Position: State Head – Uttar Pradesh
Program/Unit: Jhpiego – Uttar Pradesh
Location: Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Reporting to: Senior Program Director / designated country leadership
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. For over 50 years, Jhpiego has focused on providing high-quality, affordable 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 implementation capacity, Jhpiego helps design, test, and scale practical solutions and innovations across thematic areas including 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, and digital health.
About the Program
Jhpiego’s Uttar Pradesh portfolio works in partnership with the Government of Uttar Pradesh and other stakeholders to strengthen health systems, improve the quality and reach of essential health services, and support evidence-informed and sustainable public health improvements. The portfolio spans comprehensive primary health care, health systems strengthening, digital health, non-communicable diseases, maternal and newborn health, family health, and human resources for health, in line with government priorities and available programme funding.
About the Position:
The State Head – Uttar Pradesh will provide strategic, technical, programmatic, partnership, and operational leadership for Jhpiego’s portfolio in the state. The position will guide programme planning and implementation, support strong partnerships with state government and other stakeholders, oversee team performance and programme quality, and ensure accountability for results, budgets, donor commitments, and organizational policies. The State Head will also contribute to programme development, resource mobilization, strategic positioning, and the development and dissemination of evidence to inform state health priorities. The role requires close collaboration with Jhpiego’s country leadership, technical teams, operations teams, government counterparts, donors, and implementation partners.
Roles and Responsibilities:
1. State Strategy, Program and Technical Leadership:
• Provide strategic direction for Jhpiego’s Uttar Pradesh portfolio, translating organizational priorities, government strategies, and donor commitments into clear programme plans and deliverables.
• Provide leadership and oversight across relevant programmes, including comprehensive primary health care, health systems strengthening, digital health, non-communicable diseases, maternal and newborn health, family health, and human resources for health.
• Ensure programme approaches are technically sound, evidence-informed, responsive to state priorities, and focused on equitable access, quality of care, and sustainable health-system improvements.
• Review implementation progress, programme quality, risks, and results; guide adaptive management and timely corrective action with programme leads and technical teams.
• Promote documentation and dissemination of effective practices, innovations, implementation learning, and evidence that can inform government decisions and wider programme improvement.
2. Government Engagement, Representation and Partnerships:
• Lead Jhpiego’s engagement with relevant Government of Uttar Pradesh departments and institutions, including the health department, National Health Mission, directorates, medical education institutions, and other relevant agencies.
• Build and maintain constructive working relationships with senior government officials, donors, academic and research institutions, professional bodies, civil society, private-sector stakeholders, and development partners.
• Represent Jhpiego in state-level reviews, technical working groups, partner meetings, policy forums, and other relevant platforms.
• Provide technical inputs and implementation support to government-led planning and review processes, reinforcing government ownership and alignment with state and national priorities.
• Identify opportunities for collaboration and convergence across programmes and partners to support coordinated implementation and scale-up.
3. Programme Development and Resource Mobilisation:
• Identify emerging public health priorities, health-system gaps, and opportunities for Jhpiego to contribute to state health goals.
• Work with New Program Development colleagues, technical teams, and country leadership to define programme opportunities, develop concepts, and prepare high-quality proposals, budgets, and implementation plans.
• Cultivate relationships with current and prospective donors, funders, government stakeholders, and technical partners to support new programme opportunities and organizational growth.
• Contribute to Jhpiego’s strategic positioning in Uttar Pradesh and ensure proposed initiatives are contextually relevant, evidence-informed, feasible, and aligned with organizational strategy.
4. Programme Operations, Grant Management and Compliance:
• Oversee state-level programme planning, implementation schedules, budgets, expenditure reviews, forecasting, resource allocation, and delivery against agreed milestones.
• Work closely with finance, human resources, procurement, administration, and other support teams to ensure timely and effective programme operations.
• Ensure compliance with Jhpiego policies, donor requirements, approved work plans, financial procedures, and applicable organizational standards.
• Monitor grant performance, implementation challenges, and operational risks; escalate issues appropriately and work with relevant teams to identify mitigation measures.
• Ensure timely and high-quality technical reporting, donor deliverables, presentations, and inputs for organizational reviews, audits, and assessments.
5. Team Leadership and People Development:
• Lead, mentor, and support a multidisciplinary state team, ensuring clear roles, priorities, performance expectations, and accountability.
• Provide guidance and coaching to programme leads and staff; support performance management, capacity development, and professional growth.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, respectful, and high-performing work culture that values integrity, learning, innovation, and results.
• Promote effective coordination across programmes and functions, address implementation bottlenecks, and maintain communication with country leadership.
6. Monitoring, Evaluation, Learning and Reporting:
• Ensure programmes have clear results frameworks, indicators, review mechanisms, and approaches for tracking outputs, outcomes, and contribution to impact where feasible.
• Promote the use of reliable programme and health-system data for decision-making, performance improvement, and communication of results.
• Work with monitoring, evaluation, and learning colleagues to review progress, identify gaps, document lessons, and inform programme adaptation.
• Support evaluations, implementation research, knowledge products, case studies, and dissemination of evidence in collaboration with government and technical partners.
7. Other Duties:
• Take responsibility for issue resolution or escalation as required, minimizing disruption to programme delivery.
• Ensure adherence to Jhpiego’s organizational policies, ethical standards, safeguarding requirements, and applicable donor guidelines.
• Perform other responsibilities assigned by the supervisor that are consistent with the position and organizational objectives.
Qualifications and Experience:
• MBBS, MSc Nursing, or a degree in a relevant health or allied health discipline, or an MBA, along with an MPH or another relevant Master’s degree.
• Overall, 12–15 years (3-5 years in leadership role) of progressively responsible experience in public health, health systems strengthening, or programme implementation.
• Substantial experience in programme leadership and management, including team supervision, government engagement, partnership development, and oversight of donor-funded programmes.
• Experience working with state health departments, National Health Mission, and other government or development-sector stakeholders is strongly preferred.
• Experience in more than one relevant public health area-such as comprehensive primary health care, digital health, NCDs, maternal and newborn health, family health, or human resources for health-will be an advantage.
Skills and Competencies:
Technical and Programmatic:
• Strong understanding of public health and health-system priorities in India, including primary health care and state-level programme implementation.
• Ability to provide strategic direction, guide programme design and implementation, and maintain technical quality across a diverse portfolio.
• Strong programme planning, monitoring, data interpretation, adaptive management, grant oversight, and reporting skills.
Leadership and Management:
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, develop staff, manage competing priorities, and drive results.
• Ability to analyse complex implementation challenges, make sound decisions, and develop practical, context-sensitive solutions.
• Experience with work planning, budgeting, resource allocation, risk management, and compliance oversight.
Partnership and External Engagement:
• Proven ability to build trusted working relationships with government, donors, academic institutions, technical agencies, and development partners.
• Strong communication, negotiation, facilitation, and presentation skills, including confidence representing an organization in senior-level forums.
• Ability to identify opportunities for collaboration, programme development, and resource mobilization.
Organizational Contribution:
• Commitment to Jhpiego’s mission, values, organizational policies, and high standards of integrity and accountability.
• Ability to work collaboratively across technical, programme, and operations teams in a dynamic environment.
Jhpiego is an equal opportunity employer and offers a dynamic and enabling work environment. Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package.
How to Apply: Please apply through the official Jhpiego careers portal using the application link included in the published advertisement.
https://jobs-jhpiego.icims.com/jobs/8291/state-head-%e2%80%93-uttar-pradesh/job?mode=view
Due to the high volume of applications, only shortlisted applicants will receive a response from Jhpiego HR.