HIV/TB Lead

Locations: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Organization: World Vision International

Deadline: November 14, 2026

Job Description

Employee Contract Type: Local – Fixed Term Employee (Fixed Term)

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

30% – Project Leadership and Coordination

Lead overall planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting of project activities.
Develop annual work plans, procurement plans, and implementation schedules.
Coordinate project implementation across all target districts.
Supervise Project Officers and facilitate performance management.
Ensure timely delivery of project outputs and outcomes.
HIV and TB services delivered to national standard at every functional spoke and integrated within a single client encounter; current technical guidance issued and demonstrably in use across all ten networks.
Improved case-finding yield and male reach; ART and TPT initiation and retention improved; viral suppression trending toward the 95% target; loss to follow-up measurably reduced.

20% – Technical Quality Assurance

Ensure quality implementation of:
Support adaptation and contextualization of project materials.
Ensure safeguarding, disability inclusion, gender, and conflict sensitivity standards are maintained.
Frontline and facility workers demonstrably competent in integrated HIV/TB service delivery; mentorship functioning to schedule with documented competency verification at each cascade level.
Confirmed malaria cases treated to national standard; case-management quality gaps identified and corrected through the mentorship system.
Cross-cutting standards demonstrably applied in HIV/TB services; integration maintained across the three technical portfolios.

15% – Leadership, Governance, Partnership & System Integration

Stronger coordination and collaboration between FCI, FMoH, RHBs, Zonal/Woreda Health Offices, FBOs, facilities, and communities.
FCI interventions are aligned with national policies, strategies, standards, guidelines, and government priorities.
FCI HIV/TB approaches endorsed by and embedded within national systems; no parallel structures created; a coordinated and non-duplicative partner landscape in supported regions.

15% – Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability and Learning

HIV/TB performance actively managed from routine data; operational research questions answered to schedule; evidence package supports the Year 1 go/no-go decision.
Work closely with the MEAL Specialist to ensure timely data collection.
Ensure implementation of baseline, outcome survey, and endline evaluations.
Support documentation of lessons learned, case studies, and success stories.
Work closely with the MEAL Specialist to ensure timely data collection. Ensure implementation of baseline, outcome survey, and endline evaluations
Lead quarterly learning reviews. Review indicator progress and adaptive management actions.
Support documentation of lessons learned, case studies, and success stories.

10% Grant, Finance and Compliance Management

Monitor project expenditure against approved budgets.
Ensure donor compliance and WV grant standards.
Prepare quality programmatic reports.
Coordinate audits and project reviews.
FCI resources are strategically directed toward priority health-system gaps and high-impact interventions.
Improved value for money and reduced duplication across technical and operational activities.
Greater integration of FCI investments into government and FBO plans, systems, and structures.
Sustainable methods are established for functions initially supported by the project.
Increased government and FBO capacity to maintain key interventions beyond project funding.
Reduced dependence on parallel project-funded systems.

10% – Documentation and Knowledge Management

Produce quarterly reports.
Develop learning briefs and success stories.
Support dissemination of project evidence and learning products.
Document HIV/TB achievements, challenges, lessons learned, and good practices.
Prepare technical reports, progress updates, and donor inputs.
Develop case studies, success stories, learning briefs, and technical summaries.
Document effective approaches in HIV case finding, ART, viral suppression, TB screening, treatment, and prevention.
Compile and synthesize HIV/TB program data and evidence for decision-making.
Document quality-improvement initiatives and results.
Capture lessons from community, facility, and referral-system interventions.
Maintain organized technical guidelines, tools, reports, and reference materials.
Coordinate with MEAL teams to ensure program evidence is accurately documented.
Facilitate learning and reflection sessions and document key actions.
Share promising practices and lessons with government, partners, health facilities, and project teams.
Support preparation of presentations, review-meeting materials, and knowledge products.
Ensuring lessons learned are used for program adaptation and continuous improvement.
Support dissemination and scale-up of effective HIV/TB practices and innovations.

Required Education, Training, Certification

Minimum of eight (8) years of progressively responsible experience in HIV and/or TB programming in Ethiopia, including at least three (3) years in a technical advisory or technical leadership role on a donor-funded health Programme.
Medical Doctor (MD), or a bachelor’s degree in public health, Nursing or Health Officer, PLUS a master’s degree in public health, Epidemiology or a directly related field.
Current professional registration/license with the relevant Ethiopian professional body, where applicable to the qualification held
Demonstrated experience with PEPFAR-, Global Fund- or comparably funded HIV/TB programmes, including familiarity with donor technical requirements, targets and reporting.
Proven technical command of the HIV cascade index testing, HIV self-testing, same-day ART initiation, differentiated service delivery and multi-month dispensing, viral-load monitoring and advanced HIV disease and of TB diagnosis and management, including mWRD/GeneXpert pathways, DS-TB treatment, TB preventive therapy and TB/HIV co-management.
Demonstrated experience designing and delivering clinical mentorship and supportive supervision for facility- and community-level health workers.
Substantive experience working with the Federal Ministry of Health, EPHI and Regional Health Bureaus, including participation in national technical working groups.
Experience using DHIS2 and routine HMIS data for Programme decision-making and performance management.
Experience working with Ethiopia’s community health platforms (Health Extension Programme, HDA/WDA networks) and, ideally, with faith-based or community mobilization structures-.

Required Professional Experience

Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, monitoring, and improving comprehensive HIV and TB prevention, diagnosis, treatment, care, and support programs.
Strong technical experience in areas such as HIV testing services, ART, viral-load monitoring, prevention of mother-to-child transmission, TB screening and diagnosis, TB treatment, TB preventive treatment, and management of HIV/TB co-infection.
Proven experience providing technical leadership and strategic direction for large-scale HIV/TB programs, including development of technical strategies, annual workplans, implementation approaches, and performance-improvement plans.
Demonstrated experience working with Ministries of Health, regional/subnational health authorities, health facilities, implementing partners, communities, and development partners to strengthen HIV/TB service delivery.
Experience supporting integrated HIV/TB services, including appropriate screening, referral, linkage to treatment, retention in care, adherence support, and continuity of services.
Strong experience using routine health information, surveillance, program-monitoring, and patient-level data to assess program performance, identify service-delivery gaps, and guide corrective actions.
Experience strengthening the capacity of healthcare workers, facility teams, program managers, and implementing partners through training, mentorship, supportive supervision, and quality-improvement approaches.
Demonstrated experience supporting quality improvement and differentiated service-delivery approaches, particularly for populations and geographic areas with persistent gaps in HIV/TB outcomes.
Experience collaborating with laboratories, pharmacies, supply-chain teams, monitoring and evaluation teams, community programs, and health facilities to improve the continuum of HIV/TB services.
Experience managing or providing technical leadership to donor-funded HIV/TB programs, with familiarity with major global health partners and mechanisms such as PEPFAR, USAID, CDC, and the Global Fund considered highly desirable.
Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply national HIV/TB guidelines and WHO recommendations and translate technical guidance into practical program implementation.
Strong leadership, analytical, coordination, problem-solving, stakeholder-engagement, presentation, and written and verbal communication skills.
For an Ethiopia-based position, substantial knowledge of Ethiopia’s HIV/TB program and experience working with national and regional health institutions would be highly desirable.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• HIV Programming

• TB Programming

• HIV/TB Integration

• Case Finding

• HIV Testing

• ART Management

• Viral Suppression

• TB Screening

• TB Treatment

• TB Prevention

• Treatment Adherence

• Referral Systems

• Community Health

• Quality Improvement

• Health Systems

• Data Analysis

• MEAL

• Capacity Building

• Infection Prevention

• Supply Management

• Safeguarding

• Gender & Inclusion

CORE SKILLS

• Technical Leadership

• Strategic Thinking

• Program Coordination

• Partnership

– Stakeholder Engagement

• Communication

• Team Leadership

• Facilitation

• Problem-Solving

• Decision-Making

• Analytical Skills

• Supportive Supervision

• Coaching

• Adaptive Management

• Results Orientation

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