Project Lead – Health
- Company
Smile Foundation
- Location
Agar Malwa Madhya Pradesh
- Employment Type
Full-Time
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Functional Category
Programme Management & Implementation
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Experience
10 - 12 years
- Date Posted
28-Aug-2025
- Application Deadline
19-Sep-2025
About Smile Foundation
Smile Foundation is an NGO in India directly benefitting over 15,00,000 children and their families every year, through more than 400 live welfare projects on education, healthcare, livelihood and women empowerment, in over 2000 remote villages and slums across 25 states of India. We believe that unless members of the civil society are involved proactively in the process of development, sustainable change will not happen. Following this model of Civic Driven Change, Smile Foundation sensitizes and engages the civil society, making it an active partner in all its welfare initiatives.
Overview of the Role
Smile Foundation will be implementing Community Health project in Agar Malwa district in Madhya Pradesh and will be overall responsible for overseeing all aspects of implementation and ensuring high program quality standards maintained throughout the project period. The Project Lead will also ensure that all project implementation resources are used effectively and transparently in meeting project objectives. As Project Lead She/he will provide technical and management leadership to the site-level staff who will implement field activities. She/he will closely work with the project’s technical team including Advocacy and Research to ensure rolling out of intervention plan and technical integrity of program. She/he will need to relate to and work effectively with people from diverse backgrounds professional experiences and personalities. The position may require up to 20-30% travel. She/he will coordinate leverage manage and motivate key players towards ensuring synergy achieving results and promote ownership of the results.
Job Description
Project Management & Implementation
• Lead to setting performance goals/targets for implementation of the project.
• Lead the development of implementation plan/ strategy work schedules resource allocation charts procurement timelines project budgets and progress tracking systems with the technical team of the project.
• Plan for improving the efficiency of operations and quality of all aspects of implementation.
• Lead on-time implementation and achieve end-to-end deliverables of work plan: plan execute monitor and conclude health initiatives as per the PIP.
• Review of progress and ensure that project targets are achieved as per the annual work plans.
• Lead the implementation of the plan including Mobile Medical Unit for improving the efficiency of field operations and quality of all aspects of implementation
•Conduct regular field visits to ensure quality compliance and coordination
•Plan route maps and service schedules in coordination with field staff.
Government Liaison & Stakeholder Engagement
• Develop and maintain strong external relations with government donors and public and private sector partners. Represent the organization in meetings workshops and joint reviews with stakeholders including government donors NGOs and local communities.
• Support efforts to disseminate project results to all key stakeholders.
• Provide updates on the progress made direction approaches and successes of the program to external and internal stakeholders.
• Supervision of the Financial Management
• Supervise overall financial operations: manage budgets and expenditure tracking.
• Review and authorize payments reimbursements invoices travel claims procurement transactions and petty cash disbursements following organizational policy.
• Support audits internal reviews and donor funded financial reporting.
• Prepare periodic financial outlook.
Human Resource Development and Administration
• Recruit project team according to project requirements develop and implement systems of performance appraisal job reviews and promotions.
• Conduct regular team meetings and knowledge-sharing sessions to monitor progress and foster innovation.
• Assess departmental skill sets and ensure the team size and capacities are in line with the project targets.
• Identify training needs of field staff based on critical review of the project performance. Work with the technical leads for the project to prepare and implement the plan for providing differentiated inputs for efficiency and quality improvement of field staff.
• Facilitate creation of a positive organizational climate to enable people optimize their short term and long-term performance.
• Manage administrative functions including vendor development related to implementation of the project.
• Manage the development and administration of the operations budget by reviewing and monitoring of expenditure.
Monitoring Evaluation & Reporting
• Contribute to development/improvement of reporting and analysis formats. Work with the Research Monitoring and Evaluation team to develop appropriate data collection procedures/systems.
• The Project Lead will be responsible for critically reviewing project performance through field visits survey data and program MIS data creating project dashboards based on real time data collection and generating actionable data that influence choice of innovations. Measure early success and failures of demonstration models within the project.
• Support in documenting learnings from innovations/ demonstration models and support metrics development for scale up of successful model.
• Establish result-based monitoring frameworks to track activity outputs outcomes and financial performance aligned to organizational goals
• Prepare and submit regular operational and financial reports—monthly quarterly and annual to the donor.
• Conduct periodic reviews and audits implement corrective actions as needed and update project plans to align with emerging needs and risks.
Donor Relationship & Internal Coordination
• Coordinate with internal teams (finance M&E communications) to align budgets and collate impact data for donor presentations.
• Ensure compiling and disseminating high-quality periodic reporting in line with donor and Smile Foundation requirements (Monthly Quarterly Half Yearly and Annual progress/ Financial reports)
Risk & Compliance Management
• Identify programmatic financial and compliance risks develop mitigation strategies and escalate critical issues to the leadership.
• Ensure compliance with national regulations donor guidelines and organizational policies including procurement standards and audit requirements Support project closure planning financial reconciliation and final audit handover as per guidelines.
Required & Preferred Qualifications
Skill
• In-depth knowledge of Government sector/ NHM approach to community/Public health care.
• In-depth knowledge of National Family Health Survey/The National Quality Assurance Standards (NQAS).
• Prior experience in market dynamics and market-based interventions particularly to improve public health.
• Skills and experience in strategic planning management supervision and budgeting and managing complex activities involving coordination with multiple program partner institutions.
• Demonstrated ability of mobilize commercial partners M&E agencies Government systems and other Partners.
Education
Master’s Social work / MBBS/ BAMS/ Development Studies/ Public Health or relevant filed experience.
Experience
• Proven experience in research and study. • Experience of implementing large size (Minimum 3 CR) integrated community health Project/s including Mobile Medical Units. • Minimum 3-4 years of working experience in UN agencies (UNICEF WHO)/Bilateral agencies on leadership positions in Health Projects.