Director - Programs and Strategy

Organization: KARNATAKA HEALTH PROMOTION TRUST

Job Title: DIRECTOR - PROGRAMS AND STRATEGY

Reports to: CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Location: BANGALORE, KARNATAKA

Introduction:

- KHPT is a not-for-profit entity that spearheads focused initiatives to improve the health and well-being of communities in India. In 2003, KHPT was founded with a single mission to reduce the prevalence of HIV in Karnataka's high-priority pockets specifically among vulnerable communities. These interventions were evidence-driven, systematically planned, rigorously implemented, and monitored. The organization succeeded in scaling impact well beyond Karnataka through the HIV/AIDS interventions and became a learning site for innovative approaches. With these strengths, and their decade-long experience led them to look beyond HIV to four other thematic areas namely Maternal, Neonatal & Child health (MNCH), Tuberculosis (TB), Adolescent Health (AH), and Comprehensive Primary Health Care (CPHC); thereby extending their services to a diverse set of communities. KHPT envisions to impact India's health outcomes through its interventions across three key buckets mentioned below:

- Ideation & Innovation: They identify gaps within existing programs and assess the needs of communities in order to design, test, and demonstrate models that bridge these gaps. They advance change for specific set of outcomes across themes through innovative approaches, capacity building, promoting convergence, motivating behaviour change, and strengthening systems through direct implementation in Karnataka.

- Technical Support: They assist the government and partners to design, develop and implement programs for a specific set of outcomes by defining shared goals, engaging multiple types of players, fostering partnerships, supporting execution and assessing progress to holistically address key problems. They offer technical support to the government and other NGO/ CBO partners across India;

- Knowledge Translation: They act as a knowledge hub facilitating information and evidence exchange among thematic-area players by creating more structured interactions, reflection, research, and engagement with peers, both nationally and globally.

- Their bold social ambition is to create population-level health impact through a systems change approach with the aim to impact ~250 million lives in the next five years. With a team of 400+ individuals, they act as a catalyst driving action to empower and promote the health of the most vulnerable communities, both directly and through strong partnerships across the country. They work tirelessly to ensure that India achieves its SDG goal 3 with good health and wellbeing of communities. This coupled with sharp focus on leadership building, innovative technology integration, strong impact tracking mechanisms, and robust governance checks will be critical to create sustainable impact in the years to come.

Vision : Empower communities to lead a life of quality, health and well-being.

Mission : Reduce inequalities through evidence-driven approaches.

Intended Impact : Strengthen health systems to achieve population-level impact.

Read more about Karnataka Health Promotion Trust's work at: https://www.khpt.org/

Reason for the hire :

- KHPT is looking to hire the Director - Programs and Strategy to enable operational excellence and set up and oversee best in class execution systems for KHPT.

- Given KHPT's core expertise of community understanding, research & evidence-based programming, the Director - Programs and Strategy would need to bring in the requisite management strengths/experience to complement the existing expertise of the organization.

Roles and Responsibilities :

Lead operational excellence and implementation:

- Act as a strategic partner to the CEO and promote consolidation as well as administration of all aspects of KHPT's thematic programmes including, planning, leading, building teams and managing program activities with all the stakeholders.

- Support cross collaboration efforts in the thematic teams and ensures a cohesive strategy throughout.

- Review progress of projects against work plan and monitoring indicators of the thematic units, and report to the CEO

- Ensure that effectiveness, impact and direction of the thematic programme are regularly reviewed and acted upon, and findings reported in a timely manner to the CEO

- Financial management overview - Ensure robust financial management and utilization measures for all the themes in close association with the thematic leads.

- Partnership & Stakeholder Management

- Develop and maintain partnerships with key funders and stakeholders from within the sector and beyond. The Director - Programs and Strategy must help bring the much-needed non-government partnerships that would benefit KHPT

- Assist the CEO to ensure that donors are updated on the progress on periodically and feedback on improvements

- Set organizational/ team goals and develop performance evaluation metrics

- Driving actions through thematic and CEO dashboards: - This should be a key aspect that the Director - Programs and Strategy should drive, institutionalize data-driven decision-making within the organisation.

- Guide the thematic leads in building effective and accountable teams, ensure the team receives appropriate training and guidance in organizational approaches and standards.

Leadership Development:

- Strengthening management expertise within the core team of KHPT - Build their capacities to start functioning as P&L heads for their respective themes.

Must Haves:

- Master's degree in social science, public health, or related fields, with a minimum of 15 years' experience.

- Proven experience in leading strategy, program management, and administration especially in organizations with complex operations and large budgets.

- Adept at managing diverse internal and external stakeholders including the government, private sector, and donors.

- Outstanding organizational and leadership abilities to be able to build teams and groom senior-level talent.

- The incumbent must have sound knowledge of data analysis and performance/operation metrics.

- The incumbent should have experience in resource allocation and a budget-focused mindset.

- Outstanding interpersonal skills, including above-average oral and written communication skills and the ability to communicate and manage well at all levels of the organization.

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