Clinical Manager

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the design and implementation of integrated treatment strategies with a primary clinical focus on drug-resistant TB (including MDR, pre-XDR, and XDR-TB), ensuring alignment with WHO and national guidelines.
• Provide technical leadership on the case management of complex DR-TB cases, integrating person-centered care approaches with optimized treatment regimens, including WHO-approved newer and shorter regimens, in consultation with pulmonologists, infectious disease specialists, and DR-TB clinical care groups.
• Oversee the clinical rollout and ensure fidelity to protocolized care pathways, including baseline assessments, adverse event monitoring, pharmacovigilance, and treatment adherence interventions across decentralized treatment sites.
• Supervise a multidisciplinary clinical team to ensure timely diagnosis, linkage to care, and clinical follow-up, while developing context-specific SOPs for case detection, household contact screening, and management of comorbidities such as diabetes or chronic lung disease.
• Develop and manage a Respiratory Disease Expert Panel (RDEP) comprising specialists and consultants to effectively monitor and manage complex conditions and multi-morbidity cases.
• Participate in technical working groups and consortia, providing clinical insight on the implementation of new drug regimens, resistance surveillance, and operational research.
• Strengthen systems for drug resistance monitoring, including collaboration with laboratory networks, contribution to surveillance data interpretation, and feedback loops into policy and practice.
• Collaborate with M&E teams to ensure rigorous clinical data capture, enabling real-time treatment outcome monitoring, adverse event reporting, and trend analysis for adaptive program management.
• Work closely with grants and program leads to prepare clinical progress reports, regulatory submissions, technical briefs, and scientific abstracts for dissemination to donors, government, and academic audiences.
• Design and implement a model to build clinical capacity in Sindh for improved management of drug-sensitive and drug-resistant TB, as well as other chronic respiratory conditions.
• Provide ongoing mentorship and capacity-building to field-based clinical staff, ensuring adherence to clinical governance principles, rational prescribing, and infection prevention and control (IPC) standards.
• Coordinate with logistics and operations teams to ensure the timely supply of medications, diagnostics, and PPE, and to support the operational needs of remote clinical teams.