City Coordinator - Hyderabad

About YRG MERF

Established in 1993, YRGMERF is a pioneering non-governmental organisation in India, committed to transforming lives through integrated healthcare, inclusive partnerships, and forward-looking research. Grounded in the values of integrity and sustainability, we address both immediate and evolving societal challenges empowering communities to attain equitable and lasting health outcomes. We provide comprehensive services across prevention, care, support, and treatment, particularly for those affected by HIV and other infectious diseases.

YRGMERF is anticipating a project to strengthen the Urban Ecosystem Against Future Disease Threats by implementing a framework for urban-peri-urban coordination. This project if commissioned will require a team of below positions to support the coordination, implementation and monitoring of several components.

Key Responsibilities

The City Coordinator will be responsible for implementing the project activities in the designated municipal corporation and peri-urban areas, coordination with stakeholders, monitoring of the activities. Will report to Project Lead based at Bengaluru. Will work closely with other team members.

Project Implementation Support

• Will be responsible to ensure that the proposed activities are implemented as per the timelines including organising collaborative activities with local health departments.
  
• Ensures the project activities and plans are discussed with the local health departments both in urban and peri-urban areas so that the resources are optimised.
  

Team Management and Quality Assurance

• Directly supervises the designated staff, address bottlenecks, and provide support in implementation of the project including on the job skilling of the staff to perform their duties
  
• Works closely with the subject experts to ensure that the activities are thought through and designed as per the local needs, they are consulted with right stakeholders before being rolled out.
  
• Ensures that the team members are having clear focus on the implementation of the activities, able to flag issues in timely manner which may hinder the progress as well as share the best practices.
  
• Close-coordination with MSU, DSO and local disease surveillance teams for both human and animal health is critical. Must lead these coordination activities with support of subject experts.
  
• Works closely with the other relevant departments and agencies to make the activities relevant and impacting to the preparedness of disease outbreaks in the designated project areas.
  
• Conducts field visit to observe field operations first-hand, interact with local stakeholders
  
• Ensures that all project activities comply with YRGMERF’s organisational policies on ethics, safeguarding, data protection, and financial management
  

Innovation and Best Practices

• Ensures that framework for innovations and best practices are embedded within the project activities design, monitoring and DQA framework.
  
• Collaboration with local communities, opinion leaders, RWAs in implementing these innovations and best practices are critical. Must ensure that they are part of the design process.
  
• Ensures that government approved tools and techniques are scaled up and widely practiced.
  

Reporting and Documentation

• Ensures that the data quality checks are performed by the team regular manner and feedback is incorporated in the implementation.
  
• Progress monitoring using a tracker and reporting to the management is key responsibility.
  

Additional Duties

• Undertakes any other responsibilities assigned by the supervisor in support of project objectives.
  

Requirements

Desirable Attributes

• Team player and problem-solving attitude
  
• Multi-tasking yet focusing on details of the project looking at wider impact beyond project
  
• Strong ability to establish consensus on matters that impacts project timelines
  
• Understanding of Rajasthan Health Systems specific to Urban Health, Disease Surveillance is must
  
• Adaptability and willingness to learn as a team and provide opportunity for team members
  

Qualifications and Experience

• Masters in Public Health or Social Studies with minimum 5 years' experience in managing projects in hyderabad under NUHM, Urban Health Project, Disease Surveillance, One Health Activities, Urban Poverty Alleviation, National Vector Borne Control Program.
  

Benefits

Benefits & Work Environment

• 24 days of annual leave, in addition to public holidays.
  
• Health insurance coverage
  
• Opportunity to work in a collaborative and inclusive environment.
  
• Scope for learning and professional development.
  

YRG is an equal-opportunity organisation. At YRG, we are committed to supporting inclusion and diversity as part of our values. We celebrate employee’s differences in abilities, sexual orientation, ethnicity, faith, and gender. Our team are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who share a passion for improving people's lives.