Senior Technical Advisor Integrated Health Services (calabar)

Supervisor: Director, Technical Assistance and Strategic Results Utilization

Basic Function

• The Senior Technical Advisor, Integrated Health Services, provides leadership and technical support to the project in the areas of HIV, TB, malaria, MNCH, and GHS integration.
• S/he coordinates the services needed to integrate multi-disease programs into the national and sub-national health systems, ensuring high-quality care and integrated disease surveillance for identification, verification, and response routines and milestones achievement as per contract.

Duties and responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and technical support related to clinical management of integrated HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, and MNCH strategies and approaches.
• Provide technical assistance to government and local partners on integrated HIV/TB and PHC service workflows, ensuring that testing, linkage, retention, referral, and follow-up actions are organized around client-centered pathways.
• Support the adaptation of integrated essential care packages, clinical workflow tools, and referral protocols that can be implemented through supported facilities and community platforms.
• Provide technical assistance to establish and operationalize integrated Data Quality Assurance exercises, dashboard use and performance analytics, indicator triangulation, and client-level alerts to identify gaps and assign corrective actions.
• Design and institutionalize the use of QA/QI tools within government and local partner systems to assess service quality and create process efficiency.
• Support the Development of guidelines and SOPs for integrated prevention, care, and treatment services for HIV, TB, malaria, MNCH, and other infectious diseases.
• Provide technical support to develop integrated training packages, job aids, and digital tools for training the local health workforce in the health facility and community platforms.
• Support the design and use of Response Coordination Room routines, including data review, alert escalation, integrated surveillance inputs, quality checks, and action tracking.
• Strengthen government capacity in the use of routine program data to identify service disruptions, outbreak readiness gaps, and priority response actions.
• Provide technical guidance on the implementation of GHS interventions, infectious disease protocols, and national laboratory systems to mitigate public health threats.
• Support the development of rapid response protocols and ensure health facility readiness for public health emergencies.
• Assist in strengthening the capacity of frontline health workers in health facilities and community structures on outbreak recognition, infection prevention and control, and response protocols.
• Remain informed on current programs in the field of HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, MNCH and infectious disease outbreaks and responses by reviewing current literature and staying alert to any implications of such learnings or research.
• Contribute to the development of lessons learned from programs and projects across disease areas and apply these lessons to modify existing programs and improve the design of new programs.
• Provide oversight and supervisory roles to the appropriate technical and GoN staff on integrated service quality and practical problem-solving using the Total Quality Leadership and Accountability (TQLA) model.
• Assist with managing, developing, and monitoring project work plans and budgets.
• Document implementation lessons, best practices, innovations, and evidence to support learning, institutionalization, and scale-up by key stakeholders and consortium partners.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications and Requirements

• MB.BS/MD/PhD with over 12 years of relevant experience in multi-disease programming across HIV, TB, malaria, MNCH, and GHS, with at least 5 years of progressive experience at the senior management level in the health or development field in Nigeria.
• Other biological science degrees (BSc in any field) with a minimum of 11 years' experience in multi-disease programming around HIV, TB, malaria, MNCH, and GHS, with at least 5 years of progressive experience at the senior management level working in the health or development field in Nigeria
• Possession of an MPH or postgraduate degree in a related field is required.
• Proven experience in project development, planning and facilitating technical training.
• Familiarity with the Nigerian public sector health system, NGOs and CBOs is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with working with US Department of State/PEPFAR donor-funded projects.

Knowledge, Skills & Attributes:

• Knowledge of health and development programs in developing countries in general and Nigeria specifically.
• Clinical management and training experience and ability to understand the full range of issues around GHS, HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria, and MNCH care and treatment.
• Knowledge of the Nigerian clinical setting in health facilities and community platforms, including government and non-government settings.
• Sensitivity to cultural differences and understanding of the social, political and ethical issues around multi-disease programming.
• Demonstrable ability to investigate topics, collect and analyze data, and report findings to build new knowledge or solve problems.
• Ability to work well with others and to develop and maintain compatibility among project staff, subcontractors, consultants, and recipients of assistance.
• Ability to represent FHI 360 to donors, government officials, and the NGO community.
• Ability to manage tight deadlines and deliver high volumes of work with minimal supervision.
• High degree of proficiency in written and spoken English, including presentation and training skills.
• Capacity to develop brief high-impact documents that summarize complex technical topics into products for advocacy and learning.
• Proven ability in supervising staff.
• Well-developed computer skills.
• Ability to travel within Nigeria 45% of the time.