Country

India

City

New Delhi

Type

Full Time

Program (Division)

Country Programs - India

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:

Adopting a holistic approach that focuses on improving service delivery systems and introducing innovative diagnostic technologies where needed, WJCF helps establish the conditions to support high-quality diagnostic systems, especially for primary healthcare. It also supports upgrades to testing services, ensuring a reliable, cost-effective supply chain, training, and the integration of testing with care and treatment services. The foundation helps build diagnostic networks across the country that maximize testing coverage and referral to care and reduce costs. The focus is on ensuring greater access to essential diagnostics that improve healthcare and reducing barriers to efficiency and sustainability.

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 ending TB in line with the mandate of the Sustainable Development Goals. Since 2012, WJCF has been supporting the CTD and state health departments in interventions that 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.

Besides TB, WJCF has also been supporting other infectious disease such as HIV, Hepatitis, STIs, malaria etc., and assistance is also provided to non-infectious diseases, vector borne diseases, health system strengthening, women and child health, Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) and disease surveillance.

Project Background:

Access to testing is a critical part of the care and prevention for nearly every disease. It requires the right mix of affordable and high-quality technology and effective health systems. Not only is it important to choose the right technologies for each healthcare setting, but there are essential health services that need to be functioning for testing to be delivered effectively.

WJCF works closely with the Government and other partner agencies to improve access to high-quality, affordable diagnostics for infectious diseases such as TB, COVID-19, malaria, hepatitis, HIV, STIs etc., and overall diagnostics delivery services in the country.

About 70% of healthcare decisions depend on diagnostic results. In the recent years, there is increasing acknowledgement for innovative molecular diagnostics for infectious diseases. These provide rapid and accurate results for clinical decision making. Therefore, it is essential to bridge the gap between medical innovation and real-world patient care, particularly in resource-limited settings.

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

Open PCRs and near Point Of Care (nPOC) tests for detection of TB and other infectious diseases such as TB, Syphilis and Hepatitis are gaining strategic importance. WJCF is engaged in forecasts for nPOC use case for TB and for multi disease diagnosis platforms as well as market shaping for these products; projects on Triple elimination of HIV, Syphilis and Hepatitis; projects on Gonorrhoea and other STIs etc.,

Diagnosis forms the key focus area across projects related to major communicable diseases for ensuring that marginalized communities have access innovative screening technologies.

Position Summary:

The Advisor, Diagnostics, will provide technical leadership to design, implement, and monitor strategies that strengthen diagnostic networks. They ensure that laboratory services are technically sound, meet international quality standards, and are integrated into national health systems. This position requires a highly motivated individual with strong skills in mentoring laboratory staff and conducting training for the national/state health workforce and the ability to liaise with the government departments.

• Validation of Innovations: Lead field-level validation for new Point-of-Care (PoC) tests for infectious agents before large-scale rollout.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Serve as the technical point of contact for the National programmes and the regulatory authorities. Act as the primary representative for WJCF in technical working groups and with donors.
• Training & Mentorship: Remain updated on evolving diagnostic standards and lead the adoption of new technologies. Facilitate training for laboratory personnel and frontline health workers on diagnostic protocols and biosafety.
• Quality management: Lead initiatives to help laboratories achieve accreditation and enrol laboratory facilities in national EQA programs to ensure the accuracy of infectious disease testing.

• Strategic Advocacy: Research and address barriers to diagnostic availability & affordability, collaborating with the Health Ministry to update national essential diagnostic lists.

• Undertake other responsibilities as needed

• Ph.D in Microbiology/Biotechnology/Public Health, or Infectious Diseases.
• 20 years of relevant national level experience in laboratory systems strengthening or infectious disease diagnostics.
• Experience working in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and familiarity with donor regulations.
• Expertise in, molecular diagnostics, mycobacteriology techniques, RT PCR workflows, POC testing and quality management systems.
• Strong interpersonal skills, diplomacy, negotiation, and analytical thinking skills to navigate complex political and clinical environments.

Last Date to Apply: 7th August 2026