Public Health Coordinator

PATH is currently hiring for PHC - 4 Months only through 3rd Party pay roll (Randstad)

Job Description

About PATH

PATH is an international organization that drives transformative innovation to save lives and improve health, especially among women and children. We accelerate innovation across five platforms—vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, devices, and system and service innovations—that harness our entrepreneurial insight, scientific and public health expertise, and passion for health equity. By mobilizing partners around the world, we take innovation to scale, working alongside countries primarily in Africa and Asia to tackle their greatest health needs. Together, we deliver measurable results that disrupt the cycle of poor health.  

Respiratory Care Management (RCM) program

The second wave of coronavirus pandemic in India has quickly spiraled into a devastating crisis. Reported daily new infections have crossed the 400,000 mark (world record) while daily reported deaths are more than 2,700. Moreover, experts suggest that the peak is yet to come. Lockdowns and curfews have been enforced in varying degrees across the country which are hurting livelihoods - particularly of those who are already vulnerable. Health systems across the country are collapsing - there is an acute shortage of hospital beds, personnel, drugs, testing kits, and life-saving oxygen.

PATH has been working in the field of oxygen delivery for almost a decade. Our work has brought together advocacy and policy, market development, engineering, product design / innovation, and health system strengthening. PATH globally has provided medical oxygen technical assistance in over 10 geographies including currently in 7 states in India. PATH is a key member of the ACT-A COVID-19 Oxygen Emergency Task Force led by the WHO. PATH’s team is made up of both global and country-based experts with in-depth understanding of oxygen ecosystem providing support. We have tools and expertise to support rigorous facility oxygen needs assessments, quantification, costing and oxygen distribution network design and facility selection.

In India, PATH has been working closely with the Indian states of Maharashtra, Punjab and Karnataka providing technical assistance for respiratory care. In the last year or so, PATH has coordinated across Ministry of Health, State health departments, district authorities, various facility level functionaries and vendors to address delays and fast track installation of Government of India / PM Cares approved PSA oxygen plants. PATH teams are engaged in daily monitoring of district-wise availability of resources, storage capacity, projection of oxygen inventory requirement, procurement coordination and related market shaping work.

Currently, PATH is working with government officials, donors, and partners to providing technical assistance to 9 states for helping them become Self-sufficient in oxygen. Under this project, we are supporting state governments to:

1. Procure and provide oxygen equipment to enable community-based care.
2. Provide technical assistance to setup and install oxygen equipment in healthcare facilities.
3. Address the most critical bottlenecks in the oxygen supply by providing critical care assistance to support the management of a coherent demand & supply matching, micro-planning, and forecasting to disaggregate the oxygen supply across the country and support states in addressing the ongoing crisis.

Public Health Coordinator

Responsibilities

The Public Health Coordinator will work with State governments and healthcare facility staff to support setup of oxygen equipment in healthcare facilities. Specifically, the Public Health Coordinator will: 

• Provide technical assistance to states for setup of oxygen equipment in the state.
• Visit districts for monitoring project activities and provide Technical Assistance to districts for oxygen generation plant establishment, oxygen inventory assessment and identifying training needs of the district functionaries.
• Facilitate the capacity building of the State, district & facility level functionaries on various components of oxygen management.
• Provide handholding support to districts and facilities for the site preparedness for PSA plant establishment.
• Ensure proper implementation at state and district level.
• Liaises and manages stakeholders at the district level involved in project activities.
• Knowledge of supply chain management in healthcare will be an asset.
• Manage and coordinate diverse tasks and facilitate relationships among multiple stakeholders.
• Work with a high degree of autonomy and independence in line with project goals and objectives.
• The candidates must be self-starters and committed to performing their duties with minimal direct and day-to-day supervision.
• Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and report on project success criteria results, metrics.
• Undertake other assignments, which may be assigned from time to time.
• Computer proficiency with high level of familiarity with commonly used packages like MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook & Web surfing to search relevant data & documents.
• Completes detailed strategy write-ups, work plans, reports and deliverables from stakeholders and all other reporting requirements.
• Available to travel at district level upto 50% of the time.

Required Skills and Experience 

• Post Graduate Degree/Post Graduate Diploma in Management/ Social Sciences/ Public Health
• 3-6 years of progressively responsible leadership roles in the design and/or delivery of public health programs and research.
• Computer proficiency with familiarity with commonly used packages like MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook & Web surfing to search relevant data & documents.
• Fluency in English and ability to converse in local language.

PATH is currently hiring for PHC - 4 Months only through 3rd Party pay roll (Randstad).

Intersted candidate only apply . 

Send cv at Indiarecruitment@path.org.

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