Programme Officer, TB Control, BRAC Health Programme (Project Staff)

Job Description

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

Company Name: BRAC

Vacancy: --

Age: Na

Job Location: Anywhere in Bangladesh

Salary: Negotiable

Experience:

Published: 2025-10-30

Application Deadline: 2025-11-10

Education:

• Bachelor/Honors

Requirements:

Skills Required: Advocacy and stakeholder engagement,Capacity Building,Community Mobilization ,Computer Literacy,Good communication and coordination skills,leadership and negotiation,Monitoring and Evaluation,MS Office,Problem solving and decision making,Project Implementation

Additional Requirements:

This position is open for Bangladeshi nationals only.

Responsibilities & Context:

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.

Working at BRAC is not like any other job. It is a platform where you can bring about real change for people who need it the most. We are not just dreaming of a better world, we are building it. Join us to find the way.

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.

MEJOR 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

• Track all activities (both financial and programmatic part) of the project at upazila level

• 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

• Analyse upazila level data 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

SAFEGUARDING RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure the safety of Programme Participants, people who come into contact with the organisation 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

Job Other Benifits:

Festival Bonus, Health and Life Insurance, and others as per policy

Employment Status: Contractual

Job Work Place: Work at office

Company Information:

Gender: Male and Female can apply

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

Category: NGO/Development