About ARMMAN

Founded in 2008, ARMMAN is a non-profit leveraging mobile health (mHealth) technology to create scalable, cost-effective, equity-based and gender-transformative, non-linear, systemic solutions to reduce maternal and child mortality and morbidity in India. We work directly with pregnant women and mothers to improve their health seeking behavior while building capacities of health workers at all levels to ensure efficient antenatal and childhood care, and timely diagnosis, management and referral of high-risk conditions during pregnancy and infancy. We adopt a “tech plus touch” approach leveraging the deep mobile penetration in the country, along with existing health worker networks of the government and partner NGOs to improve health outcomes.

- Interventions implemented by ARMMAN have reached over 80 million women and 554,592 health workers across 27 states to date.
- ARMMAN has received several awards and honours including the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship 2020 and MIT Elevate Prize 2021, as well as grants from Co-Impact, Google.org, USAID, and others.

Role Overview Provide technical leadership for the design, implementation, quality assurance and scale-up of the maternal/postpartum mental health component within ARMMAN’s programs. The consultant will bring subject - matter expertise, understand the public mental health ecosystem and stakeholders, develop matter expertise, understand the public mental health ecosystem and stakeholders, develop evidence-informed approaches and protocols, and build the capacity of internal teams and frontline/public-sector stakeholders through structured trainings and mentoring.

Roles and Responsibilities

- Provide technical leadership for the maternal/postpartum mental health component within ARMMAN’s ongoing programs.
- Define the technical framework, service package, care pathways and minimum quality standards for mental health support.
- Review and update protocols, SOPs, counselling guidance,



training content and technical resources using evidence-informed approaches.
- Ensure appropriate boundaries between counselling, psychosocial support, clinical care and referral.
- Guide integration of mental health screening, counselling, follow-up and referral within the existing program journey.
- Develop mechanisms for quality assurance, case review, supportive supervision and continuous improvement.
- Identify technical and implementation risks and recommend mitigation measures.
- Support design of pilots, scale-up plans and program adaptations based on implementation learning.
- Design and facilitate structured training programs for counsellors, supervisors and relevant internal teams.
- Conduct/oversee training for relevant government and partner stakeholders as appropriate.
- Assess training needs and competency gaps and recommend corrective actions.
- Build and maintain technical relationships with government health/mental health stakeholders, academic institutions, subject experts and implementation partners.
- Map available mental health services and referral resources and support strengthening of referral linkages.
- Stay abreast of relevant national/state guidance, emerging evidence and implementation practices.
- Define technical indicators and support monitoring of reach, service delivery, quality, referrals and outcomes.
- Support preparation of technical reports, donor updates, presentations, briefs and knowledge products.
- Provide ongoing technical support to program leadership and field teams on mental health-related queries.
- Work closely with program, M&E;,



Technology, Product & Innovation and Research teams to ensure technical consistency.

Qualification & Skills

- Technical expertise in maternal, postpartum and/or perinatal mental health.
- Strong understanding of the public mental health ecosystem, referral pathways and relevant government stakeholders.
- Ability to translate clinical/technical evidence into practical program protocols, counselling approaches and training materials.
- Solid training, facilitation, mentoring and adult-learning skills.
- Stakeholder engagement with government, health systems, academic institutions and implementation partners.
- Program design, quality assurance, monitoring and data interpretation.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, documentation and presentation skills.
- Ability to work across multidisciplinary teams and provide technical guidance to counsellors and program teams.
- Postgraduate qualification in Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology / Public Health with a strong mental health focus from a reputed institute. M.Phil./PhD Clinical Psychology or equivalent relevant specialist qualification preferred. Additional training/experience in maternal, perinatal or public mental health will be an advantage.
- 8 - 10+ years of relevant professional experience, including substantial experience in mental health programming, maternal/perinatal mental health, public health systems, clinical/technical advisory roles, training or capacity building. Experience with government health systems, NGOs, academic institutions or large-scale health programs preferred.

How To Apply

- Interested candidates please send the application with your updated resume to [email protected]
- Please use “Senior Consultant - Mental Health – Mumbai” as the subject line for the application mail

Pay: ₹90,000.00 - ₹100,000.00 per month Work Location: Hybrid remote in Mumbai, Maharashtra

📌 Sr. Consultant- Mental Health (Mumbai)
🏢 ARMMAN
📍 Mumbai