- Educational Qualifications: Bachelors or Masters Degree in Communication Design/ Systems Design/ Social Design/ Interaction Design/ User Experience Design/ Public Health/ Design Research/ Strategic Design Management
The activities you will engage in
- Lead a multidisciplinary team with varied competencies from a technical and practical perspective towards executing the program and its work stream. Coach and upskill team members to develop a social innovation mindset and orient them towards impact generation
- Have full oversight of all activities within the project, ensure high quality of outputs, guide team members working on different elements and coordinate communications within different arms of the project team
- With the support of Project Supervisor, lead planning project timelines, managing resource availability and their reallocation in line with project budgets and demands, and other organizational requirements.
- Lead innovation and solutioning efforts within the project by tying together threads of inputs and learnings gathered from different project teams, while engaging collaboratively with clients and partners
- Steer design-led research and analysis, co-design and facilitate sense making workshops with relevant stakeholders, lead design workshops and sprints to develop practical solutions and interventions
- Develop ecosystem maps, build systems design frameworks and produce relevant knowledge artifacts that can serve as assets for the organization beyond the duration of this project
- Act as a point of communication between the project team and other arms of the company, including business development, marketing and communications and project teams working on other similar projects to ensure that the learnings and insights from this project are channelized in ways for the company to benefit from
- Own relationships and act as the face of the company with all key stakeholders involved in the project, existing and potential clients as required
Skills you will get to exercise and build on
- Client engagement and project management skills needed to handle a complex project and a team with a range of expertise. Practical skills including time management, task delegation and prioritization
- Creative leadership and Innovative problem-solving skills for day to day management, and the ability to handle crisis situations appropriately
- Planning and time management skills to lead design teams in delivering outputs on time and within budget
- Written and verbal communication skills including fluency in English to be able to articulate learnings and insights to a range of audiences within and beyond the organization
- Agile workingthe ability to rapidly adapt and align the team to changing ground realities, client requirements and project priorities.
- If you have prior experience of working across RMNCH+A, you're already at the top of our shortlist
What we love to see in candidates
Adaptability and flexibility within reasonable limits in order to make timely and relevant contributions in the rapidly transforming vaccine delivery space
Proactive ownership of responsibilities and the willingness to learn from failures
- Vihara encourages individuals to initiate and lead, and provides support in whatever form needed
- Curiosity and openness to learn how different disciplines approach the same problem and an enthusiasm to collaborate with others
- Outcome and impact orientedness in one's approach to design and research
- Vihara is a growing organization that is committed to delivering outcomes rather than just insights
