## Job highlights
- Job Summary. CHETNA (Centre for Health,Education,Training and Nutrition Awareness) is a women-led public health organisation established in CHETNA works towards improving the health,nutrition,education and well-being of children,adolescents,young people and women,particularly from underserved communities
- Language Requirements. Fluency in English and Gujarati language is required ### Job Summary CHETNA (Centre for Health, Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness) is a women-led public health organisation established in 1984. CHETNA works towards improving the health, nutrition, education and well-being of children, adolescents, young people and women, particularly from underserved communities. The organisation collaborates with government departments, communities and development partners to strengthen public health, nutrition and education programmes. No. of Positions: 1
- Program officer, Health Duty station: Ahmedabad, Gujarat with travel to field locations. Employing Agency (Employer): CHETNA India Duration of the contract: One year, extendable CHETNA is looking for a dynamic, committed and proactive professional to manage health interventions. The post would be contractual in nature and incumbent would involve working closely with the Director, teams and partners. The incumbent will be required to strategize, plan, implement and monitoring quality initiatives in Health and nutrition sector. Under the supervision of Director, the incumbent will carry out following key functions as below: ###

Key Responsibilities
- Strategize, Plan, implement and monitor community-based health and nutrition programmes.
- Coordinate interventions related to maternal and child health, adolescent health, nutrition and anaemia prevention.




- Liaise with government departments, officials, donors, and development partners.
- Conduct field visits, interact with frontline functionaries, provide supportive supervision to the teams, and ensure quality programme implementation.
- Manage teams, budgets and partnerships.
- Facilitate training programmes, workshops and stakeholder meetings.
- Analyse programme data and prepare reports, case studies, presentations and documentation.
- Develop proposals, work plans, monitoring tools and donor reports. #### Educational Qualifications MBBS/ Postgraduate degree Public Health/ Community Health/ Health Management/ Nutrition or any related discipline. #### Experience At least 8 years of experience in maternal, new born and child health, community health, primary healthcare and/or nutrition. Experience of working with NGOs and government health systems will be an advantage. #### Skills
- Strong knowledge of health systems, schemes, primary healthcare, community health and nutrition programming.
- Strong programme planning, implementation, monitoring and coordination skills.
- Robust understanding of public health and government health and nutrition schemes and programmes.
- Understanding on cross cutting themes such as gender and inclusion.
- Experience in Fiscal Space analysis and development of costed action plans or programmes
- Excellent analytical,



communication, documentation and report-writing skills in English and Gujarati. Working knowledge of Hindi will be an advantage.
- Proficiency in MS Office and data management.
- Ability to work independently as well as within teams, coordinate with diverse stakeholders and meet deadlines.
- Team management skills and ability to manage budgets. #### Language Requirements Fluency in English and Gujarati language is required. Working knowledge of Hindi will be desirable. Safeguarding and compliance: CHETNA maintains a zero-tolerance policy towards sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA), sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and all forms of discrimination on the grounds of gender, age, religion, disability, or any other status. CHETNA is firmly committed to upholding the rights, dignity, safety and well-being of all individuals, particularly children and other vulnerable persons, and to ensuring a secure, respectful, inclusive and protective working environment. As part of CHETNA's commitment to safeguarding and accountability, the selected candidate will be subject to rigorous reference and background verification checks and will be required to comply with CHETNA's PSEA, child safeguarding, code of conduct and related organisational policies. Any form of misconduct, exploitation, abuse, harassment or violation of these standards will be treated seriously and addressed in accordance with CHETNA's established procedures. Disclaimer: This job posting has been aggregated from external source. Role details, content, and availability are subject to change. Applicants are advised to confirm the latest information directly on the company website before applying.

📌 Applications are invited For Programme Officer (Ahmedabad)
🏢 Chetna India
📍 Ahmedabad