City Lead- Patna - Surveillance

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PATH is seeking to recruit a City Lead - Surveillance for Patna to provide overall leadership of the surveillance strengthening programme at the city level. The City Lead will bring deep expertise in surveillance operations and will be responsible for urban surveillance planning, implementation, and monitoring across intervention facilities and geographies within Patna. This position requires strong stakeholder engagement with the Municipal Surveillance Unit (MSU), District Surveillance Unit (DSU), City Programme Management Unit (CPMU), Urban Local Bodies (ULBs), and other key departments. The City Lead will serve as the primary point of contact for all surveillance activities in Patna and will act as the bridge that moves the One Health concept from theory to operation, ensuring meaningful coordination across human, animal, and environmental health domains on the ground. The City Lead will be accountable for delivering city-level outputs, milestones, and KPIs as defined in the approved activity plan, ensuring timely and quality implementation of all surveillance strengthening interventions.

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Lead the planning, implementation, and monitoring of urban surveillance strengthening activities in Patna, ensuring alignment with state and national surveillance priorities.

Manage day-to-day stakeholder engagement and coordination with MSU, DSU, CPMU, ULBs, and other relevant departments to ensure integrated programme delivery.

Conduct and guide situational analysis of the existing urban surveillance system, identifying strengths, gaps, and areas for improvement in surveillance coverage, reporting timeliness, and data quality.

Ensure implementation of all city-level activities as per approved timelines and budgets under the project activity plan.

Develop city-specific surveillance strengthening strategies and action plans in alignment with the national roadmap and in coordination with the national surveillance team.

Provide strategic oversight and decision-making support to ensure effective programme delivery, including course corrections based on monitoring data and field insights.

Achieve targeted improvements in IHIP reporting completeness, timeliness, and data use across facilities through supportive supervision, mentoring, and structured monitoring mechanisms.

Institutionalise data-to-action mechanisms by ensuring surveillance data is routinely used for weekly response planning, early warning identification, and targeted interventions.

Facilitate and coordinate outbreak preparedness and response activities, including the operationalisation of rapid response teams, investigation protocols, and after-action reviews.

Plan and coordinate simulation exercises, mock drills, and tabletop scenarios to proactively test the city's surveillance and outbreak response systems before real-world events occur.

Explore and advance integration of surveillance data with city-level digital platforms, including Smart City and Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) systems, to enable cross-platform data flow and visualisation.

Foster meaningful private sector engagement by working with private hospitals, diagnostic laboratories, and clinics to strengthen case reporting, laboratory linkages, and outbreak notification in the urban context.

Plan and facilitate upskilling and technical handholding initiatives on IHIP operations, surveillance data management, outbreak investigation, and related topics for city and facility-level health functionaries.

Support the integration of diagnostic workflow strengthening within the urban surveillance system, including specimen referral mapping and laboratory coordination.

Identify and foster partnerships with development partners, academic institutions, and civil society organisations in Patna for strengthening urban surveillance. This includes exploring colla

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