JOB DESCRIPTION
Job Title: District Lead
Location: District Level
Educational Qualification : MPH / MHA / MBA / PGDBM
Experience: 6 years
Reporting To: Field Operations Lead
Requirement : Immediate
End Date of Job Posting: 31st October 2026
Apply to :careers@tatamd.com
About the Organization
Tata Medical and Diagnostics Ltd. (Tata MD) a healthcare venture from the Tata Group. Our goal is to provide leading-edge, patient-centric solutions, with a clear vision to make healthcare services access more available and affordable. Tata MD prioritizes continuous care and personalized treatment through specialized consultations, dedicated health companions, comprehensive wellness tracking and advanced AI health technology. With Tata MD, patients benefit from personalized care plans tailored to alleviate health challenges. We provide easy access to healthcare services, medical records integration and proactive healthcare management, all aimed at enhancing quality of life and ensuring a pain-free journey to better health.
About the Program
In India’s remote villages, people struggle to get timely medical care, often traveling miles for a simple check-up. Tata MD’s Bridgital Model combines digital health, patient care coordination, virtual enablement services and government infrastructure to bridge this gap—ensuring quality healthcare reaches every doorstep.
Tata MD is working to strengthen access to quality healthcare through technology-enabled healthcare delivery models. Through its Digital Nerve Centre (DiNC), TMDL leverages digital health, telemedicine, patient-care coordination and virtual healthcare services to extend timely medical support to communities, including those in semi-rural and underserved areas.
Digital Nerve Centre (DiNC)
• Leverages digital technology to bridge the gap between needs and provisions in healthcare.
• Saves time and makes processes more efficient by utilising an integrated service-led intelligent platform.
Role and Responsibilities
The District Lead will be responsible for coordinating and overseeing the implementation of the programme across the assigned district. The role will act as the key coordination point between district health authorities, healthcare facilities, field teams, the ICCC and the central programme team.
The incumbent will be responsible for ensuring effective programme rollout, operational readiness, stakeholder coordination, issue resolution, monitoring of implementation progress and adherence to programme requirements across the district.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead and coordinate the implementation of the programme across the assigned district.
• Act as the primary point of coordination with district health authorities, government officials, healthcare facilities and programme teams for district-level implementation.
• Develop and monitor district-level implementation plans, timelines, milestones and deliverables.
• Coordinate with healthcare facilities and field teams to assess infrastructure, manpower, technology and operational readiness for programme implementation.
• Ensure timely completion of site readiness, onboarding, deployment and other implementation activities across identified healthcare facilities.
• Coordinate with clinical, technology, operations, implementation and programme management teams to ensure smooth rollout and functioning of programme services.
• Supervise and guide Implementation Specialists and other field resources deployed within the district, as applicable.
• Monitor programme activities across facilities and ensure that implementation gaps, operational challenges and dependencies are identified and addressed promptly.
• Conduct regular field visits to healthcare facilities to review implementation progress, operational issues and adoption of programme processes.
• Facilitate coordination between district/facility teams and the central programme team for resolution of technology, operational, clinical coordination and infrastructure-related issues.
• Support training, orientation and handholding of facility teams and other stakeholders on programme processes and systems.
• Track utilisation and adoption of programme services and identify areas requiring additional support or intervention.
• Maintain district-level trackers, action logs, issue registers and implementation status reports.
• Prepare periodic district progress reports, review presentations and management updates highlighting achievements, risks, issues and pending actions.
• Participate in district and state-level programme, review meetings and ensure timely closure of agreed action points.
• Escalate critical issues and risks that may impact programme timelines, service delivery or programme objectives.
• Support stakeholder engagement and coordination activities required for effective programme implementation and sustained adoption.
• Ensure programme activities within the district are carried out in accordance with defined processes, timelines and service requirements.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement based on field observations and stakeholder feedback and provide input to the programme team.
Desired Skills & Competencies
• Strong programme implementation and field operations capabilities.
• Experience in managing healthcare, public health, government or large-scale implementation programmes would be preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management and coordination skills, particularly in working with government and institutional stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple healthcare facilities, field teams and implementation activities simultaneously.
• Strong planning, monitoring, follow-up and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to identify operational risks and drive issues to closure.
• Good documentation, reporting and presentation skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Comfortable working extensively in the field and travelling within the assigned district.
• Working knowledge of digital platforms and MS Office tools.
• Ability to work independently while coordinating closely with multidisciplinary teams.
• Telugu speaking proficiency is mandatory, Tamil, Kannada is desired