Responsibilities:

1. Building and managing a portfolio of civil society partners working in community health with focus on comprehensive primary care.
2. Conceptualizing and running “call for community health programme grant requests” from identified geographies annually.
3. Developing grant proposals for multiyear grants, conducting thorough due diligences, and ensuring timely disbursals.
4. Sharing partner learnings and experiences from the ground with the broader team. Capturing insights and lessons learnt regularly in easy to disseminate forms.
5. Helping partners to track and capture effects of their work in alignment with the overall framework in Azim Premji Foundation – Health unit.
6. Facilitating and managing a forum/network for partners working in community health and engaging with the public health system.

Qualifications:

1. Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree preferred
2. At least 8 + years of work experience in public health and/or community health
3. Demonstrated ability to work with diverse stakeholders, including NGOs, donors and subject matter experts.
4. Experience in public systems (Health) engagement, prior experience in grant-making will be an added advantage
5. Must be willing to travel 40 – 50% of the time.
6. Good written and oral communication skills
7. High level of self-motivation, initiative and creativity
8. The ability to work with minimal supervision and solve problems independently or collaboratively as needed

Location: Bangalore based, with extensive travel.