Analyst - Sickle Cell Disease

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.

About the Project:

Odisha is India's highest-burden states for sickle cell disease (SCD), with significant prevalence among the state's Scheduled Tribe population. The disease also co-occurs with thalassaemia, with co-inheritance of haemoglobin disorders widely documented among tribal communities in the region.

The Government of India launched a national sickle cell anaemia elimination mission in July 2023 with the goal of eliminating SCD as a public health problem in India by 2047. In alignment with this mission, the Government of Odisha has been progressively strengthening its haemoglobinopathy programme under NHM, including community screening initiatives and efforts to expand access to diagnostic and treatment services across high-burden districts.

To meet the program goals, there is an urgent need to improve access to screening and treatment services for Sickle Cell Disease and Thalassemia, especially among tribal populations. WJCF's SCD program aims to strengthen health systems to ensure widespread access to quality products and services. The program aims to expand access to SCD diagnostic and management services through technical assistance to the state of Odisha complemented by implementation support in high burden districts.

Position Summary:

The Analyst will support the design and implementation of the Sickle Cell Disease program in the state of Odisha. They will work with the Program Manager to meet the grant objectives related to SCD and Thalassemia screening and treatment. This role will require close engagement with the relevant government officials to drive program implementation.

The Analyst will work on a wide variety of tasks. They will be responsible for developing data collection, monitoring and evaluation tools to drive evidence-driven decision-making and inform the program strategy. They will work with the government on revision of program guidelines, development of SOPs and protocols for screening and treatment, conducting primary and secondary research, strengthening monitoring framework, collating and synthesizing information to generate high quality insights, coordinating with donors and partners on program design and collaborating with a range of internal and external stakeholders.

The position requires 30% travel to program implementation sites within Odisha and for meetings with stakeholders.

We are seeking a highly motivated, entrepreneurial individual with outstanding problem-solving and communication skills. The candidate must be able to function independently and have a strong commitment to excellence. WJCF places great value on relevant personal qualities: resourcefulness, humility, responsibility, accountability, tenacity, independence, energy, and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Support the formulation, design and implementation of the country program and its component projects in the area of Sickle Cell Disease in line with the government priorities.
• Ensure quality of program/project design incorporating lessons learned, newly developed policies and best practices and establishing appropriate execution and monitoring mechanisms and systems.
• Support development and roll-out of data collection tools to support the program with data-driven decision-making.
• Support the team in building purposive insights, visualizations, tools, templates, and planning aids that support in program management and progress tracking.
• Analyse and interpret the facility and community-level data relevant to the program and identify gaps and opportunities for intervention.
• Keep abreast of new policy developments and secondary research sources such as policy papers, strategy documents, and development frameworks, to prepare briefs and inputs to the theory of change of the programme.

• Support the efforts on demand generation and supply chain management work streams (e.g., capacity building of service providers, community level engagement, product forecasting, developing stock monitoring tools, development of dashboards and visualization tools, etc.).
• Support the team in program monitoring, identify challenges and next steps, and propose relevant solutions.
• Develop an understanding and documentation of the ecosystem, including donors, partners, relevant government departments and officials.
• Support scoping for new opportunities/create pitch documents for new grants on SCD/ Thalassemia and allied workstreams and identify white space opportunity areas for WJCF.
• Coordinate project-wide outputs related to execution, implementation, reporting, compliance and updates.
• Support development of presentations and reports for dissemination of information among partners, donors and stakeholders.
• Undertake other responsibilities as needed

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in a relevant field (public health/administration, economics, social work, sociology, management, population studies, etc.) with minimum 2 years of relevant work experience at Bachelor's level and minimum 1 year of relevant work experinece
• High level of technical proficiency with MS Excel, Power BI, Data Studio, MS PowerPoint, and MS Word. Experience of using advanced analytical tools will be a plus.
• Ability to absorb and synthesize a broad range of information, including technical information, and prepare compelling presentations and reports.
• Excellent written and oral communications skills in English.
• Ability to work independently, prioritise, and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Experience of working with government stakeholders and familiarity with the Indian public health system will be a plus.

Advantages:

• Willingness to travel extensively within and outside the program geography in India.

• Experience in management consulting, pharmaceutical industry or other relevant private or public-sector domains.
• Entrepreneurial mindset: demonstrated ability to work independently on complex projects and solve challenging problems, in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment with limited oversight.
• Strong interpersonal skills, and ability to build professional relationships with a range of stakeholders in a challenging, multi-cultural environment.
• Fluency in Odia is a plus.

Last Date to Apply: 25th July 2026