Open Positions – Sangath

Apply by 5th /10th October 2023

Sangath is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization committed to improving access to mental health across the age spectrum and we believe this is best achieved by empowering the community. We endeavor to address the psychological and social needs of those in our care through holistic interventions that take care of their bodies as well as their minds. Its primary focus areas include child development, adolescent health, adult health, and chronic diseases.

1. HR-Admin Assistant

About the Role:
Sangath is seeking to recruit HR-Admin personnel for the Bhopal hub across the projects. He/She will be responsible for overseeing human resources, general administration, Travel arrangements, Office event/meeting arrangements, procurement functions, compliance with policies, vendor management, and fostering a collaborative work environment, while also contributing to developing administrative systems and facilitating office events.

Number of Positions: 01
Duration: 1 Year and will be extended depending on performance and funding
Location: Bhopal Hub
Reports to: Hub Finance-Admin Officer (Hub Coordinator)

Human Resource:
1. Oversee all aspects of human resources across the projects, including advertising job vacancies, scheduling interviews, documenting the recruitment process, notifying candidates at various stages, and managing the issuance and signing of contracts to ensure contractual compliance.

2. Coordinate the onboarding and orientation process for new project team members, ensuring a seamless transition into their respective roles.

3. Maintain accurate and up-to-date HR records, including attendance, leave, and other relevant data, for reliable documentation purposes. Staff registration at the biometric attendance machine and extract the data every month through the backend application.

4. Send staff payroll data every month to the Central Admin Team to process the salaries with respect to the changes in the timeshare, shifting of the project, changes in salary as per the increment, and revision of salary.

5. Ensure that project-related HR practices, policies, and procedures align with the organization’s policies and comply with legal and regulatory requirements, including any specific guidelines mandated by project funders.

6. Monitor staff contract end date and conduct annual performance appraisals for staff members.

7. To maintain the Staff Health Insurance policy and ensure the addition and deletion of the staff and report to the central admin team

8. Address and facilitate the resolution of grievances and concerns raised by project team members.

9. Disseminate timely updates, policies, and procedures related to HR matters to project team members, ensuring everyone is well-informed.

10. Any other related task assigned by the supervisor

Administration:
1. Coordinate with Sangath’s central administration and finance teams as needed.
2. Manage and maintain project/organizational assets as when as required
3. Prepare the approval request for the project activity expenditures and procurements and coordinate the approval process with relevant internal and external authorization bodies.
4. Arrange travel and accommodation bookings.
5. Planning, scheduling, and promoting office events, including meetings, conferences, interviews, orientations, and training sessions.

Qualification & Experience:

Essential:
1. Graduate/MBA/Masters/Post Graduate in Human Resources, Finance, or Administrative Management.
2. Experience of aminimum of 2 to 4 years and commitment of a minimum of 4 years of association.
3. Good command of English typing and fluency in English-Hindi oral and written communication.
4. Proficient in MS Office with excellent MS Excel & MS PowerPoint knowledge, internet, outlook, and email.

Desirable:
5. Experience of a minimum of 1 year in HR/Administration
6. Experience working in an NGO or public health sector.
7. Ability to understand the HR database, salary calculation, and documentation.

Remuneration and contractual duration

Remuneration for this position will be commensurate with qualifications and experience and as per the SANGATH Policy. The initial appointment will be made for a six-month probation period and will be extended for a further year based on a performance review.

How to apply:
Please send your CV along with a cover letter to admin.bhopal@sangath.in before10th October 2023 with the subject line, “Application for HR-Admin Assistant”. While applying to this post please mention your current & expected salary and expected joining date/period in the body of the email.

*Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Sangath is an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with a disability.

2. Phlebotomist (02 positions)

Job Location: Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh,India

Positions: Full-time

Project: Improving Outcomes in Depression in Primary Care in a Low Resource Setting

Duration: The position will be hired on an annual basis with renewal depending on continued funding and satisfactory performance.

Working Days: Monday to Friday (9:30 am to 5:30 pm)

Reporting: Assistant Research Coordinator

About Sangath: Sangath (www.sangath.in) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organisation committed to improving health across the life span by empowering existing community resources to provide appropriate physical, psychological and social therapies. Its primary focus areasinclude child development, adolescent and youth health, and adult health and addictions research.

Sangath seeks to appoint Phlebotomist who will be based at Bhopal hub for the OptimiseDproject.

About the Project: The goal of project is to see if we can enhance treatment outcomes for patients with moderate to severe depression by personalizing allocation to one of the twotreatments; additionally, we aim to identify those patients who are unlikely to respond to either treatment and should be referred to specialist care. To achieve this, we will use machine learning to develop a precision treatment rule (PTR) based on a wide range of baseline moderators which are feasible to assess in routine care settings. Our primary hypothesis is that those patients randomized by chance to their optimal intervention as indicated by the PTR will be more likely toremit and recover than those who are not. Moreover, we hypothesize that using our PTR to selectthe optimal treatment
for each individual patient will prove to be more cost-effective thanleaving things to chance. We also plan to explore secondary questions, such as whether we can enhance our mediation tests by including the PTR in interactions with our purported mediators (moderated mediation). Further, we plan to explore whether we can enhance the prescriptive utility of our PTR via genotyping our sample and calculating polygenic risk scores based on very large sample Genome-Wide Association studies.

If you are passionate and looking for an opportunity to work with a dynamic team on research in mental health involving health systems, working with an international set of collaborators,delving into data science as well as machine learning, and using implementation research tools, send in your application.

This project is funded by the US National Institute of Mental Health, with collaborators from leading organizations including Harvard University, Vanderbilt University, the Broad Institute, AIIMS Bhopal.

Job Description:

• Serves patients by identifying the best method for retrieving blood samples verifies patient identification and explains sampling procedures to patients.
• Identifying patients via ID, medical record or other means drawing blood using needles, venipuncture and other equipment, Labeling samples correctly and delivering them for testing to AIIMS Bhopal.
• Travel to the health facilities in Bhopal district for study participants blood collection and transportation.
• Providing support to projects implementation, guaranteeing quality, efficiency and effectiveness.
• Assist and participate in other Sangath activities.
• Execute any other relevant duties assigned by the senior project staff.

Essential Candidate requirements

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in medical lab technology; BSc. /MSc. Nursing; Diploma in Medical Laboratory Technology or related fields/discipline
• Fluency in Hindi
• Ability to drive a two-wheeler and must possess a two-wheeler and driving license
• Prior experience of working in and similar role for a minimum of 1-2years
• Good organizational and communication skills

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience of working in research projects.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to work on tight deadlines.

Remuneration and contractual duration

Salary offered will be commensurate based on the education, work experience and as per applicable Sangath policy. The initial appointment will be made for six months’ probation from the date of joining, with renewal up to one year based on a performance review.

Last Date and address for applications

Please apply by filling this Google Form https://bit.ly/PhlebotomistRO1 where you be required to upload your
CV as well. Please upload your CV & Cover letter.

Last date to apply: 05th October 2023, 5:00 pm IST. (Immediate hiring)

Short-listed candidates will be invited for a telephone, virtual or in-person interview.

For more details, please go through the website www.sangath.in or can write to rahul.singh@sangath.in and
anuja.lahiri@sangath.in

*Incomplete applications will not be considered.

3. RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Job Location: Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India (The selected candidate will have to visit to AIIMS Bhopal)
Positions: 2 (Full time)
Duration: The position will be hired on an annual basis with renewal depending on continued funding and
satisfactory performance.
Reporting: Co Investigator of the project
Joining: Immediate

Sangath seeks to appoint research assistants who will be based at Bhopal, and will work for the SHARP
project.

About the Project:
This project aims to address challenges around the assessment of cognition as well as its measurement in the context of different environments and circadian terms through a novel concept called micro cognitive and contextual momentary performance. Micro cognitive and contextual momentary performance metrics involve two core elements captured simultaneously: 1) brief self-administered scalable smartphone measures of cognitive performance; and 2) digital phenotyping measures of symptoms, activity levels, sleep patterns, and related functional/environmental factors. These related functional/environmental factors include metrics about the immediate environment (light, ambient sound levels, social density) and personal state (sleep, mobility, and activity metrics). These micro cognitive and contextual momentary performance metrics are designed to be offered multiple times per day via a smartphone and thus represent a scalable means to bring novel cognitive performance measurement into the hands of millions of people with schizophrenia. We will co-develop a battery of these assessments designed to measure those cognitive domains most impacted in early course schizophrenia, refine that battery in pilot testing, and finally assess the potential of our micro cognitive and contextual momentary performance metrics against functional outcomes with personalized scoring controlling for differing environments and circadian rhythms.

Validation of these new metrics will take consorted efforts by multiple teams, but our goal to introduce accessible micro cognitive and contextual momentary performance metrics and study their utility in assessing real-world functioning and symptoms presents an important and feasible start across sites in this study. Funded, by Wellcome Trust, UK, SHARP is a collaboration between Sangath Bhopal, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) at Harvard Medical School, All India Institute of Medical Sciences at Bhopal, India and National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), India. More details available at, https://sangath.in/sharp-2/

Job Description

• Planning and recruitment of study participants for the FGDs, assessments and follow ups visits.
• Assist the research team to plan, conduct and analyses of the FGDs with study participants.
• Visits to AIIMS Bhopal for study participants recruitment and for project related coordination.
• Coordination with AIIMS team and Sangath team for participants recruitment related activities.
• Coordination and communication with Study participants to invite them for study FGDs, assessments and follow up visits.
• Perform Consent procedures and consenting of the study participants at the study site.
• Conduct baseline and follow up assessments with the participants at AIIMS site.
• Data collection, data storage and data compilation for future records and report writing.
• Ensuring safety of physical data and record keeping.
• Participate in regular project meetings and documentation activities as per the proposed project scope.
• Providing support to projects implementation, guaranteeing quality, efficiency and effectiveness.
• Assist and participate in other Sangath activities.
• Execute any other relevant duties assigned by the Director of Projects and Site PI.

Essential Candidate requirements

• Bachelor’s/master’s degree in psychology, Psychology Social Work, Bachelor’s/master’s degree in psychology and public health, bachelor’s in psychology and master’s in social work or related fields/discipline
• Willingness to be based in Bhopal and Visit to AIIMS site for project deliverables
• Fluency in Hindi and English
• Prior experience of working in a similar role for a minimum of 1-2 years
• Knowledge and experience of working with patients and caregivers.
• Ability to liaise and coordinate with the study stakeholders.
• Good computing (MS Office), organizational and communication skills
• Commitment of a minimum of 1 year.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to work on tight deadlines.

Remuneration and contractual duration

Salary offered will commensurate based on the education, work experience and as per applicable Sangath policy. The initial appointment will be made for three months’ probation from the date of joining, with renewal up to one year based on a performance review.

REF ID: Sangath/SHARP2/ RA

Last Date and address for applications: Please apply by filling this Google Form https://bit.ly/RASHARP2 where you be required to upload your CV as well.

Kindly apply by 10th October 2023.

Short-listed candidates will be contacted within a week after closing. Further selection will be done based
on online/in-person interview. Full applications must include a detailed CV along with a support letter from two of your referees

For more details, please go through the website www.sangath.in or can write to
ritu.shrivastava@sangath.in

*Incomplete applications will not be considered. Women and those from a marginalized background are
encouraged to apply.