Job Description
Job Title: District Coordinator
Department: Program Implementation
Age: Below 60yrs
Travel: 40%
Location: Boudh, Gajapati , Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Koraput, Malkangiri, Raygadav
Reporting to: State Coordinator-Malaria Elimination Project
No. of Positions: 7 (one person for each district)
Duration: Till 31st March 2027
Level Of Contact With Children: 1 – Direct contact with the children
The position holder shall be responsible to adhere & work within the ambit of Plan India’s Safeguarding & Gender Equality Policies.
ABOUT PLAN INDIA
PIIC is a nationally registered not for profit organization striving to advance children’s rights and equality for girls, thus creating a lasting impact in the lives of vulnerable and excluded children and their communities. Since 1979, PIIC and its partners have improved the lives of millions of children and young people by enabling them access to protection, quality education and healthcare services, a healthy environment, livelihood opportunities and participation in decisions which affect their lives. To know more about PIIC visit www.planindia.org
SUMMARY OF THE OVERALL JOB
The District Coordinator is responsible for overseeing malaria control activities at the district level, providing supportive supervision to Block Coordinators, health workers, and field staff. Key responsibilities include managing annual plans, conducting field visits, ensuring quality assurance, analyzing malaria data, and collaborating with local authorities and communities. The role involves supervision of vector control operations, case management, and surveillance, as well as training and capacity-building of staff. The District Coordinator plays a critical role in driving malaria control efforts and ensuring effective implementation of programs
KEY FUNCTIONS / RESPONSIBILITIES
- Supportive supervision
- Tour for at least 10 days in a month for field supervision
- Supervise all activities of Block Coordinators.
- Provide supportive supervision to health workers, volunteers and field staff responsible for vector control operations, especially IRS and ITN/LLIN distribution.
- Regularly assess the coverage of case management activities and work with the local health authorities and other sectors to improve access, where needed.
- Draft annual plans for malaria control in the area of responsibility and submit them to the State Coordinator VBDC.
- Manage the timely implementation of the approved annual malaria control plan in the area of responsibility including logistics, training, communication, and quality assurance.
- Ensure the implementation of malaria surveillance based on NVBDCP norms, serving as the frontline professional for the early detection of outbreaks and special problems and ensuring that feedback is provided to cadres and health workers involved in malaria control.
- Visit all the PHCs (block and additional) and designated microscopy centres in the area of responsibility once every fortnight, sentinel centres once a month, and subcentres and 10% of remote villages once every two months with additional visits to villages with epidemiological or operational problems.
- During visit to subcentres, visit remote villages and interview CHV and 2 patients treated by CHV in the last one month (to verify her/his records).
- Guide health workers and volunteers in the planning of outreach services including ACD.
- Check the quality of malaria case management at all levels including recording, reporting and commodities management during visits to health facilities, health workers and volunteers and through home visits to malaria cases.
- Fill the supervisory checklist during each field visit in triplicate; of this one copy is filed in the PHC, one is submitted to the DVBDCO and the last is for MTS’s own record.
- Supervise the quality and coverage of IRS and LLIN/ITN operations in the field.
- Check completeness and correctness of recording and reporting, and undertake primary analysis of malaria data.
- Ensure timely submission of reports through the BMO and channelling surveillance feed-back from the district to BMO and subcentres.
- Communicate regularly with the affected communities, their leaders, administrative authorities at block level and representatives of other sectors to respond to their needs and to recruit their support for malaria control.
- Assist the MO-PHC in training of ASHAs and MPHWs.
- Conduct concurrent and consecutive supervision of domiciliary visits of BC.
- Ensure that BCs contact CHVs regularly; and if the post of BC is vacant, they contact the CHVs also.
- Administer radical treatment to all positive cases found during the supervisory visit.
- Refer seriously ill cases to the referral centre.
- Help in organizing and supervising the spray operations, where required.
- Ensure that the BCs gives advance information on spray to the villagers.
- Motivate householders who refuse spray into accepting the spray.
- Ensure good quality of spray operations and maintain insecticide records.
- IEC / BCC
- Educate the community about signs and symptoms of malaria, its treatment, prevention and vector control.
- Provide advance information on spray dates to community/villages.
- Participate in the anti-malaria month activities.
- Recording and reporting
- Maintain record of fever cases diagnosed by blood slides and RDTs in M-1 and provide it to BC during supervisory visits of subcentres.
- Submit monthly advance tour program by last Monday of preceding month for approval by the SC-VBDC.
- Submit tour diary, supervisory checklist and log book for verification to SC-VBDC each month.
- Provide supportive supervision to non-medical staff responsible for case management and surveillance and to vector control staff.
- Keep a record of supervisory visits in tour diary and submit to State coordinator VBDC/MO-PHC during monthly meetings for verification.
- Immediately inform unusually high incidence of fever or malaria cases to State coordinator VBDC/MO-PHC.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- 2-3 yr experience with Master’s degree in Zoology with Entomology from a recognised University, or institute or Master’s degree in Public Health Entomology.
- In areas where a candidate with the desired qualification is not available, a Science Graduate will be considered. Qualification can be relaxed only in exceptional cases.
- The candidate should have a valid two-wheeler driving license.
- The candidate should be preferably from the same district for the post he/she applies.
- Experienced candidate in health-related programme shall be given preference.
- Ability to speak, understand, read and write in Hindi, English and/or regional language based on the State of operations.
Age Limit: Applicants must be 58 years of age or below as of the date of application. Candidates above 58 years will not be considered for this position.
COMPENSATION AND EMPLOYMENT
PlIC is an equal opportunity employer and qualified women candidates are encouraged to apply.
Our policies and procedures reflect our commitment to child rights and child protection.
How to apply
Please send us your updated resume along with a suitability note (Single Word document only) at planindiacareers@planindia.org. Please mention District Coordinator- (District Name) in the subject.
Last date of application is 30th October 2025.
Please note the applications are being assessed on a rolling basis
Given the volume of applications received, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.