HIV Specialist – Treatment and Care

D. Key Duties and Responsibilities

A. Strategic and Technical Leadership

• Advise the HIV Expert, NASP, and implementers on treatment and care priorities consistent with national guidelines and grant requirements.

• Contribute to programme planning, targets, budgets, grant revisions, and updates to clinical guidance and referral pathways.

• Promote confidential, rights-based, stigma-free, and person-centered services for key and vulnerable populations.

B. Treatment Cascade and Differentiated Service Delivery

• Strengthen linkage to care, timely ART initiation, treatment continuity, viral-load monitoring, suppression, and re-engagement.

• Promote approved differentiated treatment models, including multi-month dispensing and community-supported care.

• Support adherence, regimen optimization, treatment-failure management, and effective referral between facilities and community services.

C. Clinical Quality and Integrated Care

• Monitor service quality through clinical review, supportive supervision, and continuous quality improvement.

• Strengthen management of advanced HIV disease, opportunistic infections, and HIV/TB, including preventive treatment.

• Support pediatric, adolescent, and PMTCT services, integrated referrals, pharmacovigilance, and patient safety.

D. Laboratory, Viral Load, and Commodity Coordination

• Coordinate access to viral load, CD4, early-infant diagnosis, and other approved laboratory services.

• Monitor testing coverage, timeliness, results use, and suppression, and implement corrective measures.

• Support forecasting and stock monitoring for ARVs, diagnostics, and related commodities to prevent shortages, wastage, and treatment interruption.

E. Performance Management, Data Use, and Learning

• Review disaggregated treatment, laboratory, pharmacy, and community data to identify gaps and inequities.

• Validate programme results and develop time-bound performance-improvement plans.

• Supervise ART centers to ensure quality of services.

• Expansion of ART centers as per program targets to facilitate access to treatment and care services

• Support dashboards, programme reviews, evaluations, and research, and document effective practices and innovations.

F. Capacity Development, Coordination, Compliance, and Reporting

• Implement training, clinical mentoring, and supportive supervision for service providers, community workers, and implementers.

• Coordinate with NASP, facilities, laboratories, communities, PMU teams, and development partners, and manage programme and commodity risks.

• Coordinate with other implementing partners, CBOs, and PLHIV networks to promote access to care and treatment services.

• Ensure compliance, support audits and LFA reviews, and prepare periodic reports, technical briefs, and grant-submission inputs.

G. Additional Responsibilities

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

E. Qualifications and Experience

Education

• Medical degree (MBBS or equivalent), master's degree in public health, infectious diseases, medicine, health systems management, or another relevant discipline.

• Postgraduate clinical qualification or advanced training in HIV medicine, infectious diseases, ART, differentiated service delivery, advanced HIV disease, HIV/TB, paediatric/adolescent care, PMTCT, pharmacovigilance, quality improvement, or programme management is desirable.

Experience

• At least 8 years of progressively responsible experience in HIV clinical services, programme management, infectious diseases, or public health after the basic medical qualification, including at least 5 years in HIV treatment, care, and support.

• Demonstrated experience in ART service delivery, cascade monitoring, planning, supportive supervision, clinical quality improvement, capacity development, and performance reporting.

• Experience with government systems, facilities, civil society/communities, and development partners is required; Global Fund or comparable donor-funded experience and work in HIV/TB, PMTCT, pediatric/adolescent HIV, advanced HIV disease, commodities, research, or digital health are desirable.

F. Competencies

Technical Competencies

• HIV treatment and care; ART initiation and optimization.

• Adherence, retention, re-engagement, and differentiated service delivery.

• Viral-load monitoring and treatment-failure pathways.

• Advanced HIV disease; HIV/TB, PMTCT, and pediatric/adolescent linkages.

• Clinical governance and quality improvement.

• Commodity monitoring and pharmacovigilance.

• Cascade analysis, M&E, and results-based management.

• Grant processes, risk, and compliance; digital health; and technical reporting in English and Bangla.

Behavioral Competencies

• Technical credibility, analytical thinking, and results orientation.

• Sound judgement, communication, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement.

• Teamwork and innovation.

• Accountability, honesty, and confidentiality; encourages openness and transparency.

• Cultural sensitivity, respect for diversity, and commitment to equitable, stigma-free, and person-centered services.

G. Expected Deliverables

• Annual HIV Treatment and Care Implementation Plan, including targets, technical budget inputs, risk actions, and supervision schedule.

• Quarterly treatment-cascade and clinical-performance reports with disaggregation, bottleneck analysis, and recommendations.

• ART-site supervision, clinical quality assessment, and corrective-action follow-up reports and performance improvement plans.

• Annual clinical mentoring and capacity-development plan with training/mentoring outputs and evaluation reports.

• Technical inputs to ARV/diagnostic forecasts, quantification, supply plans, and stock-risk mitigation actions.

• Treatment guidelines, SOPs, referral pathways, job aids, and quality-improvement tools, as assigned.

• Timely technical inputs to grant reports and reviews and briefs documenting research, innovation, lessons, and good practices.

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)