Associate

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 public health, management, social sciences, economics, or a related field; a postgraduate qualification is preferred.
• →3–5 years of experience in programme management, monitoring and evaluation, or grants management in a public health or development organisation.
• →Demonstrated experience managing donor reporting for USAID, Global Fund, or equivalent institutional donors, including milestone evidence compilation, progress report writing, and compliance documentation.
• →Strong proficiency in MS Excel, pivot tables, structured trackers, data validation, and basic analysis; ability to work with programme data from multiple sources and present findings clearly.
• →Experience supporting data management or analytics for a field team, cleaning data, structuring trackers, or preparing summary outputs from raw programme data.
• →Excellent written communication in English, able to produce clear, concise donor reports and internal briefs without heavy editorial support.
• →Highly organised with strong attention to detail; able to manage multiple concurrent deadlines across two projects without losing track of either.
• →Entrepreneurial mindset, demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity, identify solutions independently, and perform in fast-paced, high-pressure environments with limited oversight.
• →Strong diplomatic and interpersonal skills, able to build effective working relationships across diverse stakeholder groups.

• Prior experience with USAID-funded health programmes in India.
• Familiarity with TB programme data systems, Nikshay, IHIP, or equivalent government health information platforms.
• Experience working with GIS outputs or spatial data summaries, not production-level GIS, but comfort reading and interpreting map-based programme evidence.
• Working knowledge of AI productivity tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Microsoft Copilot for report drafting, data synthesis, and documentation workflows.

• Analytical Curiosity: Looks at programme data and asks whether the numbers make sense, catches inconsistencies, spots underperforming indicators, and brings evidence to conversations.
• Writing Clarity: Translates field team inputs into accurate, structured donor reports; produces consistent, professional outputs.
• Proactive Communication: Flags risks before they become problems.
• Structured Organisation: Maintains documentation, trackers, and evidence files that others can navigate without guidance, built for audit readiness, not just internal use.
• Collaboration: Works effectively with field teams asks for inputs clearly, and takes the reporting burden off them rather than adding to it.
• Adaptability: Manages multiple concurrent deadlines and shifting priorities effectively; maintains quality and timeliness across both grants when circumstances change.
• Stakeholder management: Navigates relationships across government officials, donor representatives, and field teams with sensitivity and professionalism.