Project Coordinator (GAVI)

Summary

The Immunization Project Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating with district and block teams to enhance capacity building, supervision, and review of the immunization project across selected urban and rural geographies. The role involves microplanning field visits, ensuring effective communication for field staff, and providing handholding support to improve program implementation. Key responsibilities include developing and tracking monthly and quarterly work plans, conducting field visits to identify challenges, offering technical assistance to field teams, and ensuring adherence to quality performance indicators. The coordinator will facilitate data analysis for evidence-based decision-making, collaborate with development partners, and document best practices to improve health coverage and outcomes. Additionally, the role includes supporting proposal writing, preparing analytical reports, and scaling up successful models in coordination with state and national teams.

Location - Bhopal

About Us

Wadhwani AI is a nonprofit institute building and deploying applied AI solutions to solve critical issues in public health, agriculture, education, and urban development in underserved communities in the global south. We collaborate with governments, social sector organizations, academic and research institutions, and domain experts to identify real-world problems, and develop practical AI solutions to tackle these issues with the aim of making a substantial positive impact.

We have over 30+ AI projects supported by leading philanthropies such as Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID and Google.org. With a team of over 200 professionals, our expertise encompasses AI/ML research and innovation, software engineering, domain knowledge, design and user research.

In the Press:

• Our Founder Donors are among the Top 100 AI Influencers
• G20 India’s Presidency: AI Healthcare, Agriculture, & Education Solutions Showcased Globally.
• Unlocking the potentials of AI in Public Health
• Wadhwani AI Takes an Impact-First Approach to Applying Artificial Intelligence - data.org
• Winner of the H&M Foundation Global Change Award 2022
• Indian Winners of the 2019 Google AI Impact Challenge, and the first in the Asia Pacific to host Google Fellows
  
  
  

Roles & Responsibilities

The key deliverables will include (but not limited to) the following:

• Co-ordination with district and block teams for capacity building and review of immunization project
• Ensuring microplanning of field visits and communication for the field staff in immunization project.
• Ensure supervision and monitoring of Immunization Project in selected geographies for both urban and rural areas with handholding support and guidance to the field team
• Development of monthly/ quarterly work plan and deliverables and ensure regular follow ups
• Undertake regular field visits to the project geographies , identify challenges and support team and department to overcome these challenges.
• Technical assistance to the field team for implementation of activities including establishing performance targets adhering to monitoring plans, and responsible for ensuring quality of programmes as per the defined indicators.
• Supervise the data collection for Potential zero dose/zero dose children/Hesitant-Resistant families/Missed communities etc and ensure required action . Facilitate data analysis with focus on evidence generation in the area supervised for programmatic decision making and devise strategies for desired impact and support in data quality improvement.
• Coordinate with other development partners to seek and share information and enhance synergies.
• Identify and document behaviors and improving health coverage rates through early intervention leading to better health outcomes.
• Support in preparation of analytical monthly /quarterly reports as per program requirement and documentation of best practices .
• Support in proposal writing .
• Facilitate scaling up of the models, bringing evidence based visibility to organization in close co-ordination with the state/national team .
• Work in tandem with LEHS team at state/national level for comprehensive service delivery , improving health services coverage and health behaviour practices
• Any other reasonable duty assigned by the supervisor that is consistent with the nature of the job and the level of responsibility.
  
  
  

Requirements

• Demonstrates integrity, ethics, compassion and respect;
• Passion for results- Highly motivated and resourceful; demonstrates high accountability, ownership and a go getter attitude; takes initiative and drives results;
• Demonstrates speed, agility and innovation in thought and in action;
• Decision-Making: S/he has the ability to evaluate risks and opportunities; uses analytical and problem-solving skills to arrive at sound business decisions;
• Result Focused: S/he effectively manages time and deliverables for self and team; has a strong sense of ownership; is able to multi-task and work under pressure; demonstrates attention to detail and sets high benchmarks;
• Brand Ambassador: Has a strong professional presence and can be seen as a credible and key representative of LEHS to forge strong strategic partnerships;
• People Management: Demonstrated leadership capacity to build and lead technology teams; possesses strong interpersonal abilities and provides necessary direction to team with focus on skill building, overall staff development, enhanced performance and engagement levels; Emotionally intelligent, perceptive and demonstrates inclusiveness and diversity;
• Willingness and ability to travel extensively
• Demonstrates ability to manage a team of District and Block Coordinators to get the work done
• Good stakeholder management skills including establishing and managing relationship with the government and ability to influence practices
• Ability to work under pressure and attend to any ad hoc functions as may be required
• Good communication skills, sound comprehension and analytical abilities
• Excellent community engagement skills
• Willingness to travel to provide technical assistance across the district for meeting the timelines.
• Computer proficiency with high level of familiarity with commonly used packages like MS Word, Excel, Power Point