Surveillance Coordinator – Vital Strategies

Vital Strategies is focused on strengthening and revitalizing public health systems through design and supporting scalable solutions to leading causes of death, disease and injury. Vital Strategies provides technical assistance, consultation, as well as project management, design and evaluation to a wide range of private and public sector clients, in order to further its mission to improve and save lives, including through non-communicable disease prevention, environmental health and urban health, with specific areas of focus in tobacco control, data for health, cardiovascular health, road safety, overdose prevention, air quality, obesity prevention and tuberculosis research.

This is a full-time position for our road safety program in Pune.

This position will be embedded with the government, reporting to the Initiative Coordinator.

Department Road Safety Non Mass Media

No of openings1

Duties and Responsibilities

§ Serve as liaison between initiative partners and governments, in particular:

o Police for all issues related to crash reporting and analysis

o Health departments

o Medical examiner systems

o Transport and road safety officials at different government levels

o Other stakeholders

§ Work with designated personnel to oversee data collection, data entry, conduct data cleaning and management of designated data sets.

§ Train, monitor and oversee data entry staff.

§ Conduct analysis and prepare tables, charts, and maps both for routine review and special queries, including spatial analysis for identification of high-risk locations.

§ Collaborate with police, health, medical examiner, and Vital Strategies personnel to develop a protocol and conduct linkage and analysis of injury registry and

§ Conduct a capture-recapture analysis of crash fatalities using at least two data sources: police crash reporting and vital registration, forensic, hospital, and/or insurance records; and prepare a report on methods and findings.

§ Prepare annual road safety reports based on available sources for crash/injury death data, as well as risk factors data.

§ Disseminate and present road safety report findings to stakeholders and promote data use for policy and planning.

§ Work with police and other partners to pilot and define road crash database platform options and adaptation to local needs.

§ Promote data use for policy and planning

§ Provide support to partners of the initiative as required.

§ Line reporting through Initiative Coordinator and Technical Lead with technical guidance and direction from Vital Strategies surveillance staff

§ Other responsibilities as assigned

Qualification and Experience

§ Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., public health, epidemiology, biostatistics, transport engineering, or similar).

§ 3-6 years of experience in data management and analysis related to public health, transportation, or public policy.

§ Quantitative data analysis skills (experience with data management and statistical analysis software required, GIS preferred).

§ Proven capacity to work in a multidisciplinary or multi-agency setting and to interact with public servants and heads of department.

§ Excellent oral and written communication skills: English and Marathi

Desired Experience

• Prior experience of working with government agencies (experience in Pune/Maharashtra is preferred)

Skills & Abilities

• Proficient in MS office (word, excel, PowerPoint), pdf, digital literacy, handling virtual meetings, conferences, trainings
• GIS proficiency, or willingness to learn in first six months in position.

Language Proficiency Marathi and English language proficiency are required.

Additional Information:

We encourage all qualified individuals who share Vital Strategies’ vision of a world where everyone is protected by a strong public health system to apply.

we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of characteristics such as race, color, age, religion or creed, gender, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, marital status or any other basis protected by country and local laws.

We are proud of our commitment to a professional work environment in which all individuals are treated with respect and dignity.  Vital Strategies will not tolerate its employees, volunteers, consultants, partners or any other representative associated with the delivery of its work carrying out any form of sexual harassment, sexual exploitation or sexual abuse and thoroughly vets all final candidates.

The salary for this position is INR 22,00,000 to INR 32,00,000.

To help you stay energized, engaged and inspired, we offer a wide range of benefits including a strong retirement plan, flexi basket reimbursement option, comprehensive healthcare, and Paid Leaves so you can relax, recharge and be there for the people you care about.

This role is for open to Indian Nationals only.