Job Description

Role: Consultant (Innovations)

Location: Delhi

Reports to: Lead Innovations & Private Sector Engagement, Samagra - PSI IPL

Population Services International (PSI):

With over 50 years of experience, PSI is committed to getting quality health care in the hands of every woman, man, and child. PSI’s mission is to make it easier for all people to lead healthy lives and plan the families they desire. PSI is locally rooted and globally connected with 8000 local experts in more than 60 countries. PSI approaches include putting more care and control in consumers’ hands, revolutionizing the way adolescents access contraception, improving primary care networks, and unlocking domestic financing. PSI's core values are a belief in markets and market mechanisms to contribute to sustained improvements in the lives of the poor; results, and a strong focus on measurement; speed, and efficiency with a predisposition to action and an aversion to bureaucracy; decentralization and empowering our staff at the local level; and a long-term commitment to the people we serve. For more information, please visit www.psi.org.

PSI India Pvt. Ltd. (PSIPL) is a fully owned subsidiary of PSI, registered as a for-profit Limited Liability Company in 2015 with its Head Quarters in New Delhi. USAID-funded and PSI-led Project Samagra is anchored within PSIPL.

About the Project:

Samagra strives to create an urban health ecosystem that is responsive, affordable, and equitable, and which provides quality preventive, promotive, and curative primary health care for the urban poor, with a focus on women, girls, and other vulnerable populations. In partnership with the USAID, the Government of India (GOI), and local public and private sector stakeholders, Samagra aims to improve access to affordable quality health services in the urban areas enable good governance for urban health and address the barriers related to the social determinants of health including gender, nutrition, air pollution, among others.

Samagra Innovations:

Samagra has established a mechanism to identify and mentor innovative solutions for the urban poor as part of its endeavour to create a platform to foster innovative solutions that address obstacles to improving RMNCH+A outcomes and primary health outcomes in general. Samagra supports innovators in bridging the gap between piloting and concepting to scale, allowing them to demonstrate their solutions to a sizable population and use this opportunity to build a structure for scale. Samagra's curated innovations are user-centered, evidence-based, albeit preliminary evidence-based, and scalable. The innovations supported by this initiative should be gender-sensitive by design. PSI has partnered with private sector organizations to co-design and demonstrate their innovative solutions in select Samagra geographies-

1. Enabling access to social entitlements- In partnership with Haqdarshak through a model that combines technology and last mile entrepreneurship, this innovation has built capacity of over 300 women entrepreneurs who have facilitated more than 150,000 schemes and entitlements for the urban poor in Indore. The innovation is currently in the acceleration phase of implementation, which will conclude in July 2023, to be followed by an endline evaluation, documentation of lessons learned, and recommendations for scale.

2. Enabling access to consumer/employer financed affordable health insurance products- This innovation, developed in collaboration with Entitled Solutions, aims to provide contract workers with access to subscription-based health assurance and health insurance products via their employers/aggregators. The product and service access are enabled via WhatsApp bot. Currently, the product is in the demonstration phase, and we are evaluating product market fit by testing variants. Currently, 12,000 individuals are enrolled in product variants, whereas only 2% of those enrolled are using them. The focus of the partner is on gaining a understanding of consumer needs and enhancing marketing and distribution. In addition to enhancing the user interface, the partner is developing a proprietary mobile and web application as well as an interactive dashboard.

3. Reducing health-related out-of-pocket spending through a dual approach of last-mile delivery of primary services and community-based health insurance- In partnership with Uplift Association of India, Samagra is testing their innovative model- ‘Uplift Mutuals’ which is a combination of providing primary care services (OP) through mobile medical vans, strengthening referral mechanism, and implementing community-based health insurance to cover in-patient (IP) expenses. The innovation is in the validation phase, and we have currently enrolled over 3000 individuals in the OP product as well as over 300 in IP product. The project is focused on assessing the relevance and feasibility of implementation of this model in the urban context.

PSI is looking for a consultant to support the innovations work under the guidance of Lead – Innovations and Private Sector Engagement. S/he/They will collaborate with the extended Samagra team and local innovation partners through their work.

Key responsibilities:
• Support in program management and tracking of partner deliverables as per contractual obligations under innovations.
• Undertake process documentation for the social entitlements’ innovation.
• Draft innovation summaries, including variant summaries and donor reports as required.
• Collaborate with innovation partners to assess and comprehend implementation challenges to co-develop solutions/course corrections for health financing innovations.
• Collaborate with the MEL team to facilitate innovation endline evaluation.
• Participate in team and partner meetings, as well as conduct field visits as necessary.
• Identify opportunities for cross-learning and facilitate learning exchange meetings between relevant partners.

Qualification and Experience:
• Postgraduate with experience of 10-12 years in working leading cross sectoral partnerships and programs
• Ability to use strategic thinking to identify and co-create solutions with innovation partners.
• Experience in partnership management and digital solutions
• Experience in creating tools for learning and documentation
• Experience with integrating gender / social inclusion into programmatic interventions desired

The consultant will be engaged for 8-10 days of work each month for a period of eight months (May 2023-Jan 2024). Travel and accommodation will be arranged by PSI, on actuals. Please email your resume and cover letter to careers@psiorg.co.in

PSI is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer of Females/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Expression.