Position: Program Officer
Location: Madhya Pradesh (Dindori, Shivpuri), Himachal Pradesh (Shimla, Chamba), Maharashtra (Jalna), Rajasthan (Beawar, Bikaner, Pali ) & Jharkhand (Deoghar)
Reporting to: State Program Officer (SPO)
Grade: 5
About the Organisation
Jhpiego is an international, non-profit health organization and an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, dedicated to improving the health of women and families in developing countries. For over 50 years, it has focused on providing high-quality, low-cost health care solutions, training health workers, and strengthening health systems.
Jhpiego has been working in India since the 1980s in close partnership with national and state governments. With deep technical expertise and strong on-the-ground execution, Jhpiego helps design, test, and scale practical solutions and innovations that fit real-world systems across 11 thematic domains (Maternal and Newborn Health, Reproductive Health, Nutrition, Immunization, Comprehensive Primary Health Care, Human Resources for Health, TB and Infectious Diseases, Global Health Security, Women's Cancers, Non-Communicable Diseases, Digital Health).
About the Program:
Jhpiego is implementing a multi-state initiative to strengthen the quality of Antenatal Care (ANC) services in collaboration with state governments. The program focuses on improving maternal and newborn health outcomes by addressing key gaps in service delivery. The intervention adopts a comprehensive approach built on four core pillars: competency strengthening of healthcare providers, ensuring availability of essential commodities, promoting continuity of care across the pregnancy continuum, and enhancing community engagement.
Through targeted capacity building, supportive supervision, digital innovations, and system strengthening, the program aims to improve early identification and management of high-risk pregnancies, increase adherence to ANC protocols, and enhance service utilization.
The goal is to reduce low birth weight, prevent avoidable maternal deaths, and improve overall quality of care at public health facilities.
About the Position:
The Program Officer will be responsible for providing technical, programmatic, and operational support to improve maternal health outcomes. The position will work closely with the State Program Officer and other stakeholders to support effective implementation of the project. The incumbent will report to the State Program Officer.
Roles and Responsibilities:
1. Work under the guidance of the State Program Officer to support the streamlined rollout of the ANC strengthening intervention and its day-to-day operations at the district level
2. Assists State Program Officer (SPO) to achieve project deliverables and timelines as per desired quality and specifications.
3. Provide technical and programmatic support and guidance to district-level stakeholders involved to strengthen ANC services
4. Liaise and coordinate with the team to provide troubleshooting support in the district and at the facility level.
5. Support testing, implementation, and documentation of technology solutions.
6. Take responsibility and accountability for ensuring issues are resolved or escalated to the proper resources to resolve in a timely manner with minimum disruption to the operational areas.
7. Assess and supervise the utilization of technology platforms within healthcare delivery infrastructure in the state.
8. Support to organize and conduct virtual as well as in-person trainings, workshops, and on-site coaching in consultation with the supervisor, this includes planning training schedules, identifying trainers, monitoring training, and post-training follow-up.
9. Ensure timely collection, and collation of the program data and facilitate project activities including workshop planning, logistics planning and management, travel arrangements, and other activity support to ensure smooth implementation.
10. Support supervisor in the development of technical content required for the program and travel when required to Districts in support of activity implementation and monitoring as needed. Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
Qualifications and Experience:
• Graduate level qualification in Dental, Nursing, AYUSH education in India. Post Graduate Degree or Diploma in Public Health or Health Management will be preferred (BDS/ BAMS/ Nursing)
• 2-5 years of experience of working with public health programs especially in Reproductive and Child Health and managing program implementation is desirable. Specific experience in large programs related to quality of care/antenatal care/maternal & newborn health will be preferred.
• Familiarity with the Indian health system, key stakeholders and relevant government policies/strategies particularly National Health Mission would be advantageous.
Skills and Competencies:
• Experience and demonstrated ability in working with government’s Maternal and Child Health programs, counterparts and systems.
• Experience in primary health care, maternal health 2-3 years of experience.
• Strong written and oral communication skills in English and Hindi.
• Technically proficient with skills required for the assigned task.
• Proficiency in writing technical documents such as training materials and reports.
• Ability to work within an international program team and communicate regularly with a variety of team members.
• Ability to develop productive working relationships with other agencies, stakeholders and other organizations.
• Ability to handle a variety of assignments under pressure of deadlines.
• Ability to multi task and work in a multi-cultural team.
• Willingness and flexibility to work on a wide range of tasks.
• Microsoft Office computer skills, proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Ability to travel extensively up to 50–60% of his/her time
Jhpiego is an equal opportunity employer and offers highly dynamic and enabling work environment. Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package.
Please find the link below to apply:
https://jobs-jhpiego.icims.com/jobs/7793/program-officer---madhya-pradesh-%28dindori%2c- shivpuri%29%2c-himachal-pradesh-%28shimla%2c-chamba%29%2c-maharashtra-%28jalna%29%2c- rajasthan-%28beawar%2c-bikaner%2c-pali-%29-%26-jharkhand-%28deoghar%29/job
Due to high volume of applications, only shortlisted applicants will receive a response from Jhpiego HR.