Junior Consultant – ED Secretariat

National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC) has been set up under the National Health Mission (NHM) as an autonomous registered society, to channelize technical assistance and capacity building support to the states for strengthening the public health system. The NHSRC is also mandated to contribute to health policy / programme design and evaluation. Since its inception in 2006, NHSRC has been a repository of knowledge and a center of excellence for its agenda. This organization has professional linkages with a plethora of domestic and international bodies involved in the field of Public Health. There have been a number of personnel who have served with NHSRC and gained invaluable experience enabling them to graduate to next rung of professional ladder. Vast exposure to Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and its processes is a unique feature of NHSRC. If you have a commitment to health equity and excellence, here is a unique chance to work with a team committed to shaping the public health landscape in India. The position offers you an opportunity to participate in the process of strengthening health systems, improving health service delivery and enabling positive health outcomes, through hands on implementation assistance at National, State and District levels. Working with a transdisciplinary team, you can discover, adapt, co-create and disseminate solutions to multiple challenges related to service delivery systems, universal primary health care, human resources for health, community processes, health financing, quality of care, public health planning and health promotion. This is an opportunity to support health systems strengthening at scale, learn from district and sub district implementation, undertake knowledge translation, and enable realization of the vision of universal health coverage. The Position reports to Executive Director, NHSRC and is on Contractual basis. Roles & Responsibilities: • Provide technical inputs to reports and documents submitted to ED Secretariat and ensure timely responses and submission. • Provide technical assistance to undertake research activities. • Support the Executive Director/ team in the preparation of technical documents, including reviews on Health Systems interventions and social determinants of health, including policy briefs and reports. • Support the process of establishing cross references to existing and relevant websites and resource centres; • Support the Executive Director in undertaking the process of identifying and partnering with selected institutions to undertake research activities. • Ensure timely review of the projects to provide an update. • Ensure timely and high-quality responses to MoH&FW /Parliament Questions after consultation from all divisions. • Undertake analytical documentation of field review visits to provide feedback to the states. • Support the activity pertaining to best practices and innovations within states and districts and support in documentation. • Undertake review of literature on current trends in health systems strengthening. • Undertake other assignments, which may be assigned from time to time by the Executive Director.

National Health Systems Resource Centre (NHSRC) has been set up under the National Health Mission (NHM) as an autonomous registered society, to channelize technical assistance and capacity building support to the states for strengthening the public health system. The NHSRC is also mandated to contribute to health policy / programme design and evaluation.