Information Technology Manager - Public Health Foundation of India (Apply by: 23 June 2014)

Position Vacant : Information Technology Manager

Position Code : PHFI/2014/134

Place of Posting : PHFI, New Delhi

Organization Name : Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI)

Company Profile:

Public Health Foundation of India, a public private initiative to build large scale human resource capacity in public health through its three pronged integrated charter of (a) establishing a network of world class,

India-relevant schools of public health & strengthening some of the existing schools (b) establishing standards for public health education through the formation of an accreditation agency and (c) strengthening research and policy in areas related to public health.

Project Brief:

There is a global push to strengthen monitoring of RMNCH spending. The Countdown to 2015 is one of the processes whereby expenditure data is consolidated and reported. One of the main objectives of this project is to outline a process to track government expenditures for child, maternal and reproductive health as part of routine monitoring. The Goal of the project is to provide financial risk protection to priority population involving RMNCH+A and tuberculosis related services among India’s rural and urban poor. This will be achieved through realizing two main objectives:

• Generating evidence on healthcare financing to better inform policies and programs that would influence RMNCH+A & Tuberculosis services and
• Testing integrating health financing models in planning process so as to strengthen health systems and improve RMNCH+A and Tuberculosis services.

The project also aims at Identifying opportunities, challenges and barriers which are likely to facilitate scale-up of innovative and sustainable health financing solutions leading to improved financial risk protection. The project has a specific focus also on RMNCH+A and it will help in better investments for maternal and child health related programs and systems and decrease OOP in vulnerable population in India.

Job Description / Responsibilities:

The Information Technology Manager will be responsible for the following activities:

• The Manager-IT will report to the Core Team and will be responsible for developing and maintaining data repository for health financing with the help of database administrator and inputs from core team.
• He will also assist core team in day to-day operations involving IT requirements of the team;
• The person must be able to drive projects to completion within schedule and quality with team members.
• Responsible for development of user friendly data collection interface in (MS Access or Similar) based on data collection tools prepared by core team in timely manner.
• Facilitate Core Team in designing, operationalizing and providing solutions to their IT needs
• Will take overall responsibility in IT related matters;
• The position will be based in Delhi, but may be required to travel to partner institutions within the country;
• Any other activities as required by the project.

Qualifications / Experience and skills required

• MCA/Post-Graduate in IT from reputed institution/university;
• Minimum of 3 – 5 years of experience in project management involving IT activities.
• Hands on experience in management and analysis of large database including integration of various database
• structures and development of dashboard for online interactive data retrieval.
• Proven track record in developing online data repository will be added advantage.
• Strong understanding of Database methodology, Data Analysis, advanced SQL Queries, and ETL applications is required.
• Extensive PHP5/MySQL development experience is essential.

Interested and eligible candidates may send in their CVs to recruit@phfi.org by highlighting the Position Code (PHFI/2014/134) in the subject line. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the interview.

Last Date for receipt of applications: 23 June 2014