State Team Lead

State Team Lead will be responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Maternal Cash schemes and comprehensive SBCC initiative within the state, ensuring alignment with the overall project goals and deliverables. She/he will lead the coordination with all stakeholders for design and rollout of interventions aimed to strengthen initiatives focused on maternal and child nutrition.

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• Oversee the coordination, management, supervision, and monitoring of all project activities at the state level.
• Ensure state level reporting, enable visualization through dashboards for better evidence-based programming for the state officials.
• Ensure timely development of SOPs, job aids, training modules for various project interventions
• Facilitate knowledge creation and management processes by enabling documentation of lessons learned, success stories, and best practices by responsible team members
• Actively participate on monthly review meetings at the national and state level with the project teams
• Establish and maintain a robust monitoring and technical support mechanism at the state level.
• Coordinate with the nodal departments in the State for improving inter-sectoral coordination and project implementation.
• Lead the development and support the execution of the overall project strategy at the state level, ensuring compliance with the approved project deliverables, budget and work plan.
• Maintain effective communication and coordination with team members and key stakeholders to ensure cohesive implementation and timely issue resolution.
• Facilitate dissemination campaigns at the state level for sharing program insights and learnings with relevant national and local stakeholders.
• Ensure that project activities are designed and approved at the state level through the appropriate authorities.
• Identify, establish and foster external partnerships with local CSRs or funding agencies that will contribute to the overall success of the project.
• Represent the project/organisation and participate in state-level monitoring and coordination meetings.
• Analyse project performance trends, identify implementation challenges, and take timely corrective and coordinated actions to ensure achievement of deliverables and result.

• At least 4-5 years of experience of working in the state with the government officials as technical support or direct implementation experience through donor funded programs.
• Sound understanding of program data and proficiency in using MS Word, Excel, and Power Point.
• Preference will be given to those who have previous experience of working with demanding clients, private foundations, and corporates.
• Ability to take up exhaustive travel within the state, at least 10 days in a month and to other parts of the country if required
• Good operational understanding of women and child development, health and family welfare and rural development sectors and programmes.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills especially for donor engagement and high-level representation of the project and organization.
• Demonstrated experience building and leading strategic partnerships with key stakeholders from diverse sectors including NGOs, government, and the private sector.
• Experience in developing robust monitoring and reporting systems for state level evaluations and impact assessments.
• Proficient in local language (writing, reading and speaking).
• Advanced university degree in Management/ Public Health/ Public Policy/Social Sciences/Economics with minimum 15 years of experience in managing large projects/ programmes preferably Maternal and Child Health programs.
• Experience in implementing large scale cash transfer programmes or direct benefits transfer.

Compensation package will be commensurate with qualification & experience and last salary drawn.

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