Program Assistant - M&E, VBD Technical Support Unit

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.

Programme Overview:

Vector Borne Diseases (VBDs) such as malaria, visceral leishmaniasis (VL, also called kala-azar), lymphatic filariasis (LF), dengue, chikungunya, and Japanese encephalitis remain major public health concerns in India.

India has achieved remarkable reductions in VBD cases and deaths over recent decades. Malaria cases have reduced from 75 million at the time of India’s independence to ~200,00 in 2023-24, while deaths have reduced from 800,000 to 83 during the same period. For LF, though active transmission and infection rates have declined, the chronic manifestations remain significant. India reported about ~600,00 lymphoedema cases and ~125,000 hydrocele cases caused by filarial worms in 2023. For VL, cases have reduced to ~500 in 2023. The Government of India has committed to the elimination of several VBDs within defined timelines- for example, eliminating malaria by 2030 and lymphatic filariasis and kala-azar ahead of global targets.

Despite these gains, these illnesses continue to contribute substantially to disease burden, morbidity, mortality and disability, particularly among populations living in rural, remote, or otherwise underserved areas. Climate change, urbanization, migration, environmental factors, and gaps in vector control and surveillance continue to challenge disease elimination efforts.

The National Center for Vector Borne Diseases Control (NCVBDC) is the nodal agency under the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP) responsible for orchestrating the government’s response to VBDs. Its roles include policy formulation, standard setting, strategic planning (including disease elimination timelines), surveillance strengthening, capacity building, coordinating multi-sectoral and inter-governmental efforts, and deploying innovations in vector control, diagnostics, and community engagement.

Project Background:

WJCF is privileged to support NVBDCP's bold vision of accelerated elimination of VL, LF, and Malaria through embedded technical support units (TSU) for VL and LF since 2020, and for malaria since 2024. These TSUs provide support to the NCVBDC including, inter alia:

1. Strengthened technical and managerial support to NVBDCP management
2. Enhanced disease intelligence and analytics for improved programmatic decisions-making
3. Adoption of dynamic innovations across disease portfolios, and, effective and sustained investments in the space of NTDs/VBDs
4. Steering partnerships and multi-sector response

Position Summary:

The Program Assistant – M&E will provide data handling and processing support within the Vector Borne Disease (VBD) Technical Support Unit (TSU) for the National Centre for Vector Borne Diseases (NCVBDC) in Delhi. They will report to the Senior Program Officer and will be expected to support TSU staff with data handling related workstreams.

Responsibilities

1. Collect, clean, identify discrepancies, data gaps and validate data received from states and partners to ensure accuracy and completeness.
2. Coordinate with states and partners for data collection and follow up to ensure timely submission of data.
3. Support Monitoring and Evaluation Lead and TSU team in providing the data required
4. Ensure data quality standards, adherence to timelines and completion of tasks.
5. Provide data support to the Division in compiling reports.
6. Support M&E through data compilation and preparation of presentation slides for relevant authorities.
7. Provide basic analysis of the data to identify trends and patterns, graphs, data visualizations using Excel, Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms
8. Maintain and organize the data sets as per the program and project requirement
9. Ensure adherence to data quality standards, data sharing and privacy norms of WJCF and NCVBDC.
10. Automate repetitive data tasks to improve efficiency.
11. Provide technical support in data-related queries and training when required.

Qualifications

• Graduation in any stream.
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in role of handing large datasets related to health.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Windows desktop operating systems, Microsoft Office 365 suite.
• Ability to independently prioritize tasks.
• Tact, professionalism and flexibility in assisting others.
• Keens interest in keeping current in IT news and developments related to data management.
• Experience with data visualization tools (Tableau, Power BI).
• Knowledge of statistical methods and data cleaning techniques.
• Good oral and written communication skills.
• Data management for logistics support.

Last Date to Apply: 9th October, 2026

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