Associate, Sexual and Reproductive Health

Overview:

- CHAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to providing an environment of fairness, and mutual respect where all applicants have access to equal employment opportunities. CHAI values diversity and inclusion, and recognizes that our mission is best advanced by the leadership and contributions of people with diverse experience, backgrounds, and culture._

CHAI, in partnership with its India affiliate William J Clinton Foundation (WJCF), works in close partnership with and under the guidance of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) at the Central and States' levels on an array of high priority initiatives aimed at improving health outcomes. Currently, CHAI supports government partners across projects to expand access to quality care and treatment for HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, tuberculosis, COVID-19, common cancers, sexual and reproductive health, immunization and essential medicines.

Talent is the fundamental driver of WJCF’s success in helping save lives and reduce the burden of disease. WJCF’s organizational values reflect its relentless endeavour of hiring, nurturing, empowering, and celebrating diverse and high calibre individuals who come together to work as cohesive teams. WJCF places a high premium on providing its staff with an enabling environment that encourages entrepreneurship, humility, respect, equal share of voice and fosters high impact innovation to address some of the most challenging healthcare issues.

**Program Overview**

Family Planning and SRH services are critical to government of India’s Reproductive, Maternal, New-born, Child and Adolescent Health (RMNCHA) program, which aims to achieve population stabilisation, promote reproductive health, and reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity. WJCF works closely with the state of Madhya Pradesh to enable policy design, roll-out and implementation of SRH services with the aim to support the state government in achieving the ambitious goal of expanding access to quality and accessible RMNCHA services.

The SRH team has been supporting the government of Madhya Pradesh in scaling access to Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC) services, driving uptake of Modern, Effective and Temporary (MET) methods of contraception, addressing supply chain infirmities in family planning commodities, skilling health workers in counselling and service delivery, and identifying new approaches to improve awareness and uptake of family planning services in vulnerable communities across the state. WJCF has also led path-breaking work in identifying digital approaches to effective communication in the space of family planning by leveraging a combination of behavioural science and data science.

**Position Summary**:
This role will be based in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh and will report to the Program Manager, SRH.

**Responsibilities**:
Strategic Leadership and Stakeholder Management:

- In collaboration with the Program Manager, define and drive the WJCF SRH portfolio strategy and lead the on-ground implementation of planned SRH interventions across the state of Madhya Pradesh
- Develop strong, collaborative relationships with key stakeholders and ensure alignment with government, donor and global CHAI strategies
- Work closely with the departments of family planning and maternal health at the national and state levels to identify and bridge gaps pertaining to strategic priorities, demand generation, access to services, supply chain, capacity building and monitoring and evaluation
- Co-ordinate with other local and international development partners to leverage complimentary expertise, funding and/or relationships
- Work with global and in-country leadership to identify and pursue fund-raising opportunities
- Create and disseminate material, to internal and external stakeholders, to effectively communicate WJCF’s achievements in the SRH vertical

Program Team Operations:

- Lead team management of staff and field operations team in Madhya Pradesh
- Design data-driven interventions: conduct rigorous background research, stakeholder consultations, lead comprehensive design process, develop programs and metrics, etc. that are in line with donor strategy
- Draft field operation plans, training modules, discussion guides, research protocols and any other such documents for pilot interventions and accompanying studies
- Identify and support in contracting implementation partners/third party data collection agencies and manage the relationships on a day-to-day basis
- Develop and implement an audience appropriate communications plan - draft key documents, reports, presentations, and other communications materials
- Devise holistic strategy for scale-up - synthesize pilot outcomes, impact achieved, and lessons learnt, conduct feasibility assessments, scope for right channels for scale-up and draft operational plans

Other responsibilities as needed

Qualifications:

- Master's degree or higher qualification in a related field such as