State Partnership Officer HN

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PCI India, a registered Indian society, has been working in India for the past 26 years. We drive interventions to transform the lives of communities at scale by solving complex development problems. In the past year, PCI India reached more than 1.7 crore, i.e., 17 million people in 202 Districts of 15 States.

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About the Position

• Job Title: State Partnership Officer HN
• Number of positions: 1
• Location: New Delhi
• Grade: C
• Salary Range: Competitive salary commensurate with experience
• Type: Project Based - 1 year
• Qualification required: Master s degree in public health / nutrition / social sciences or a related field.
• Experience required: 5-7 years of experience in providing programmatic and / or technical support to large scale health or nutrition related programs
• Experience of working in the development sector as a part of community/social mobilization programming in rural areas in India.
• Knowledge of community structures of the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM)/ State Rural Livelihood Missions (SRLMs).
• Experience of working with the Government departments at state and below levels.

Skill and Competencies:

• Demonstrated skills of networking and dealing with government departments and other stakeholders, with ability to adapt to various situations.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills.
• Fluency in English and good writing ability.
• Demonstrated learning agility, pro-activeness, and openness to embrace new technologies at work.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and foster a culture of learning and knowledge-sharing.
• Willingness to frequently travel across states as required

Application closure date: 27-January-2025

About the Role

• The State Partnership Officer will be based at DAY NRLM and responsible for collecting all information and date on FNHW such as the mechanisms, systems, stories and state level learnings, operationalization techniques, interventions, etc for feeding into the digital journey of Health and Nutrition (FNHW / HN) in NRLM /SRLMs. S/he will be required to travel frequently to the states and HN field area. Specifically, the position will:
  • Be part of the DAY NRLMs FNHW team and be a constant connect between NRLM and SRLMs for sharing of learnings from across states
  • Work closely with DAY-NRLM, familiarize with and get complete understanding on the intricacies of the NRLM platform and state-specific health and nutrition issues for crafting SHG-related solutions.
  • Undertake regular field visits to the assigned SRLMs and document stories of human-interest and best practices from the field including anecdotes and pictures that highlight the impact of projects for which PCI is providing Technical Assistance.
  • Bring lessons and challenges of SRLMs from the past years in integrating and institutionalizing Health and Nutrition within this platform.
  • Support the Partnerships Coordinator in building national HN integration work, to enable DAY-NRLM engage with identified institutes and institutionalize them as the technical and knowledge partners for Health and Nutrition.
  • Work with SRLMs to facilitate them in working with the state chapters of the identified institutes. Bring new and latest insights on health to the platform for a complete and holistic view of required support.
  • Collaborate with other verticals of NRLM and SRLMs to understand and document the areas of convergence with FNHW and bring them as state stories.
  • Work closely with other team members of this project and related PCI members to support seamless flow of knowledge and information.
  • Participate in NRLM and SRLM meetings for sharing updates and remain updated on the activities with focus on HN integration.
  • Any other activities to support the supervisor.

  Reporting to: Partnership Coordinator NRLM

About the Project

Since more than a decade, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has invested in building capacities of State Rural Livelihood Missions (SRLM) and DAY-National Rural Livelihoods Mission (NRLM) to layer health and nutrition interventions in the Self-Help Group (SHG) platforms, with the aim to improve health outcomes. The proof of concept of this model was tried in 2012, with Parivartan project, as a part of the Ananya program in Bihar. Effectiveness of the concept was established through the first phase of the JEEViKA Technical Support (JTSP), wherein HN interventions were rolled out among 170,000 SHGs across 101 blocks of the state of Bihar and positively impacted health and nutrition indicators among mothers and children. Evidence generated through JTSP led to adoption and scale-up of the model through the DAY-NRLM and several SRLMs across the country. Throughout this period, PCI provided technical support to JEEVIKA, and subsequently to DAY-NRLM.

The current grant titled Transitioning HN integration with SHG platform in UP and National aims to undertake systemic interventions towards ensuring that the model of layering health and nutrition interventions in SHG platforms becomes a government-led and government-owned complementary model of HN interventions driven by community cadres of SRLMs along with frontline workers of the Health Department at national level and within the state of Uttar Pradesh. The project also aims to gather and share the learnings gathered through this work with a global audience to raise visibility of the model and facilitate adoption of the model in other geographies.

With the objective of creating a world-class footprint of the learnings of the work done under PTSP and at National level, and its key achievement, the project shall document and disseminate the learnings. The focus would be on ensuring greater visibility and expanding the scope through replication of the generalizable yet customized solutions across geography.

What can you expect in PCI

• A warm, inclusive and happy work environment.
• Performance driven reward mechanism.
• Best of class benefits with competitive remunerations.
• Health Insurance coverage for self, spouse & Children.
• Group Terms Life Insurance and Group Accident Insurance for Self.
• All other statutory benefits.
• Regular Recognition of performance and PCI Value display in work
• An empowering organisation structure which values individual s skills, competencies and potential.
• Opportunities to operate in cross functional role.
• Higher responsibilities and larger roles are merit based.
• Young Talent Programs for developing future leaders.
• Leadership roles for women is encouraged and given preference in selection and training.

Recruitment Process

1. Applications will be shortlisted based on the specified criteria mentioned in the Job Description.
2. Shortlisted candidates will appear for a written assignment (if required).
3. Group Discussions may be part of the interview process for certain positions.
4. The process could also include presentation of the assignment.
5. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend one or more rounds of panel interview/s.

The complete process usually takes 2 to 3 weeks. If your application is not shortlisted, you will receive a mail from the People & Culture team. Those moving to the final round of interviews will be hearing from the People & Culture team. We prefer in person meetings but in case of location distances, we are happy to meet you virtually.

After the final round, if you are not selected for the position advertised, we will inform you over a mail. However, we invite you to apply to other open positions. We always look forward to engaging with talent that add value to our endeavours in various capacities.