Program Associate Hisar, Haryana

Jobless; Hisar; On-site; INR 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobless in Haryana seeks a Program Associate to build a knowledge-building system for the population accessing public healthcare. You will manage the Care Companion Program with hospital partners, coordinating on-site and off-site activities and maintaining stakeholder relationships.

You are a proactive problem-solver who can lead from the front. Willingness to travel, fluency in English and Hindi, and a background in public health or government projects are preferred.

Qualifications

• The position requires heavy travel to district hospitals within the state.
• Build good partner relations and liaising with key stakeholders.
• Fluency in English and Hindi is required.
• Background in healthcare management or related field preferred.
• 2–3 years of relevant work experience in public health or government projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end operations of the CCP at identified hospital partners.
• Coordinate with program managers, lead trainers and government partners.
• Represent CCP at programme coordination meetings and related activities.
• Monitor output data and address operational challenges.
• Support training and trainer activities at hospital partners.
• Assist in program advocacy and capacity building.

Skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Teamwork

Independent

Leadership

MS Office

Tools

MS Office

Job description

WHAT YOU WILL DO

The objective of this role is to develop a constructive, interactive, continuous and adaptable knowledge-building system for the population accessing public healthcare. As a Program Associate, you will play a critical role in managing the engagement of the Care Companion Program with our partners.

• You want to democratize the healthcare system and are an exceptional problem-solver. You are, of course, a team player and excellent communicator, but you are also an independent and creative thinker, with no problem taking the reins through to completion. You are a doer and a go-getter.
• You love checklists. You don't like to sit behind shiny glass panels building imaginary plans all day.
• You like to hit the ground running, get your hands dirty and if required, jump in knee-deep waters to not just figure out the problem, but lead from the front to solve it.

• You are diplomatic, treat others with humble kindness, while possessing the confident leadership skills necessary to build capacity on the teams that you manage. You are

able to manage relations with government staff in a sensitive manner at the same time ensuring their training outcomes are met.

• Any other program related work assigned by manager
• Work closely with govt stakeholders for the advocacy and success of program

1. Manage end-to-end operations of YosAid program at identified hospital partners (60%):
   • Support Program Managers/Lead Trainers in the implementation and maintenance of the Care Companion Program. The operations of our program are divided into different phases that include both on-site implementation (requiring travel) and off-site support. You will be closely involved in each of these phases.
   • Be the primary coordinator for a set of partners, which can include both public and private hospitals. This will require client management, people management, analytical and problem-solving skills.
   • Represent CCP at programme related coordination meetings and similar activities
2. Monitoring of the CCP in partner hospitals (20%):
   • Quantitative Monitoring: Actively monitor the output data for the assigned hospitals and work along with the program manager to address the operational challenges identified during the monitoring process.
   • Qualitative Monitoring: Conduct class quality audits for a randomly selected set of hospitals every month.
3. Support training of the trainer activities at identified hospital partners (10%):
   • Support the Master Trainers/Lead Trainers in delivering the ToT modules for the different content areas in the local language
   • Identify the need for booster training sessions and coordinate its logistics
4. Program Iterations/Product Testing(10%):
   • Work with our in-house team of designers and content creators to implement our experimental design activities in the hospital partners
   • Gather feedback on the experiments conducted by the team, supporting them in making various operations/content decisions

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR

• The position requires heavy project based travel to various district hospitals in the given state. Travel may be for an extended duration and sometimes require relocation to another region of the state.

• To build good partner relations and liaising with key stakeholders to ensure smooth implementation of the program.
• Ensure to complete the necessary documentation process by working in coordination with the NHM and YAIF team.
• Support in program advocacy and capacity building of the staff.
• Support in ground implementation by supportive supervision and hand holding of trainers at hospital level.
• You will be located in Haryana
• Language criteria: English & Hindi (applicant should have fluency in the native language of the state and candidates without above-mentioned language proficiency need not apply)
• Healthcare or management background (MPH, MHA, MBA, MBBS, MSW, BDS, BPT, BAMS, BUMS, with management background)
• Proficiency in MS Office/G-drive, common computer applications
• Professionals with field level experience of public health management/health department & are encouraged to apply
• 2-3 years of relevant work experience, or working in public health projects & Government institutions.