Country

India

Type

Full Time

Program (Division)

Country Programs – India

Additional Location Description

Shillong in Meghalaya

Telecommute

No

The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to our mission of saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries. We work at the invitation of governments to support them and the private sector to create and sustain high-quality health systems. 

CHAI was founded in 2002 in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic with the goal of dramatically reducing the price of life-saving drugs and increasing access to these medicines in the countries with the highest burden of the disease. Over the following two decades, CHAI has expanded its focus. Today, along with HIV, we work in conjunction with our partners to prevent and treat infectious diseases such as COVID-19, malaria, tuberculosis, and hepatitis. Our work has also expanded into cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and other non-communicable diseases, and we work to accelerate the rollout of lifesaving vaccines, reduce maternal and child mortality, combat chronic malnutrition, and increase access to assistive technology. We are investing in horizontal approaches to strengthen health systems through programs in human resources for health, digital health, and health financing. With each new and innovative program, our strategy is grounded in maximizing sustainable impact at scale, ensuring that governments lead the solutions, that programs are designed to scale nationally, and learnings are shared globally.  

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In India, CHAI works in partnership with its India registered affiliate William J Clinton Foundation (WJCF) under the guidance of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) at the Central and States’ levels on an array of high priority initiatives aimed at improving health outcomes. Currently, WJCF supports government partners across projects to expand access to quality care and treatment for HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, tuberculosis, COVID-19, common cancers, sexual and reproductive health, immunization, and essential medicines.

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About the project:

In India, the lack of medical imaging infrastructure at the community level coupled with the nonavailability of qualified radiologists to interpret X-ray’s leads to a significant delay in screening and diagnosis of Tuberculosis (TB). Chest X-ray (CXR) is a rapid imaging tool that allows for easy identification of lung abnormalities and is a crucial tool for early detection of tuberculosis (TB) Currently, only 11% of public health facilities in the country have X-ray devices available at Community Health Centres (CHCs) or district hospitals consequentially delaying the diagnosis of TB or adding to the out-of-pocket expenditure required by patients if done outside the public health facilities.

To address these delays at the community level, WJCF, with support from The Global Fund, aims to address the gap by introducing and operationalising hand-held X-ray devices integrated with Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) software. Deployment of a high-sensitive screening tool (X-ray) along with high throughput interpretation (CAD) and subsequent linkage to CBNAAT for diagnostics would reduce delays in diagnostics and pre-treatment loss to follow-up (LTFU). In addition, would be of significant use of active case finding in various settings. The project is currently be implemented in urban and rural districts in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Uttarakhand, and Haryana; and is required to be further scaled up by WJCF to 1 District of South Garo Hills (Meghalaya).

The project aims to generate local evidence and demonstrate various use cases for portable X-ray + CAD to improve TB case finding and reduce diagnostic delays. With an objective that the local evidence would lead to greater buy-in at the state level, facilitate the effective transition of project activities to the government and support future scale-up using domestic budgets.

Position Summary:

WJCF is looking for a highly motivated individual with outstanding credentials for the role of State Lead (SL) leading the program in Meghalaya. Successful candidate will have excellent problem solving, communications, Government stakeholder management and project management skills. Candidate should be able to function independently and flexibly, be self-motivated, and can thrive in challenging environments. He/she must be able to take programmatic decisions and have a strong commitment to excellence. Reporting to the Technical lead and working closely with other Government Stakeholders, the State Lead is expected to lead and manage execution the C19RM project at the State.

We place great value on relevant personal qualities: resourcefulness, teamwork, interpersonal skills, responsibility, tenacity, energy, and work ethic. Overall, SL would be expected to support in – planning, Implementing, analysing, coordinating, reviewing and documentation of various interventions that have been undertaken under the project

• In close coordination with the central team at Delhi (National Program Management Unit – NPMU), lead the project in Meghalaya, through strong program management and ensuring implementation of programmatic strategies and achievement of program objectives
• Develop strong relationship with the respective State (MD-NHM, STO, STDC, State NCD Dept) and District (CMHO/DTO) officials for the effective and coordinated implementation of project activities
• Engage and facilitate necessary support for availability of drugs, diagnostics and necessary manpower support required for the project interventions
• Ensure timely hiring of the field implementation staff for the project
• Develop State specific implementation and a supportive supervision plan for the project and respective activities to be undertaken in close coordination with implementation team
• Contribute to developing and implementing a strategy for synthesizing and disseminating key results, programmatic lessons learned, and other project outputs
• Advocate with States and District officials on the results and lessons from the project and drive decisions on scaling up such activities
• Track project progress regularly and feed into the various progress reports for the purpose of internal consumption as well as government departments
• Represent WJCF and the Project at the State level and guide the District Supervisors to address implementation challenges.
• Identify training needs and design, plan and conduct training programs, workshops, meetings and campaigns in coordination with central team.
• Develop field level strategies in alignment with overall project objectives and ensure communication and process adherence by the field teams.
• Review and analyse district wise performance and provide inputs to partner organisations to achieve targets, provide quality services and report results
• Contribute to the development of outcome and impact monitoring processes as and when required
• Align the implementation to the Project’s Monitoring & Evaluation framework and ensure coverage of each project component and all project indicators.
• Regularly analyse the data captured in the MIS and provide a summary of findings and recommendations while ensuring data quality. Work with the project and field teams to address gaps, if any.

• Masters or Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Management or a related field
• Minimum of 6 years of professional experience in designing and leading initiatives for implementing the Program.
• Experience in working & managing Public-Private Partnership (PPP) models would be an added advantage.
• Experience in working with State Ministries/departments and its partners including large, funded donor projects.
• Experience in designing and implementing new operational initiatives from project initiation to final stages.
• Experience in managing and building capacity across the project stakeholders
• Languages: Excellent written and spoken command of English and the local languages
• Good moderation, facilitation, and training skills.
• Demonstrated ability to liaise and negotiate with State Government.
• Excellent analytical skills. Ability to work in a team and good interpersonal skills, good organizational skills, ability to deal with various stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently with a minimum of supervision and work under time pressure and meet deadlines.
• Ability to perform a variety of conceptual analyses required for the formulation, administration, and evaluation of projects.
• Should be willing to travel extensively for project purpose within the respective state