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TB Technical Team Lead
Digital Opportunity Trust
Health Care
Public Health
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10 years
Position
2020-01-02
to
2020-02-01
Full Time
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Job Description
URC is a global company dedicated to improving the quality of health care, social services, and health education worldwide. With a non-profit affiliate, the Center for Human Services (CHS), URC manages projects in over 45 countries, including the United States.
Established in 1965, URC offers a range of technical assistance to strengthen health and social systems and service quality by empowering communities and health workers to identify and scale up locally appropriate solutions to critical problems. Internationally, we expand access to and improve the quality of services addressing maternal, newborn, and child health; infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria; reproductive health and family planning; food and nutrition; and vulnerable children and families. In the US, we focus on improving communication related to issues like substance abuse, with a particular focus on reaching underserved populations.
URCs mission is to provide innovative, evidence-based solutions to health and social challenges worldwide. Please join us in carrying out our mission (http://www.urc-chs.com/).
Project Overview:
The Eliminate TB Activity is to reduce the tuberculosis burden (magnitude), its related mortality and transmission in Ethiopia.
Job Description:
Required Experience & Qualifications:
Required qualifications:
- Advanced degree (Medical Degree, Masters, or PhD) in medicine, public health, nursing, applied clinical research, or other relevant medical or public health field.
- Minimum 10 years of progressive, focused experience in the management, design, execution, and monitoring of tuberculosis activities and projects
- Minimum 5 years of experience working (full time) in TB in at least one country, other than the Ethiopia, that has a high TB burden.
- Demonstrated experience designing complex and large TB programs in East Africa, preferably Ethiopia.
- Experience and demonstrated success in engaging and building capacity of health providers, institutions and organizations to deliver patient-centered care at scale.
- Experience and demonstrated success in involving patients or key affected population and civil society in project design and execution.
- Demonstrated understanding of health-seeking behavior and patient support needs.
- Demonstrated ability to obtain, analyze, organize and interpret relevant information, education and communication (IEC)/BCC data and use this data to design, develop and deploy communication interventions for TB.
- Experience and demonstrated success in addressing gender and equity issues, as well as involving patients or key affected populations and civil society in project design and implementation.
- Strong organizational and management skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing.
- Demonstrated capacity to build and maintain productive working relationships with a wide network of partners and stakeholders.
URC is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We value and seek diversity in our workforce.
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