Senior Programme Officer - PHFI (Apply by: 27 March 2014)

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

•  Thorough knowledge on Family Planning & Safe Abortion
•  Highly effective at securing relevant information through desk research; effective at applying web search      tools
•  Excellent facilitation skills, good communication skills and persuasive skills, with good spoken and    written English and Hindi
•  Excellent report writing and presentation skills
•  Motivated, energetic, positive, thorough, and responsive to the needs of the project
•  Proficient with all basic MS Office applications; proficient with or quick to learn new applications

Other Responsibilities:

•  Responsible for providing technical support to the program and coordinate with partners organization and  state teams to strengthen the capacity building and quality assurance activities
•   Maintain and develop material and review literature on Family Planning and Safe Abortion
•   Support and assist in developing and finalising knowledge products for Family Planning and Safe Abortion
•   Responsible for developing the initial concept note, collate information reports, data, and background    materials around family planning and safe abortion
•   Responsible for organising periodic reviews and workshops meetings and preparing documents
•   Responsible for developing and maintaining technical material on Family Planning and Safe Abortion for  training and e-learning
•   Undertake documentation of PHFI activities and tracking the progress against deliverables
•   Provide inputs in project activities and reporting mechanisms to monitoring the progress
•   Data collation, data analysis, knowledge assessment and preparing report
•    Assists National Capacity Building & Quality Assurance Manager in preparation of reports of deliverables
•    Work under the technical guidance of the national capacity building manager
•    Responsible for regular review and monitoring of the program progress in both States
•    Travel to program states for field visits, review meetings, meetings with stakeholders on a periodic basis.
•    Document project learning’s in the form of newsletter, periodic updates to state government, lead partner    and donor agencies etc.

Candidate Profile

Qualification, Competencies / Skills required

Essential:

• Essentially, should have a PG in Public Health or Social science
• 3-5 years in the relevant field is essential

Desirable:

•  PhD in public health (any stream) is desirable
•  Good knowledge on operational research both qualitative and quantitative, Good report writing, analytical  skill is desirable

      Location: Gurgaon, India

      Apply by: 27 March 2014

Interested and eligible candidates may send in their CVs to recruit@phfi.org by highlighting the Position Code (PHFI/2014/76-Ujjwal) in the subject line.  Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the interview.