Programme Officer(s) and Manager(s) – Health Grants

• Build the portfolio of civil society partners working in community health with focus on comprehensive primary care.
• Develop grant proposals for multiyear grants, conduct thorough due diligence, and ensuring timely disbursals.
• Facilitate sharing of partner learnings and experiences from the ground with each other and with the overall Health team at the Foundation.
• Build and run a forum for partners working in community health.

• 7-15 years of experience in public health systems, grant making.
• Ability to travel extensively.
• Essential to have prior experience of working in public health and/or community health.
• Demonstrated ability to work with diverse stakeholders, including NGOs, donors and subject matter experts.
• Fluency in written and spoken both English, Hindi is essential.
• Master’s degree is desirable.

Medical Officers

• Responsible for the medical operations & lead the medical team at the Health Center including the delivery of services, the pharmacy and the lab.
• Community health work: Outreach and visits to the local community, nearby settlements, guide and mentor the community health workers.
• Collaborate with the public health system in the local area as well as develop and execute a local plan that focuses on the health of the population in the target settlement.

Experienced MBBS doctors preferably with a background in Community/Family Medicine.

Nurses

• Provide nursing care as per the defined protocol, assist the doctor & support the community.
• Handover of patient as required to referral hospitals.

Community Lead

• Engage actively with the community to build awareness; with the Government functionaries upto ward or block level.
• Design, monitor, manage effective implementation of various health programs launched by the Health Center/Government in the community.
• Engage in continuous training & hand holding of community health associates for all health issues and activities at community level.
• Work with the research team for local research activities; develop reporting formats, conduct focused group discussions.

Community Health Research Associate

• Do and guide field work to gather primary information.
• Collect, collate and analyze health data from credible primary and secondary sources regularly.
• Study and document strategy, approach and processes in other (external) organizations working on public and community health.
• Publish reports, observations, and studies regularly.

• 5-6 years of experience in research, including participatory research on community or public health is essential.
• Proficient working fluency in spoken and written Hindi, Kannada and English is essential.
• Master's in Public Health or Social Work is desirable.

Pharmacists

• Follow the defined protocol for managing the pharmacy and dispensing of medication.
• Engage actively with the patient on medications, dosage, route of administration, possible side-effects & precautions.
• Setup and use the required systems to ensure compliance with appropriate regulations.

Lab Technicians

• Execute all clinical & laboratory activities as per the defined protocols.

Bachelor/Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology with 3+ years as a Lab Technician.

• Formulate research questions, design and conduct research on public and community health with inputs from the health team, focusing on the health needs of vulnerable and underserved communities.
• Program manage end to end all community health-based research studies including working with different internal and external stakeholders.
• Support the field work to gather primary information.
• Do detailed analysis of the research data to arrive at conclusions.
• Document the work in health, good practices and lessons learnt through our work.
• Support any other tasks that are related to the research work as required.

• 6-10 years of experience in health research and program management.
• Ability to handle data, create proformas for data collection, provide appropriate inputs on dashboard creation for monitoring work, organize, plan, facilitate work across different teams and workstreams.
• Knowledge of statistical tools and software to analyze data and arrive at results.
• Fluency in written and spoken Kannada, Hindi and English is essential.
• Master’s degree in Public Health or Social Work is desirable.

• Provide the required counselling for the community members (individual/group counseling) who come to the centers.
• Work with the health team in conducting sessions, building awareness.
• Work with the health team to develop a systemic guidance and support programme
• Document the work and discuss the same with the doctors a required.
• Do field visits to build understanding & relationship with the community to maximize quality and effectiveness of counseling.
• Facilitate referrals as needed for domain experts, when necessary.

• 5-10 years of experience in counselling- community mental health.
• Fluency in written and spoken Kannada, Hindi and English is essential.
• Ability to travel to all our health centers as required.
• Master’s degree in Social Work - Counselling /medical psychiatry is essential