Clinton Health Access Initiative Hiring for Associate, Sexual & Reproductive Health at New Delhi, Delhi Full Time

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 Overview

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 LNG1.5 mg as pericoital pill, and Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive (LARC) methods such as implants and hormonal IUDs.

Role Overview

WJCF is seeking a highly motivated individual with outstanding credentials and demonstrated problem-solving abilities for the role of Associate, SRH. They will lead design and implementation of programs for introduction and uptake of new family planning methods across public, private, and social marketing organization (SMO) channels in India. This role will require working on other SRH priorities as well, including comprehensive abortion care, sexual health, and family planning services.

The Associate will lead the development of product introduction roadmaps for new contraceptive methods (2 methods in particular – LNG 1.5 as pericoital pill and hormonal IUD) and service delivery models to strengthen access to family planning services for vulnerable populations. They will guide the team on conducting primary and secondary research, collating and synthesizing information to generate high quality insights, be the point of contact for the donor, internal and external stakeholders.

We are seeking a highly motivated, entrepreneurial individual with outstanding problem-solving and communication skills. Demonstrated ability for strategic big picture thinking, and problem solving in complex environments would be essential. WJCF places great value on relevant personal qualities: resourcefulness, humility, responsibility, tenacity, independence, energy, and work ethic.

Responsibilities:
In collaboration with the Program Manager, provide strategic leadership, administrative and managerial oversight, and monitoring of key grant deliverables

Develop strong working relationships with key external stakeholders in government, donors, and partners, and ensure maximum coordination of resources and efforts

Develop strategic and implementation plans, manage effective project implementation as well as contextualized approaches to achieve project outcomes

Work with the team to identify insights from the secondary and primary research to inform product introduction roadmap

Lead data analytics for the project, including developing of forecasting and stock monitoring tools, graphical dashboards, project management tools etc.

Lead the identification of service delivery models for improving uptake of SRH services and/or modern methods of family planning through secondary and primary 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

Support Program Manager in identifying and defining WJCF’s overall strategy for various project areas, develop clear operational plans for execution, and continually identify opportunities for WJCF to add value and maximize impact

Support Manager 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

Provide operational support to the Manager to develop, plan, and implement multiple activities simultaneously

Support recruitment of talent in consonance with project needs and provide guidance/ mentoring to project staff

Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or higher in Economics, Public Health, Business, or a related field

At least 4 years of professional experience in demanding, results-oriented environments in the public sector and/or private

Demonstrated ability in managing large projects, project design, and experience in concept note/proposal development

Excellent analytical (qualitative and quantitative) skills and strong written and oral communication skills including development of analyses/ presentations for varied project audience/stakeholders

Entrepreneurial mindset: demonstrated ability to work independently on complex projects and solve challenging problems, in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment

Demonstrated ability to multi-task with a strong commitment to excellence, both internally and externally, and with limited structural support

Exceptional diplomatic and interpersonal skills, and ability to build strong professional relationships with a range of stakeholders in a challenging, multi-cultural environment

English and Hindi language fluency, both written and verbal

Skills and 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

Ability to respond to critical situations in an effective and efficient manner

Excellent communication and public relations skills will be beneficial

Preferred

Experience with advanced analytics projects

Knowledge of global and/or Indian healthcare system in private, public and social marketing Organizations (SMO) sectors

Experience of working with government on health systems strengthening at the state and/or national level

Knowledge of range of family planning products including injectables, implants, IUDs, contraceptive pills

Management consulting/ experience in the pharmaceutical industry other relevant private or public-sector experience

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

Demonstrated organizational and leadership skills

Willingness to travel as and when required

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