Designation: Zonal Coordinator, Dengue
No. of opening: 2
Location: Bengaluru
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:
Dengue has emerged as the world’s most widespread, rapidly increasing and outbreak prone vector borne disease with a historic high of 14.6 million cases and ~12,000 deaths reported in 2024. Modelling studies however estimate ~390 Mn infections per year, with a majority of such cases being asymptomatic or misdiagnosed as febrile illness, contributing to under estimation of the true disease burden.
India is amongst the 30 most endemic countries for Dengue. While the National Centre for Vector Borne Disease Control (NCVBDC) under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare reported 233,519 cases and 297 deaths in 2024, modelling studies estimate the prevalence of Dengue in India is 56.9%, translating to ~13-33 million annual infections, which cause ~0.12% of total deaths, or ~11,400 deaths.
Dengue is also characterized as a disease of urbanization, with its prevalence closely linked to high population density, poor housing quality, proximity to garbage collection/dumping sites and open drains, which are typical descriptors of urban poor and marginalized communities, who in turn bear a disproportionate burden of the disease. India is set to add more than 130 million urban inhabitants by 2035, with 49% living in slums in 2020, 2.4-40.7% not having piped water, 22.1-96.1% not having a connection to sewerage, and 27.6-68.1% not having sufficient living area.
Climate change and associated extreme weather events further exacerbate the challenge of managing Dengue. Dengue is a recognized Climate-Sensitive Infectious Disease, with its climate linkages mediated by fluctuations in temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, wind velocity, climate modes such as ENSO and extreme weather events, which in turn hold the potential to favour mosquito breeding, survival and feeding leading to wider spread, extended transmission windows, and unpredictable outbreaks.
Project Background:
Conventional disease surveillance and management systems are programmed to be reactive, lack integration with data on climate change determinants along with lack of predictive, hyperlocal geospatially informed risk insights. The public health led response also does not sufficiently leverage private sector for diagnostics and case management along with communities for preventive public health action. These end up limiting the system’s ability to anticipate and prepare for emerging shifts in disease burden, implementation of targeted interventions and leads to avoidable morbidity and resource strain.
To address these evolving complexities, WJCF, in collaboration with Artpark @ IISc, with support from the Asian Venture Philanthropy Network (AVPN) and India Health Fund (IHF), is operationalizing an initiative for climate linked, predictive, spatial risk informed surveillance and disease management in the city of Bengaluru.
The solution has been designed as an integrated package that brings together a digital platform, a framework of interventions for integration into governance systems, and multi-pronged approaches to engage the private sector and at-risk communities, with particular emphasis on vulnerable groups. Together, these components provide a replicable and scalable approach to addressing key gaps in dengue surveillance and case management, while consistently applying a climate lens.
Position Summary:
The Zonal Coordinator, based out of Bengaluru, will play a pivotal role in working with urban ward committee representatives, local health and municipal officials, local private healthcare providers in designing, implementing and monitoring the various components of the initiative. They will support the Strategy Associate and the WJCF and Artpark projects teams with rigorous field-based insights to improve overall performance of the initiative.
WJCF is seeking a highly motivated, results-oriented individual with demonstrated leadership skills and outstanding analytical skills. The ideal candidate must have excellent communications skills and be able to independently drive engagement and work closely with a diverse range of officials and stakeholders to oversee project implementation. We place great value on relevant qualities such as resourcefulness, responsibility, tenacity, energy, and work ethic.
Responsibilities:
- Develop robust liaising with zonal municipal corporation functionaries, health workers, urban ward committee representatives
- Serve as a Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for implementation of project-related interventions in the zone.
- Develop localized expertise and on the zone’s health system architecture (public and private), infrastructure, demographics and socio-economic landscape.
- Conduct orientation and refresher training workshops for health workers on reporting on hotspots via PRISM-H app
- Support in micro-planning for digitized breeding surveys by health workers, undertake continuous monitoring of app usage and support data quality checks (via dashboards and spot checks)
- Support zonal municipal functionaries to operationalize urban ward committees and Rapid Response Teams (RRTs)
- Support urban ward committees to prepare ward level graded action plans and RRT micro plans
- Engage private sector providers and lab service providers via physical meets, hybrid workshops, working groups, round table discussions and outreach through digital media.
- Support zonal municipal functionaries in designing targeted IEC campaigns. Leveraging collaterals developed at the BBMP, the coordinators will identify high risk groups and zones along with appropriate media of messaging supported by a thematic calendar of activities.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in public health, Social Work, Environmental studies, Management or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in field operations, programme management and community engagement (preferably in health, social development or urban governance).
- Prior experience working with municipal corporations, ward committees, or local self-government institutions is desirable.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, ability to build rapport with municipal officials, community groups, and local private providers.
- Experience conducting trainings or capacity-building workshops for health workers, community volunteers, or frontline staff.
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint); comfort with digital tools for field reporting and coordination.
- Strong written and oral communication skills in English and Kannada.
Note: This will on 3rd Party Payroll
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