Community Intervention Specialist

D. Key Duties and Responsibilities

A. Integrated Community Strategy and Coordination

• Develop integrated community plans, targets, technical budget inputs, and monitoring schedules aligned with TB, HIV/AIDS, malaria, RSSH, and grant priorities.

• Advise the Deputy Team Lead (Program) and relevant technical experts on community needs, service gaps, access barriers, risks, and corrective actions.

• Coordinate interventions with national disease programmes, health services, laboratories, local authorities, implementers, and community partners, avoiding duplication and strengthening referrals.

B. Community Outreach, Prevention, Case Finding, and Referral

• Strengthen tailored communication, demand generation, risk assessment, screening, and referral among priority, vulnerable, and underserved populations.

• Support TB community screening, specimen and result linkages, contact investigation, and TPT; HIV prevention, testing, and service linkage; and malaria prevention, early testing, and prompt referral.

• Improve documented referral completion, counter-referral, linkage to treatment, and coordination for people requiring integrated or cross-programme services.

C. Continuity of Care, Treatment Support, and Social Protection

• Promote community support for timely treatment initiation, adherence, retention, completion, follow-up, and re-engagement, consistent with national protocols.

• Strengthen confidential, person-centered referral between community actors, health facilities, laboratories, and appropriate health or social-support services.

• Identify barriers to service uptake and continuity and connect eligible people with approved psychosocial, protection, and socioeconomic support.

D. Community Systems and Capacity Development

• Assess community-partner capacity and implement competency-based training and development plans covering integrated TB, HIV, and malaria interventions.

• Provide standardized tools, mentoring, supportive supervision, and peer-learning support to community-based organizations, networks, workers, and volunteers.

• Strengthen partner governance, safeguarding, accountability, data management, sustainability, and meaningful participation of affected communities.

E. Community-Led Monitoring and Accountability

• Coordinate ethical community-led monitoring of access, availability, acceptability, and quality of TB, HIV, and malaria services.

• Strengthen safe feedback, complaint-response, scorecard, and community-facility dialogue mechanisms.

• Analyze community evidence, track programme responses, and support constructive advocacy and continuous service improvement.

F. Human Rights, Gender, Stigma, and Equity

• Promote rights-based, gender-responsive, age-appropriate, disability-inclusive, and stigma-free community services across TB, HIV, and malaria.

• Identify and address discrimination and financial, legal, geographic, mobility, language, and other barriers affecting priority and underserved populations.

• Ensure voluntary participation, informed consent where applicable, confidentiality, safeguarding, do-no-harm, and non-discrimination.

G. Performance, M&E, and Learning

• Monitor integrated community indicators for outreach, prevention, referral, service linkage, treatment support, retention, and community systems strengthening.

• Supervision of field-level staff (including community/peer health workers) to ensure interventions are provided in a community-centric manner

• Technical oversight of community implementers, review of partner performance, and support to partner workplans, including review of workplans, field performance, target achievement, data quality, supervision findings, and corrective action implementation.

• Strengthen community data tools, disaggregation, dashboards, verification, and reconciliation with facility and national programme data.

• Track improvement plans and document implementation research, innovations, lessons, and scalable community practices.

H. Risk, Compliance, Engagement, and Reporting

• Identify and mitigate operational, safeguarding, fiduciary, data, and implementation risks and escalate significant concerns promptly.

• Ensure compliance with approved policies and support audits, LFA reviews, and coordination with government, communities, implementers, and partners.

• Prepare consolidated reports, technical briefs, presentations, and timely inputs to work plans, performance reviews, and grant submissions.

I. Additional Responsibilities

• Support in building sustainability of community systems, integration with government and local structures, and transition planning for community-led services beyond grant cycles.

• Undertake any other reasonable and relevant responsibilities assigned by the Deputy Team Lead (Program), commensurate with the Specialist level and the required skills and experience.

E. Qualifications and Experience

Education

• Master's degree in public health, social sciences, development studies, sociology, anthropology, health promotion, or another relevant discipline.

• Specialized training in TB, HIV/AIDS, malaria, community health, community systems strengthening, social and behavior change, human rights, gender, programme management, or M&E is desirable.

Experience

• At least 8 years of progressively responsible experience in community health or public-health programming, including at least 3 years in community systems, civil-society engagement, or donor-funded communicable-disease programmes.

• Demonstrated experience in programme planning, integrated community outreach and referral, treatment support, capacity development, monitoring, and partnership with government, civil society, and affected community networks.

• Experience with Global Fund or other major donor-supported TB, HIV, or malaria programmes, community-led monitoring, social accountability, implementation research, or health-systems strengthening is highly desirable.

F. Competencies

Technical Competencies

• Integrated community programming for TB, HIV, and malaria.

• Prevention, outreach, screening or risk assessment, referral, and service linkage.

• Treatment support and retention.

• Community systems strengthening and civil-society/affected-community engagement.

• Community-led monitoring and social accountability.

• Stigma, human rights, gender, safeguarding, and social protection.

• Social and behavioral change.

• M&E, data quality, and results-based management.

• Capacity development, implementation research, risk and grant compliance, and technical reporting in English and Bangla.

Behavioral Competencies

• Community-centered leadership, facilitation, and communication.

• Trust-building, analytical thinking, and results orientation.

• Sound judgement, partnership, and consensus-building.

• Innovation, integrity, accountability, and safeguarding.

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

G. Expected Deliverables

• Annual Integrated Community Intervention Plan and engagement strategy, including disease-specific and cross-cutting targets, technical budget inputs, risks, and supervision schedule.

• Quarterly integrated community performance reports with disaggregated outreach, prevention, referral, linkage, treatment-support, and retention analysis.

• Community-led monitoring, feedback, and social-accountability reports with response and corrective-action tracking.

• Annual capacity-development plan and training, mentoring, and supportive-supervision reports for community partners and networks.

• Integrated Community Performance Improvement Plans with documented follow-up of corrective actions.

• Technical inputs to grant reports and reviews and briefs documenting equity, safeguarding, 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)