Senior Officer, TB Delivery – Nigeria & Ethiopia Country Support (LTE)

The Foundation

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The Team

The Global Health (GH) division harnesses advances in science and technology to save lives in countries. We focus on the health problems that have an impact in developing countries but get too little attention and funding. Where proven tools exist, we support sustainable ways to improve their delivery. Where they do not, we invest in research and development of interventions, such as vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics. Our work focuses on strategies to fight and prevent HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, neglected tropical diseases, enteric and diarrheal diseases, and pneumonia. These programs strategy teams are supported by functional teams that focus on Discovery and Translational Sciences, Vaccine Development, the Accelerator, and Integrated Development.

The foundation’s Tuberculosis (TB) team aims to address key gaps along the TB care pathway through new approaches to protect against infection, preventing progression from infection to disease, and improving diagnosis and treatment. Our efforts are diversified based on the understanding that vaccines, diagnostics, drugs, and improved care delivery are all essential to addressing the TB epidemic.

Nigeria and Ethiopia together account for a significant share of the global TB burden, yet both countries face persistent challenges in detecting and treating TB cases, mobilizing and efficiently using available funding, and building the data systems needed to drive program improvement. This Limited Term Employee (LTE) position is established to provide dedicated, regionally embedded support to the national TB programs in these two countries during a critical period of program strengthening.

Your Role

This is a limited-term position ending on December 31, 2027. Relocation support will not be provided.

As the SPO, TB Country Support for Nigeria & Ethiopia, you will serve as a trusted technical partner to the national TB programs in Nigeria and Ethiopia, engaging government counterparts, implementing partners, and Global Fund principal recipients to assess program needs and facilitate targeted support.

Your work will span four interconnected areas: TB screening, case finding and diagnostics introduction; funding efficiency and resource optimization; data systems and surveillance strengthening; and TB-HIV integration within primary health care. You will generate structured assessments and recommendations that inform both country-level program decisions and the foundation’s strategy and investments.

This role reports to the Deputy Director, Immunization and Disease Control, in Nigeria, with a dotted-line report to the Director, HIV & TB Delivery, based in the UK. The position can be based in either Nigeria or Ethiopia.

What You’ll Do

1. Country Engagement and Needs Assessment

This is the foundational function of the role. You will establish and sustain substantive working relationships with national TB program leadership, Ministry of Health counterparts, Global Fund principal recipients, and key implementing partners in both countries.

Conduct structured assessments of TB program performance, gaps, and priorities in Nigeria and Ethiopia, including through in-country visits, stakeholder consultations, and review of program data and reports.

Identify and document specific areas where the foundation and its partners could provide high-value, time-bound technical or financial support.

Develop country engagement plans for each country, to be reviewed and updated on a regular basis in collaboration with ARO colleagues and the Seattle TB/HIV team.

Facilitate dialogue between country stakeholders and foundation program teams to ensure that potential support is grounded in national priorities and implementable within existing systems.

2. TB Case Finding: Pluslife Introduction and Screening Tools

A priority area for this role is supporting both countries to expand TB case finding through the introduction of new diagnostic and screening technologies, with particular focus on Pluslife and complementary screening tools.

• •Assess the readiness of national TB programs in Nigeria and Ethiopia to introduce and scale Pluslife, including policy and regulatory status, laboratory and health facility capacity, supply chain requirements, and workforce readiness.
• •Map existing TB screening and diagnostic infrastructure and identify gaps and opportunities for deploying portable molecular tools and screening technologies to increase case detection — particularly among high-risk and hard-to-reach populations.
• •Monitor early implementation and adoption of new tools where rollout is underway, documenting lessons and surfacing issues for rapid problem-solving.
• •Provide technical input to country proposals and operational plans related to TB case finding scale-up.

3. Efficient Use of Domestic and Global Fund Resources

Both Nigeria and Ethiopia receive substantial Global Fund investments in TB, and both are increasing domestic health financing commitments. This role will support more strategic and efficient use of these resources.

Conduct rapid assessments of TB program funding flows, expenditure patterns, and resource allocation in each country, drawing on GF grant performance reports, national health accounts, and program data.

Identify opportunities to reduce duplication, improve value for money, and strengthen alignment between domestic and external financing for TB — including during GF grant renewal cycles.

Provide technical support to national programs in the development of TB funding gap analyses and investment cases, as requested.

Work with country teams and the ARO to identify where foundation catalytic investments could unlock more efficient or expanded use of GF or domestic resources.

Liaise with GF country teams, principal recipients, and the Stop TB Partnership country support mechanisms to coordinate support and avoid overlap.

4. Data Systems, TB Data Use, and Integrated Surveillance

Improving the availability, quality, and use of TB data is essential for program performance management and for the transition to integrated disease surveillance. This LTE will support both countries to strengthen their data ecosystems.

• •Assess current TB data systems in Nigeria and Ethiopia, including DHIS2 configurations, TB case notification and treatment outcome reporting, laboratory information systems, and linkages to national health information platforms.
• •Support national programs to develop and implement data use improvement plans, including data review mechanisms, performance dashboards, and feedback loops to facilities.
• •Facilitate the integration of TB data flows into broader integrated disease surveillance frameworks, working with relevant government counterparts, WHO, and CDC where present.

Liaise with the foundation’s data and digital health colleagues and other SPO’s to ensure country data needs inform relevant strategies, investments and technical assistance efforts.

5. TB-HIV Integration into Primary Health Care

Strengthening the integration of TB and HIV services within primary health care is a strategic priority in both countries. This role will support the identification and development of i