Job Description: Analyst, VPD Surveillance

Overview

Lead advocacy and communications for VPD surveillance project.

You have:

• Bachelor's or Postgraduate/master’s degree with a minimum of 2 years of work experience in fast-paced environments.
• Experience in management and/or healthcare consulting, development sector consulting, or public health strategy roles is preferred.
• Exceptional analytical (qualitative and quantitative) and communication (written and verbal) skills.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a positive, solution-oriented approach.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, including ability to work independently.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build and nurture relationships in a diverse environment.
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Ability to think strategically, handle ambiguity, and solve problems in a fast-paced environment.
• Willingness to travel frequently within and outside the program geography in India.

Overview

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.

Program Overview:

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) and the World Health Organization-led National Polio Surveillance Project (NPSP) began in 1997 to support India’s polio eradication efforts. After achieving that goal in 2014, the network broadened its focus to include active and passive, population-based and case-based surveillance of other vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs) such as diphtheria, measles, rubella, pertussis, and neonatal tetanus. Today, it remains the most reliable source of VPD case incidence data in the country.

NPSP’s complete transition to the Government of India is underway in a phased manner and is expected to conclude by 2027. The Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), under the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has been designated to take over the functions currently managed by NPSP. Established in 2004, IDSP tracks more than 33 infectious diseases and conditions through near real-time, case-based reporting on the Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP).

The planned integration of the National Polio Surveillance Network into the existing IDSP will be carried out comprehensively and responsibly to maintain the high standards of data quality, investigation, and sample collection that NPSP is known for. The initiative will ensure continued effectiveness in monitoring VPDs, especially for measles and rubella elimination and polio eradication, with a strong focus on capacity building and strategic oversight at both national and sub-national levels. Through this transition, the programme will support India’s long-term health security goals, leveraging government partnerships, community engagement, and cutting-edge innovations.

Project Background:

WJCF is privileged to support IDSP, NCDC’s vision for a sustainable transition of the existing VPD surveillance network through an embedded program management unit (PMU) model at the Central Surveillance Unit (CSU). The PMU will work under the direct supervision of NCDC, MoHFW leadership to facilitate the achievement of key strategic goals:

• Smooth transition of all functions related to VPD surveillance from WHO’s VPD surveillance network to IDSP in a time-bound manner.
• Enhance sustainable leadership, management and technical capacity of IDSP-NCDC and consequently the state IDSP units for maintaining the appropriate standards for VPD surveillance by evidence-informed programmatic, financial and policy decision-making.
• Trigger development and comprehensive implementation of newer strategies, implementation frameworks and approaches for further building on the gains achieved thus far.
• Increase and sustain multisectoral responses, advocacy, and political momentum towards elimination goals.

Position Summary:

We are seeking a highly self-driven individual with a ubiquitous skill set of technical capabilities complemented by excellent communication and critical thinking abilities. Lead advocacy and communications by developing reports, knowledge products, and visibility materials, while coordinating with ministries, donors, and professional associations. By sustaining political momentum and stakeholder alignment, this role helps secure the visibility and cross-sectoral collaboration required for this project’s remit. Ensuring larger strategic alignment of key workstreams with national government and donor priorities.

Location: New Delhi, India (Please note that this is a seconded position and the candidate would be expected to be based out of the National Centre of Disease Control (NCDC), MoHFW).

Responsibilities

• Development of strategic roadmaps and implementation guidelines to facilitate the transition process.
• Provide strategic and analytical support to program work streams and identify high impact areas of intervention across the VPD surveillance process flow.
• Lead the design and implementation of processes and systems for collection, management and review of programmatic data and results to monitor progress and inform strategy against a developed monitoring and evaluation framework.
• Co-ordinate and monitor implementation of programmatic activities, including but not limited to, working with, and engaging with multiple ministerial nodes, state government health leadership to plan activities, monitor implementation, and review progress.
• Support curation of financial management plans for optimized allocation of resources to drive positive impact at scale.
• Support problem identification on ground and facilitate the evidence-based development of innovative tech-enabled solutions for adoption within existing public health systems.
• Identify potential risks and challenges to the implementation and roll-out of activities and implement suitable mitigation mechanisms to address identified risks.
• Build and maintain trust-based relationships with relevant government stakeholders, development partners, and other stakeholders.
• Support development of compelling presentations and reports for internal and external stakeholders, such as progress narratives, update notes, donor deliverables etc.
• Synthesize and document key learnings, and support dissemination to key stakeholders through reports, briefs, presentation decks and other collaterals as needed.
• Support with other responsibilities as requested by the program leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Postgraduate/master’s degree with minimum 2 years of work experience in fast paced environments. Experience in management and/or healthcare consulting, development sector consulting, or public health strategy roles is preferred
• Exceptional analytical (qualitative and quantitative) and communication (written and verbal) skills
• Strong problem-solving skills and a positive, solution-oriented approach
• Entrepreneurial mindset, including ability to work independently
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build and nurture relationships in a diverse, challenging, limited-structure, multicultural environment
• High level of proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word
• Ability to think strategically, handle ambiguity, and solve problems in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously, set priorities and work independently
• Ability to absorb and synthesize a broad range of information, including clinical, scientific, technical information
• Willingness to travel frequently within and outside the program geography in India

Last Date to Apply: 2 August, 2026

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