Designation:

Program Director - Government Institution Strengthening (PPP, SCM and Finance)

Location:

Raipur (Chhattisgarh) / Guwahati (Assam)

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.

- Conduct feasibility studies, develop requests for proposals (RFP)/expression of interest (EOIs) for new projects and also for renewal of PPPs.

- Develop systems and mechanisms and get them institutionalized for smooth functioning of the PPP activities in the State.

- Support the Health Department leadership/ thematic leads in the bid process - conducting pre-bid meetings, publication of corrigenda, and technical and financial evaluation, etc.

- Support the state in developing the MoU/MoA documents and help sign with the final vendors for PPP.

- Design training programs/orientation programs for the Government Officials at state and district levels and private partners 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 the nodal level and price points, based on available data across all procurement categories.

- Provide insights on the current operating model, in comparison with other procurement service agencies, and map out potential process 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 the 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 and submission of the Project Implementation Plan (PIP) for the financial year with proper due diligence of the fund requirement details for implementation. Communicate the tentative budgetary envelope to all the programs at district and block level.

- Monitor all accounting systems and procedures. Monitor financial performance indicators and convergence of financial and 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 Settlement (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.

- Set up 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) and Director General of Audit (Central Expenditure) (DGACE) audits etc. from time to time.

Essential Qualification and 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 the health department.

- Established track record in successfully engaging with senior leadership in the Health Department.

- Exposure to financial management, operations research, systems analysis, Accounting tools, government accounting, fund flow management, utilization certificates and scheme-wise expenditure reporting in a government setup.

- 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, and 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 (individuals and teams).

- Experience working in dynamic work environments with a substantive dose of ambiguity.

- Basic level quantitative and qualitative analytical skills.