Centre for Health Policy (CHP)

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Vacancy for the post of IT Specialist

CHP

Job Status: Previous Vacancies

Posted Date: 28/11/2019

Last Date To Apply : 10/12/2019

Background

Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojna (PM-JAY), a health insurance scheme covering 100.74 million deprived families across the country, was launched by the Government of India in September 2018 with the twin objectives of providing financial protection from out-of-pocket expenditure on health events that have catastrophic consequences and improving access to quality secondary and tertiary hospitalisation services. The scheme is administered in 33 of the 37 states and Union Territories by the respective federal governments through a network of empanelled public and private providers. Eligible families have annual risk cover of Rs. 500,000 and can access a range of more than 1300 secondary and tertiary care procedures up to the annual sum insured / assured.

Bihar is one of the 33 states implementing PM-JAY since September 2018 and accounts for more than10 percent of the country’s total PM-JAY eligible population. A total of 10.8 million families (45 percent of Bihar’s total population) are covered under the scheme. Only two States Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal have higher number of PM-JAY beneficiaries than Bihar. Therefore, success of PM-JAY in achieving its overall objectives crucially hinges upon its successful implementation in Bihar.

Asian Development Research Institute (ADRI) is a Patna based research institute working in the area of social science research since 1991. The Centre for Health Policy (CHP) at ADRI has been set up to act as a policy think-tank for the Department of Health, Government of Bihar and also provides need-based systems strengthening support. One of its mandates includes providing technical and systems strengthening support to the Bihar Swasthya Suraksha Samiti (BSSS) for PM-JAY in Bihar.

Positions Overview:

The primary objective of the project is to develop a roadmap for strengthening governance, management and implementation of PMJAY and build the capacity of the Bihar Swasthya Suraksha Samiti (BSSS) to effectively administer the scheme.

ADRI is looking for a committed, qualified and experienced candidate to join the PMJAY Technical Assistance team as “IT Specialist” and work closely with the BSSS to achieve the mandate. The supervision and leadership will be provided by the senior leadership within the PM-JAY Technical Assistance team of CHP-ADRI at the state level.

Scope of Work

• The IT Specialist is expected to support BSSS’s IT team in project-related tasks.At least ten years’ experience after acquiring stipulated qualification in Information Technology (IT). Prior experience of -working on AB-PMJAY IT system or donor funded and public sector projects will be accorded due weightage.

Specifically, the tasks shall include:

• Processing of data and creation of a project-specific database based on the flows of scheme progress and growth,
• Monthly update of the database and creation of working-form as per the project implementation needs.
• BSSS services users’ database, and data obtained by BSSS from other partners (like NHA, ISA etc.) associated with the project’s participants; the task includes data anonymization, database matching and merging,
• PMJAY scheme processes’ support and strengthening, such as management of training invitations, and information flows between project-related teams and implementing BSSS at the local level.
• Designing of an online interface for the project allowing different project-related teams to connect and enter/access information for project-related needs in a timely manner.
• The task requires developing a user manual and troubleshooting for users during the duration of the project.
• Supporting BSSS in other tasks related to PM-JAY, as well as other IT tasks related to, as deemed fit by the CHP-ADRI team.

Qualifications

• MCA/M.Sc. (or higher) in Information Technology (IT), engineering in data or computer science, or related discipline;
• Certification as either Microsoft Specialist (MS) in software or database development, Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist (MCTS) in software or database development, Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD), Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD),
• Working knowledge of technologies such as XML Web Services (SOAP, WCF) and RESTFul Services (Web API);
• Experience in web technologies such as Ajax Teknolojileri, CSS, XML, HTML, and XHTML;
• Experience developing an application using ASP.NET, C#.NET, ADO.NET;
• Experience with Windows services, web technologies, web services, Net Framework 4 / 4.5;
• Experience using configuration / change management (version control) software tools (svn, git, mercurial, tfs);

Duration of Service:

Contract for ‘IT Specialist’ position shall be of one-year duration, subject to annual renewals based on satisfactory performance and mutual agreement. CHP has a minimum three year commitment to the BSSS for providing this support, which may be extended depending on the capacity needs of BSSS.

Duty Station:

This position is based at BSSS- Head Officein Bihar or any such designated place. Work will entail substantial to the districts and other locations as required and may vary from 30% to 60% of the total time.

Salary Offered:

Compensation for the position would be competitive and based on previous salary history.

Application Details:

The interested persons may apply to Administrator, ADRI, at e-mail address chp@adriindia.org within 10 days from the date of advertisement. Besides CV, the application should also contain a 'Statement of Purpose' in not more than 500 words, presenting applicant’s vision of the organization.