Director, TB Program

Description

Position Title: Director, TB Program
Reports to: Senior Health and Policy Advisor, Infectious Diseases
Location: Employees in this role can work from our Boston, MA office, remotely within the U.S. or hybrid of these two options.

Employee Type: Full time with international and domestic travel up to 25%; 3 year restricted funded position, effective January 2025-January 2028

Position Overview

The TB Program Director is responsible for advancing Partners In Health’s (PIH) TB Strategy, an organizational focal area framework outlining our multi-year strategic objectives for TB care delivery, advocacy, and research, and detailing PIH’s special voice and value in ending TB globally. Reporting to the Senior Health and Policy Advisor, Infectious Diseases, and collaborating closely with the DR-TB Technical Lead and across PIH Coordination, University, and Care Delivery site-based teams, the Director leads organizational coordination for the effective operationalization and implementation of the PIH TB strategy, ensuring synergy with a portfolio of high-value, multi-year, multi-country grant-funded TB projects from a diverse range of complex donor organizations. The Director also works in close partnership with colleagues engaging with external partners and donors to raise resources to sustain and grow the work, communicating the impact of PIH’s TB programming and advocating for continued replication and growth to influence and support global efforts to eliminate TB.

Responsibilities

Strategy Lifecycle Management (75%)

• As the functional lead of a cross-functional TB Core team, oversee all elements of TB Strategy program management, including monitoring and managing scope, schedule, and budget, and anticipating, mitigating, and documenting program risks and challenges.
• Establish processes and systems around collaboration and accountability across cross-functional TB core team members working in policy, advocacy, impact, monitoring and evaluation, and finance to facilitate achieving shared Strategy goals, in partnership with the Managing Director, Impact and Planning.
• Set and monitor clear milestones for the evolution of the TB Strategy over time, in close partnership with the Impact and Planning team and Harvard Medical School (HMS) faculty.
• Directly manage the TB Senior Program Associate and TB technical coordinator, and work in close partnership with project-specific project/award management teams, HMS Study Coordinators and other project-specific management team members to ensure synergy across TB-focused projects.
• In close partnership with the Senior Health and Policy Advisor, Infectious Diseases, accompany PIH site teams in TB Strategy implementation, assessment of progress towards identified goals, and ongoing iterations of program outcomes and impacts.
• Ensure all teams working on TB are aware of how different restricted awards contribute to the overall TB strategy, where gaps lie, and where there are opportunities for synergy.
• Oversee strategic internal communications and effectively execute collaboration with PIH Executive Leadership, other Coordination site branches and broader stakeholders in TB programming across the PIH network.
• Work with finance and resource generation colleagues on workplan-based budget scenarios to inform leadership decisions on strategy phasing and growth.
• Convene strategy advisory functions, including the TB Trustees Working Group and the PIH TB Brain Trust.

  Partnership Strategy and Stewardship (25%)

  • Participate and assist in facilitation of strategic discussions with partners and donors regarding cultivating and championing the overall TB strategy in partnership with resource generation branch colleagues. Act as point person for PIH project teams, donors, external stakeholders and other partners, ensuring effective and appropriate communication about the TB Strategy.
  • Represent PIH externally with donors and partners on phone calls, face-to-face meetings, and site visits. Assume responsibility for preparing PIH leadership to lead or participate in these meetings and other cultivation and solicitation activity.
  • Expand PIH TB Strategy exposure to global audiences, overseeing the dissemination of programming and impact messaging, and collaborating with PIH Communications teams to ensure alignment and compliance with organizational procedures for external communications.

    Qualifications

    • Bachelor’s degree required, master’s degree or equivalent experience in public health, public administration, international development, or related field preferred.
    • 10+ years of experience in the management of global health projects, grants from a variety of complex donors (US government, Unitaid, Global Fund, etc.) and successful donor and partner relationships.
    • Demonstrated leadership in developing, implementing and supervising effective strategic frameworks in similar area of focus (tuberculosis, infectious disease, global health, etc.)