Advisor (Programs), Uttar Pradesh

**Evidence Action
- India Program**
**Position Overview**
**Job Title: Advisor (Programs), Uttar Pradesh**
Employment Status: Consultant
Term: 2 years
Duty Station: Lucknow
Number of positions: One
**About Evidence Action**
Evidence Action aims to be a world leader in scaling evidence-based and cost-effective programs to reduce the burden of poverty for hundreds of millions of people in the poorest places. Last year Deworm the World reached 280 million people with deworming medications, partnering with governments to launch, scale, and sustain mass school-based deworming programs, including in India. Meanwhile, Dispensers for Safe Water provided 4M people across rural Africa with clean water, saving thousands of young lives. The approach relies on an innovative and human-centric design to deliver clean water at the source. These serve as just two examples of the work Evidence Action is undertaking.
In addition to running these scaled programs, Evidence Action leverages its unique Accelerator to develop the next generation of programs. These programs are rigorously tested to ensure exceptional scale, cost-effectiveness, and clear evidence of impact. In 2019 we launched an ambitious new strategy, intending to double our impact over the next five years, with much of that impact coming from new programs identified and scaled through the Accelerator.

Evidence Action has a presence across 7 countries, with major offices in Nairobi, Kenya; Delhi, India; and Washington, D.C. Evidence Action’s programs have been recognized by GiveWell, the Skoll Foundation, the Life You Can Save, Giving What We Can, and covered in the Economist, NPR, and the New York Times.
- In India, Evidence Action’s technical partner EAII Advisors provides technical assistance to select state government’s ministries of health, education, and women and child development to implement the school and Anganwadi based National Deworming Day program and Iron and Folic Acid (IFA) supplementation program to improve children’s health, education, and long-term development. In the long term EAII Advisors aims to expand to provide technical support to more state governments and on other public health & nutrition issues too._

**About the Position**:
The Consultant (Programs) will report to the State Program Manager (SPM), Uttar Pradesh provide support to the State Program Manager for the successful implementation of the NDD program across all districts. The person shall work closely with the SPM to manage all aspects of the TA plans, including policy advocacy, program management, supply chain strengthening, capacity building, community mobilization, and monitoring and evaluation.
**Requirements**:
**_Program Management and Technical Assistance_**
- Provide inputs to SPM in preparing program reports and updates for sharing Delhi Office frequently to monitor progress, identify and correct performance problems, and recommend solutions.
- Provide support to advocate for policy level integration of deworming efforts into other national/state health programs working with preschool and school age children.
- Support in developing Program Implementation Plans (PIP) for further sharing with state NHM, include NDD program activities and corresponding budget for programs as mandated by the Government of India guidelines on NDD.
- Assist the State team with the monitoring of process, performance and impact indicator envisaged for the NDD program.
- Work with state MLE to identify and analysing the data for further sharing with state NHM and key stakeholders.
- Submit periodic reports of achievement and constraints with the implementation of the NDD to the SPM.

**_Advocacy and Partnership Management_**
- Provide proactive support to advocacy efforts for the institutionalization of the NDD program in various platforms in Uttar Pradesh, ensuring that the policy and advocacy priorities are aligned to make deworming a sustainable intervention in the long term.
- Support SPM in cultivating and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders (including departments of Education, Women and Child development, Health and other concern departments) to ensure implementation of high-quality programs following standard protocols and evidence based operational practices.
- In coordination with the SPM, identify, engage and advocate with government stakeholders, at the state and district level for effective and sustained integration of interventions in annual work plans and Program Implementation Plans (PIPs).
- Will facilitate the state team in development of operational and work plans, creating operational program targeting, strengthening government monitoring and reporting systems to include deworming.
- Will support to advocate and coordinate with officials in stakeholder departments for inclusion of deworming and anaemia specific content in respective training and IEC material, operation manuals in the larger plans and program material under these departments.
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