Assistant to Vice President- Public health – Sambodhi Research and Communications Private Limited

Sambodhi Research and Communications Pvt Ltd, provides evidence-based insights to seed and catalyse scalable social impact. Our research, data, strategy consulting, monitoring, and evaluation solutions, supports implementors, governments, foundations, and donors in the design and execution of programmes and policies that improve the lives of people and the planet. We are domain agnostic and work across a spectrum of areas including public health, WASH, natural resource management, energy, climate change, education, skilling and entrepreneurship.

We are measurement experts with a flair for innovation and improvisation. Over the last fifteen years we have emerged as a pioneer in developing and using cutting-edge methodologies and advanced data tools to enable decision-making and adaptive programming. A team of 100 professionals, we work across South Asia, South East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Headquartered at Noida (Delhi – National Capital Region), India, we have full service regional offices in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) and Dar-e-Salam (Tanzania).

Why Sambodhi

Sambodhi offers an exciting and challenging opportunity to contribute to high quality multi-input development programmes, and work closely with governments, key development actors (such as the World Bank, UN, and bilateral agencies), national and international not-for-profits, and philanthropies (such as Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation). Being one of the largest and leading Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) providers in South Asia, Sambodhi offers an extraordinary platform to learn, innovate and mentor. Driven by the deep-rooted wisdom of “Equity in Knowledge” (Sambodhi), ‘learning’ is integral to our work; be it investing in peer driven intensive professional development within Sambodhi or field building on MERL globally. In line with this, it offers an enabling environment for professionals to write, publish and network; to locate themselves in the contemporary discourse on MERL and be a part of the global think-tank community.

Job description

Job Title Assistant Vice President- Public health practices

Job Location Noida

Job Summary

This role provides with tremendous opportunity to lead and contribute to high quality multi-input development programmes across India. The candidate shall techno-managerial leadership in designing and executing evaluations. S/he is expected to significantly contribute in writing proposals, analysing data and writing reports and other knowledge products.

Essential Functions

The Assistant Vice President will perform the following key functions:

• Conceptualize, design and deploy cutting-edge monitoring, learning and evaluation practices across various projects and proposals.
• Develop the capacity and technical expertise of project staff in the field and headquarters to undertake sound Monitoring, Evaluation & Research activities and to use data and findings for effective decision making.
• Lead in the development of high quality, compliant proposals. Conceptualize and implementation of marketing/business strategy. This includes developing opportunities with new and existing clients, tracking upcoming RFPs, leading proposal development teams, networking, etc.
• Lead client engagement during the entire project cycle.
• Assist and lead the project team in the development of reports, presentations, peer-reviewed journal articles and other communication materials.
• Make and deliver presentations of reports / proposals to clients / potential clients.
• Liaison with partner organizations, consultants, vendors and other relevant agencies.

In addition to the functions listed here, similar duties and responsibilities consistent with knowledge, skills and abilities may also be assigned.

Desired profile

Education

Master’s/PHD in Public Health from Premier Universities.

Experience

•  8-12 years of work experience in Research and M&E.
• Thematic expertise in primary health care, health systems strengthening, public service delivery
• Strong contextual understanding of the India public health system
• Methodological expertise in research, analysis, and M&E methods
• Proven track record of creating high quality outputs including project reports, papers, and knowledge management products
•  Strong client engagement skills

Personal Competencies

• In-depth knowledge of Research, Evaluation, Data Analysis & thematic understanding of various sectors in the social & development domain.
• Should have excellent understanding of the relevant policy landscape and regulatory environment.
• High level of involvement, engagement, and ownership.
• Demonstrated competence in handling teams.
• Strong interpersonal and negotiation ability.
• Proven influencer and communicator with senior stakeholders within and outside the organization

Sambodhi focuses on nurturing an inclusive work environment. We stress and reinforce diversity in our workplace. We welcome all applications regardless of race, religion, caste, place of origin, gender, sexuality, and disability.

Those interested kindly send in your resumes to Akshat.goyal@sambodhi.co.in