Analyst, Essential Medicines and Oxygen

Location

Bhopal | India

Job description

With the objective of reducing maternal, child, and overall mortality from hypoxemia related cases, WJCF, under the guidance of health departments in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Punjab is supporting initiatives to strengthen prevention and diagnosis practices and improve the supply and use of high-quality oxygen services.

To that end, the Essential Medicines and Oxygen (EM O2) program focuses on the following key elements:

• Effective planning and strategies to manage oxygen systems and overall hypoxemia management
• Affordable, efficient, and high-quality supply chain systems for essential medicines including oxygen
• Improved clinical administration and technical management of oxygen
• Improved information systems and monitoring for oxygen access

• The Program supports the state health and facility level leadership strengthen governance structures, ensure optimal availability, maintenance, and upkeep of oxygen assets, and build capacity for management of assets and provision of clinical care
• Through this support WJCF expects to ensure prevention, early diagnosis, and timely access to high quality medical oxygen to manage hypoxemia cases, while ensuring adequate preparedness to manage surge of Covid-19 cases or on account of other acute or seasonal respiratory ailments

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and analytical support to EM O2 program implementation activities, including but not limited to, working with, and engaging with field staff to review programmatic activities, track implementation of activities, and monitor and review outputs.
• Undertake research and analyze large datasets to generate insightful reports and dashboards that can inform programmatic decision making.
• Closely work with State Lead to support officials in the DoHFW and other state governments including division and district level health staff in identifying and bridging gaps in hypoxemia management system.
• Identify and communicate potential risks and challenges to the implementation plan and roll-out of activities; work towards addressing potential risks/ mitigation mechanisms.
• Support the development of presentations, work plans, budgets, reports, proposals, articles, and other documents for ongoing and new areas.
• Develop strong working relationships with and represent WJCF as a trusted advisor to key stakeholders in government, academic partners, suppliers, and other relevant organizations, and ensure coordination of resources and effort for maximum impact.
• Support in the planning and execution of capacity building initiatives for key government functionaries and service providers on relevant competencies for sustained ownership and delivery.
• Support program management and leadership team with programmatic activities, and evaluation and scoping of other potential intervention areas, as required.
• Contribute to internal organizational initiatives.
• Other responsibilities as needed.

Qualifications

• bachelors/masters degree in management, economics, public health, engineering, computer science, statistics, operations research, or allied areas.
• A minimum of two years of professional experience in a private or public sector setting and with increasing levels of responsibility and experience.
• 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.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, including the ability to work independently, self-motivated, and propose and implement new initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively as part of a diverse team.
• Ability to develop new and manage existing relationships with multiple stakeholders.
• Ability to think strategically, handle ambiguity, and problem-solve in a fast-paced, limited-structure, multicultural environment.
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Willingness to travel as and when required.
• Fluency in English.

Advantages

• Fluency in Hindi and Punjabi.
• Knowledge and experience in consulting/development sector/investment banking/government organizations.
• Knowledge of big data/ advanced analytics concepts and algorithms text mining, social listening, recommender systems, predictive modelling, etc
• Experience in handling big datasets through the use of software such as SQL, Oracle, Python, SAS, etc, and data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Qlik Sense, etc
• Design and BI architecture skills, partnering with engineering information architecture teams on design architecture.
• Experience managing roll-out of large-scale projects across states.

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