Country

India

City

New Delhi

Type

Full Time

Program (Division)

Country Programs - India

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.  

At CHAI, our people are our greatest asset, and none of this work would be possible without their talent, time, dedication and passion for our mission and values. We are a highly diverse team of enthusiastic individuals across 40 countries with a broad range of skillsets and life experiences. CHAI is deeply grounded in the countries we work in, with majority of our staff based in program countries. Learn more about our exciting work: 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

Family Planning and SRH services are critical to government of India’s Reproductive, Maternal, New-born, Child, and Adolescent Health (RMNCHA) program, which aims to achieve population stabilisation, promote reproductive health, and reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity.

WJCF works closely with the state of Madhya Pradesh to enable policy design, roll-out and implementation of SRH services with the aim to support the state government in achieving the ambitious goal of expanding access to quality and accessible RMNCHA services. The SRH team has been supporting the government of Madhya Pradesh in scaling access to Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC) services, driving uptake of Modern, Effective and Temporary (MET) methods of contraception, addressing supply chain infirmities in family planning commodities, skilling health workers in counselling and service delivery, and identifying new approaches to improve awareness and uptake of family planning services in vulnerable communities across the state.

WJCF is also shaping FP ecosystem in India to enable introduction of new contraceptive methods with the aim of increasing contraceptive choices for women. SRH team is driving the market shaping for new methods such as on-demand contraceptives, and Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive (LARC) methods.

Position Overview

WJCF is seeking a highly motivated and entrepreneurial individual with outstanding credentials, strategic thinking and communication skills for the role of Technical Lead, SRH. They would provide a strategic direction to the WJCF Sexual and Reproductive Health Programme in alignment with key government priorities. They would actively identify and leverage opportunities and synergies for WJCF in the SRH ecosystem. The lead would be responsible for building and managing key stakeholder relationships and representing WJCF at the national and state levels. The ideal candidate would have strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, rich experience of managing transformative projects, impeccable writing and verbal communication competencies, and have demonstrated excellence in client facing roles. The successful candidate will need to be able to function independently to strategize and deliver with flexibility in a dynamic and often uncertain situation and have a strong commitment to excellence. CHAI places great value on relevant personal qualities: resourcefulness, responsibility, tenacity, independence, energy, and work ethic.

The role will also provide technical inputs into design and implementation of programs for introduction and uptake of new family planning methods, comprehensive abortion care, sexual health, and family planning services. They will support the team in identifying and engaging with stakeholders across public, private, and social marketing organization (SMO) channels in India with the goal of catalysing introduction of new contraceptive methods. They will represent the CHAI SRH portfolio to relevant stakeholders in MoHFW, donors, other development sector partners in SRH, doctors, FOGSI, pharmacists, healthcare providers working closely with the SRH portfolio director and program team.

• Provide specialized inputs for informing WJCF’s SRH strategy at both national and state levels.
• Engage, build and maintain strong working relationships with relevant external stakeholders among government, healthcare providers and partners in SRH space, including but not limited to National FP Division, UNFPA, BMGF,
• WHO, USAID, Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India (FOGSI).
• Support the team in constructing contextualized approaches and frameworks for achieving grant outcomes and forging alliances aimed at positively impacting the SRH ecosystem in conjunction with competencies.
• Provide technical inputs in strategic and implementation plans, support effective project implementation and documentation.
• Regularly assess program progress against targets, identify operational bottlenecks or risks, and work with the leadership to strengthen the India SRH Program as necessary.
• Support the team in distilling insights from the secondary and primary research to inform product introduction roadmap.
• Support the team in identification of service delivery models for improving uptake of SRH services and/or modern methods of family planning through secondary and primary research.
• Leverage national conferences, partner engagements and forums to showcase the progress of WJCF’s SRH program and innovations undertaken and continually identify opportunities for WJCF to add value and maximize impact.
• Support in scoping for new opportunities/creating pitch documents for new grants/donors in the SRH and allied spaces including and not limited to maternal and child health, gender-based issues and identify white space opportunity areas for WJCF.
• Undertake any other duties as requested by the WJCF leadership.

• MBBS graduate registered with MCI/NMC/State Medical Council or BDS with MPH
• 8+ years of professional experience working in public health or RMNCH programs, with increasing levels of responsibility and leadership.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to build strong professional relationships with a range of stakeholders in a challenging, multi-cultural environment with occasional tensions or conflicts.
• Strong understanding of global and Indian healthcare system in private, public, and social marketing Organizations (SMO) sectors
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and communication (written and verbal) skills, including ability to create persuasive presentations and written reports.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex projects involving multiple teams, including priority setting, planning, budgeting, performance review and management; and influencing with limited authority.
• Entrepreneurial mind-set, including ability to work independently, self-motivate, and propose and implement new initiatives.
• Motivated to travel frequently to meet the needs of the program and deliver impact effectively.
• English and Hindi language fluency, both written and verbal.

Skills & Traits

• Stakeholder management
• Drafting proposals and collaborative documents
• Should be able to multitask with multiple stakeholders keeping WJCF ideals and goals in mind.
• Effective and prompt communication

Key Qualifications & Experience

• Strong understanding of public health, sexual and reproductive health and/or health system strengthening context in India
• Knowledge of range of family planning products including injectables, implants, IUDs, contraceptive pills
• Experience with managing key accounts or portfolios having strategic significance.
• Experience in developing go-to-market strategies for pharma or FMCG products, supplier landscaping; Knowledge/experience of CDSCO functioning/ new product registration process.
• Strategically minded, able to think creatively around long-term program objectives and the detailed steps necessary to achieve these goals.

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