Saurav Anand
Patna,Bihar
Summary
Goal-oriented professional, skilled leader and analytical problem-solver versed in multi-tasking, budget planning, staff oversight, Program management and Monitoring. Uses relationship-building talents and excellent interpersonal skill and communication style to forge long-lasting connections and enhance operations.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Programme Head
Karuna-Shechen
Bihar
2022.10 - Current
- Lead efforts of the respective program teams (Health & Hygiene, Education, Environment, Food Security and Economic Development) to optimise the program impact while remaining cost-effective.
- Preparing Budgets, Oversee Program indicators and prepare Program performance slide decks & reports.
- Monitoring, guidance and capacity building trainings for program team.
Project Implementation Lead - Bihar
Karnataka Health Promotion Trust
Bihar
2021.08 - 2022.09
- Lead the State Project team and overall in-charge for state project deliverables, program & Finance review & planning.
- Engage Community Structures & TB Champions for Awareness generation, Stigma mitigation and TB Referrals from community
- Regularize Patient support group meetings to resolve queries of TB Patients related to treatment, medication & Nutrition.
- Rolling out Behavior change solution to test its efficacy and effectiveness in increasing Case notification and case holding among vulnerable population
- Monitor and evaluate project performance against the indicators, capacity building of staffs
- Ensure proper documentation and co-ordinate with State NTEP, District NTEP and other stakeholders on regular and need basis
Policy Impact Fellow
Oxford Policy Management
Bihar
2021.06 - 2021.08
- To build strong relationships with government and associated stakeholders in Bihar, to understand their informational and advisory needs, and to identify opportunities for positive influence on policy and programmes
- To communicate the contents (findings, recommendations, proposals) and implications of OPM's health and nutrition related work to these stakeholders
State Program Officer
Tata Trusts, VCF
Bihar
2020.03 - 2021.06
- Provide technical and strategic leadership, administrative and managerial oversight, and monitoring throughout project implementation
- Support the State TSU team in implementation of NPCDCS program and use of resources to achieve project outcomes .Oversee the development of annual work plans, progress reports, and other required deliverables.
- Work in close coordination with Mission Director of NHM, State and National NCD team and National TSU for scaling and implementation of NPCDCS program.
- Organize State & district level trainings for roll out and capacity building of field staffs on NCD and CPHC application and NPCDCS program.
Centre director
Triumphant Institute of, Management Education
Dhanbad, Jharkhand
2018.09 - 2020.03
- Strategic planning to ensure optimization of resources and operational efficiency to meet work timeline
- Manage the gamut of tasks including manpower planning, recruitment, induction and training of employees
- Ensure daily updating of data and Report generation through MIS and Training of staffs for efficient use of MIS
- Devise Marketing and Promotional strategy for the centre.
Technical Associate - Epidemiology
CARE India: Solution for Sustainable Development
Patna, Bihar
2017.10 - 2018.08
- Developing Knowledge and learning documents including Tools, training manuals and quality monitoring tools.
- Coordinate with the members of implementation team in order to identify monitoring needs of the program and document learning gathered from the same.
- Understand and perform basic and Advanced Analysis using all available data sources for findings & knowledge generation to guide the program implementation.
- Capacity Building of Program Team and Government Counterparts on understanding of data and data driven management.
District MLE Officer
CARE India: Solution for sustainable development
Patna, Bihar
2015.04 - 2017.09
- Strategic planning to ensure optimization of resources and operational efficiency to meet work timeline
- Manage the gamut of tasks including manpower planning, recruitment, induction and training of staffs by conducting demo field rehearsal and mock sessions and demonstrations through illustrations
- Spearheading district specific pilots and formative studies, besides assisting tool development, formulation of study designs, laying down study protocols and undertaking statistical analysis for varied projects
- Understanding and collating the program learning from different districts and regions and develop process of Data Driven Management and disseminate the same to program team.
System Engineer
Infosys Limited
Bhubaneswar
2010.11 - 2013.02
- Coding, Testing Preparation of Unit test plan Preparation of Integrated Test Plan Database Management
- Monitored and tested application performance for potential bottlenecks, identified possible solutions and worked with developers to implement fixes.
- Member of Rural Reach Program of Infosys Limited, 2012, for providing basic computer knowledge to children in tribal area of Bhubaneswar.
Education
Master of Business Administration - Rural Management
Xavier Institute of Management, XIMB
2013.05 - 2015.03
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer science
Shri Vaishnav Institute of Technology and Science
Indore, Madhya Pradesh 2006.06 - 2010.03
12th -
Cambridge School
Ranchi, Jharkhand 2004.04 - 2005.03
10th -
Govind Vidyalaya
Jamshedpur, Jharkhand 2001.04 - 2002.03
Skills
- Technical and strategic leadership
- Operations and Team handling
- Overall Project Management
- Liaison with State officials, partners, Private Stakeholder
- Project Finance Review and overall Finance Management
- Documentation, Report Writing, Case Study and Slide Deck Preparation
- Designing Training Module and Quality check Formats
- Qualitative and Quantitative Research
- Study Design Training and Capacity Building of staffs
- CAPI and PAPI Tool Development
- Data Analysis using SAS & SPSS
- Proficient in MS office, DBMS, Basic R, C, C, VB, Java
Languages
English
Fluent
Hindi
Native
Bengali
Elementary
Accomplishments
- Lead the implementation of “Breaking the Barrier” Project which aims to develop innovative and effective behavior change operational models that improve coverage of specific populations vulnerable to TB for increased case notification and successful TB treatment outcomes.
- Lead the implementation of NPCDCS Program and rollout of HWC-NCD Application in Bihar.
- Collaborated with Indian Market Research Bureau to build capacity of consultants and field investigators to assess acceptance and awareness of family planning methods, estimate burden of unmet need, take a measure of mental health of rural women, and estimate proportion of women being subjected to instances of domestic violence.
- Collaborated with Vihara Foundation to understand their vulnerability framework and designing a Quantitative Study from Qualitative framework.
- Conducted Comprehensive Facility Assessment (CFA) to assess Infrastructure, Equipment and drugs availability, referral services and Human resource details of all government Facility in Bihar.
- Conducted LQAS+ Survey to find the health indicators of Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal Child health and Adolescent in Bihar.
- Conducted a study to understand the seasonality effect in complementary feeding of children in the age group of 6-8 months and 9-11 months.
- Assessment of nutritional status of adolescents, pregnant and lactating women in Bihar.
Hobbies & Interests
Travelling, Community interaction, Data Analysis.
References
Anil Kumar Mishra
Organisation: Tata Trusts
Designation: Zonal Lead
Mobile: 9336443005
Email: akmishra001@gmail.com
Bishwajit Mukherjee
Organisation: Population Council
Designation: Specialist, Program
Mobile: 9102414759
Email: mukherji.bishwajit@gmail.com
Timeline
Programme Head
Karuna-Shechen
2022.10 - Current
Project Implementation Lead - Bihar
Karnataka Health Promotion Trust
2021.08 - 2022.09
Policy Impact Fellow
Oxford Policy Management
2021.06 - 2021.08
State Program Officer
Tata Trusts, VCF
2020.03 - 2021.06
Centre director
Triumphant Institute of, Management Education
2018.09 - 2020.03
Technical Associate - Epidemiology
CARE India: Solution for Sustainable Development
2017.10 - 2018.08
District MLE Officer
CARE India: Solution for sustainable development
2015.04 - 2017.09
Master of Business Administration - Rural Management
Xavier Institute of Management, XIMB
2013.05 - 2015.03
System Engineer
Infosys Limited
2010.11 - 2013.02
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer science
Shri Vaishnav Institute of Technology and Science
2006.06 - 2010.03
12th -
Cambridge School
2004.04 - 2005.03
10th -
Govind Vidyalaya
2001.04 - 2002.03