Project Director

Last Date of Receipt of Applications:  12th March 2025

Position Code :      PHFI-PRDI-2511

No. of Positions          :       01

Location          :       Patna, Bihar

  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:

Public health and Healthcare services are vital for reducing the mortality and morbidity of the population. Public health activities are focused on health promotion, prevention and treatment of diseases, and increasing longevity. If good health is to be achieved, then the efforts of the state government need to be on Public Health Interventions. Human Resources are the lifeline to implement any healthcare intervention. To improve public health outcomes, clinical, public health, and administrative activities need to be targeted separately.

For healthcare services to be responsive to the people’s need and effective, it needs to address the issues of disease prevention, mortality and morbidity for which public health activities are essential. To provide Universal Health for Bihar, the health care system needs to be sound and address all relevant health issues. The NFHS-5 (2019-20) showed that the state of Bihar made considerable progress on the health front in the period between NFHS-4 and NFHS-5. There is a significant improvement in the Reproductive & Child Health and Fertility indicators. The Infant Mortality, the Under-Five mortality, and the Delivery indicators showed substantial improvements. There is moderate improvement in the anemia among adults and children in the state.

Deliverables:

• Provide technical assistance to the project’s PI.
• Undertake tasks related to health systems strengthening as outlined in the project
• Facilitate development and updating guidelines, TORs, course curriculum, templates, formats, training modules, along with the guidance document
• Support in Situational Analysis on various aspects of the Health Sector. Facilitate development of new project proposals/strategies, writing report, documentation derived from the situational analysis.
• Review of epidemiological data and provide feedback to the implementation of teaching, training, research, policy work.
• Monitoring and implementation of various research projects, capacity development.
• Hands-on training of project personnel on public health and management aspects.
• Participate in project meetings with the government representatives, liaison with technical agencies.
• Participate in internal project review meeting and provide inputs to project team.
• Undertake project related travel as per the requirement.
• Support technically and administratively the PI for handling day today implementation for project activities.
• Travel as required.
• Undertake any other activities / tasks as assigned by the Project PI / Supervisor.

Qualification:

Essential:

• MD (Community Medicine / Preventive & Social Medicine / Community Health Administration/ Masters in Public Health (MPH), MBA/ PGD in Health, Hospital Management/ Public Health ( a minimum of two years fulltime on campus program).

Experience:

Essential:

• A minimum of 15 years of work experience in public health/ project management/ coordination in Development sector
• A minimum of 15 years of post-qualification work experience in public health.

Desirable:

• Work experience at National/International levels and working with multiple stakeholders.
• Project Management Experience.
• Work experience in writing project grants, independently obtaining grants from national & international agencies
• Excellent communication skills (oral and written) along with the work experience.

Please note that Annual Salary (CTC) 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/8jYFW6pJ4K . Please mention the exact Position Code (PHFI-PRDI-2511) in the email subject line. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for the interview.

Last Date of Receipt of Applications:  08 March 2025.

Remarks:

• Candidates are requested to refer PHFI website for position description & process for applying. Please note only those applications will be considered which are received as per instruction written on PHFI website.
• Candidates should have an excellent academic record, good communication skills, a commitment to high quality graduate / post-graduate education.
• Mere eligibility will not entitle any candidate for being called for interview.
• Persons employed in Government/Semi-Government Organization or Educational Institutions in India must apply through proper channel.
• PHFI reserves the right to fill or not to fill any or all available positions.
• The requirements of minimum qualification and/or experience may be relaxed in the case of candidates with outstanding credentials.
• No correspondence will be entertained from candidates regarding any delays, conduct & result of interview and reasons for not being called for interview.

“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!