Senior Associate TB

The Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to our mission of saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries. We work at the invitation of governments to support them and the private sector to create and sustain high-quality health systems.

CHAI was founded in 2002 in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic to dramatically reduce the price of life-saving drugs and increase access to these medicines in the countries with the highest burden of the disease. Over the following two decades CHAI has expanded its focus. Today along with HIV we work in conjunction with our partners to prevent and treat infectious diseases such as COVID-19 malaria tuberculosis and hepatitis. Our work has also expanded into cancer diabetes hypertension and other non-communicable diseases and we work to accelerate the rollout of lifesaving vaccines reduce maternal and child mortality combat chronic malnutrition and increase access to assistive technology. We are investing in horizontal approaches to strengthen health systems through programs in human resources for health digital health and health financing. With each new and innovative program our strategy is grounded in maximizing sustainable impact at scale ensuring that governments lead the solutions that programs are designed to scale nationally and learnings are shared globally.

At CHAI our people are our greatest asset and none of this work would be possible without their talent time dedication and passion for our mission and values. We are a highly diverse team of enthusiastic individuals across 40 countries with a broad range of skillsets and life experiences. CHAI is deeply grounded in the countries we work in with the majority of our staff based in program countries.

WJCF is an Indian not-for-profit entity registered under Section 8 of the Indian Companies Act 2013 and has an affiliation agreement with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI). Our mission is to save lives and improve health outcomes in the country by enabling the government and private sector to strengthen and sustain quality health systems. WJCF has partnered with the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare and state health departments since 2007 providing technical and operational support across key health priorities including infectious diseases (COVID-19 hepatitis HIV TB vector-borne diseases) non-communicable diseases (cervical cancer diabetes sickle cell disease) maternal and child health (anaemia immunisation diarrhoea pneumonia) sexual and reproductive health health insurance and digital health (AB PM-JAY ABDM) oxygen and hypoxemia management safe drinking water and climate and health.

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Program Overview:

The World Health Organization estimated that 10.8 million people fell ill with tuberculosis (TB) in 2023 and 1.25 million died from it. India accounted for the most people suffering from the disease with 26% 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. WJCFs 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.

Project Background:

The Central TB Division (CTD) has an ambitious TB Elimination goal and is scaling up case finding and adoption of testing for all presumptive TB cases. WJCF aims to support CTDs efforts by augmenting their efforts in active case finding designing optimal strategies for case finding efforts and assessing the use of Open RT PCR technology and novel diagnostic products in Indias public and private health delivery systems.

Position Summary:

The Senior Associate will provide strategic and analytical support to the Tuberculosis program leadership at WJCF contributing to the strategy design implementation and continuous improvement of high-impact TB interventions including active case finding and market shaping in collaboration with government and private-sector stakeholders. The role will involve developing the program and project strategy detailed design of intervention components operationalization of project activities and oversight of data collection monitoring analysis and supporting evaluations to generate actionable insights that drive evidence-based decision-making. The Senior Associate will also provide strategic support across other priority projects which may include overseeing the assessment of diagnostic technologies and analysis of implementation and market dynamics. Additionally the Senior Associate will support business development efforts including identification of donors identifying project opportunities drafting grant proposals and supporting the team in managing grant lifecycles. This position requires a highly motivated individual with strong problem-solving analytical and communication skills who is comfortable collaborating closely with multidisciplinary teams and senior stakeholders in a fast-paced mission-driven environment. Prior supervisory experience is strongly preferred.

• Support the formulation design and implementation of the program and its component projects in line with government priorities.
• Ensure the quality of program/project design by incorporating lessons learned newly developed policies and best practices while establishing appropriate execution and monitoring mechanisms and systems.
• Oversee and support the development and roll-out of data collection tools to facilitate data-driven decision making within the program.
• Lead the team in building purposive insights visualizations tools templates and planning aids that support program management and progress tracking.
• Stay updated on policy developments and secondary research sources such as policy papers strategy documents and development frameworks to prepare briefs and provide inputs to further develop the programs theory of change.
• Lead demand generation and supply chain management workstreams (e.g. capacity building of field staff/ service providers community engagement demand forecasting developing data monitoring tools and creating dashboards and visualization tools).
• Drive program monitoring to identify challenges and propose relevant solutions to achieve program goals.
• Develop an understanding of the ecosystem including donors partners and relevant government departments and officials.
• Support the team in scoping for new opportunities creating pitch documents for new grants/donors and identifying white space opportunity areas for the organization.
• Supervise mentor and provide day-to-day guidance to analysts and junior team members reviewing their outputs building their technical and analytical capabilities and ensuring quality and consistency across team deliverables.
• Provide strategic support on projects across the Tuberculosis and Infectious Diseases domains.
• Coordinate project-wide outputs related to execution implementation reporting compliance and updates.
• Drive the development of presentations and reports for the dissemination of information among partners donors and stakeholders.
• Undertake other responsibilities as needed

• Bachelors degree or Masters degree in a relevant field (e.g. MBA engineering public health or administration economics business social work sociology population studies) with minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience (for those with Bachelors degree only) or 4 years (for those with Masters degree) of relevant experience (e.g. strategy consulting investment banking pharmaceutical industry technology product startups or other relevant public or private-sector domains)
• Prior experience managing teams strongly preferred
• Strong ability to absorb synthesize and analyse technical and non-technical information and produce clear compelling reports and presentations.
• High technical proficiency in MS Excel PowerPoint and Word; experience with advanced analytical tools is an advantage.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English and Hindi.
• Understanding of Indias healthcare landscape strongly preferred.
• Experience working with government stakeholders and familiarity with the Indian public health system is preferred.
• Willingness to travel extensively within and beyond the program geography in India.
• Entrepreneurial and growth mindset with demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity solve complex problems and perform in fast-paced high-pressure environments with limited oversight.
• Strong diplomatic and interpersonal skills with the ability to build effective relationships across diverse and multi-cultural stakeholder groups.

Last Date to Apply: 26th April 2026