Field Organiser (TB Control), BRAC Health Programme (Project staff)

Job Description

Title: Field Organiser (TB Control), BRAC Health Programme (Project staff)

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

Published: 2025-09-17

Application Deadline: 2025-09-27

Education:

• Bachelor/Honors

• Have knowledge on community mobilization

• Excellent computer skills- MS Office

• Excellent Coordination, communication and presentation skills

• Have skills on organizing and planning

With the support of The Global Fund, BRAC Health Programme has been implementing TB Control Project for more than three decades in collaboration with National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTP). BRAC works in a people-centered approach across rural and urban areas of the country with the aim to ensure prevention, early diagnosis and treatment adherence of tuberculosis through community engagement and Public-Private Mix (PPM) activities so that TB related healthcare services can be widely accessible and affordable to every individual.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Prepare monthly work-plan to implementing programmatic interventions accordingly.Perform community mobilization for ACF (active case finding), organize outreach centers, collection of samples and transport them to the nearby facilities for Xpert/ Truenat/ Microscopy testing including re-testing of microscopy positive cases.

• Ensure treatment initiation, regular follow-up of ongoing patients and ensure quality DOT by monitoring Shasthya Shebika/ DOT provider/ community health workers and referral of retreatment cases for Xpert/ Truenat testing.

• Perform contact investigation (CI) of bacteriologically-confirmed pulmonary TB patients (both DS-TB and DR-TB) and refer them to the physician for screening the eligibility of TPT and ensure enrolment.

• Guide community health workers/ volunteers to identify Child TB presumptive in the community and refer them to the facilities for testing.

• Ensure HIV screening of TB patients in the respective working area.

• Ensure ambulatory treatment initiation at community level as early as possible in coordination with UH&FPO and MODC.

• Organize/ conduct courtyard meetings, TB campaigns, special outreach centers for key and vulnerable population, refreshers training for Shasthya Shebika/ DOT providers for proper TB presumptive identification and quality DOT.

• Update private sector mapping including formal and informal healthcare facilities/ providers and visit them in a regular basis to enhance presumptive and case referral.

• Ensure distribution of drugs and incentive for Shasthya Shebika/ DOT providers and social support for eligible TB presumptive and patients.

• Maintain regular coordination, communication, liaison with upazila/ union level stakeholders including HA, HI, CHCP etc.Contribute in preparation of monthly/ quarterly reports and submit in due time.

• Practice and promote organization’s gender policy and support implementation of gender equality and women empowerment at all levels.

  SAFEGUARDING RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure the safety of Programme Participants, people who come into contact with the organization and team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation including sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) to achieve the programme`s goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.

• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.

• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Festival Bonus, Health and Life Insurance, Maternity/ Paternity Leave and others as per policy.