District Lead - TB

District Lead - TB CountryIndiaTypeFull TimeProgram (Division)Country Programs - IndiaAdditional Location DescriptionAhmedabad, Gujarat 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 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. About the project: India carries the world’s largest tuberculosis burden, 26% of global cases and 26% of TB mortality in 2023. The National TB Elimination Programme (NTEP), led by the Central TB Division (CTD) under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, is committed to eliminating TB in line with National and Sustainable Development Goals targets. The private sector accounts for over 50% of TB patients seeking care in India yet contributes a disproportionately small share of household contact screening and TB Preventive Treatment (TPT) initiation. WJCF is implementing a new project, “Expanding TPT in the Private Sector at the Patient’s Doorstep” across four districts: Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) in Gujarat, and Faridabad and Gurgaon in Haryana. The project will establish TPT Centres within high-load private multi-specialty hospitals and standalone clinics and operationalize a “Coordinated Services Delivery at Doorstep” model through third-party agency partnerships. The model integrates: index patient identification and household contact enumeration; TB infection (TBI/IGRA) testing and chest X-ray screening; TPT initiation; and doorstep drug delivery with adherence follow-up – all documented on Nikshay. Key project targets include at least 40 high-load private facilities with functional TPT Centres across four districts; a three-fold increase in household contacts initiated on TPT through the private sector and a fully documented and costed Coordinated Services Delivery model to NTEP and State TB Cells for adoption through the existing PPSA/PPM financing framework. Position Summary: WJCF is recruiting four District Leads for this project, one each for Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) in Gujarat, and one each for Faridabad and Gurgaon in Haryana. Each District Lead will be the operational lead for project implementation within their assigned district, reporting to the State Lead for their geography. The District Lead is the day-to-day programme manager at the district level, running TPT Centre establishment, supervising Field Officers and Telecallers on the ground, managing all facility-level and DTC relationships, coordinating third-party agency service delivery, and ensuring that every household contact in an intervention facility moves through the TPT cascade and is documented on Nikshay. This is a predominantly field-based role requiring approximately 60% local travel. The District Lead must be able to build and sustain the District and Facility relationships actively redirect field energy toward the prevention cascade. All four positions require a field-strong, operationally detail-oriented individual who is comfortable working across private hospital settings and government health systems simultaneously. Responsibilities 1. TPT Centre Operations: The District Lead is the operational owner of every TPT Centre in the district, responsible for developing each TPT centre, keeping it running, and resolving the day-to-day issues. - Lead facility-level identification, onboarding, and operationalization of up to 10 TPT Centres per district, working with private hospital management, compounders, and DTC counterparts to establish centre logistics, workflows, and data systems. - Drive the district-level implementation strategy for the TPT Centres model in alignment with DTC expectations. - Conduct in-clinic visits to shortlisted private providers to secure facility buy-i