Regional Coordinator

**Evidence Action
- India Program**
**Position Overview**
**Job Title: Regional Coordinator**

**Engagement**:Consultancy (11 months)
**State**:Rajasthan
**Number of positions**:Two, one at each zone
**Job Location**:Kota Zone (Kota+Baran+Jhalore) & Jodhpur Zone (Jodhpur+Jaisalmer+Barmer)
**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 Regional Coordinator will report to the State Program Manager and will be required to work in close coordination with various team members from the state team. The RC will represent EAII’s IFA Supplementation and NDD programs at the regional/district level and provide technical support in the effort to strengthen the implementation of the IFA program under the Anaemia Mukt Bharat and NDD as per the operational and financial guidelines. The RC will work closely with the region/district/block officials of the state government departments - Health, Education, Women and Child Development, and other stakeholders for optimum utilization of the existing platforms for better interdepartmental coordination and strengthening of the program.

**Responsibilities**:
**_Advocacy_**
- RC will be the contact person for regional/district/block level officials and will maintain good working relationships with senior officials of the regional/district administration and of associated departments (Health, Education, WCD, ICDS, and others). Their interaction with these officials will be guided and have approvals from the state office.
- Represent Evidence Action in Regional Review Meetings, District Coordination Committee meetings/District Health Society for IFA, NDD and other district/ block level meetings of ICDS, Health and Education.
- Ensure that regional review/district coordination committee meetings are convened regularly, including discussion and decisions around IFA supplementation and NDD programs.
- Advocacy at district and block level for expansion of IFA and NDD programs for children enrolled in private schools and out of school category in assigned districts
- Work closely with the Health Department at districts for the inclusion of budgets and IEC strategy in the annual Program Implementation Plan (PIP) under the National Health Mission.
- Interact and liaise with regional, district and block representatives of development partners and any other stakeholder as guided by the state team.
- Provide support to the department of Health on other school health programs, as and when guided by the state team.
- Coordinate with state team members and the tele-calling unit at the state office on different requirements of the regions/districts as assigned.
- Travel to various locations in the districts and blocks of allocated regions for around 15 working days in a month, as per organization’s guidelines and program requirements.
- Coordinate the need assessment of drugs with concerned departments to support timely drug requisition at state/district level, and work with districts/ blocks towards timely drug procurements to