National Programme Officer

Job Description:

National Program Officers (NPOs) will be assigned a cluster of districts, mainly districts with TB activities, and will be responsible for;

• Capacity building of district management team
• Ensure Implementation of NTP/PTP guidelines and policies.
• Submit monthly activity plan and report to PTO.
• Monitoring and supervision of the TB control activities (Core DOTS including Labs, MDR, TB HIV, Childhood TB and ADD interventions)
• Coordinate intra-district meetings and ensure quarterly TB reports by the districts.
• Timely submission of NTAs and SOEs of the intra-district meetings.
• Monitor and facilitate trainings of health staff
• Facilitate in collaborative TB/HIV and MDR-TB activities in the assigned districts.
• Coordinate  Public-Public, and Public-Private Mix (PPM) activities at the provincial and the district levels
• Collaborate TB activities in prisoners, refugees and other high-risk groups and special situations
• Assist NTP/PTP in Advocacy, communication and social mobilization activities in the assigned districts.
• Assist NTP/ PTP in Operational Research activities.
• Other duties assigned by the PTO or PTP Manager

Criteria/ Required Qualification and Experience

MBBS with Post-graduation in Public Health / DTCD. Minimum 5 years of experience in planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Public Health programs in public or private sector is required. Computer skills particularly working on MS Office is mandatory. Data management, analysis, presentation,report writing along with good communication skills in English, both written and verbal along with proficiency in relevant regional/local languages are highly desired. Experience with TB program will be preferred. Job requires extensive travelling.

Terms & Conditions

• Original documents are required to be produced at the time of interview. Shortlisted candidates will be called for written test and interview for which no TA/DA will be admissible.
• Government servants must be required to produce NOC, if selected. All positions are on contract basis and the department has the authority to terminate or increase/decrease the number of positions.
• Female candidates are encouraged to apply.
• Positions of Lab Technicians for GenXpert and Screeners will be filled by candidates having local domicile or of nearest districts (detail available on above mentioned website), while other candidates can also be posted anywhere in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as and when required.