Job highlights

- Job Summary . Senior Specialist-Public Health - Full Time
- The role is expected to undertake extensive field visits to RRTCs at medical colleges,FRUs and non-FRUs to help government identify valuable practices and gaps and support co design of solutions and demonstration learnings

Job Summary Senior Specialist-Public Health - Full Time. Location: Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.

The Senior Specialist-Public Health will serve as MPIH's public health expert, providing technical leadership for FRU strengthening through Regional Resource Training Centres (RRTCs) established at six government medical colleges, for augmenting competencies of FRU doctors through clinical mentoring, supporting state in health facility assessment and readiness, and improvement in EmONC signal functions at designated first referral units. The role will also provide technical support across MPIH's public health interventions, including focus on health equity and gender-responsive care.

Under the guidance of Team Lead MPIH, the Sr Public Health Specialist will closely engage with multidisciplinary internal teams and externally with government and clinicians ensuring that all programme interventions are technically robust, clinically appropriate, and aligned with program science. The role is expected to undertake extensive field visits to RRTCs at medical colleges, FRUs and non-FRUs to help government identify good practices and gaps and support co design of solutions and demonstration learnings. They will also collaborate with ME and knowledge management teams at demonstration sites to ensure technical and public health rigour of programme data, analyses and knowledge products.

Key Responsibilities

- Programmatic Leadership for FRU Strengthening through RRTCs Provide technical inputs in the FRU strengthening program through RRTCs and prepare divisional action plans and consolidated state level action plan under the direct supervision of the Team Lead
- Plan and organize facility readiness assessments in the FRUs through divisional coordinators and support analysis for the signal functions, infrastructure, HR and procurement based on the recommendations in GoI's MNH Tool Kit
- Lead engagement with Deans and Heads of Departments HoDs at medical colleges/Regional Resource Training Centres RRTCs to formalize partnership, and smooth implementation of training and mentoring activities at identified FRUs
- Alongside the State Government and RRTCs,



facilitate the planning and scheduling of divisional trainings of FRUs and DH by the medical college faculty
- Facilitate divisional workshops trainings including clinical skills practice sessions for doctors from FRUs and DHs on maternal and newborn complications management by ensuring smooth coordination between divisional coordinators and medical college faculty
- Engage with clinicians and clinical mentors to catalyze finalization of training resources packages, clinical mentoring frameworks and tools, clinical competency assessment tools etc
- Develop calendar of clinical mentoring activities onsite and virtual across divisions and ensure implementation as planned
- Conduct supportive supervision during on site visits and virtual mentoring sessions to ensure quality assurance, capture emerging learnings, identify areas of mentorship and inform programme improvement
- Conduct extensive field visits to support the implementation of the RRTC activities for FRUs strengthening and monitor its implementation
- Facilitate quarterly review meetings with RRTC faculty to review progress, address implementation challenges, and translate emerging learnings into programme improvements
- Work closely with the supervisor/programmatic linkage on setting program priorities and directions, and responding to requests for technical support from the Health Department officials and local counterparts
- Collaborate within MPIH, government, and partners to identify MNCH system challenges, co design and adapt evidence based solutions, and demonstrate scalable solutions for health facility and systems strengthening for improving health outcomes through the RRTC interventions
- Government and Stakeholder Coordination Under the guidance of Team Lead regularly coordinate with the State NHM to translate learnings from clinical mentorship activities into state level action through regular meetings bi annual convergence meetings and steering group meetings




- Strengthen coordination between divisional coordinators and divisional government stakeholders to translate FRU assessment and mentoring findings into actionable improvements, highlighting good practices and addressing gaps
- Strengthen collaboration with medical college faculty, clinical experts and government stakeholders to advance FRU strengthening initiatives through RRTCs
- Meet regularly with State Health department staff for smooth project management and respond in a timely manner to requests for meetings, reports and other requests
- Undertake joint field visits with government counterparts to support identify and document good practices, clinical and systems level bottlenecks, and translate facility level learnings into evidence for state and programme decision making and designing interventions
- Supportive supervision and internal team mentorship Oversee the quality of implementation of RRTC interventions; mentor and strengthen the capacity of divisional coordinators through periodic re orientations, reviews, supportive supervision and field visits
- Facilitate and strengthen coordination between divisional coordinators and RRTC faculty including engagement with medical college leadership and divisional government stakeholders
- Oversee division wise the preparation and sharing of FRU assessment findings, mentoring updates and field visit reports, ensuring technical accuracy and public health rigour and ensure data driven programme planning through divisional coordinators
- Through divisional coordinators, ensure effective planning and implementation of on site and virtual clinical mentoring for FRU doctors, aligned with programme needs as identified by medical colleges and programme data
- Programme Monitoring, Evidence Generation, Knowledge Translation and Cross functional Collaboration Under the guidance of Team Lead collaborate with the ME team to review programme data and facility performance indicators, ensure the technical rigor of dashboards, and identify gaps requiring targeted clinical mentoring
- Collaborate with ME on designing research, assessments/evaluation, and learning initiatives to generate actionable evidence for program improvement from health facilities

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