Job Description

Salary: Based on candidate needs and industry standard

Contract: 6 months, renewal is likely based on performance of the candidate and the program

Location: Baran OR Pali (We are hiring 2 M&E coordinators, one for each district)

Travel: 30-50% of the time within a district

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About ansh

We aim to save newborn lives by building healthcare capacity in India for high quality delivery of care for newborns. We aim to create a scalable and cost-effective model that implements Kangaroo care over the long term. Currently we are setting up a pilot program for our model in two districts of Rajasthan. Our goal is to replicate this model beyond our pilot districts, eventually making it adaptable for public health systems.

Our model's core components are:

• Repurpose wards in healthcare facilities into dedicated Kangaroo Care wards
• Recruit nursing staff to act as dedicated kangaroo care and breastfeeding assistants
• Set up referral systems for low birth weight newborns
• Improve identification of low birth weight newborns in need of care
• Provide onboarding and ongoing training to nurses and assistants
• Provide counseling and monitoring through phone calls, ensuring kangaroo care and BF adherence and identify newborn in stress.

Position overview

This position would be highly critical to building Ansh’s pilot program in Rajasthan from ground up and will be pivotal to designing a program that has the potential to save thousands of lives each year when it is scaled. The M&E Coordinator will be ensuring a delivery of high-quality care at healthcare facilities in one of our pilot districts (Baran or Pali) through robust monitoring and quality assurance activities. Working closely with the Director of Research and the co-founders, the M&E Coordinator will provide vital insights from the field, contribute to data analysis, program evaluation, and play an essential role in the implementation of pilot programs. Since we are a new organization, there is possibility for taking greater responsibilities as the organization grows.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct monitoring and quality assurance activities at the healthcare facilities to ensure high quality of care.
• Share information, data and issues with Director of Research and help improve the quality of data collected at the healthcare facility and on the phone.
• Work with Director of Research to analyze the data and produce reports for the relevant stakeholders.
• Maintain our information management systems and ensuring data quality.
• Use the insights from monitoring activities and making suggestions to continually improve the program design.
• Provide support to the co-founders in implementation of the pilot program in the respective health facilities and help monitor and evaluate program impact.

Requirements

• Be a registered Nurse(RN) or MBBS or have similar relevant qualification
• Prior clinical experience preferably in child and maternal health
• Experience of the processes and research tools involved in the monitoring and evaluation of programmes
• Excellent knowledge of local language (Hindi)

Skills and Competencies

• People and communication skills: ability to exchange information in a clear, respectful, and timely manner and adapting to needs of a diverse range of stakeholders
• Critical Thinking: the ability to analyze, evaluate, and synthesize information to make sound and logical decisions.
• Knowledge of Postnatal and newborn care: understanding and experience in application of principles, practices, and guidelines related to the care and well-being of mothers and newborns during the postnatal period
• Information Management Skills: the ability systematically analyze, design, development, operate, maintain and organize the databases as well as manage information for research
• Research and Data Collection: the knowledge and ability to use research tools to produce useful insights and the ability to ethically and systematically gather relevant data

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Hiring Process

We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and progressing candidates to the next stage. The final cut-off dates for each stage, beyond which we won't assess any candidates for that stage, are below. If you don't hear by then, you haven't been selected for that stage. Unfortunately, we won't be able to email all candidates about an outcome due to a large number of applications.

Application - 30 August

Test Task - 6 September

Interview - 11 September

Reference Check - 18 September

Eligibility Criteria

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Desired Candidate Profile

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Organization Details

• Organization Name:ansh.health
• About Organization:We build capacity in healthcare facilities in India to provide "Kangaroo Care". An exceptionally simple and scientifically proven treatment to avert newborn deaths.
  
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