Program Coordinator

CCDC; Delhi; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC) in Delhi is seeking a Program Coordinator to oversee a multicomponent digital health project for home-based care of post-discharge heart failure patients. You will plan, organize, and monitor activities, coordinating with advisory boards, researchers, and government partners.

The role requires 1–5 years in clinical trials or public health programs, strong research design and reporting skills, and the ability to develop tools, conduct interviews and focus

Qualifications

• 1-5 years of relevant experience in clinical trials or public health programs.
• Strong skills in quantitative and qualitative research methods, including research designs, data collection and analysis.
• Ability to synthesise research findings into actionable inputs for curriculum and content development.
• Proficiency in conducting desk reviews, scoping reviews, and literature reviews.
• Excellent analytical, writing, and documentation skills.
• Strong organizational and coordination abilities to manage multiple stakeholders and activities.
• Experience with government agencies, academic institutions, and professional councils.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the overall program activities and smooth implementation.
• Organize stakeholder meetings, workshops and review meetings.
• Work with advisory board members and subject matter experts.
• Oversee ethics submissions and approvals.
• Develop and administer research tools (questionnaires, interviews, surveys).
• Conduct and analyse in-depth interviews and focus groups.
• Perform desk reviews, scoping reviews, and literature reviews.
• Prepare implementation plans and monitor progress.
• Coordinate with design team to integrate feedback.
• Support planning, delivery, and monitoring of training activities.
• Assist in organizing expert meetings and manage HR/logistics.
• Report to the Program Manager and Lead with timely updates.

Skills

Quantitative research

Qualitative research

Data analysis

Literature reviews

Program coordination

Report writing

Stakeholder management

Education

MBBS/BDS

MPH

MSc Clinical Research

Pharm D

Tools

Questionnaires design

Focus groups

Job description

Organization Name: Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC)

Organization Profile: Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC) is a not-for-profit research organization engaged in knowledge generation and knowledge translation for the prevention and control of non-communicable (chronic) diseases in varied settings of developing countries. CCDC has been recognized as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (SIRO) by Department of Scientific & Industrial Research (DSIR), Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. CCDC also holds recognition as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Surveillance, Capacity Building and Translational Research in Cardio-metabolic diseases and is an ICMR Collaborating Centre of Excellence.

Project Brief: This project aims to evaluate the impact and feasibility of using a multicomponent digital health model for home-based care of post-discharge heart failure patients in India.

Job Description

The Program Coordinator will be responsible for the overall coordination. The role involves planning, organising, and monitoring program activities, facilitation inter and intra departmental coordination and ensuring timely delivery of program objectives

• Ensure overall coordination of the program to ensure smooth implementation.
• Organise various stakeholder meetings, workshops and review meetings.
• Work in close coordination with advisory board members, subject matter experts.
• Application and oversight of Ethics and HMSC submissions.
• Development and administration of research tools such as questionnaires for in-depth interviews, focus groups discussions, and surveys during the formative and evaluation phases.
• Conduct and analyse in-depth interviews and focused group discussions.
• Responsible for desk reviews, scoping reviews, and literature reviews for content curation.
• Prepare and disseminate program implementation plans and monitor progress.
• Coordinate with the design team to integrate feedback from content review meetings.
• Support planning, delivery, and monitoring of training activities.
• Assist in organizing and managing Expert meetings, this involves human resources and logistical issues.
• Support overall operations related to conduction of the program.
• Attend and participate in stakeholders’ meetings, and other meetings as needed.
• Report on a day-to-day basis to the Program Manager and Lead regarding program and seek timely advice wherever necessary.
• Coordinating with the stakeholders to ensure that critical issues are addressed in a timely manner.
• Draft program progress reports, as well as any other reports as per the requirement of the program or as designated by the supervisor.
• Travel as and when required.
• Any other task assigned by the Supervisor.

Responsibilities and Requirements

Competencies / Skill sets required:

• 1-5 years of relevant experience in Clinical Trials
• Must possess strong skills in quantitative and qualitative research methods, including research designs, data collection and analysis.
• Ability to synthesise research findings into actionable inputs for curriculum and content development.
• Proficiency in conducting desk reviews, scoping reviews, and literature reviews.
• Excellent analytical, writing, and documentation skills.
• Strong organizational and coordination abilities to manage multiple stakeholders and activities.
• Medical or public health background (MBBS/BDS, MPH, MSc Clinical Research, Pharm D or equivalent)
• Experience in public health programs, especially non communicable diseases (NCDs) or health systems strengthening
• Experience working with government agencies, academic institutions, and professional councils.

Compensation: Commensurate with experience and qualification.

CCDC envisions to reduce chronic disease burden and promote innovative science that has the potential to improve human health through implementation and translational research.

Institutional Ethics Committee
Department of Health Research (DHR) Registration Number: EC/NEW/INST/2024/4768Office of Human Research Protections (OHRP) FWA No: FWA00012746