Americares
Location
Mumbai | India
Job description
TITLE:Director-Programs
LOCATION :Preferred Location - Mumbai REPORTS TO : Country Director About Americares India Foundation ( Registered as a public charitable trust in 2006, Americares India is a health-focused relief and development organization that responds to people affected by poverty or disaster with life changing health programs, medicine and medical supplies . When disaster, poverty, disease, or policy causes health crises, we deliver medicines, medical supplies and humanitarian aid to a trusted network of NGOs, hospitals and health care providers across India serving vulnerable populations. We also create and support programs that increase health worker capacity, improve clinical quality and provide more access to health care for underprivileged populations across India. Since 2006, Americares' work has been characterized by compassion, expertise, quick response, and aid for people who need it. Our core programs include, Emergency Programs, Access to Medicine, Community Health and Clinical Services. Our program foot-print is across 27 states in India and over the past decade we have delivered aid worth more than INR 600 Mio through our various program initiatives. OUR VISION A world in which all people have pathways to health & opportunity OUR MISSION Americares saves lives & improves health for people affected by poverty or disaster so they can reach their full potential OUR VALUES We create global community, treating people as they want to be treated. We respond effectively and responsibly, putting plans into practice. We embed ethics and equity in our work and workplace. We are better together; partnership is at our core. We ask and listen, to create sustainable solutions for a healthier tomorrow. We commit to quality, growing and improving to ensure individuals and communities thrive. Americares India Strategic Path FY18-FY 27 In 2016, Americares India completed our first 10 years of operations in India helping people live longer and healthier lives. In our second decade, we aim to strengthen our position as a health focused relief and development organization that responds to people affected by poverty or disaster with life-saving health programs, medicine and medical aid. OUR STRATEGY: Helping urban health centres thrive (micro) Building health conscious communities : Health outcomes of the urban poor living in crowded slums is compromised due to lack of awareness, access and cultural misconceptions. Lack of access to safe drinking water and poor hygiene practices lead to communicable disease (CD) burden while urban lifestyle is leading to rising burden of non-communicable diseases (NCD), doubling the disease burden. Americares works with the communities to address issues around awareness, access and misconceptions through preventive, promotive and curative care. Our urban Mobile Health Centre (MHC) program provides: Access to quality primary care(A), Behaviour change communication (B), Capacity building of local healthcare providers (C) and Development of referral linkages (D). The urban School Health Program (SHP) within municipal schools is modelled to encourage healthy behaviours and promote disease prevention among the children from urban slums. The program aims to nurture school children as the health ambassadors of the community. Our health facilitators partner with the community health volunteers (Arogya Mitra) to raise consciousness around safe drinking Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH). Catalyzing efficient health system: Health of urban poor is at risk due to inefficient health system comprising of suboptimal local health centres, underperforming private health care providers (HCPs) and underutilized community ecosystem. Americares improves efficiencies at the centre, of the HCPs and with the community ecosystem. We work with local health centres to build capacity and resilience of the health centre itself, based on World Health Organization (WHO) building blocks of strong health systems. We facilitate sense of warmth, respect, compassion and dignity patients experience from a caring health centre team. We work with the local non-allopathic HCPs within urban slums to build their clinical capacity and improve quality of care, through structured training and development programs. We strengthen the bonding between the community and various local stakeholders including social health activists, charity organizations and ancillary providers. The Connection: We ensure bidirectional engagement between the health centre and community and that with the larger health system for referral and support. Position Rationale Americares aspires to scale-up its ongoing programs and widen the program outreach in the coming years. This we believe will requires to build our programmatic capacity by bringing on board a senior development and public health professional with diverse programmatic experience, to build the team further. Position Summary The Director of Programs shall be responsible for development and delivery of robust program strategy in line with the organizational strategic plan. She/he will lead a diverse team of professionals who are part of the program implementation teams and provide leadership, vision and inspiration to the associates and other departmental staff with an emphasis on creating team collaboration and cohesiveness. Core Program focused responsibilities:Job tags
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