Program Officer

Background Founded in 2002, by President William J. Clinton, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to strengthening integrated health systems around the world and expanding access to care and treatment for HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other illnesses. Based on the premise that business oriented strategy can facilitate solutions to global health challenges, CHAI acts as a catalyst to mobilize new resources and optimize the impact of these resources to save lives, via improved organization of commodity markets and more effective local management. In India, CHAI’s programs span a broad spectrum of focus areas, including HIV pediatric care and treatment, health system strengthening and access to essential medicines. Essential Medicines Initiative CHAI is building on its work on HIV and malaria treatment to support the development and execution of ambitious new efforts to scale-up access to essential child medicines. CHAI will have a particular focus on helping to drive scale-up of zinc and oral rehydration solutions (ORS) to treat diarrhea, which kills nearly 225,000 children every year in India. This strategy proposes a set of interventions that aim to significantly increase treatment coverage by engaging the public and private sectors as well as caregivers. The project is being implemented in Madhya Pradesh and in high burden states of Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. CHAI will be working with the governments of four high-burden countries (India, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda) and with leading global institutions such as UNICEF, CHAI is supporting intensified efforts to plan, resource, and implement effective interventions for scaling-up these products. In India, CHAI has supported the Government of India to develop its first-ever national scale-up plan for diarrhea and pneumonia treatment. CHAI is supporting the implementation of the national strategy in the highest-burden states, beginning with Madhya Pradesh

Responsibilities:

Program Officer ensures sustainable long term use of Zinc & ORS in assigned areas (Districts & Blocks Level) among the front line workers (FLWs) and rural health Care Providers. Ensure effective trainings capacity building for all project staffs. Ensures high quality monitoring data and provide to project staff & other responsible for data reporting. Serve as expert on children diarrhea management including Zinc & ORS. The Program Officer will assist the State Program Manager – Public sector in identifying suitable project partners and create an effective public-private partnership in his/her areas. Further, s/he will help develop appropriate strategies, support the development of key planning documents, and establish relationships and follow up the implementation of agreed upon activities. Responsibilities: Identify and select NGO partners. Train selected NGO personnel to function effectively in the field by delivering information to the FLWS, and IPC skills. Help the project staff to draw up territory coverage plans for their designated areas. Finalize reporting documents and establish methods to obtain periodic reports. Assist the State Program Manager in developing the various planning and monitoring documents and a communication strategy where necessary. Assist in catalyzing and maintaining a public-private partnership. Supervise the project field staff in reaching their objective of saturating all the government health care providers at ground level in their assigned areas. Monitoring and follow up on the progress of all agreed upon activities at each project site. Assist various consultants and agencies in conducting periodic monitoring and evaluation. The Program Officer will report to the State Program Manager: Public Sector

Qualifications:

CHAI is seeking a highly qualified and motivated individual with strong analytical and quantitative skills for this role. Successful candidates will have excellent communications skills, be able to function independently, be self-motivated, have the ability to thrive in challenging environments, and have a strong commitment to excellence. We place great value on relevant personal qualities: resourcefulness, responsibility, tenacity, energy, and work ethic. Desired Skills The Program Officer should be a graduate preferably with Post Graduate qualifications in public health, management, mass communications and/or social welfare. In addition, s/he should have: Proven experience (at least 3 years) in working with district-level administration in the govt. sector, including working with the district/sub-district level health systems Experience in working with FLWs at grass root level Experience in conducting training and capacity building of district/sub-district and block level cadre Good knowledge of government policies and programs Good command over written and spoken English and Hindi. Good computer skills, especially in MS Office and Internet. Strong documentation, report writing & presentation skills The position will be required to undertake extensive travel within and between districts for up to 10 – 15 days a month. Position will be based in Uttar Pradesh. Familiarity with and work experience in UP would be preferable.

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