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 Bengaluru
• 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
• Openness to regular travel across the country
• High level of fluency in written and oral English and Hindi

Work location: St. Mark’s Road, Bengaluru