Duties and Responsibilities:

Technical and project Management and Advising Role:

• Coordinates the planning, implementation, and continuous monitoring of all technical areas and technical activities of the project
• Review the plan regularly to ensure indicators and objectives are being achieved in a timely manner
• Ensures the project compliance to the technical requirements of the donor organization as well as MOH policies and addresses any issues with the Technical Director/Executive Director.

KAP Programming:

• Leads the design and implementation of high impact TB interventions tailored to TB KAP to find all missing people with TB in urban settings
• Analyzes key TB service entry barriers to urban settings for tailored interventions
• Works on TB stigma reduction and community empowerment for health

Health Systems Strengthening:

• Lead the designing modalities of urban TB programing with specific roles and responsibilities of all actors of (UHEPs, Family Health team, Local organizations including TB survivors’ associations, iddirs, etc)
• Take an active part in the project issue/risk management process, by contributing to the identification and prioritization of existing and potential issues and risks, and helping to develop local level strategies and controls to mitigate these

Coordination and Partnership:

• Represent the project at national/regional forums and keep project management updated on stakeholders’ expectations and status of project achievement against expectations
• Identifies and respond to crosscutting issues in collaboration with national and regional partners
• Provides technical assistance to Heath Bureaus and the national TB control program

Innovations and Knowledge management:

• Actively share knowledge and skills with the national, regional and global TB community by contributing to development of abstracts, technical briefs and peer reviewed publications.
• Leads the synthesis, production and dissemination of project specific  reports, success stories, and best practices
• Contributes to knowledge management by identifying key results for performance improvement and communication strategies
• Identifies/supports the regional TB program in the introduction and scale-up of innovative interventions

Communications and personal skills:

• Identifies technical capacity issues within the project and provide/arrange capacity building interventions to address the identified gaps.
• Ensures the quality of work of the technical unit of the project;
• Coordinates/contributes to documentation and sharing of project results at national and international level
• Inspires team members to implement innovate interventions
• Undertake other responsibilities as assigned by the supervisor