Country

India

Type

Full Time

Program (Division)

Country Programs - India

Additional Location Description

Patna, Bihar

The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries, while strengthening the capabilities of governments and the private sector in those countries to create and sustain high-quality health systems that can succeed without our assistance. For more information, please visit: http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org 

CHAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to providing an environment of fairness, and mutual respect where all applicants have access to equal employment opportunities. CHAI values diversity and inclusion, and recognizes that our mission is best advanced by the leadership and contributions of people with diverse experience, backgrounds, and culture.

CHAI, in partnership with its India affiliate William J Clinton Foundation (WJCF), works in close partnership with and 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, CHAI 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.

Talent is the fundamental driver of WJCF’s success in helping save lives and reduce the burden of disease. WJCF’s organizational values reflect its relentless endeavour of hiring, nurturing, empowering, and celebrating diverse and high calibre individuals who come together to work as cohesive teams. WJCF places a high premium on providing its staff with an enabling environment that encourages entrepreneurship, humility, respect, equal share of voice and fosters high impact innovation to address some of the most challenging healthcare issues. 

Project Background

The world had not experienced a pandemic at the scale or pace of the current COVID-19 pandemic; the virus has ferociously attacked high- and low-income countries alike, but in so doing, has exposed the lack of a robust Public Health Surveillance (PHS) System in India. Despite proactive mitigation and stringent suppression strategy, the country requires long-term solutions to identify and mitigate such pandemics in the future. Strengthening surveillance systems in light of COVID-19 pandemic has been identified as the need of the hour by national policy makers and international bodies.

Programme Overview

WJCF is supporting the Govt. of Bihar under the Public Health Surveillance Program (PHS) in preparing and implementing a multi-year strategic plan for disease surveillance with the goal of helping the state improve their PHS systems for early warning of outbreaks, improved monitoring of diseases, and improved access to diagnostics for patients.

Position Summary

WJCF seeks a highly motivated individual with excellent analytical ability and strong communication skills for the role of Analyst. The Analyst will report to the Program Lead, PHS, and will be expected to develop and manage strong relationships with the 1) Department of Health & Family Welfare (DoHFW, Bihar), 2) State Health Society (SHS, Bihar) and 3) Integrated Disease Surveillance Program (IDSP, Bihar) to support program implementation initiatives. The role will require the Analyst to help design, monitor, and drive the implementation of evidence based PHS strategies and liaise with state government stakeholders to support implementation of ongoing public health surveillance government initiatives. The ideal candidate must have strong quantitative and analytical skills, excellent communication, and written skills, be self-directed, adapt to the program's differing needs, and be committed to excellence.

A strong profile will include outstanding credentials, analytical ability, and communication skills. The candidate must be self-driven, entrepreneurial, adaptable, and have a high comfort level with ambiguity. The candidate must be able to function independently and flexibly. We place great value on qualities such as resourcefulness, responsibility, tenacity, independence, energy, and work ethic.

• Support DoHFW, IDSP and SHS in all aspects of strategy, planning and implementation of public health surveillance and diagnostic scale up initiatives
• Translate objectives provided by the national and state departments, donors, and other partner organizations into clear activity plans, and support the state functionaries on prioritizing initiatives
• Analyse and reconcile data sources to facilitate monitoring, synthesis of data to draw meaningful insights
• Ensure communication and alignment of activities across government and partner stakeholders' efforts and across other WJCF programs to ensure coordination and successful execution. Work with WJCF's technical teams and
• Program Manager(s) to develop and implement a coordinated support program
• Draft compelling presentations and reports for internal and external stakeholders
• Support capacity building of key government functionaries on relevant competencies for sustained ownership and delivery
• Support the state implementing various diagnostics scale up and public health surveillance initiatives under IDSP
• Perform other responsibilities as requested by programme leadership and state-level stakeholders
• Support the development of surveillance and diagnostics related guidelines and policies
• Support implementation and achievement of targets under all national programmes
• Ensure surveillance of priority diseases through by ensuring timely reporting of cases/events on designated data system(s), weekly analysis of trends, preparation of annual data base for emerging pattern of diseases through collection of data and plan interventions for effective prevention and control of diseases in close coordination with disease elimination/control programmes
• Participate and lead monitoring of surveillance activities via District Weekly Reviews
• Design and implement strategies for engagement of private sector in disease surveillance and response activities
• Monitor state and district level health data including outbreak data to provide periodic adjustments to planned program activities

• Bachelor’s degree in management, economics, engineering, computer science, statistics, operations research, public health or allied areas with 2-4 years work experience
• Experience working in public health organization or management consulting, development sector or similar fast-paced, output-oriented environments or pharmaceutical, biotechnology or medical device industry
• Exceptional analytical (qualitative and quantitative) skills with high proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Word and Tableau or Power BI
• Entrepreneurial mindset, including the ability to work independently, self-motivate, and propose and implement new initiatives
• Exceptional communication (written and verbal), interpersonal and stakeholder management capabilities. Demonstrated ability to build strong professional relationships with a range of stakeholders in a challenging, multicultural environment
• Ability to think strategically, handle ambiguity, manage multiple priorities, and problem solve in a fast-paced, limited-structure, multicultural environment
• Ability to absorb and synthesize a broad range of information, primarily clinical, scientific, and technical manufacturing information
• Willingness to travel extensively within the state

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