Position: Manager Health

Organization: ADRA

Location: Gurugram

Position Summary

The Manager – Health will provide technical leadership and oversight on ADRA India’s Health Programs, Research and M&E strategies and activities. This will include research & analysis; producing reports and visual representations; provision of technical advice; presenting and sharing learnings, conducting Programme Management and Business Development.

The Manager – Health will also be responsible for steering the ADRA health program and oversee and lead the institutional development of ADRA India in health sector. The Manager – Health reports to Programs Director, ADRA India and is responsible for the following:

Program Development and Management:

• Direct the ADRA India Health program by looking into opportunities for various funding in the health sector.
• Ensure that the health Programme are implemented on ground as per the donor’s project approval processes
• Coordinate and link with partners, donors, and stakeholders as well as with ADRA network
• Lead policy dialogue, knowledge exchange and promote operational research and networking.
• Programmatic Coordination and Oversight of health programmes
• Take lead in the proposal development processes when required and manage projects/ grants.
• Works and contributes within the ADRA India team structure that guides the formulation and development of the ADRA India program strategy and related project portfolio.
• Take lead in establishing accountability mechanism and ensure Quality control across all the projects.

·  Work with Prospect Research to produce sufficient number and quality of prospects; to produce extensive institutional donor profiles; target appropriate ask amounts; and prioritize and evaluate prospects for corporate, foundation, and government grants.

·  Develop and prioritize projects and proposals: meet and work with staff to elicit projects and programs that need support; manage monthly meetings to vet projects and programs and set priorities for funding.

·         Develop and foster relationships with institutional funders: find personal connections with staff, board, trustees, volunteers & donors that will ensure the attention of institutional funders.

·  Write or supervise writing of all proposals, budgets, reports, and other ancillary materials.

·  Manage existing grants by: tracking grants; developing internal reporting systems; writing reports; maintaining excellent historical records; working with staff to ensure each project or program is meeting proposal conditions and expectations.

·   Assist with other fundraising projects as requested.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Research:

• ADRA India Programs monitoring, evaluation, and learning strategies and activities.
• Develop and strengthen monitoring and evaluation procedures and build the capacity of the team.
• Promote operational research initiatives and link with Government, NGO and Civil Society research networks
• Develop, monitors, manages, and evaluates research projects / pilots
• Conduct analysis of program data and respond to program data-related requests from the Management.
• Lead, strategize, conceptualize, design, develop, implement, and continuously improve monitoring and evaluation frameworks and systems.
• Manage monitoring and evaluation and learning frameworks that are tailored to specific initiatives and program models.
• Provide ongoing training and support to project staff to maintain consistent monitoring tools and indicators.
• Supports the project team in coming up with annual, quarterly, and monthly work plans.
• Draft the Development of M&E plan/framework/system for each project in coordination with teams and support in developing survey related tools and methodology and epidemiological analysis.
• Assists in preparing reports, documentation and archiving and managing M&E Data records. Manage the Documentation and Filing system for Programs.
• Undertake Field monitoring for project assessments, surveys, coordinating with all relevant stakeholders
• Support Programs team in developing and writing high quality research papers for publication in reputed National and International journals.

Responsibilities

Programmatic coordination and implementation

·         Ensure timely activities are completed as per project plan.

·         Coordinate with state project managers for smooth running of the project.

·         Work with Field M&E staff for data validation exercise and improving the data quality.

·         Timely submission of reports to donor.

·         Prepare and review reporting deliverables and manage a communication with field staff.

Key Competencies

Working with People

Shows respect for the views and contributions of other team members; shows empathy and compassion, listens, supports, and cares for others; consults others and shares information and expertise with them and builds team spirit and reconciles conflict; adapts to the team and fits in well.

Relating and Networking

Establishes good relationships with individuals both internally and externally; relates well to people at all levels; builds wide and effective networks of contacts.

Presenting and Communicating

Speaks clearly and fluently; expresses opinions, information, and key points of an argument clearly.

Planning and Organizing

Sets clearly defined objectives; plans activities and projects well in advance and takes account of possible changing circumstances; identifies and organizes resources needed to accomplish tasks; manages time effectively; monitors performance against deadlines and milestones.