in
  medicine, nursing or equivalent with Post graduate training in Public
  Health or other relevant field
• Additional training in DR-TB management
  and or at least three years’ experience in coordinating DR-TB control
  activities
• Excellent interpersonal and communication
  skills.
• Demonstrated clear understanding of
  current key TB, TB/HIV control and MDR-TB issues at national and global
  level.
• Demonstrated organizational skills and
  abilities, sound judgement and high ethical standards; flexible and able
  to adapt to changing priorities and deadlines
• Demonstrated experience in onsite
  training, mentorship and QI coaching approaches
• Demonstrated organizational and
  supervisory skills and abilities; sound judgment, and high ethical
  standards; flexible and able to adapt to changing priorities and deadlines
• Excellent oral and written communication
  skills are required to develop and maintain effective, sustainable working
  relationships with key stakeholders

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