Designation: Program Director – Government Institution Strengthening (PPP, SCM and Finance)
Location: Ranchi (Jharkhand) / Bhubaneswar (Odisha) / Raipur (Chhattisgarh) / Guwahati (Assam)
No. of Vacancies :4
Project/Unit :Global Alliance for Viksit Bharat (GAVB)
Project Background:
The Global Alliance for Viksit Bharat (GAVB) is a landmark social development initiative designed to uplift 200 million Indians living in multidimensional poverty. With a transformative investment, GAVB concentrates efforts on five priority states—Jharkhand, Assam, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, and Bihar (JACOB states)—which are disproportionately impacted by acute poverty.
Health and Education account for 67% of the Multi-dimensional Poverty Index (MDPI). GAVB works closely with state governments to strengthen public health systems, improve service delivery, and enhance community wellbeing. The Communicable Disease (CD) portfolio specifically addresses Tuberculosis (TB) and Malaria—two diseases that disproportionately affect vulnerable populations including tribal communities, urban poor, and migrant workers.
GAVB's approach leverages Digitization, Decentralization, Leadership & Institutions, and Inclusion to enhance health service delivery. Domain expertise with proven solutions lays the foundation for introduction, progression, and gradual integration of innovations into government public health systems.
The CD portfolio aligns with India's national commitments: achieving zero indigenous malaria cases by 2027 (National Strategic Plan for Malaria Elimination 2023-27) and TB elimination by 2025 (National TB Elimination Programme).
The five GAVB states collectively account for 45-50% of India's malaria burden and approximately 270,000+ TB cases annually. The CD portfolio provides strategic support to state governments through enhanced surveillance, improved case management, strengthened supply chains, community mobilization, and policy advocacy—all aimed at accelerating elimination while strengthening foundational health systems.
Job Summary:
The Program Director- Government Institution Strengthening (PPP, SCM and Finance) will lead efforts in the state to strengthen institutional capacities across Public-Private Partnerships (PPP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), and Public Health Finance systems. This includes supporting the design and operationalization of robust PPP frameworks to enhance service delivery, improving end-to-end supply chain systems to ensure availability of essential drugs, diagnostics and equipment, and strengthening public health financial planning, budgeting, and expenditure tracking mechanisms to drive efficiency and transparency.
The role requires providing strong leadership, direction, and oversight to multidisciplinary teams, enabling cross-functional convergence, and driving large-scale, measurable impact in strengthening health systems at the state level.
Key Responsibilities:
Public-Private Partnership
• Lead the design and operationalization of PPP frameworks, including conceptualizing innovative partnership models, developing Requests for Proposals (RFPs), and supporting government-led tendering and implementation processes.
• Conducting feasibility study, develop request for proposals (RFP)/expression of interest (EOI) for the new projects and also for renewal of PPP.
• Develop systems and mechanism and get it institutionalized for smooth functioning of the PPP activities in the State.
• Support the Health Department leadership/ thematic leads in bid process - conducting pre-bid meetings, publication of corrigendum and technical and financial evaluation etc.
• Support the state in developing the MoU/MoA documents and help signing with the final vendors for PPP.
• Design training programs/orientation programs for the Government Officials at state and districts and private partner running the PPP program in the state.
Supply Chain Management
• Drive improvements in end-to-end systems to ensure uninterrupted availability of essential drugs, diagnostics and equipment.
• Scrutinize past procurement data. Understand levels of past purchases, indents and stock-outs at nodal level and price points, based on available data across all procurement categories.
• Provide insights on current operating model, in comparison with other procurement service agencies, and map out potential processes optimization.
• Define a procurement calendar for critical drugs for the upcoming financial year, with a detailing of critical steps and procedures, as per the signed off procurement manual.
• Create/enhance supporting guidelines, delegations of powers, policies and authorizations for various procurement options for various drug/equipment categories within the overall framework of the manual.
• Assist in clarifying roles, responsibilities, key result areas and key performance indicators of various officials for drug and equipment procurement at the state.
• Ensure processes, standard operating procedures (SOPs), tendering and all related activities are aligned with state procurement model and quality policies.
Finance
• Provide strategic and operational support to the Finance Cell, State Health Society, in managing NHM finances, including budgeting, fund disbursement, financial reporting and audit compliance in alignment with state and national government requirements.
• Support the planning & submission of the Project Implementation Plan (PIP) for the financial year with proper due diligence of the fund requirement details for implementation. Communicate tentative budgetary envelope to all the programs at district & block level.
• Monitor all accounting systems and procedures. Monitor financial performance indicators and convergence of financial & accounting processes under NHM at state/district /block levels.
• Planning and ensuring timely disbursement of funds to all stakeholders and health programs for effective utilization. Designing and maintaining a proper mechanism for fund transfer (electronically through Real Time Gross Settlements (RTGS).
• Draw and share analytics on budgetary variance and suggest course corrections.
• Planning and implementing of checks and balance mechanism to track fund flow from the district downwards to blocks.
• Setup mechanisms and coordinate actively with external auditors as well as the Auditor General/Controller to meet audit requirements.
• Provide information/data support for Parliament Questions/Committees, Right to Information (RTI), VIP references, Comptroller and auditor general (CAG) & Director General of Audit (Central Expenditure) (DGACE) audits etc. from time to time.
Essential Qualification & Experience:
• MBA/ Masters in Social Work/Public Health/Rural Management/ Hospital Management/ PGDM from Tier-1 institutions (IIMs/ IITs/ MDI etc.)
• Expertise and experience (at least 10 years) in either designing and managing PPP, SCM and finance systems with health department.
• Established track record in successfully engaging with senior leadership in Health Department.
• Exposure to financial management, operation research, systems analysis, Accounting tools, government accounting, fund flow management, utilization certificates and scheme-wise expenditure reporting in a government set up.
• Experience of working in both private corporate sector and public sector especially in Tender development process and purchasing services.
• Operations management, engagement with government departments, consultancy will be an added advantage
Essential Skills:
• Familiarity with government health policies and programs in India.
• Demonstrated ability to mobilize Government systems to strengthen national programs.
• Excellent negotiation skills.
• Ability to work in low-resource settings and travel frequently to field locations.
• Proficiency in Hindi and English; knowledge of regional languages is a plus.
• Collaboration with multiple internal/external stakeholders (individual and teams)
• Experience working in dynamic work environments with substantive dose of ambiguity
• Basic level quantitative and qualitative analytical skills
Application process: Candidates interested in the role may apply with their updated resumes by filling out the application form here:
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