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Voluntary Health Association of India is one of the largest health and development networks in the world. Started in 1970 and based in New Delhi, it is a federation of 27 State Voluntary Health Associations, linking together more than 4500 member institutions and 1,00,000 community health workers across the country. The Government of India recognizes VHAI as an institute of national importance.
VHAI is implementing a comprehensive health promotion and tobacco control programme at the national and state levels across several settings in the country. VHAI is also one of the largest publishing houses among NGOs, with over 1000 titles on health, gender, health promotion, tobacco control and development issues. More information on our activities is available at: www.vhai.org and www.rctfi.org .
Current Openings
For our Tobacco Control division, VHAI invites applications for the post of: |
1. Coordinator- PAT & APPLE Project
Applicants should have a post-graduate degree in public health or social sciences from a reputed university with a minimum of 4-6 years of experience in coordinating and working on state-level health-related projects across India.
Candidates would be expected to:
- Develop an in-depth understanding of the COTPA (Tobacco Control Act), especially smoke free rules in India.
- Assist in managing the VHAI tobacco control project in Delhi and state settings across various states. Support the overall project and its key focus areas of mainstreaming tobacco control work, smoke free, sensitizing stakeholders, conducting policy advocacy at state and district level, and monitoring and reporting tobacco control law violations.
- Coordinate with state partners, offer technical help where required to ensure work plans, project activities, schedules and activities are on track. Assist in developing appropriate project-specific strategies for successful achievement of planned outcomes and impact.
- Compile and maintain an updated database of parliamentarians, members of state legislative assembly, important government committees, and other vital contacts in the health, labour and commerce ministries. Have an updated list of key policymakers/political leaders with a history of their work, constituencies, policy contributions, questions raised in parliament etc.
- Strategize ways to build one to one relationships with important government contacts and collaborate with them for implementation of COTPA and its provisions.
- Network actively with community-level NGOs, coalition members as well as liaison, maintain linkages with state and district government departments, senior officials of Delhi and State Tobacco Control Cell at Delhi.
- Monitor and review the project from Delhi and undertake periodic travel to the state settings. Analyze, assess areas of strength/weaknesses and advise course correction measures related to project activities and state budgets as required.
- Maintain close working relationship with state-level project team members to ensure team work, follow up for timely submission of quaterly plans and reports for submission to partner donor agency.
- Report on project activities to the Project Director and Executive Director/Chief Executive periodically.
- Attend to any other work besides the above, as assigned by Project Director and Chief Executive.
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Interested candidates may please email us their applications along with detailed CVs by 10 February 2012 at tobaccocontrol@vhai.org and healthpromotion@vhai.org addressed to:
The Executive Director, Voluntary Health Association of India, B 40, Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi -110016,
Ph: 011-47004300. |
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All the positions require excellent written and communication skills, analytical skills, ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment, sound computer and internet proficiency and ability and desire to travel. In addition, applicants must have a keen interest and sensitivity to the issue of tobacco and its huge burden on public health.
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Please note that women are specially encouraged to apply. Smokers and tobacco users are strongly discouraged from applying as VHAI has a tobacco-free environment. .
Our Contact address:
VHAI, B-40, Qutab Institutional Area, New Delhi-110016
Ph: 011-26518071-72, 011-47004300 |
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