Job Description

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

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: --

Age: 18 to 50 years

Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Minimum Salary: Negotiable

Published: 6 Nov 2024

Education:
∎ Bachelor/Honors

Requirements:

Additional Requirements:
∎ Age 18 to 50 years
∎ Some work experience in the field operation will be preferred.
∎ Have knowledge on Programme focused operation management
∎ Excellent computer skills- MS Office
∎ Excellent Coordination, communication and presentation skills
∎ Have skills on Advocacy and motivation
∎ Have skills on organizing and planning
∎ Have skills on problem solving & decision making
∎ Some work experience in the field operation will be preferred.
∎ Have knowledge on Programme focused operation management
∎ Excellent computer skills- MS Office
∎ Excellent Coordination, communication and presentation skills
∎ Have skills on Advocacy and motivation
∎ Have skills on organizing and planning
∎ Have skills on problem solving & decision making

Responsibilities & Context:
∎ Prepare monthly work-plan in collaboration and guidance from Upazila Health & Family Planning Officer (UHFPO) and District Manager.
∎ Maintain effective coordination with UH&FPO, Medical Officer Disease Control (MODC), NGO staff and other relevant stakeholders.
∎ Ensure proper mapping, planning and distribution of resources.
∎ Guide field staff on sample transportation and presumptive referral system based on SOP and ensure transportation from the community to the Xpert / Truenat/ Microscopy sites.
∎ Ensure treatment initiation of total confirmed TB patients (both DS-TB & DR-TB) in an upazila with the support of MODC.
∎ Ensure selection of DOT providers for TB patients, follow-up and supervise Directly Observed Treatment (DOT) in the community for treatment adherence.
∎ Ensure contact investigation, TPT enrolment & follow-up, HIV screening at community level.
∎ Ensure referral of complicated/ DR-TB patient to Upazila Health Complex or other facilities to ensure treatment initiation.
∎ Prepare monthly and quarterly performance and financial reports including e-TB Manager, e-LMIS/ indent of drugs & logistics in coordination with UH&FPO.
∎ Perform extensive field visit and supervise the quality implementation of project activities.
∎ Identify the staff need and ensure capacity building of staff through orientation/ job-aid.
∎ Ensure regular supply of drugs and other logistics to health workers and laboratories.
∎ Ensure organizing awareness-raising meetings/ orientation within the community.
∎ Track and analyse upazila level data (both financial & programmatic) and provide necessary information to district level management for decision-making.
∎ Ensure and update private sector mapping including formal and informal healthcare facilities/ providers to enhance presumptive and case referral.
∎ Practice and promote organization’s gender policy and support implementation of gender equality and women empowerment at all levels.
∎ 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.
∎ BRAC is an international development organization founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realize potential.
∎ 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.
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∎ Major Responsibilities:
∎ Prepare monthly work-plan in collaboration and guidance from Upazila Health & Family Planning Officer (UHFPO) and District Manager.
∎ Maintain effective coordination with UH&FPO, Medical Officer Disease Control (MODC), NGO staff and other relevant stakeholders.
∎ Ensure proper mapping, planning and distribution of resources.
∎ Guide field staff on sample transportation and presumptive referral system based on SOP and ensure transportation from the community to the Xpert / Truenat/ Microscopy sites.
∎ Ensure treatment initiation of total confirmed TB patients (both DS-TB & DR-TB) in an upazila with the support of MODC.
∎ Ensure selection of DOT providers for TB patients, follow-up and supervise Directly Observed Treatment (DOT) in the community for treatment adherence.
∎ Ensure contact investigation, TPT enrolment & follow-up, HIV screening at community level.
∎ Ensure referral of complicated/ DR-TB patient to Upazila Health Complex or other facilities to ensure treatment initiation.
∎ Prepare monthly and quarterly performance and financial reports including e-TB Manager, e-LMIS/ indent of drugs & logistics in coordination with UH&FPO.
∎ Perform extensive field visit and supervise the quality implementation of project activities.
∎ Identify the staff need and ensure capacity building of staff through orientation/ job-aid.
∎ Ensure regular supply of drugs and other logistics to health workers and laboratories.
∎ Ensure organizing awareness-raising meetings/ orientation within the community.
∎ Track and analyse upazila level data (both financial & programmatic) and provide necessary information to district level management for decision-making.
∎ Ensure and update private sector mapping including formal and informal healthcare facilities/ providers to enhance presumptive and case referral.
∎ Practice and promote organization’s gender policy and support implementation of gender equality and women empowerment at all levels.
∎ 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.

Skills & Expertise:

Compensation & Other Benefits:
∎ Festival Bonus, Health and Life Insurance, Maternity/ Paternity Leave and others as per policy.

Workplace:
∎ Work at office

Employment Status: Contractual

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Job Highlights:
∎ Ensure implementation of project activities (TB, Malaria, HIV, COVID-19) to achieve NTP targets in coordination with the Upazila Health & Family Planning Officer (Govt.), Medical Officer (Disease Control), and other stakeholders at Upazila level.

Company Information:
∎ BRAC
∎ BRAC Centre, 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212
∎ BRAC is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realise potential.

Address::
∎ BRAC Centre, 75 Mohakhali, Dhaka-1212
∎ BRAC is an international development organisation founded in Bangladesh that partners with over 100 million people living with inequality and poverty globally to create sustainable opportunities to realise potential.

Read Before Apply: Please apply only who are fulfilling all the requirements of this job

Application Deadline: 15 Nov 2024

Category: NGO/Development