Transition and Integration Specialist

D. Key Duties and Responsibilities

A. Transition and Integration Strategy, Readiness and Roadmap

• Assess transition and integration readiness across governance, financing, workforce, services, information, procurement and supply management, laboratories, assets, contracts, and partnerships.

• Develop and update a cost, phased transition and integration roadmap defining priorities, milestones, responsibilities, dependencies, risks, and financing sources.

• Facilitate the work for the TA providers and support implementation of recommendations.

• Align transition strategies with Global Fund Sustainability, Transition, and Co-Financing requirements.

• Incorporate cost actions, timelines, responsibilities, risks, and transition-readiness benchmarks into the roadmap.

• Support grant closure, consolidation, or transition planning, including orderly transfer of functions, assets, records, and accountabilities.

• Establish sequencing, integration standards, handover and acceptance criteria, contingency arrangements, and a master tracker aligned with government planning and budget cycles.

B. Domestic Financing, Budget Integration, and Sustainability

• Develop a financing framework covering recurrent and capital costs, funding gaps, and short-, medium-, and long-term requirements.

• Support integration of priority recurrent and capital costs into government budgets, annual operational plans, procurement plans, and medium-term resource frameworks.

• Track domestic allocations, releases, and expenditure; promote efficiency; and escalate financing gaps that may affect essential services.

• Translate co-financing commitments into cost, time-bound actions for progressive domestic absorption.

• Track commitments, budget allocations, fund releases, expenditures, and evidence of fulfillment.

• Assess financing gaps and recommend corrective actions for unmet commitments.

C. Institutional Integration, Governance, and Accountability

• Define government ownership, mandates, staffing, workflows, resources, interfaces, and accountability for each critical function to be institutionalized or integrated.

• Support harmonized policies, procedures, service standards, governance, and coordination arrangements that embed priority functions within MoHFW/DGHS systems and reduce parallel processes.

• Facilitate that the relevant government offices formally accept the transferred responsibilities and involve communities and civil society organizations in the process. formal acceptance of transferred responsibilities and ensure appropriate community and civil-society participation.

D. Systems Integration, Operational Handover, and Service Continuity

• Prepare coordinated integration and handover plans for services, laboratories, commodities, procurement and supply management, information systems, monitoring, finance, assets, contracts, and records.

• Verify that receiving entities and government systems have the authority, workforce, funding, interoperability, procedures, tools, controls, and absorptive capacity required before integration or transfer.

• Establish continuity safeguards, contingency arrangements, data and control reconciliation, and post-integration reviews to prevent disruption and resolve residual gaps.

E. Workforce, Capacity, and Knowledge Transfer

• Assess workforce and institutional-capacity requirements and identify critical competency, staffing, and succession gaps, including NGO PRs.

• Support NGO PRs for transition readiness and structured handover.

• Implement a capacity and knowledge-transfer plan through training, mentoring, joint implementation, embedded support, and structured handover to designated government counterparts.

• Maintain essential transition documentation and monitor whether transferred functions meet agreed performance standards.

• Monitor and report progress against sustainability, transition, co-financing, and grant-closure benchmarks.

• Coordinate periodic progress reviews and follow up on agreed corrective actions.

• Ensure timely and accurate reporting, and escalate significant gaps, delays, and unmet commitments.

F. Risk, Equity, and Change Management

• Maintain an integrated risk register and mitigation plan covering financing, workforce, procurement, services, data interoperability, governance, controls, and equity.

• Assess the effects of transition decisions on service quality, affordability, confidentiality, gender, and underserved populations.

• Lead stakeholder and change-management activities and escalate decisions that may disrupt services, weaken controls, or create unfunded obligations.

G. Performance Monitoring, Coordination, and Reporting

• Maintain a transition and integration results framework and dashboard covering financing, institutionalization, systems alignment, handover, capacity, risks, service continuity, and sustainability.

• Lead periodic reviews and coordinate transition and integration actions across the PMU, MoHFW/DGHS units, national programmes, implementing entities, communities, civil society, and development partners.

• Prepare progress reports and decision briefs, track corrective actions, and document lessons and recommendations for future sustainability planning.

H. Additional Responsibilities

• Undertake any other reasonable and relevant responsibilities assigned by the team lead, commensurate with the seniority, skills, and experience required for the position.

E. Qualifications and Experience

Education

• Master's degree in public health, health economics, public policy, health management, development studies, economics, business administration, finance, or another discipline relevant to health systems transition and integration.

• Specialized training in health financing, sustainability and transition planning, health-systems integration, organizational development, public-sector management, change management, or programme management is desirable.

Experience

• At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience in health systems, programme management, policy, financing, institutional reform, or systems integration, including at least 5 years in a senior technical or advisory role supporting government-led or donor-financed health programmes.

• Demonstrated experience developing costed strategies, institutional and systems-integration arrangements, financing or sustainability plans, operational handovers, risk frameworks, and senior-level decision products.

• Experience working with MoHFW/DGHS, national disease programmes, and development partners is required; experience with Global Fund-supported programmes and professional proficiency in English and Bangla are desirable.

F. Competencies

Technical Competencies

• Transition, integration, sustainability, health financing, costing, public-sector planning, and budgeting.

• Institutional, governance, operational handover, service continuity, and risk analysis.

• Workforce, capacity, asset, contract, data, interoperability, and systems-integration coordination.

• Change management; results frameworks, dashboards, and scenario analysis.

• Senior-level facilitation and concise technical reporting.

Behavioral Competencies

• Strategic systems thinking, sound judgement, political awareness, negotiation, and diplomacy.

• Results orientation, organization, deadline management, facilitation, communication, and teamwork.

• Adaptability, integrity, accountability, impartiality, confidentiality, resilience, and readiness for field travel.

G. Expected Deliverables

• Approved transition and integration readiness assessment and costed multi-year transition, integration, and sustainability roadmap.

• Domestic-financing framework, gap analysis, budget-integration plan, and commitment tracker.

• Institutional-integration matrix, governance and system-alignment actions, and function-specific handover plans.

• Service continuity and integrated risk registers with dependencies, triggers, and mitigation actions.

• Workforce, capacity, and knowledge-transfer plan with handover evidence.

• Transition and integration dashboard, reports, decision briefs, and documented lessons.

H. Integrity, Safeguarding, Confidentiality and Compliance

• The incumbent shall uphold the highest standards of integrity, accountability, impartiality, professionalism, and ethical conduct, including the timely and transparent disclosure of any actual, potential, or perceived conflict of interest.

• The incumbent shall contribute to and promote a safe, respectful, inclusive, and non-discriminatory working and service environment, with zero tolerance for harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse, discrimination, retaliation, or any other safeguarding violation.

• The incumbent shall safeguard and maintain the confidentiality of all programme, financial, personnel, beneficiary, and other sensitive information, including medical and personal data, and shall respect the principles of informed consent, privacy, and data protection.

• The incumbent shall promptly report any suspected or identified misconduct, safeguarding concern, fraud, corruption, conflict of interest, financial irregularity, misuse of resources, or other violation through the prescribed reporting and escalation channels.

• The incumbent shall perform all duties in accordance with applicable Government of Bangladesh laws and policies, the Global Fund Grant Agreement, the Global Fund Code of Conduct for Recipients, and other relevant policies, procedures and guidelines.

I. Remuneration and Benefits

• Monthly remuneration will be determined in accordance with the PMU HR guideline

• Group health insurance will be provided as per the PMU HR guideline

• Monthly mobile and internet bill will be provided as per the PMU HR guideline

All these positions are open for Bangladeshi Nationals only. All candidates, irrespective of gender, religious and ethnic backgrounds can apply for the vacancies. Female candidates are highly encourged to apply.

Only short-listed candidates shall be invited for written test/interview. All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Last Date of Application: 20 November 2026 (23:59 PM)