Requirements

Additional Requirements

• Minimum 01-year experience in a relevant field to service managerial role.

KNOWLEDGE

• Community mobilization

• Organizational Values, Vision, Mission and Policies

SKILLS

• Computer skills- MS Office

• Communication skills

• Presentation skills

• Field reporting

Competencies

• Maintain high morale with integrity and honesty

• Organizing and planning skills

• Local networking and relationship building skills

Responsibilities & Context

Concerned Women for Family Development (CWFD) emerged from a humanitarian response in 1975 to help women in need of reproductive health care and counseling. Gradually, it became a registered organization and implemented various projects with support from different development partners in many areas of Bangladesh. Its vision is to empower women, youths, and adolescents to achieve gender equality and social justice within family and society. The CWFD’s mission is to support, promote, and protect the interests of women in Bangladesh by providing community-based health care, empowering underprivileged adolescents and youth, helping to provide legal support to girls and women- who are victims of domestic violence, and developing human resources for positive social changes. Currently, CWFD is implementing a project named Integrated TB Care and Prevention, which is funded by Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis Malaria through BRAC.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Prepare monthly work-plan to implement the project activities

• Perform community mobilization for ACF (active case finding), organize outreach centers, collection of samples and transport them to the nearby facilities for Xpert/ Truant/ Microscopy testing through extensive field visit

• Ensure treatment initiation, regular follow-up of ongoing patients and ensure quality DOT by monitoring Shasthya Shebika/ DOT provider/ community health workers

• Perform contact investigation (CI) of bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB patients (both DS-TB and DR-TB)

• Refer contacts of index cases 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 referral of microscopy positive TB cases to molecular diagnostic sites for re-testing

• Ensure referral of retreatment cases for Xpert/ Truant testing and link them with the DR-TB treatment initiation centers

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

• Organize courtyard meetings, TB campaigns, special outreach centers for key and vulnerable populations to enhance case detection

• 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 incentives for Shasthya Shebika/ DOT providers and social support for eligible TB presumptive and patients

• Maintain regular coordination, communication, and liaison with upazila/ union level stakeholders including HA, HI, CHCP etc.

• Contribute in the preparation of monthly/ quarterly reports and submit them in due time

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

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the organization’s goals of safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise in 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, and encourage others to do so

• Accept relocation of the workstation or transfer anywhere based on the need of the project

MAJOR CHALLENGES (encountered while performing the major responsibilities

• Involve private sectors

• Diagnosis of clinically diagnosed TB case, Child TB & DR-TB and TPT enrollment

• Ensure 100% quality DOT at field level

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS (KPIs)

• No. of case notification.

• No. of reports preparation.

• No. of outreach centers organized.

• No. of quality DOT organized.

• No. of TPT enrollment.

• No. of HIV/ COVID-19 screening of TB patients.

Skills & Expertise