Website Azim Premji Foundation
About the job
We invite applications for Health Research Manager for the Health team at the Foundation. This is a full-time position, based in Bengaluru and will involve extensive travel and field work.
Job Summary
- Get a deep understanding of the state of public health, determinants of health, health institutions, and health mechanisms in the country through extensive reading/research and through connecting with various players – government functionaries, NGOs, public health experts, etc.
- Understand and prioritize areas for research.
- Formulate research questions, design and conduct research on public and community health, focusing on the health needs of vulnerable and underserved communities.
- Program manage end to end all community health-based research studies including working with different internal and external stakeholders.
- Support the fieldwork to gather primary information.
- Do detailed analysis of the research data to arrive at conclusions.
- Document the work in health, good practices and lessons learnt through our work.
- Create mechanisms for disseminating the results of our research work.
- Support any other task related to the research work, as required.
Qualification, Experience and Attributes
- 14+ years of experience in health research and program management.
- Ability to handle data, create proformas for data collection, provide appropriate inputs on dashboard creation for monitoring work, organize, plan, and facilitate work across different teams and workstreams.
- Knowledge of statistical tools and software to analyze data and arrive at results.
- Fluency in written and spoken English is essential.
- Fluency in Hindi and Kannada is an additional desirable skill.
- Master’s degree in Public Health or Social Work is desirable.
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