Program Coordinator

**Description**:
SELCO Foundation is hiring for the position of Program Coordinator - Healthcare Technologies/Biomedical devices for its Health Innovations Team based out of Bengaluru, Karnataka. This position will provide programmatic and technical support in rolling out high impact healthcare technologies. S/he will be responsible for identification, implementation, monitoring and reporting of program activities and supplementary operations related to deployment of innovative health technologies. S/he will support the team in work plan development, monitor implementation, documentation, and reporting.

**Responsibilities**:

- Market research, identify suitability, test, design, develop, monitor and evaluate sustainable energy driven innovative healthcare technologies/medical equipment/emerging technologies based on field needs.
- Deploy high impact healthcare technologies/medical equipment at health facilities.
- Provides technical support regarding healthcare technologies/biomedical equipment and train clinicians, technicians and healthcare providers on the use of deployed technologies.
- Provides technical support regarding healthcare technologies/biomedical equipment and train clinicians, technicians and healthcare providers on the use of deployed technologies.
- Troubleshooting support and mentoring & supervision visits (MSV) to interventional facilities.
- Quality assurance, continuous quality improvement (CQI), design verification and validation activities to ensure design outputs meet design input requirements
- Undertake secondary research on health innovation & benchmarking and action research to improve method & approaches employed.
- Provide support in the selection, design, planning, implementation, and monitoring of health innovation projects.
- Participate in the development of project work plans and support preparation and monitoring of activity budgets
- Develop and produce documents like concept note, literature reviews, justifications, situation analysis reports, assessment reports, gap analysis plans, case studies, insight papers, progress reports etc. as per the program need and local context.
- Compile periodic (biweekly, monthly, quarterly, half-yearly, and annual) project reports and provide relevant programmatic information for internal and external reporting purposes.
- Develop key performance indicators (KPA) to monitor the progress of projects.
- Maintain records and monitor the implementation of project activities, providing continuous feedback to the project team, seeking assistance in problem solving as necessary
- Organize and coordinate logistics for project activities and meetings. This includes scheduling the activities, compile and organize relevant background materials, documenting and disseminating minutes/reports and follow-up on the action plans.
- Conduct health - energy audits and monitoring and supervision visits at project sites.
- Identify leads for success stories and support in documentation.
- Undertake process documentation of lessons learnt during the program implementation and best practices emerging at state level.
- Applies engineering knowledge of scientific principles to establish efficient working methods to project needs
- Contributes to the team deliverables by ensuring proper identification and representation of user needs and communicating input to the project team in the design
- Work closely with the supervisor on setting program priorities, directions, and responding to requests for technical support from govt. and partners.
- Perform other activities, as assigned by the supervisor to achieve organizational goals.

**Requirements and Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering/Medical Engineering or related field required. Master’s degree/Diploma in Public Health/ Health Management is desirable.
- 3-5 years of experience in working with government programs and systems for large scale public health programs especially health systems strengthening interventions.
- Knowledge of regulatory mechanisms, certifications and quality assurance of healthcare devices are essential.
- Knowledge of Indian public health system, national health programs, key stakeholders, and relevant government policies/strategies.
- Prior experience of working with agencies that deploy sustainable energy driven and energy efficient innovative healthcare technologies would be an added advantage.
- Strong written and oral communication skills in English. Knowledge of regional languages would be an added advantage.
- Proficiency in writing high quality technical and programmatic documents such as concept notes, technical specifications, operational guidelines, annual plans, budgets, status updates, minutes, assessment reports, training materials, program reports etc.
- Project management skills including planning, execution, evaluation, and internal & external stakeholders management.
- MS Office skills - proficiency in Word, Excel, Power Po