Consultant (Associate-Documentation), Tribal TB initiative

Designation	Consultant (Associate-Documentation), Tribal TB initiative
Location	Meghalaya
No. of Vacancies	1

Piramal Foundation’s vision is to transform Health, Education, Water and social sector ecosystems through partnerships, high impact solutions and thought leadership. We have a presence in 27 Indian states and 2 Union Territories. 

Our approach to address these deep-rooted barriers:

• Partnerships approach to draw additional resources, a vast pool of diverse expertise, and innovations to tackle a social sector problem at scale 
• Platform approach to influence systemic transformation through an alliance of partners for "scalable learning" by leveraging a pool of diverse resources to address a single problem with speed

Job Summary:

The Tribal TB Initiative, launched on 26th March 2021, is a first-of-its-kind initiative that brings together several stakeholders with diverse capabilities to tackle the multi-dimensional issues specific to TB, prevalent among the tribal areas and communities. It includes collaboration between donors, governments and partners to strengthen primary health care service delivery from a system’s perspective, building a strong technology & information backbone, and providing support to the health workforce in the tribal areas.

Implemented over a four-year period by Piramal Swasthya under the overarching guidance of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and Ministry of Tribal Affairs, the Initiative hopes to eliminate TB in the tribal Districts and achieve the following results: (1) increase in TB case notification (2) increase in treatment success rates among DS-TB and DR-TB (3) decrease in deaths among TB patients (3) increase in community participation for TB prevention and care activities (4) reduction in TB vulnerability

This role will be responsible for but not limited to the following:

• Collate information and synthesize learning from Traditional healers
• Documentation of traditional healing practices
• Coordination with internal stakeholders and field teams
• Generate insights from research findings, interviews, focused group discussions
• Drafting the research papers and process document for dissemination
• Coordinate with Knowledge management team and NTSU.
• Ability to manage and coordinate with diverse teams
• Candidates from tribal communities will be given preference
• TB survivors will be given preference
• Women candidates will be given preference

Foster Stakeholders:

• State and District Health department particularly State and District TB Cells, Tribal Healer Associations.
•  National Technical Support Unit, State Lead/ State Program Officer/ State M&E Officer

Desirable Qualification & Skills

• Graduate in field of mass communications, social work, public health, development communication or related field .
• Strong communication and liaison skills
• Strong documentation and writing skills
• Knowledge of research and its methodology
• Proactive in taking inputs and revert
• Ability to deliver high-quality outputs in limited time
• Can be a resident of Meghalaya

Ability to understand and transcribe local Language of the state

Desirable Experience

• 0-2 year of work experience in a reputed international/ large non-governmental organization/government organization
• Understanding of State and District Health administration
• Experience on documentation
• Liaison with state and field teams to collate information with

Experience in the TB program or any health program would be preferable Duration of posting:

• 6 months opportunity
• The incumbent should be able to join the duty station at the earliest

Travel:  as per the need

Application process: Candidates interested in the role may apply with their updated resumes to:

Hr.thc@piramalswasthya.org

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