Senior Consultant - Health Systems Strengthening and Implementation Science

1. POSITIONS VACANT: Senior Consultant - Health Systems Strengthening and Implementation Science, International Not-for-Profit Organization, New Delhi.

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 bring together epidemiology, health systems thinking, implementation science, and programme experience to develop solutions that are technically sound, operationally feasible, locally owned, and scalable. The role will also support rigorous evaluation and documentation of public health innovations to generate actionable evidence for governments, programmes, and development partners. S/he will be responsible for the following work;

Key Job Responsibilities: 

(1) Health Systems Assessment and Strategic Advisory;
(a) Provide senior technical advice on health systems strengthening, service delivery, primary healthcare, programme integration, and evidence-informed decision-making;

(b) Undertake health system, programme, and service delivery assessments to identify structural, operational, and implementation bottlenecks;
(c) Analyse patient and service delivery pathways to identify missed opportunities, fragmentation, delays, and losses across the continuum of care;

(d) Support governments and programmes to prioritise health system challenges and identify practical opportunities for improvement;

(e) Develop strategic roadmaps, technical strategies, concept notes, implementation frameworks, and investment cases;

(f) Translate national and global policies and technical guidance into locally implementable programme models;

(2) Designing Locally Customized Public Health Solutions;
(a) Lead the design and adaptation of public health interventions based on local epidemiology, health system capacity, community realities, and implementation context.
(b) Apply systems thinking and implementation science approaches to develop practical solutions for complex public health challenges;
(c) Facilitate co-design processes involving programme managers, healthcare providers, frontline workers, communities, and other stakeholders;
(d) Adapt global and national technical recommendations to subnational and local health system contexts;

(e) Develop differentiated implementation models for populations and geographies with varying needs, vulnerabilities, and health system capacities;

(f) Support rapid testing, refinement, and adaptation of programme models before wider scale-up;

(3) Integrated and Decentralized Service Delivery;
(a) Provide technical leadership for designing integrated, people-centred service delivery models across communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases, and other public health priorities;

(b) Identify opportunities to reduce fragmented and disease-specific service delivery and strengthen integration through primary healthcare systems;

(c) Design decentralized models that bring screening, diagnostics, treatment, and follow-up services closer to communities;

(d) Strengthen linkages between community platforms, primary healthcare facilities, laboratories, referral institutions, and specialized services;

(e) Review and redesign screening, diagnostic, referral, treatment, and follow-up cascades to minimize delays and losses to care;

(f) Develop models for continuity of care and coordinated service delivery across different levels of the health system;

(g) Support implementation and evaluation of integrated and decentralized service delivery Approaches;

(4) Health System and Service Delivery Re-engineering;
(a) Map existing programme processes, workflows, patient pathways, and institutional arrangements to identify inefficiencies and system bottlenecks;

(b) Lead the redesign of programme and service delivery processes to improve access, coverage, quality, efficiency, and equity;

(c) Simplify implementation pathways and develop practical operational models responsive to frontline health system realities;

(d) Support programmes to optimise the use of existing infrastructure, workforce, community platforms, and institutional resources;

(e) Develop mechanisms to strengthen coordination, accountability, referral, and information flow across health system actors;

(f) Guide adaptive implementation and troubleshooting during the introduction or scale-up of redesigned service delivery models;

(h) Document health system changes and assess their implications for sustainability and Institutionalisation;

(5) Epidemiology, Disease Burden Assessment, and Programme Intelligence;
(a) Provide epidemiological expertise for understanding disease burden, population health needs, service gaps, and programme performance;

(b) Design and support epidemiological assessments, population surveys, surveillance analyses, and burden estimation exercises;

(c) Analyse geographic, demographic, clinical, and health system variations in disease burden and service access;

(d) Triangulate surveillance, programme, laboratory, survey, and other data sources to generate actionable programme intelligence;

(e) Identify vulnerable, underserved, and unreached populations to support differentiated programme strategies;

(f) Support evidence-based prioritisation of populations, geographies, interventions, and programme resources;

(g) Translate epidemiological findings into clear recommendations for policymakers and programme managers;

(6) Urban Health and Underserved Population Models;

(a) Design and evaluate public health and service delivery models for urban slums, migrant communities, and other vulnerable or underserved populations;

(b) Assess barriers to healthcare access, service utilisation, diagnosis, referral, and continuity of care in complex urban environments;

(c) Develop community-based screening, early detection, referral, and linkage-to-care models;

(d) Design approaches that bring essential health services closer to populations experiencing geographical, economic, or social barriers to care;

(e) Strengthen engagement of community organisations, local institutions, frontline workers, and civil society in programme delivery;

(f) Generate implementation evidence to inform scale-up and institutionalisation of effective urban health models;

(7) Private Sector Engagement and Public-Private Partnerships;

(a) Provide technical leadership for the design and strengthening of public-private partnership models in health;

(b) Assess private healthcare landscapes, provider behaviour, patient pathways, and interfaces between public and private health systems;

(c) Design locally appropriate mechanisms for engaging private hospitals, individual healthcare providers, professional associations, corporate institutions, and other nonstate actors;

(d) Develop approaches for shared accountability, quality improvement, referral, reporting, and continuity of care;

(e) Facilitate stakeholder dialogue and consensus building to align public health objectives with institutional and professional priorities;

(f) Support the testing, evaluation, documentation, and scale-up of innovative private sector engagement models;

(8) Implementation Research, Evaluation, and Learning;

(a) Design implementation research and evaluation approaches for complex public health and health systems interventions;

(b) Develop theories of change, evaluation frameworks, indicators, learning questions, and data collection approaches;

(c) Assess feasibility, acceptability, adoption, implementation fidelity, coverage, effectiveness, equity, sustainability, and potential for scale;

(d) Apply appropriate implementation science and programme evaluation frameworks to understand what works, for whom, under what conditions, and why;

(e) Design mixed-methods evaluations combining epidemiological, programme, and qualitative evidence;

(f) Support routine programme reviews and use findings for adaptive management and continuous programme improvement;

(g) Translate evaluation findings into practical recommendations for programme redesign, policy change, and scale-up;

(9) Government, Community, and Stakeholder Engagement;

(a) Work closely with national and subnational governments to align interventions with public health priorities and institutional processes;

(b) Facilitate multi-stakeholder engagement involving policymakers, programme managers, healthcare providers, professional associations, development partners, academia, civil society, and communities;

(c) Build consensus around complex public health and health system reforms; 
(d) Promote meaningful community participation and local ownership in programme design and implementation;

(e) Support the translation of technical evidence into clear and actionable policy and programme recommendations;

(f) Navigate complex stakeholder environments and facilitate coordinated action around shared public health objectives;

(10) Documentation, and Knowledge Translation;

(a) Lead systematic documentation of public health interventions, programme innovations, and implementation experiences;

(b) Prepare high-quality technical briefs, landscape assessments, epidemiological reports, strategy papers, concept notes, implementation plans, and evaluation reports;

(c) Develop policy briefs and programme recommendations that translate complex evidence into actionable messages for decision makers;

(d) Support preparation of scientific manuscripts and documentation of innovative programme models;

(e) Develop donor-facing technical narratives, investment cases, and presentations;

(f) Facilitate dissemination of programme lessons through technical consultations, workshops, publications, and knowledge platforms;

(g) Evaluate interventions systematically and prepare final reports;

4. QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCIES:

Qualifications and Experience:

(1) Applicants must have advanced degree in Medicine and Public Health;
(2) Minimum 15 years of demonstrated professional experience in public health, health systems strengthening, programme implementation, epidemiology, or technical assistance;

(3) Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, evaluating, and scaling complex public health and health systems interventions;
(4) Strong expertise in integrated and decentralised service delivery, health system strengthening, and programme re-engineering;

(5) Demonstrated experience in epidemiological assessment, disease burden analysis, surveillance, and use of programme data for decision-making;

(6) Experience designing locally customised public health solutions for diverse populations and health system contexts;

(7) Demonstrated expertise in implementation research, programme evaluation, and translation of evidence into policy and programme action;

(8) Experience working with national and subnational governments and supporting largescale public health programmes;
(9) Proven ability to lead complex, multi-stakeholder assignments and deliver high-quality technical outputs;

(10) Excellent analytical, technical writing, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills in English;

Skills and Competencies:

(1) Strong understanding of primary healthcare, integrated service delivery, and people centred health systems;

(2) Experience designing decentralised healthcare delivery models and strengthening diagnostic and referral pathways;

(3) Expertise in urban health and interventions for vulnerable and underserved populations;

(4) Demonstrated experience in private sector engagement and public-private partnership models;
(5) Strong background in epidemiology, disease burden estimation, and programme intelligence;

(6) Experience in health system and service delivery re-engineering;

(7) Expertise in implementation science, mixed-methods evaluation, and adaptive programme management;

(8) Demonstrated ability to design context-specific public health solutions and support their transition from pilot to scale;

(9) Experience documenting public health innovations and translating implementation experience into policy, technical guidance, and scientific publications;

(10) Experience with government programmes and donor-supported initiatives involving bilateral, multilateral, and philanthropic development partners;

(11) Ability to bridge epidemiology, health systems, programme implementation, research, and policy;

5. CONSULTANCY FEE: The consultancy fee for two months INR 7,00,000/- deliverables based+ INR 1,61,300 for Travel as per actual).

6. LOCATION: New Delhi - Virtual

7. REFERENCE: SC-ND-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.