Program Officer - New Delhi, India - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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New Delhi, India

3 weeks ago

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Deepika Kaur

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Description

The Foundation
We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world.

Founded on a simple premise:
that people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives.

By building a global and cultural workplace that supports greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — together with our employees and partners, we can help all people improve their lives from poverty and health to education.

As an organization we offer full healthcare premiums coverage, generous paid time off, contribution to your retirement fund, several employee communities, and a commitment to embedding diversity, equity, and inclusion into everything we do.

The Team

The Global Development Program includes a diverse range of program areas aimed at finding creative ways to ensure solutions and products get into the hands of people in low-income countries who need them most.

We focus on areas with the potential for high-impact, sustainable solutions that can reach millions of people.

Our program strategies include:
Emergency Response; Family Planning; Maternal Newborn & Child Health; Nutrition; Polio Eradication.

A common theme across these programs is focus on innovative delivery, including an emphasis on strengthening primary health care systems.

The Global Development Program also encompasses our India Country Office and Africa Team, with physical offices in Johannesburg, Addis Ababa, and Abuja.

Our Program Strategy Teams work in close partnership with these Country Office Teams to align the foundation's health and development equity agenda with the government's broader priorities.

Our culture shapes our choices about what we do and how we do it.

We believe that energized people, working well together, fueled by great leadership in an inclusive environment can do extraordinary things.

We expect foundation employees to intentionally and consistently embody our values of optimism, collaboration, rigor, innovation and inclusion.

Our efforts are aligned with India's objectives of improving the lives of its people - working closely with India's Central and State governments, we partner with community groups, nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, the private sector, and development organizations, to achieve our shared goals.

Our strong networks and ability to convene intellectual resources from many every sectors and every regions of the globe allows us to address complex challenges as they emerge or evolve.

Our efforts in India focus on key issues that will affect the future of India's most vulnerable communities: reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition; urban sanitation; agricultural development; gender equality, and digital financial inclusion.

With a particular focus on Bihar and Uttar Pradesh (UP), we work with partners to develop impactful and sustainable solutions to improve the quality and coverage of key services for the poor and vulnerable.

We also work in the states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, and Maharashtra to support programs in urban sanitation, agricultural development, gender equality, and digital financial inclusion.

Your Role

Under the leadership of the Deputy Director - State Health Systems Strengthening (State HSS), the New Delhi-based
Program Officer -
Strengthening Institutional Capacity is primarily responsible for ensuring that local institutions (government, quasi-government, NGOs and academia) in the states of UP and Bihar are well-capacitated to provide ongoing advice and support in design and implementation of health programs.

Programming in this area is aimed at sustaining and growing the impact of health programs in UP and Bihar, even after the foundation's exit from these states.

What You'll Do

a)
Creating strategy for foundation's Institution Building portfolio in UP and Bihar

Manage the following workstreams in the state in close collaboration with the Bihar/UP Deal/

Investment Team:
a) Strengthen local institutional structures in UP; b) Strengthen local institutional structures in Bihar.

These workstreams would include identifying a set of local academic/ research/ management institutions in both states to build their internal capacities in select thematic areas within health, and building the capacity of government health system institutes (vision and mission development, organizational structures, HR capacities) to take on key functions traditionally supported by external agencies (SIHFW, SHSRC-like institutes for capacity building initiatives in the areas of RMNCHA and HSS, Medical Supplies corporation for procurement and budgeting etc).

Monitor and track the latest literature in Institution Building. Adapt the UP and Bihar portfolios of Institution Building grants based on the latest and most innovative thinking in the field.
Jointly accountable, with the Bihar/UP Investment Team