Job Description :

- Lead the HAAU end to end, owning the unit's workplan, delivery, and relationships with GOI subsidiary leadership.

- Scale the unit's diagnostic and decision-intelligence work towards predictive and prescriptive capabilities, moving from explaining what has happened towards anticipating what is likely to happen and recommending what to do about it.

- Drive the use of AI to generate high-quality, AI-ready datasets, and support governed access to GOI subsidiary data for researchers and partners.

- Get health-financing framework work moving from day one, drawing on a working understanding of public health policy and familiarity with core health-financing and health-economics concepts, until more specialised team members join.

- Translate policy and operational questions from GOI subsidiary leadership into predictive, prescriptive, and scenario-modelling problems, and deliver decision-grade outputs.

- Coordinate the team, manage priorities and risks, and put in place the programme-management discipline (planning, prioritisation, and leadership-ready communication) the unit needs to deliver at pace.

- Manage and build a high-functioning technical team, including data scientists, AI/ML engineers, and subject matter experts/ specialists.

- Bring structure and discipline to the HAAU's expansion, sequencing workstreams, managing change and adoption with key stakeholders, by drawing on experience of leading comparable large technology transformations.

- Mentor emerging State Health Analytics and AI Units (SHAAUs), building lasting institutional capability rather than personal dependence.

- Embed privacy-by-design and strong health data governance across the unit's work, consistent with the DPDP Act 2023 and SAHI.

- Represent the HAAU with NHA leadership and external partners, and perform other responsibilities as requested by the leadership.