Manager (Health Sector Council) - Transform India Rural Foundation (Apply by: May 15, 2017)

1. POSITION: Manager (Health Sector Council), Transform Rural India Foundation, New Delhi

2. ORGANIZATION BACKGROUND:

A respected, non-profit, and client of Strategic Alliance Management Services P Ltd. (SAMS), Transform Rural India Foundation (TRIF) wishes to recruit a Manager (Health Sector Council ) to manage institutional processes for management integration among partners, internal teams and grant management.

TRIF has constituted a collaborative platform of leading civil society and other stakeholders, to bring about lasting change in villages.

TRIF is triggering a planned time bound multi-stakeholder effort to bring about a paradigm change on key indicators making rural life as one of co-equal opportunity. The overarching objective is to accelerate national aspiration for the rural poor in India to live a life of dignity. This collaborative platform seeks to converge geography and thematic sector overlays around prosperity, health & nutrition, education, safe drinking water, sanitation, gender justice. The platform has partnerships with state governments, corporate, civil society groups and thematic resource organisations and all actors interested in Transforming Rural India. It tasks itself of freeing poorest villages in east-central India from stagnation, indifference and isolation facilitating conditions for communities to take control of their destinies.

For more details about TRIF, please visit http://www.trif.in/   

3. Health Sector Council

The Health Sector Council comprises of all partner NGOs having long experience of working on issues of Health and Nutrition. The core focus of the council is to unify strategies across partners, regions and bring strong result focus, strategy-alignment with TRI principles and values. It also supports developing capacities in the thematic area; developing best in the class, context specific training modules toolkits (audio-visual) etc.

The Secretariat of the Health Sector Council is jointly held by the TRIF and Public Health Resource Network (http://phrsindia.org/). PHRN is a growing network of individuals and organizations with the perspective of strengthening technical and management capacities to act towards the common goal of ‘Health for All’. Its main objective is to contribute and strengthen all efforts directed towards the goal of ‘Health for All’ through promotion of public health, social justice and human rights related to the provision and distribution of health services, especially for those who are generally left underserved.

The joint team in the Secretariat is mainly focused on developing knowledge products, ensuring process fidelity, programme tracking, resource mobilisation and positioning this approach in relevant community. 

4. JOB DESCRIPTION/ RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Manager (Health Sector Council) shall be responsible to support the top Management Team with holding the core institutional management functions and provide analytical inputs around execution strategies pertaining to the health sector. S/he shall be deeply engaging with stake-holders in building the development eco-system. S/he will be a part of the joint team managing the secretariat for the TRIF-Health Sector Council.

TRIF is looking for candidates with experience in the health and nutrition with project management, government interface or working with the government system, experience of engagement with donor/multi-lateral and is interested to be a part of a large national initiative aimed at making a lasting difference to our society.

Key Job Responsibilities:

(A) Manage Institutional Integration Processes
(1) Work closely with the Leadership to anchor the partnership forums;
(2) Manage all institutional grants;
(3) Work closely with the Leadership to source new partners;
(4) Conduct research and analysis of development trends and opportunities;
(5) Create inventory of relevant resource material around TRI action;
(6) Ensure participation in relevant knowledge fundraising platforms.

(B) Lead TRI Communication Outreach
(1) Develop materials, presentations, organizing stakeholder events and meetings with respect to the health sector to present the TRI idea;
(2) Develop and implement systems and processes to institutionalize health communication processes.

(C) Content of engagement and Delivery 
Hold the Process of Content Generation and Delivery Protocols for community capacity building and partner management.

(D) Tracking Implementation: Design and integrate monitoring systems and ensure process fidelity.

(E) Knowledge Creation: Build a Body of Knowledge from experiences of ground 
including concurrent process documentation and distilling learning;

(F) Positioning TRIF: Evidence based policy improvement engagement with Public System and participating and holding Workshop, Writing Paper, Publications, etc.;

(G) Nurturing Partnerships:
(1) Partner Sourcing Protocol and administration of the same;
(2) On-boarding (around approach) the Partner;
(3) Curating the Ground Partnership with F-NGO and Community Institution;
(4) Mutual Confidence and trust building;
(5) Admin: MoUs, Funding, Reporting, etc.

5. QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, AND COMPETENCIES:

Qualification:
The applicant should be a Post Graduate in Social Work/ Nutrition/ Public Health/ Development Studies from a reputed institute.

Experience:
(1) Applicants must have about ten years of relevant experience with focus on programme and stakeholder management;
(2) Exposure to issues related to community health programmes; 
(3) Candidates displaying exceptional leadership capabilities with five year plus experience may also be considered.

Skills and Attributes:
(1) Demonstrated leadership qualities to succeed in the entrepreneurial role, as well as some relevant experience of working with communities;
(2) Strong management and problem solving capabilities; 
(3) Exceptional communication skills both spoken and written;
(4) Comfortable travelling to rural/ remote locations;
(5) Demonstrated interest in the development sector.

6. COMPENSATION OFFERED:

Gross compensation for the position is attractive. The offer made to the selected candidate shall be commensurate with qualification, experience and salary history.

7. LOCATION: New Delhi

8. REFERENCE: MHSC-TRIF

9. CONTACT INFORMATION:    

Senior Consultant
Strategic Alliance Management Services P Ltd., 
1/1B, Choudhary Hetram House, 
New Friends Colony (East), 
Bharat Nagar, New Delhi -110 025
Email: mhsc-trif@sams.co.in
Website: http://www.sams.co.in

10. LAST DATE FOR APPLICATIONS:

Eligible candidates interested in this position are requested apply to mhsc-trif@sams.co.in with a cover letter, discussing their interest in and suitability for the position, along with an updated resume, giving details of three references, current cost to organisation and expected compensation, by or before May 15, 2017. For further details please visit our website www.sams.co.in.