Brief Description of Position

The Healthpoint Services Initiative is seeking to recruit an individual to become the COO of its activities in India working closely with the Naandi Foundation and the Healthpoint Services, LLC US (and its Indian subsidiary). This individual should be willing to accept the challenge of pioneering a radically different healthcare model that can bring rural medical practice into the modern industrial era. He or she should also have the leadership and managerial abilities to manage and motivate a world-class team to accomplish this goal.

• Business experience relevant to rural India, preferably including one or more of supply chain management, retail operations, social marketing, or telemedicine: a strong commitment to improving living conditions for rural and peri-urban families.
• Strong management skills and the ability to work with customers, partners, and regulators within India steadily to build capacities of the team and local partners to improve operations and financial performance and to measure and manage programme milestones.
• Demonstrated entrepreneurial energy and problem-solving capability.
• Understanding of the Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) Models as applicable to the Social/Development sector and the ability to network with relevant resources across various sectoral organizations.
• Strong Communication skills , ability to work with government officials, technical partners, medical professionals, and village residents to explain the project's objectives and services.
• Experience in leading medium to large sized teams for designing, implementing and supervising programme/project operations.

Desirable but not essential:

• Prior experience with some aspect of healthcare and/or rural/peri-urban service delivery.
• Experience of working closely with a programme with business/service orientation in the social/corporate sector with a fair degree of client interface.

  Send your resume at ehp@naandi.org

Brief Description of Position

The Healthpoint Services Initiative is seeking to recruit a Chief Medical Officer (CMO) to lead and manage its novel approach to primary healthcare delivery in rural and peri-urban markets of developing countries. This individual should be willing to assume the challenge of pioneering a radically different healthcare model that can bring rural healthcare delivery into the modern era. He/she will recruit and manage medical staff and lay healthworkers, guide application of web-based e-health tools that automate, standardize, and document patient interactions/interventions in both a broadband-connected rural retail "healthpoint" and in a supporting urban medical call-center, and take overall responsibility for the quality of patient care. The CMO will help to establish healthpoint workflow and procedures and training protocols for both professional and lay staff, as well as lead evaluation of new diagnostic tools for use in healthpoints.

Skills Required

• A Medical Professional with a Post Graduate qualification.
• Relevant medical training and clinical experience; experience in rural primary care and/or community medicine highly desirable.
• Demonstrated management skills for medical staff; business training and/or experience in the business aspects of healthcare delivery highly desirable.
• Strong interest in and commitment to the goal of transformation of rural/peri-urban healthcare.
• Familiarity with one or more of IT tools, telemedicine, clinical decision support systems, or modern diagnostic systems highly desirable.

Interested personnel may apply to ehp@naandi.org or can send CV to The Chief Operating Officer, Naandi Foundation,502 Trendset Towers , Road # 2 , Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500034