Raju Lankapalli
Regional Manager, South States, India, ARMMAN
Vijayawada
Summary
I am seeking a challenging opportunity in an organization providing motivation, ambiance, and exposure with opportunities to enrich knowledge and optimum utilization of skills and experience.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Work History
Regional Program Manager
ARMMAN
04.2025 - Current
- The Regional Manager is responsible for providing strategic leadership and operational oversight across assigned geographies. The role ensures effective program implementation, stakeholder coordination, and compliance with organizational and government requirements. The Regional Manager drives performance, team management, and impact at scale.
- Provide strategic leadership and oversight for two national mHealth programs across Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Goa.
- Lead regional annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, and donor/CSR reporting.
- Manage and mentor State Program Managers, Program Officers, and field teams.
- Drive high-level advocacy with Mission Directors (NHM), health secretaries, and senior government officials.
- Review program dashboards on enrollment, listenership, early ANC registration, and data quality.
- Ensure financial compliance, documentation quality, and audit preparedness.
- Coordinate CRM visit preparations, and national leadership presentations.
State Program Manager
ARMMAN
12.2022 - 03.2025
- The major responsibility is to handle the two mHealth programs, Kilkari, and Mobile Academy. As a state program manager, I am responsible for the end-to-end management of the program in the entire state. I will be responsible for documentation, coordination, and managing the program in coordination with state officials (MD, NHM, Principal Secretary, state officials, and the ARMMAN program team).
- Program management and implementation of activities to prevent maternal and infant deaths in the state by following the mission and vision of the organization to reduce the infant mortality rate in the state.
- Develop and retain cordial and excellent relations with all the stakeholders involved in the programs at the grassroots level, i.e., NHM officials, frontline health workers, and beneficiaries.
- Organize and coordinate with state nodals on capacity-building sessions, field visits, and the formation of village/town committees to set up the micro plans based on the risks at ground level.
- Meeting with stakeholders to make communication easy and transparent regarding program issues and decisions on services.
- Provide strategic inputs to the overall program implementation of both mHealth interventions.
- Develop monthly and quarterly plans for state, district, block, and site visits based on monthly performance data.
- Producing accurate and timely reporting of program status throughout the program's life cycle.
- Implementing and managing changes and interventions to ensure program goals are achieved.
- Analyzing program risks based on data, and proposing mitigation strategies to the organization.
- Collect successful case studies from the fields.
- Support other team members in research work, technical implementation of activities, UAT, and MIS analysis.
State Operational Coordinator
FIND (Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics)
10.2021 - 12.2022
- As a State Operational Coordinator scale up the diagnostic network optimization exercise to cover 2 states that contribute to the majority of the testing volumes. Conduct advocacy with Governments and Private institutions to implement the program strategy on Sputum Transportation in both states.
- Coordinating collection of data from the districts in the Selected States related to the location of the CBNAAT, TrueNat their current capacity and utilization, patient flow, and status of sample referral systems.
- Optimising the placement of existing CBNAAT and TrueNat devices in the public sector testing sites.
- Estimate future demand for testing as upfront CBNAAT/NAAT is expanded to all newly diagnosed TB patients.
- Map the location and capacity of TB diagnostic testing services in selected private sector labs and propose engagement models and referral patterns to optimise overall network efficiency and increase patient access to diagnosis.
- Selection of the Local NGOs to implement the ground level activities. Yearly/Quarterly/monthly/ Evaluation have been conducted to measure the quality services by the NGOs.
- Preparation of Budget sheets for individual NGOs and organize the doner meetings with National team to smooth releasing the funds in time.
- Recommend the optimal sample referral network design from health facility to molecular testing site, plus on-referral for C/DST/LPA using multi-stop estimation method.
Community Impact Catalyst
LWI (Living Water India)
06.2021 - 09.2021
- A consultant role of Community Impact Catalyst support programs aimed at development of health and hygiene behavior of the tribal community. Development of the activities to field implementation. and helping to improve the lives of people who live in deprived areas. The role seeks to involve communities in seeking solutions to the problems they face in partnership with statutory and voluntary bodies. The role identifies good practice within the local authority as well as regionally and nationally ensuring exchange of information and good practice, identifying local funding opportunities to deliver both local authority wide and regional initiatives. There can be responsible for the capacity building activities as well as preparation of the yearly budget for the activities.
- Building the links with strategic partners in all sectors to ensure plans are aligned and integrated with the program priorities.
- Team recruitment and capacity building activities for the newly recruited team. Development of the quarter plans to conduct activities related health and Wash activities.
- Coordinating with Government and private hospitals to conduct medical camps in tribal areas. Sensitization of the COVID precaution activities in the community.
- Documentation and statistical analysis of the reports and development of the proposals by conduct the SWOT analysis.
- Frequent Field visits to meet state and regional level partners to mobilize the resources to conduct the Health camps and involvement of the government bodies
- Ensuring the effective involvement of key stakeholders and service providers in the delivery of the program that facilitates impact investments for community.
Program officer
PSI (Population Services International)
12.2018 - 05.2021
- Tasks /Achievements:
- Recruitment of field team, train/orient and deployed in the field.
- Handling the 150 Urban &Villages on Sanitation and hand wash related to the ODF. Executed BCC (Behaviour change communication) method through IPC (interpersonal Communication) activity, Mid media Campaign, and SBCC (Social behavior Change Communication) event.
- Team Management with 20 sanitation counselors who are working in Urban & Villages. Monitoring & Supporting Field activities.
- I Initiated 78 Male group formation to clean the village themselves by Coordinating with the Community
- Have an experience on Preparing BCC (behavior Change Communication) Success Stories on households
- Successfully completed Telugu translation work of training manuals.
- Organised trainings for District RWS team in 66 mandals as part of the handover project to government.
- Organised SBCC meetings with communities to create awareness on hand wash practice and improve toilet usage among the male people.
- Conducted base line, Mid line, end line survey to assess the Community behaviour and key findings submitted to the Government.
- Collaborating with the local government at the block/Mandal level to identify priority gram panchayats / villages to be made “open defecation free.
Divisional Coordinator & Master Trainer
Isha Vidhya
12.2016 - 12.2018
- It is Government support program which is funded by SSA (Sarva shiksha abhiyan) Andhra Pradesh. Work location is Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh. I have 2 years of work experience in conduct advocacy with school head masters, MEOs and DEO and state director of SCRT. Isha have own curriculum of joyful learning to reduce the dropouts in schools. I handled the trainings with government teachers on Isha curriculum. I Lead the team with 35 members to program implementation. 175 children were re-joined in schools by giving counselling to the children and parents. I monitored 800 government schools. I received Best Performance award from the district collector on occasion of Republic day celebrations on 2018.
Monitoring and Evaluation officer
CHAAP organization
09.2015 - 11.2016
- The organization majorly focused on sustainable development in the Economy of the rural community, Wash.
- I have a responsible to formation of the SHGs and conduct the trainings on skill development. Advocacy with vocational training institutes to develop hand skill development.
- I formed 225 SHGs in Krishna district and linked with government “Velugu” projects. Coordination with Bank managers to raised loan for the SHGs.
- Conducted meetings with farmers to form a groups under the demand generation activity. Implemented business strategies to collect citrus baby fruit to export to the international market.
- Regular field visits to the agriculture farms to sensitize about the baby citrus fruit usage.
Project Manager
LEADS NGO
07.2012 - 08.2015
- It is government project which is funded by the NACO (National AIDS Control society). Its aim to identify the Drug users and provide the counseling to them to reduce their risk behavior under the care and support program. I worked with 570 IDUs (injected drug users) in Vijayawada city. Conduct advocacy with local vocational institutes to give the training on livelihoods. Here I handled the team 23 members in field.
- Conducted training programs to the TI related staff on capacity building and program management with the support of APSACS.
- Developing referral linkages with Care & Support Centers, Network agencies, NGO's and Govt. Hospitals etc.
- Communications and coordination with PDs (Project Director) and Pos (program officer) of NGO and TSU (Technical Support Unit) to depute the TI (Targeted Intervention) Staff for trainings.
Education
Master of Social Work (MSW) - Community Development
Adi Kavi Nannaya University
Rajahmundry01.2012
Master of Journalism and mass communication - generic specialization
Krishna university
01.2014
Bachelor of Arts (B.A) - Social Work Economics And Politics
Sir C R Reddy College
Eluru01.2010
Skills
Proficiency in Microsoft office tools (word, Excel, PowerPoint presentation) with internet skills
EXPOSURE WITH COMMUNITIES
- 14 years of experience in public health and community development programmes, with strong focus on RMNCH, WASH, HIV/AIDS, and health systems strengthening.
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing capacity-building strategies for frontline health workers (ASHAs, ANMs), programme staff, and government officials.
- Led state-level project initiation, including development of training frameworks, indicators, and monitoring tools for public health interventions.
- Facilitated large-scale trainings and ToTs for clinical and non-clinical cadres, including government health staff, programme managers, and community-based workers.
- Strong experience in government liaison and advocacy with State and National Health Authorities, supporting programme alignment and ownership.
- Managed and mentored multi-tier public health teams, ensuring performance monitoring through KRAs, supportive supervision, and field mentoring.
- Designed and implemented IPC-focused capacity-building models to strengthen counselling skills of FLWs, contributing to improved service utilisation and health outcomes.
- Developed and deployed IEC/BCC materials and audio-visual learning tools for community awareness on maternal health, sanitation, hygiene, and disease prevention.
- Conducted monitoring, evaluation, and documentation of training and outreach activities, including MIS updates, MPRs, and learning reports.
- Supported district and state health departments in strengthening community outreach, safe water practices, sanitation, and ODF initiatives.
Contact details
- Present address:
- Flat No 103, Ashothosh Appartments, Ippatam Road, Atmakur, Managlagiri, Guntur District 52203, AP
- Permanent address:
- S/O Daveedu, 2-41,nearby Pothunuru Road, Kovvali (Vill), Denduluru Mandal, West Godavari district- 534442, Andhra Pradesh.
Accomplishments
Designed and implemented IPC-focused capacity building for ASHAs and ANMs, later adopted nationally to promote digital health interventions and support MMR/IMR reduction.
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the above written particulars are true to best of my knowledge.
Yours sincerely
(RAJU LANKAPALLI
Timeline
Regional Program Manager
ARMMAN
04.2025 - Current
State Program Manager
ARMMAN
12.2022 - 03.2025
State Operational Coordinator
FIND (Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics)
10.2021 - 12.2022
Community Impact Catalyst
LWI (Living Water India)
06.2021 - 09.2021
Program officer
PSI (Population Services International)
12.2018 - 05.2021
Divisional Coordinator & Master Trainer
Isha Vidhya
12.2016 - 12.2018
Monitoring and Evaluation officer
CHAAP organization
09.2015 - 11.2016
Project Manager
LEADS NGO
07.2012 - 08.2015
Master of Journalism and mass communication - generic specialization
Krishna university
Master of Social Work (MSW) - Community Development
Adi Kavi Nannaya University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A) - Social Work Economics And Politics
Sir C R Reddy College