Program Coordinator

Centre for Chronic Disease Control; Delhi; On-site; INR 500,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

Centre for Chronic Disease Control (CCDC) in Delhi seeks a Program Coordinator to oversee a multi-stakeholder program on home-based care for post-discharge heart failure patients. You will plan, organize, and monitor activities, and coordinate with advisory board members and subject matter experts to ensure timely delivery.

Responsibilities include developing research tools, conducting interviews, desk reviews, and drafting reports.

Qualifications

• 1-5 years of relevant experience in Clinical Trials.
• Strong skills in quantitative and qualitative research methods.
• 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, PharmD or equivalent)
• Experience in public health programs, especially non-communicable diseases (NCDs) or health systems strengthening (Desirable).
• Experience working with government agencies, academic institutions, and professional councils (Desirable).

Responsibilities

• Coordinate overall program activities and ensure timely delivery of objectives.
• Organize stakeholder meetings, workshops, and review meetings.
• Liaise with advisory board members, subject matter experts.
• Manage ethics and HMS submissions.
• Develop and administer research tools (questionnaires, interviews, surveys).
• Conduct/analyze in-depth interviews and focus group discussions.
• Perform desk scoping and literature reviews for content curation.
• 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 (HR and logistics).
• Report daily to Program Manager and Lead with timely updates.
• Draft progress reports, papers, and proposals.
• Travel as required and perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Clinical trials

Quantitative research

Qualitative research

Data collection & analysis

Literature reviews

Report writing

Project coordination

Education

MBBS/BDS, MPH, MSc Clinical Research, PharmD or equivalent

Job description

Number of Position: (One) 1

Location: Delhi

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.
• Writing documentation papers, scientific report, proposals.
• Travel as and when required.
• Any other task assigned by the Supervisor.

Responsibilities And Requirements

Competencies / Skill sets required:

Essential

• 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)

Desirable

• 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.