Senior Technical Advisor – Continuum of Treatment

 About the Organization

 Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

1. Technical Leadership & Program Strategy

• Provide strategic technical direction for client-centered continuity of treatment strategies in alignment with national MoH/NASHCoP guidelines and project goals.
• Lead the formulation and implementation of comprehensive retention, adherence, and re-engagement frameworks.
• Champion the expansion and refinement of Differentiated Service Delivery (DSD) models, including Decentralized Drug Distribution (DDD), Multi-Month Dispensing (MMD), and community refill groups.
• Advise project leadership and government counterparts on evidence-based strategies to eliminate barriers to long-term treatment adherence.

2. Treatment Cascade & Interruption Prevention

• Lead routine analysis of client retention data, treatment interruptions (IIT), and re-engagement metrics across supported regions, councils, and facilities.
• Design, deploy, and monitor proactive early warning systems to identify clients at risk of defaulting or treatment interruption.
• Optimize health facility and community tracking/tracing mechanisms, including phone reminders, physical tracking, and peer navigator networks.
• Drive targeted performance improvement plans for underperforming sites, focusing on high-volume CTC facilities and vulnerable or priority populations.

3. Capacity Building & Mentorship

• Provide technical assistance, clinical coaching, supportive supervision, and mentorship to RHMTs, CHMTs, facility health workers, and community service providers.
• Develop, adapt, and deploy standardized SOPs, job aids, adherence counseling modules, and tracking tools.
• Build capacity within regional, council, and community structures to independently manage client retention and continuity of care programs.

4. Data Quality, Coordination & Learning

• Promote routine data triangulation between facility records, digital tracking registers, and community outreach data to ensure accurate continuity metrics.
• Represent EGPAF in national Retention and Adherence Technical Working Groups (TWGs), national task forces, and partner forums.
• Collaborate closely with clinical, M&E, psychosocial, and community teams to harmonize facility-community linkages.
• Document lessons learned, successful re-engagement innovations, and client-centered models to support policy advocacy and national scale-up.

Qualifications & Requirements

Required

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Medicine (MD), Nursing, Public Health, Social Sciences, or a related clinical or healthcare discipline.
• Experience: Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience managing and leading HIV/TB client retention, adherence, and continuity of treatment programs in Tanzania.
• Technical Expertise: Advanced expertise in treatment cascade analysis, interruption in treatment (IIT) prevention, client tracking systems, Differentiated Service Delivery (DSD/DDD/MMD) models, and facility-community linkage structures.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Proven history of effective collaboration with government health authorities (MoH/NASHCoP, RHMTs, CHMTs), community-based organizations, and health facilities.

Preferred

• Advanced Degree: Master’s degree or higher in Public Health (MPH), Medical Sociology, Epidemiology, or Global Health.
• Donor Experience: Direct experience supporting PEPFAR or other major USG-funded HIV/AIDS programs in Tanzania.

 Important Notice & Disclaimer

• No Fee Policy: EGPAF does not charge any recruitment fees at any stage of the application process.
• Equal Opportunity: EGPAF is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEI&B).