Last Date of Receipt of Applications: 26 January 2025
Position Code : PHFI-CNST-2519
Position Title : Consultant-Field Coordinator
No. of Positions : 03
Working Location : Shillong, Meghalaya
Duration of Position : 01 Year or co-terminus with the project, whichever is earlier
Brief on the Organization:
The Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) is working towards building a healthier India. It is helping to address the limited institutional and systems capacity in India by strengthening education and training, advancing research and technology and facilitating policy and practice in the area of Public Health. PHFI is headquartered in New Delhi with national presence through its constituent units of regional Indian Institutes of Public Health (IIPHs) and Centers of Applied Research in core public health themes. The Foundation, established in 2006 as a public private initiative, is governed by an independent board comprising of senior government officials, eminent Indian and International academic and leaders, civil society representatives and corporate leaders. For more information, please visit the website www.phfi.org.
Project Brief:
This project intends to customize and adapt global and national CMAM guidelines to the specific context of Meghalaya through stakeholder engagement. This will be followed by interventions for state health system strengthening at a community, frontline worker, health centre and governance level. These are: a Community Awareness Programme to sensitise communities to appropriate diets for young children and to increase communal responsibility for the care of at-risk and recovering children; a health care worker training programme that will be holistic and include aspects of nurturing and responsive care as well as the screening, diagnosis and triage of acute malnutrition; an initiative to improve the capacity of PHCs to serve as mini-Nutritional Rehab Centres and the facilitation of block level multi-sectoral meetings that will provide oversight to the activities on the ground. These interventions are the health system strengthening components of a larger Meghalaya CMAM Model that will include further aspects to strengthen the community’s and parents’ ability to care for children affected by malnutrition.
Deliverables:
Qualification:
Essential:
Desirable:
Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition, Nursing, Public Health, Social Work, or a related health discipline from a recognized university/institute |
Experience:
Essential:
Desirable:
Please note that consultancy fees will commensurate with available skills and fitment of the incumbent as per the selection process.
Interested and eligible candidates may send their updated CV to recruit@phfi.org and fill the application form– https://forms.office.com/r/Sy15YYydp4 . Please mention the exact Position Code (PHFI-CNST-2519) in the email subject line. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the interview.
Last Date of Receipt of Applications: 26 January 2025.
Remarks:
“PHFI reserves the sole right to alter/modify/cancel the entire selection process or the position or the vacancy or to disqualify any candidature at any stage of the selection process”.
Women are encouraged to apply!
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