Janaagraha - State Project Manager - Urban Healthcare System Reforms

What does it take to be State Project Manager Urban Healthcare System Reforms

Core Competencies

1. Effective communication

2. Managing large projects efficiently, where multiple internal and external stakeholders need to work together quickly and seamlessly

3. Creative problem solving

4. Program Management

5. Proactive stakeholder engagement

Functional Competencies

1. Excellent project plan formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation skills

2. Excellent ability to manage a diverse set of stakeholders, in and outside of government

3. Ability to operate with minimal instructions & supervision

4. Ability to advocate and provide policy advice and interact with high level decision makers

5. Excellent team management skills

What will the State Project Manager Urban Healthcare System Reforms really do?

A) Help strengthen Janaagraha's Urban Healthcare Reforms programme in the state

1. Work closely with the Project Director and Lead to act on planning and programme needs, identify and act on opportunities to strengthen Janaagraha's presence and relevance in the urban healthcare reforms space;

2. Implement and ensure the quality of results for the project deliverables and prepare the medium-term programme plan;

3. Manage the implementation of the programmes communication strategy and plan

B) Manage project delivery

1. Manage delivery of operational goals; finalize work plans; ensure quality and timely implementation, including providing direction, guidance and technical support to junior project team members as well as partners (government and non-government);

2. Support the state government in undertaking activities related to the urban component of XVFC health grants;

3. Assist relevant government departments in operationalisation of the all GOs, tracking and ensuring compliance at the ULB & district level;

4. Work with state lead on creating SOPs for smooth operations & providing close support to districts and ULBs as and when needed;

5. Create and customise training modules to ensure relevant guidelines and action plans are best suit the state's urban context, as well as to improve implementing staff's uptake;

6. Assist the Project Lead in conceptualising, designing and overseeing ULB and other relevant staff capacity building;

7. Work with the Project Lead to execute a landscape study of urban primary healthcare systems with specific emphasis on reforming public financial management (PFM) systems and staffing;

8. Proactively document work outputs, meeting actions, communications collaterals and any knowledge products that emerge over the course of the project;

9. Assist the Project Lead in ensuring smooth running of day-to-day operations, troubleshooting and managing relationships with all stakeholders in the state

C) Engage with the urban healthcare finance ecosystem

1. Maintain relationships with government, partners, stakeholders and donors to achieve active collaboration, cooperation and alliances on programme development and implementation;

2. Build relations and partnerships with high level and senior government officials, other stakeholders and NGOs; and participate in all relevant events;

3. Maintain strategic partnerships and manage and implement resource mobilization strategies;

Qualifications and Experience

1. Masters degree or equivalent in public health, business administration, public administration, public policy or other directly relevant fields;

2. 8+ years of experience in government advisory, public finance, public health, business consulting or in a non-profit working in public health or health infrastructure finance; should have held strategic and managerial leadership for at least 3 years in their career;

3. Field based experience working with multi-cultural and geographically diverse and spread teams;

4. Preferred - should have held positions engaging directly with senior or c-suite clients and stakeholders in the public health sector or related sectors (including bureaucrats at the positions of Principal Secretaries in State Govt. and Joint Secretaries in the Central Govt)

5. Preferred should have worked as a manager on projects with governments on public health systems transformation, capacity building, transaction advisory (at least 2 years)

What Janaagraha Offers

At Janaagraha, you will be part of a multi-disciplinary team of professionals and passionate citizens who apply cutting-edge technologies and practices aimed at social change in Indias cities. We offer a dynamic, driven, remunerative and vibrant work environment for professionals who are passionate about investing their time, skill sets and energy to transform quality of life in Indias cities. At work, you will be exposed to a unique combination of policy, practice and platforms and will have abundant opportunities to learn and apply professional skills to complex social challenges.

Remuneration

We offer competitive remuneration packages, commensurate to the experience & industry standards.

Project Details

Primary healthcare in India's cities and towns is nascent. Covid-19 has severely exposed its shortcomings. The XV Finance Commission (XVFC) in a welcome move has allocated Rs 26,000 crores for Urban Local Bodies (ULBs, aka municipalities) specifically towards strengthening decentralised primary healthcare. The XVFC has rightly identified and strengthened the need for neighbourhood and city level delivery of public health services in cities, drawing lessons from Covid-19 pandemic. We believe this needs to be leveraged as an opportunity not just for short-term measures, but for more sustainable medium and long-term systems change. Municipalities (referred to in governments as Urban Local Bodies or ULBs) have hitherto not been systematically involved in delivery of public health services in cities. There is therefore a need to not just invest significantly in urban health services (against the backdrop of the pandemic), but to also simultaneously build out a long-term approach to decentralising health infrastructure and services through greater involvement of ULBs. At the heart of this approach is the need to look at primary healthcare alongside city governance, equity and environment, in an integrated and coordinated manner.

However, the current 1-yr project is to respond to a more immediate requirement. It will involve setting up institutional processes, SOPs and rolling out trainings to ensure both states meet all XVFC grant access and deployment requirements, as laid out in the MoHFWs operational guidelines (OG). It will also study the urban healthcare governance landscape with the objective of surfacing systemic gaps and identifying pathways for co-creating solutions. This project is envisaged to be phase 1 of a more longer-term engagement to be finalised over the course of the first one-year phase. The next phase will focus on drawing up a comprehensive roadmap for full devolution of primary healthcare governance to ULBs & deploying a newly designed PFM system ensuring financial sustainability (adequacy of funds) as well as financial accountability (accountability for outputs and eventually citizen outcomes) for primary healthcare in ULBs.