Consultant - Clinical and Strategic Strengthening

1. POSITIONS VACANT: Consultant - Clinical and Strategic Strengthening, International Not-for-Profit Organization, Kolkata - Remote.

2. ORGANISATIONAL BACKGROUND:

Our client is a respected international not-for-profit, that works in public health, to improve the health of disadvantaged communities, across the globe.

3. JOB DESCRIPTION/ RESPONSIBILITIES:

The consultant will provide technical leadership and advisory support. S/he will be responsible for the following work;

Key Job Responsibilities: 

(1) Strengthening Clinical Care for PLHIV;
(a) Provide technical inputs for improving quality of clinical services;

(b) Support standardization and updating of national ART guidelines and clinical protocols;
(c) Advise on differentiated service delivery models and long-term patient management;

(d) Support strengthening of advanced and complicated cases;

(e) Strengthening Centres of Excellence: Mentoring of CoE, capacity building etc;

(2) Advanced HIV Disease & Treatment Optimization;
(a) Guide for management of Advanced HIV Disease (AHD);
(c) Provide technical advice on regimen optimization, transition to updated ART regimens, and management of drug resistance;
(d) Support strengthening of viral load monitoring systems and clinical decision-making for treatment failure;

(3) Management of Co-morbidities & Integrated Care;
(a) Provide technical inputs for integration of HIV care with TB, NCDs, hepatitis, and mental health services;

(b) Support development of protocols for screening, early detection, and management of HIV-related comorbidities;

(c) Guide mortality audits, treatment failure cases, and clinical outcome analysis etc;

(4) National & State level (Mumbai & Telangana) support for Capacity Building & Technical Support;
(a) Provide expert inputs for national consultations, technical working groups, and guideline revision committees;

(b) Support development of clinical training materials and mentoring frameworks;

(c) Participate in review meetings and provide advisory inputs to states as required;

(d) Supportive supervisory visits to ART centres and Centres of Excellence for strengthening the HIV treatment services at ART centres;

4. QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCIES:

Qualifications and Experience:

(1) Applicants must have MD (Medicine / Community Medicine) or equivalent postgraduate medical qualification;
(2) Minimum 15–20 years of clinical and public health experience;

(3) Extensive experience in HIV clinical management and national programme implementation;

Skills and Competencies:

(1) Demonstrated expertise in guideline development and clinical quality assurance;

(2) Experience working with Government of India / national health programmes preferred;

5. CONSULTANCY FEE: The consultancy fee for two months INR 4,00,000/- deliverables based+ INR 2,69,600 for Travel as per actual).

6. LOCATION: Kolkata - Virtual

7. REFERENCE: C-K-INPO

8. NATURE OF CONTRACT:

The selected candidate shall be engaged as a Consultant on the rolls of SAMS, a third-party payrolling agency, for a full-time consultancy engagement initially offered for a period of two months. The contract is extendable based on performance and project requirements. It is explicitly clarified that this consultancy engagement does not constitute a promise or guarantee of future employment, with SAMS, or our client, or any other organization associated with the project.

9. CONTACT INFORMATION:

Team SAMS
Strategic Alliance Management Services P Ltd.
1/1B, Choudhary Hetram House, Bharat Nagar 
New Friends Colony, New Delhi 110 025

Phone Nos.: 011- 4081 9900; 4165 3612

10. APPLICATION PROCESS:

Eligible candidates interested in the position are requested to urgently apply before August 06, 2026.