Centre for Healthcare is a research-led centre that was conceptualized in the early 2020 to fill the gap of rigorous healthcare research in India on Indian context from the management lens. Its objective is to bring together academicians from management, public health, practitioners, and research active medical professionals to understand and solve fundamental issues in healthcare in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). After the centre came into existence in April 2021, it has been actively involved in research and has regularly hired full time RAs.
Karma Primary Healthcare is an impact-driven, award-winning social enterprise, working towards providing equitable access to quality primary healthcare through telemedicine services in rural and peri-urban parts of six states of India. Over years, it has built a comprehensive primary healthcare delivery solution including a full spectrum technology suite to transform healthcare delivery.
We are looking for an RA who will work jointly with CFH and Karma Healthcare. The role will expose you to the working of both, a leading academic institution as well as a for-profit social venture taking specialist services to the doorsteps of rural India. This will help you learn academic research as well as understand the grassroots context of healthcare for the underserved populations, before diving into the research.
RAs from the IIM Udaipur have gone on to join Ph.D. programs at Kellogg, Maryland, Georgia, UT Austin, Texas A&M, Ivey, Pittsburgh, London School of Economics, Iowa, Warwick, ESSEC, among others. The program offers you a fostering environment that propels you towards an excellent journey in academia.
You should consider yourself a good fit for this position if you are seriously considering pursuing a Ph.D. and want to get some experience to see if a research career is meant for you and also to improve your understanding and profile for the Ph.D. applications. You will assist faculty projects that cut across marketing and healthcare. The skills you develop will help you in applying to top-ranked doctoral programs in marketing.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree from any of the top-tier colleges in the country/ abroad with an understanding of research and interest in pursuing a Ph.D. in marketing.
The candidate must have high standards in terms of quality of work, attention to detail, ability to multi-task and absolute commitment to task completion. Candidate must have high levels of motivation for learning and preparing for a cutting-edge academic career and must be self-driven.
Location: Udaipur (IIMU Campus). Work from home is not an option.
This would be a contractual engagement for a period of 12 months. It would be renewed for a further period of 12 months (if performance is deemed satisfactory), enabling the candidate to build their profile for PhD applications. Candidates are expected to move on into a PhD at the end of two years.
Interested candidates can apply online by following the instructions given below. The position will remain open and will accept applications till a suitable candidate is found.
We will contact you within 2 weeks of your submission of application in case we decide to interview you. In case you do not hear from us within 2 weeks of your submission of application, you have not been shortlisted for this position.
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