Volunteer, Covid-19 Response Program

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 State 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

CHAI COVID-19 response team provides support to national and state governments to scale-up and strengthen Covid-19 diagnostics and treatment. The three-fold objective of the program has its roots in the learnings of the Covid-19 experience. The last two years have witnessed continued support extended to the National agencies and sub-national agencies across partner states on Covid-19 preparedness and response across pillars of Diagnostics and Treatment.

Further, the Covid-19 pandemic has reiterated the threat of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. It has in turn underlined the need for patient centric diagnostics to reduce burden of exacerbated disease on the population. This patient centric function of diagnostics further feeds into and is supplemented with public health surveillance allowing for the tracking of changing nature and prevalence of disease-causing organisms, and timely detection, containment, and response to outbreaks. The project aims to leverage learnings from Covid-19 Diagnostics support to provide evidence-based support to partner Governments in achieving the goal of broader diagnostics strengthening and robust surveillance systems.

Position Summary:
**Responsibilities**:
Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Design and conduct secondary and primary research for assessing and strengthening Public Health Surveillance (PHS) systems
- Identify and implement solutions to streamline data systems, data collection formats and processes for the better tracking and data visualization of PHS data
- Analyse and synthesize all research findings - qualitative and quantitative - to identify key strategic challenges and to create solutions across PHS system components
- Work with teams to interpret and communicate results of the analyses to relevant stakeholders, including donors, partners, and government officials
- Prepare notes and reports such as meeting and workshop proceedings, progress reports etc. on various activities related to the project

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in Public Health, Management, Economics, Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Operations research areas.
- Minimum 12 months of relevant work experience in Public Health Analytics, Consulting, or Pharma.

Skills & Traits:

- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Data Visualization Tools (for example, Power BI, Tableau) is necessary.
- Entrepreneurial mindset, including the ability to work independently, self-motivate, and propose and implement new initiatives.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a positive, solution-oriented approach to challenges.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, set priorities and work independently.
- Willingness to travel as and when required.

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