Analyst- Surveillance Intelligence

WJCF is an Indian non-profit organisation committed to saving lives by reducing the burden of disease and strengthening government-owned, high-quality health systems. Since 2007, WJCF has combined data-driven approaches and deep public health expertise with strong government partnerships to design, implement, and scale solutions across India’s national and state health programmes. We work for and at the service of governments — supporting the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and State Departments of Health to build systems that are strong, sustainable, and led by Indian institutions.

As an Indian organisation, WJCF brings an unmatched depth of contextual understanding of India’s health system architecture, policy landscape, and implementation realities across diverse geographies and population groups. This local institutional credibility, combined with global technical rigour, is central to WJCF’s effectiveness as a partner to governments and donors.

Our work is built around four complementary roles: as a Trusted Government Partner, co-designing programmes and strengthening health system architecture; as an Operational Partner, translating strategies into effective on-the-ground delivery; as a Market Shaper, improving the availability and affordability of health commodities; and as an Ecosystem Catalyst, convening governments, development partners, academia, and the private sector to drive solutions at scale.

WJCF’s programme portfolio spans thematic areas like hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, vector-borne diseases), syphilis, cervical cancer, diabetes, maternal and childhood anaemia, immunisation, under-5 diarrhoea and pneumonia, sexual and reproductive health, Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri – Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY), Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), hypoxemia and oxygen, safe drinking water, sickle cell disease, presbyopia, lead poisoning, and cross cutting thematic areas like AI and Health, integrated disease surveillance, and climate and health.

We currently support programmes across 19 states and union territories, with teams working at national, state, district, and sub-district levels.

Our people are our greatest asset. WJCF brings together a talented, diverse team of professionals from public health, analytics, consulting, healthcare, the development sector, and academia, all united by a shared commitment to improving health outcomes for the people of India. We are entrepreneurial, action-oriented, and deeply grounded in the communities and systems we work in. Our field teams collectively bring hundreds of years of experience managing public health programmes across the country.

WJCF collaborates with a range of international and domestic partners and donors to advance its mission, including an affiliation with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), a global health organisation with which WJCF shares a common mission and values.

The World Health Organization estimated that 10.6 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) in 2022 and ~1.3 million succumbed to it. India accounted for the most people suffering from the disease, with 27% of the cases and 26% of mortality. The National TB Elimination Program (NTEP), headed by the Central TB Division (CTD), MoHFW, is an expansive public health program with the ambitious goal of eliminating TB in line with the mandate of the Sustainable Development Goals.

WJCF has been supporting the CTD and state health departments of more than 15 states in the mission to eliminate TB. WJCF’s TB program has been operational since 2012, and its interventions address several program areas, including preventive therapies, case detection, access to diagnostics, engagement of the private sector, and more. It also lends technical support to Governments across a range of themes- strategic planning, data analytics, monitoring and evaluation, patient management and delivery of services.

WJCF’s current portfolio of work spans support includes an evaluation of the TB drugs demand and supply dynamics, a landscape assessment for the next generation of diagnostic methods, a high-powered multi-disciplinary team translating programmatic information into action, and multiple large-scale interventions to determine the best methods for detecting hidden TB in the community.

• →Bachelor's degree in geography, geoinformatics, environmental science, public health, statistics, or a related field; a postgraduate qualification in GIS or public health is an advantage.
• →2–4 years of hands-on experience in spatial data work or health data analytics, with a portfolio of maps, risk visualisations, or dashboards produced for real programme or government decisions.
• →Proficiency in QGIS or ArcGIS for spatial analysis and map production, and working knowledge of at least one scripting environment — Python (GeoPandas, Folium) or R (sf, tmap) — for data processing and automation.
• →Strong MS Excel skills for data cleaning, structured analysis, and reporting tools; experience managing and integrating heterogeneous data sources (shapefiles, health records, field survey outputs, environmental datasets) into a unified spatial database.
• →Demonstrated ability to translate spatial analysis into outputs that non-GIS audiences — ward officers, health officials, programme managers — can read and act on without methodological explanation.
• →Willingness to spend approximately 40% of time on field across three Ahmedabad wards during the survey phase for ground-truthing and data quality assurance.
• →Fluency in English and Gujarati or Hindi.

• Familiarity with government health data systems such as IHIP, HMIS, or IDSP and an understanding of how disease notification data flows through the surveillance architecture
• Experience designing mobile data collection forms on SurveyCTO, ODK, or KoBoCollect.
• Familiarity with spatial statistical methods, kernel density estimation, hotspot analysis, spatial autocorrelation, applied in a public health or environmental risk context.
• Experience with web mapping or dashboard platforms such as ArcGIS Online, Power BI with spatial layers, or Mapbox.
• Familiarity with AMC administrative geography, ward structure, or Smart City SCADL data infrastructure.
• Working knowledge of AI productivity tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Microsoft Copilot for accelerating data synthesis, analytical write-ups, or report drafting.

• Spatial Problem-Solving: Frames public health challenges as spatial questions; knows which datasets to overlay to answer a decision-relevant question.
• Output Clarity: Designs every map and dashboard for the end user — a ward officer should act on it without asking what it means.
• Data Ownership: Catches errors before they reach a government counterpart; builds systems others can audit and reproduce.
• Field Pragmatism: Comfortable in the wards during survey phase; trusts ground observation over secondary data for informal settlement mapping.
• Vendor Coordination: Briefs and manages third-party technical agencies on coverage requirements and holds them to output standards.
• Initiative: Flags data gaps and anomalies early; proposes resolutions without waiting for direction.

Last Date to Apply: 29 August, 2026