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 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, 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 Family Planning 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 Active Reversible Contraceptive (LARC) methods.

Role Overview

We are looking for a highly motivated individual with strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, good communication skills, and demonstrated experience in analysis and synthesis of complex datasets for the role of Independent Consultant (SRH). The Consultant will work closely with the SRH team and will be expected to support the team in data analytics and synthesizing findings. Specifically, they will be expected to independently conduct the analysis on the data collected from a large, randomized control trial (RCT) around family planning method uptake among rural women.

The ideal candidate must have strong quantitative and analytical skills, be self-driven, adapt to the program’s differing needs, and be committed to excellence. CHAI places great value on relevant personal qualities: resourcefulness, humility, responsibility, tenacity, independence, energy, and work ethic.

The consultancy is expected to run for a period of 3-4 months. Candidates must be available to join before 1^st April 2023. WJCF is open to considering part time candidates for this role.

• Devise Data Quality Audit methods and reports and take corrective actions to ensure topmost data quality.
• Clean and manage large data sets: create, record and execute data cleaning commands; version control data sets, link data sets etc.
• Analyse large datasets: compute indicators from raw data, descriptive stats, and univariate and bivariate analyses; collapse data, merge different data sets etc.
• Liaise with tool programmer and manage the functioning of data collection.
• Support the drafting of technical narratives, publications, and other dissemination products.
• Support in insight generation and knowledge transfer and lead mapping of potential intervention areas based on research.
• Coordinate project-wide outputs related to execution, implementation, reporting, compliance, and updates.
• Prepare documentation and reports for dissemination of information among partners, donors, and stakeholders.
• Expected deliverables include but are not limited to cleaned datasets, calculated variables detailed analysis, and Insights deck.

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Engineering, Public Health, Business, or a related field.
• Proficiency in R, Python or STATA or similar statistical package
• Prior experience working with health surveys and RCT evaluation
• Experience in running RCT evaluation models
• Experience in working with family planning data is highly desirable
• Familiarity with regression and classification algorithms
• At least 3 years of relevant experience
• Experience working in the Indian context is highly desirable
• Professional experience in demanding, results-oriented environments in the public sector and/or private would be an advantage.
• Entrepreneurial mindset: demonstrated ability to work independently on complex projects and solve challenging problems, in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment.

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