Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead the planning, implementation, and continuous monitoring of Public - Private Mix-TB (PPM-TB) interventions in project supported areas;
• Analyze performance of project supported PPM -TB facilities and develop improvement plan and intervention strategies for the identified gaps;
• Develop close working relationships with Health Bureaus, sub-city health offices and other stakeholders that have responsibility for strengthening and improving Tuberculosis control and prevention program at PPM sites;
• Provide technical support to Regional Health Bureaus/Sub-City Health offices in their effort to expand TB care and prevention services at PPM facilities;
• Provide technical support to Regional Health Bureaus/Sub-City Health Offices and their structure to foster effective public-private partnership on TB;
• Provide continuous technical support to PPM-based on their level engagement to strengthen TB service provision;
• Support implementation of differentiated TB service in the private health facilities such as engaging medium clinics in TB diagnostic only service and primary clinics in presumptive TB case identification and referral service;
• Facilitate the introduction of Digital Adherence Technology (DAT) for monitoring of TB treatment at PPM-DOTS sites;
• Inform and advise project decision-makers on the practical approach to strengthen the impact of project efforts on PPM-TB implementation;
• Facilitate the establishment of referral linkage between public and private facilities including laboratory networking for GeneXpert test and External Quality Assessment to PPM facilities;
• Work closely with the EPSA hubs to include private health facilities in anti TB and other commodity supply system
• Support Multi-sectoral TB interventions ranging from advocating TB as public health agenda in all relevant sectors outside of health to the integration of minimum packages of TB preventive, diagnosis and treatment promotion;
• Represent the project in national and regional technical PPM-TB working group meetings, workshops and review meetings;
• Ensure that effective data collection, recording and reporting system is in place at the project supported private facilities;
• Work with the Health Bureaus and project team to effectively address operational challenges for TB case finding, treatment and care at private health facilities;
• Support PPM-TB sites to implement standard TB program components;
• Assist the Health bureaus in data analysis and utilization of the data for local decision making;
• Lead the production and dissemination of PPM-TB reports, success stories and best practices;
• Assist in conducting the operational research under the project;
• Undertake other responsibilities as assigned by the supervisors