Director, TB Program

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.)
• Ability to successfully work across a complex organization and leverage limited resources; excellent facilitation, communication and negotiation skills required
• Exemplary interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate effectively with individuals and teams from a broad range of grassroots, nongovernmental, governmental, and international organizations across diverse locations, cultures, personalities, and competencies under shifting and demanding timelines.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to present complex information in an organized, logical, and concise manner; excellent organizational skills and highly attentive to detail
• Strong managerial experience and effective team-building skills
• Able to travel domestically and internationally, including international travel to remote or hard to access locations with limited infrastructure
• Proficiency in Spanish and/or other languages of PIH’s operations is desirable
• Interest in social justice strongly desirable.

Organizational Profile

Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities around the world. PIH focuses on those who would not otherwise have access to quality health care. PIH partners with the world’s leading academic institutions to create rigorous evidence that shapes more sound and all-inclusive global health policies. PIH also supports local governments’ efforts to build capacity and strengthen national health systems.

As of today, PIH runs programs in 11 countries (Haiti, Kazakhstan, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, Navajo Nation, Peru, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, United States), where it provides direct care to millions of patients, through public facilities and community engagement.

PIH is committed to the fundamental principle of equal opportunity and equal treatment for every prospective and current employee. It is the policy of PIH not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, age, religion, creed, disability, sex and gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law. PIH works in and with a number of governments in and outside the U.S., and to the extent applicable, this statement is intended to incorporate the prohibition of any unlawful discrimination covered by applicable laws in such countries, states and municipalities.

PIH participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. If E-Verify cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, this employer is required to give you written instructions and an opportunity to contact Department of Homeland Security or Social Security Administration so you can begin to resolve the issue before the employer can take any action against you, including terminating your employment. Employers can only use E-Verify once you have accepted a job offer and completed the Form I-9.

Pay and Benefits

The expected starting salary range for new hires in this position is between $125,000-135,000/year and may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market for the position, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The position belongs to a class of roles that have a salary range between $120,000 and $150,000/year. Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans then in effect, eligible employees may enroll in a 401(k) plan with employer match, as well as participate in organization-sponsored medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability insurance, and basic life insurance plans for the employee and the employee’s eligible dependents. Full time employees will receive 15 days of vacation, 12 sick days, 3 personal days, and 3 volunteer days in addition to paid time off during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day, the week of July 4th, and 11 additional holidays annually.