Program Officer – Communication (Health)

• We believe every person and every family has the right to good health.
• Through a comprehensive and collaborative approach, we improve community health practices and access to quality healthcare for vulnerable households.
• Click here to know more about what we do in health.

The Health Worker is a platform (a digital magazine and newsletter) to bring together stories and resources on public health in India to inform, educate and inspire people working and invested in public health.

Responsibilities:

Participate in the development of The Health Worker. Ensuring steady flow of appropriate content is being populated on The Health Worker

• Interact with frontline health workers — NGOs and Public Health — across the country and gather inspiring stories and powerful insights; create articles from these
• Coordinating with field team and videography team for field shoots
• Interviewing field health workers for videos
• Interact with public health experts and solicit articles
• Following up with invitees to coordinate video shoots of interviews at Bengalur
• Build relationship with associations of medical professionals in order to generate content for the website
• Work with internal teams such as health research team and MPH faculty to generate content

Ensuring distribution of content and growing subscriber base

• Reaching out to contacts and collecting databases/creating tie-ups with partners and other organisations for newsletter distribution
• Coordinating with internal stakeholders and external agencies to create online promotion

Requirements:

• A graduate with 3-5 years of program management experience in social sector
• An understanding of AI and social media tools for content editing/creation is desirable
• Exposure to health sector is preferred
• High level of fluency in written and oral English and Hindi is a must

Work location: St. Marks Road, Bengaluru