State Training Leads (eVIN Project) - SAMS (Apply by: Immediately)

JOB DESCRIPTION
State Training Leads (STL), eVIN Project, SAMS, State Capital of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar

1. POSITION VACANT: State Training Lead (STL) for Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) Project, based at state capitals of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar (3 Vacancies).

2. BACKGROUND: Strategic Alliance Management Service P Ltd. (SAMS) is a premier management consultancy that has been exclusively focused on providing recruitment, payrolling and supply chain management services, to the public health and development sectors in India, for the past 19 years.

SAMS’ clients include bilaterals, multilaterals, I/NGOs and both Central and State Government organizations. SAMS has managed drug logistics and health supplies for the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) at CTD, MoHFW for the past 15 years. SAMS has provided similar support to NVBDCP and briefly to NACP. 

Following the successful piloting of the first phase of the Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) Project in three states (UP, MP and Rajasthan), Ernst & Young (EY) has been mandated by UNDP to scale-up and extend eVIN systems to all districts in three additional states, (viz Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar) as a part of Phase 2 of the project. eVIN is an exciting, ‘breakthrough’ initiative that is expected to improve the availability of quality vaccines to the Universal Immunization Programme (UIP), at the state and district levels.

EY has awarded SAMS an assignment for Manpower Deployment and Management, for the training of Government Staff working on Cold-Chain and Vaccine Logistics for UIP, at the state and district levels in the above states. This large training initiative is being undertaken with a view to helping State Health Officers adopt innovative changes to the cold chain logistics of vaccines.

The project is funded through December 2016.

3. JOB DESCRIPTION/ RESPONSIBILITIES:

State Training Lead(STL) will be based at State PMO of the representative states and under the overall supervision of the project head, The STL shall be responsible for reporting to Project Head, he/she will be leading a team of capacity building officers, identifying the training needs and coordinating capacity building activities at the state and district level in special relation to the Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) system.

Key Job Responsibilities:

(1) Identifying training requirements for all staff personnel in special context to capacity building of Government staff and project staff on the Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) that will include in depth imparting of technical trainings involving IT for personnel under the Government at various level with varied educational backgrounds;
(2) Providing technical support in reviewing and designing training schedules and maintaining a database of trainers and other resource persons;
(3) Organizing Training of Trainers (TOT) workshops at the state level and trainings on Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network (eVIN) for all stakeholders at the state and district level;
(4) Plan and organize refresher training at regular interval and ensure training of newly positioned staff by the respective district VCCM;
(5) Manage a monitoring mechanism to track trainees and system for nomination of participants for various state training programmes to achieve universal coverage of eVlN trainings including refresher;
(6) Facilitating dissemination and exchange of expertise in the concerned field;
(7) Support in identification and addressing bottlenecks at the state level;
(8) Working closely with the State Immunization Officer (SIO) and support with state NRHM on developing training plans and implementation of trainings at the state and district level;
(9) Partnership and networking with the state and district level health structures, project implementation agencies will be essential to ensure smooth capacity building workshops on eVIN. Undertaking field visits for 12 days in a month.

4. QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCIES: 

Qualification:

Applicants must possess Master Degree in Public Health, Health Management, Community/ Social Development, Development Economics, Management and other related field.

Experience:

(1) A minimum of 5-7 years of professional work experience at the State level in managing training programmes in the development sector;
(2) Experience of working in the field of Routine immunization will be an asset;
(3) Experience in conducting and monitoring training programs in IT- Computer based trainings will be an asset.

Skills & Abilities:

(1) Excellent interpersonal skills - ability to motivate people to action. Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary, multi-cultural team;
(2) Should have intrinsic knowledge of the health system of country and states;
(3) Should have analytical. Negotiating, communication skills; 
(4) Excellent written and verbal communications skills in English and Hindi are essential, knowledge of local language of the duty station will be an asset;

5. COMPENSATION OFFERED:

Gross compensation for the position shall be attractive. The offer made to the selected candidate shall be commensurate with qualifications, experience and salary history. 
(Note: Candidates shall be working on the payroll of SAMS, a leading HR Agency for the health and development sectors in India).

6. LOCATION: State Capital of Chhattisgarh (01), Jharkhand (01) and Bihar (01). *

*Please note that the above mentioned number of vacancies are indicative and final numbers may vary.

7. REFERENCE: STL-SAMS

8. CONTACT INFORMATION:

Senior Consultant
Strategic Alliance Management Services P Ltd.
1/1B, Choudhary Hetram House, Bharat Nagar 
New Friends Colony, New Delhi 110 025 
Phones: 011-2684-2162; 011-4165-3612; 011-4101-1564 and 011-4101-1565
Email: stl-sams@sams.co.in

9. LAST DATE FOR APPLICATIONS:

Eligible candidates interested in this position are requested to apply to stl-sams@sams.co.in along with an updated resume, giving details of three references, current cost to organization and expected compensation, by or before June 15, 2016. For further details please visit www.sams.co.in.

Applicants are urged to apply immediately, as interviews with the promising candidates will start almost right away.