Programme Manager

Role & responsibilities:

Programme Management & Milestone Tracking

• Drive day-to-day management of the Collaborative's workplan, ensuring activities stay on track against agreed timelines and milestones.
• Maintain a consolidated tracker of deliverables, risks, and dependencies across all workstreams and share regular status updates with the Secretariat Lead.
• Flag delays or bottlenecks early and work with relevant partners to identify and implement course corrections.

Cross-Partner & Cross-District Coordination

• Coordinate across state government, NHM, ALVL Foundation, Gates Foundation, and implementation partners to ensure aligned execution on the ground.
• Track cross-cutting priorities across project locations, ensuring consistency of approach while accommodating state/district-specific needs.
• Serve as the primary operational point of contact for implementation partners, troubleshooting implementation issues as they arise.

Reporting & Documentation

• Prepare periodic progress updates, dashboards, and briefing notes for internal review and for the Secretariat Lead's use in steering committee and partner meetings.
• Maintain organised documentation of workplans, meeting minutes, and decisions related to programme execution.
• Support with programme-side inputs for donor and government reporting as needed.

Preferred candidate profile:

Education & Experience

• Postgraduate degree in public health, management, or a related field.
• 68 years of relevant experience in programme management, preferably within public health, government-facing initiatives.
• Prior experience coordinating multi-stakeholder programmes involving government, CSR and philanthropic partners.
• Familiarity with India's public health architecture (NHM, National Programmes, Ayushman Bharat, HWCs/AAMs).

Skills & Attributes

• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and stakeholders simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including comfort preparing materials for senior government and funder audiences.
• Comfortable working with data and trackers (Excel/Google Sheets) to monitor progress and flag issues.
• Willingness to travel periodically to project locations.
• A collaborative, solutions-oriented working style suited to a small, fast-moving Secretariat team.