Clinton Health Access Initiative - Senior Analyst - Monitoring & Evaluation

Clinton Health Access Initiative - Senior M&E Analyst

Overview :

- The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries, while strengthening the capabilities of governments and the private sector in those countries to create and sustain high-quality health systems that can succeed without our assistance.

- CHAI, in partnership with its India affiliate William J Clinton Foundation (WJCF), works in close partnership with and under the guidance of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) at the Central and States' levels on an array of high priority initiatives aimed at improving health outcomes. Currently CHAI/WJCF works across projects to expand access to quality care and treatment for HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis-C, tuberculosis, cancer, and immunization.

- Additionally, CHAI is also supporting the Government of Madhya Pradesh (MP) on large-scale programs to arrest childhood and maternal mortality due to malnutrition, anaemia, diarrhoea, and pneumonia, and helping increase access to quality Family Planning services.

About the project :

- In India, the lack of infrastructure at the community level coupled with the non-availability of qualified radiologists to interpret X-ray's leads to a significant delay in screening and diagnosis of Tuberculosis (TB). Chest X-ray (CXR) is a rapid imaging tool that allows for easy identification of lung abnormalities.

- CXR is an essential tool for early detection of tuberculosis (TB), and therefore fundamental instrumental in the fight to eliminate TB. Currently, only 11% of public health facilities in the country have X-ray machines available at Community Health Centres (CHCs) or district hospitals consequentially delaying the diagnosis of TB or adding to the out-of-pocket expenditure required by patients if done outside the public health facilities.

- To address these delays at the community level, WJCF, with support from The Global Fund, aims to address the gap by introducing and operationalising hand-held X-ray machines integrated with Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) software. Deployment of a high-sensitive screening tool (X-ray) along with high throughput interpretation (CAD) and subsequent linkage to CBNAAT for diagnostics would reduce delays in diagnostics and pre-treatment loss to follow-up (LTFU).

- In addition, would be of significant use of active case finding in various settings. The project will be implemented in urban and rural districts in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Uttarakhand, and Haryana

- The project aims to generate local evidence and demonstrate various use cases for portable X-ray + CAD to improve TB case finding and reduce diagnostic delays. With an objective that the local evidence would lead to greater buy-in at the state level, facilitate the effective transition of project activities to the government and support future scale-up using domestic budgets.

Role Overview :

- CHAI seeks a highly motivated, entrepreneurial individual with outstanding analytical skills, problem-solving ability, and communication skills to support the project in the 8 states.

- The Senior M&E Analyst must be able to function independently, be comfortable working and coordinating the operations of cross-functional teams, be flexible, and have a strong commitment to excellence.

- Reporting to the Technical Lead and working closely with other strategic partners, the Senior Analyst is expected to design, deploy and train the front line workers (FLW) on data recording, reporting, while supporting the national program implementation.

- We place great value on relevant personal qualities: resourcefulness, teamwork, interpersonal skills, responsibility, tenacity, energy, and work ethics. Overall, Sr Analyst would be expected to support in - designing, analysing, coordinating, reviewing and documentation of various interventions that have been undertaken under the project.

Responsibilities :

Programmatic support :

- Support implementation in roll-out of programmatic activities such as building capacity of service providers, address data capture issues as well as monitoring process of activities as per project workplan

- Support the Project Director and Technical Lead in ensuring that the M&E and surveillance activities are aligned with programmatic work plans

- Monitor program implementation activities; identify potential risks and challenges to the implementation plan and roll-out of activities; work towards addressing potential risks / mitigation mechanisms.

- Support program leadership in the overall grant management process including sharing inputs or drafting donor update reports including progress monitoring, budget utilization, risk assessments and sustainability structures.

- Synthesize results & disseminate key learnings from the program implementation through presentations, reports, briefs, and publications in the state, with government partners, and CHAI program teams in other states

- Where relevant, liaise with academic institutions and/or other implementing partners that might have relevant data that can be leveraged for program monitoring

- Support development of proposals, work plans, budgets and other reports and documents for ongoing and new areas as needed to support and facilitate execution of program implementation activities within the state.

Technical support :

- Design, deploy and train implementation teams on comprehensive data management, recording, reporting and dashboarding tools and processes that will generate credible, actionable, and timely information

- Design and implement relevant data collection and validation activities including field testing, training, and evaluation

- Prepare and manage detailed work-plan for M&E and surveillance activities, co-ordinate with state leads to build the monthly camp plan

- Negotiate and administer contracts for the provision of Management information system

- Monitor and support development and maintenance of project MIS including requirement gathering, consultation with relevant internal and external stakeholders, translate systems and processes in to workflows, review business requirement document and technical design document

- Liaise with technology vendors for system upgrades and enhancement to achieve business goals effectively

- Coordinate with Central TB Division (CTD) and Nikshay team for seamless integration with Nikshay system

- Support the development of study design and research and evaluation tools, including research protocols, ethics applications, and standard operating procedures, for the baseline survey, process evaluations and outcomes evaluations (quantitative and qualitative)

- Develop content for and preparation of data review meetings at the national and regional level

- Support program manager in leading the data review meetings

- Build the capacity of field officials to analyse and use data generated from the surveillance activities

Desired skills & experience :

- Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, Management, Public Health, or related field

- At least three to five years of relevant work experience in analytics, research, or M&E

- Exceptional analytical (quantitative and qualitative) skills with the ability to effectively communicate (orally and in written form) and to tailor communication to a variety of audiences.

- Ability to absorb and synthesize a broad range of information, including technical information, and to prepare compelling presentations and reports

- Ability to be effective in high-pressure situations, handle multiple tasks simultaneously, and set priorities.

- Strong desire to work in a fast-paced, limited-structure, high-pressure, multicultural environment.

- Willingness to travel extensively within and outside the program state.

- Experience of managing government stakeholders would be a positive

- High level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

- Preference would be given to candidates with experience in management and/or healthcare consulting or development sector consulting.

- Excellent written and oral communications skills in English and Hindi.