M&E Associate - VBD Technical Support Unit
- Company
Clinton Health Access Initiative
- Location
New Delhi
- Employment Type
Full-Time
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Functional Category
Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning
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Experience
6 - 7 years
About Clinton Health Access Initiative
CHAI's mission is to save lives and improve health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries by enabling the government and private sector to strengthen and sustain quality health systems. Today, CHAI operates in 36 countries across the world and more than 80 countries have access to CHAI-negotiated price reductions, vaccines, medical devices, and diagnostics. Current programs at CHAI include HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis, Maternal, Newborn and Reproductive Health, Diarrhea and Pneumonia, Nutrition, Vaccines, Health Financing, Health Workforce, and Cancer. CHAI also has a number of experts working across the organization to help shape global markets, to negotiate lower prices for drugs and health tools, provide clinical support and knowledge, and utilize the latest and best data and analytics to shape decision-making.
Overview of the Role
WJCF is seeking a highly motivated individual with outstanding credentials and demonstrated M&E abilities to work within NCVBDC. The M&E Associate will provide technical support in strengthening quality, program management including M&E, to facilitate data-driven decision-making, strengthening data recording and reporting mechanisms and support governance and capacity building initiatives. They would also deliver critical and on-demand program insights by leveraging multiple data sources and field insights. They will support data collation, analysis and visualization and identification of innovative approaches/technologies to support the elimination goals. The Associate will report to the Lead for the VBD TSU.
Job Description
• Develop and socialize pre-defined and custom-defined reports and dashboards for NCVBDC, state, and sub-state functionaries to utilize for routine program planning, decision-making, monitoring and management.
• Collaborate with partner institutes of excellence for innovating new approaches for generating insights for the program, including predictive modeling and machine learning.
• Shape the approach and attitude towards data in NCVBDC by exploring multi-thematic use cases, such as HR availability and capacity, supply chain management of VBD control commodities, service delivery effectiveness etc.
• Under the guidance of program and TSU leadership, undertake systematic assessment of the existing surveillance framework, including data pipelines and reporting structures to identify gaps and suggest process improvement strategies.
• Build buy-in for developing tools such as surveillance data quality assurance framework, and decision support tools for state, district, block and village level key performance indicators.
• Develop technical briefs and fact sheets to communicate key findings and suggestions across a matrixed government organization.
• Support the documentation of program progress through reports, presentations, and templates for effective internal use and dissemination of reports at the state and national levels.
• Support capacity building of NCVBDC staff on relevant competencies for sustained ownership and delivery.
• Undertake periodic visits to States/UTs and districts to identify challenges and address gaps.
• Work closely with VBD team to align priorities, and develop and manage relationships with diverse stakeholders.
• Undertake other responsibilities as needed.
Required & Preferred Qualifications
Skill
• High levels of proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Working knowledge of advanced statistical tools and conceptual knowledge of new data paradigms (machine learning, AI) will be preferred.
• Ability to work independently in high-pressure and unstructured settings, to work closely within and across other teams and to adapt to new environments and challenges.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English, problem-solving and strong organizational abilities and detail-oriented approach.
• Willingness to travel frequently (~20-30% time).
Education
Bachelor’s degree in public health, epidemiology, economics, sociology or other relevant fields
Experience
• 6 years of professional experience; or master’s degree with minimum 4 year of professional experience. • Professional experience in a dynamic and innovative work environment, inter alia, life science research, impact evaluation, development consulting, public sector advisory. • Experience working with health department data for routine national-level or state-level M&E, or for sizeable government health programs.