WHAT WILL YOU DO

The Medical Consultant should be committed towards and passionate about public health and health education, and ready to join our dynamic team of creative designers, public health and behavioural experts in order to advance the Care Companion Program in Nepal. Overall, the role will be focused on developing medical content that is aligned to Nepal government guidelines and local health practices and transforming this content for visually compelling artefacts that can be used for patient and caregiver education. This content may be used over mobile phone platforms, in-facility training, and many other formats that reach thousands of people daily. The role is currently for 6 months (full-time), with a possibility for extension based on mutual agreement.

Broadly the roles and responsibilities of this position are as follows:

Medical Strategy & Content Development:

• Provide key inputs, insights and guidance on the development of the Medical Strategy for a particular health condition area that informs the Theory of Change for the program and addresses the needs of the Nepal health system.
• Define the intended evidence based, clinical and health behaviour change outcomes for the program, in line with global and national guidelines.
• Visit public health facilities and conduct needs assessment to understand patient and caregiver needs, perspectives and challenges, prevalence of diseases and complications, current behaviours and practices and how they can be addressed via the health education curriculum.
• Develop and write the health education content for physical and digital tools (flipcharts, posters, WhatsApp platform etc) based on needs finding insights and secondary research (literature reviews, review of scientific and clinical guidelines).
• Work with the Design, Product, and Training teams to ensure that the medical strategy translates to medically accurate visual tools, training tools and digital follow-up services.
• Participate in testing of medical content to check the efficacy of the health education curriculum and adoption by users (family caregivers and healthcare workers).

Content Reviews and Approvals:

• Work with Noora’s Health’s Nepal partner to review the developed content and tools.
• Support the Noora Health team on content review and approvals by relevant national bodies (such as National Health Education Information And Communication Center and make changes to the content based on recommendations.
• Participate in strategic planning and project meetings with internal teams and partner organisations, including liaising with the government stakeholders as and when needed.

Digital Health strategy:

• Work closely with the Remote Engagement Service team (Noora Health’s WhatsApp, IVRS, teletraining platforms) to ensure that we are developing clinically effective protocols, messaging, and services to reinforce behaviours and drive engagement that is consistent with the larger program goals and in line with the country-specific digital health policies.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR

• This role is aimed at a medical professional with 6+ years of experience who is strongly motivated to solve important public health challenges, is dedicated to the social and development sector, and health equity.
• Clinical medical experience of at least 3 years, in government hospitals and/or primary health clinics, preferably in maternal and newborn health.
• Experience in writing patient-facing medical content, preparing training materials, writing research papers.
• Empathetic and curious about communicating with diverse audiences.
• Collaborative and innovative mindset with a deep focus on patient safety, best outcomes and improving the quality of Noora’s services.
• Excellent content development and creative content writing skills in Nepali with proficiency in English.
• Experience working in digital health interventions/ awareness of digital health policies and standards is an added bonus.
• Good knowledge of MS Office and Google Suite.
• Experience with managing fast-paced projects with tight timelines.
• Comfortable travelling to facilities and homes of users and other implementation sites within Nepal as needed (for around 7-8 days every 2 months).