Assignment Details

Our Client, a non -profit organization committed to minimize preventable morbidity and mortality of mothers and children in India wants to engage with a Regional Manager for two mhealth programs, Kilkari and Mobile Academy. Both the programs are running across 18 States/UTs of India with expansion
in other states is in pipeline. The Regional Manager will be responsible for end-to-end management of program across the states. They will be responsible for documentation, coordination and managing the program in coordination with state officials and client's program team.

Kilkari is a mobile health education service that provides pregnant women, new mothers, and their families with timely, accessible, accurate and relevant information about Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child health. It aims to improve families’ knowledge and uptake of life-saving preventative health practices.

Mobile Academy is a Reproductive Maternal Neonatal and Child health training course designed to refresh ASHA (frontline health workers) workers’ knowledge of life-saving preventative health behaviours, and improve the quality of their engagement with new and expecting mothers and their families.

Roles and Responsibilities:
• Program management and implementation of activities in accordance with the mission and vision of the organization.
• Develop and retain cordial and excellent relations with assigned states at the state and below state level. Assist Senior/State Program Managers in developing advocacy framework and create a strong relation with the senior state NHM officials.
• Support SPMs and Senior SPMs during state level meeting with stakeholders to make communication easy and transparent regarding programs’ issues and decisions on services.
• Develop Regional level CB and IEC implementation plans for assigned states and support State teams in implementing the same.
• Design and assess Capacity Building needs for the region and coordinate with National Program Team for development of Capacity Building Modules and IEC materials.
• Assessment of effectiveness of CB and IEC plans at regional level and sharing the same at national level.
• Support research, M&E activities being implemented in the region.
• Coordinate with M&E and research teams for study plans, and dissemination at regional level.
• Regular analysis of KMA data for each state and the region and sharing the same with the states and National team.
• Conduct regular program review with internal teams and support teams in developing monthly/ quarterly plans.
• Produce accurate and timely reporting of program status throughout the programs’ life- cycle.
• Implementing and managing changes and interventions to ensure program goals are achieved.
• Analysing program risks basis data and proposing mitigation strategies to the organization.
• Responsible for developing annual plans for the assigned states and submission of the same (HR, program cost, resource requirements etc).
• Quarterly/ monthly review of the plans and submission of the detailed report to SPD and the National Team.

Skills Required

Qualification & Skills:
• Degree in MPH/ Social science from a reputed institution/ University.
• Minimum 10 years of experience of working in the social sector/ development programs. At least 3 years of experience of working at state level or regional level.
• Technologically proficient in MS Office, SPSS, social media and internet applications.
• Excellent verbal and written English & Hindi language communication skills. Strong writing and editing skills, able to read and interpret data/documents.