Position Summary

The Associate is the operational backbone of the projects. While the field teams own the technical work and government engagement, the Associate ensures that both projects are moving, milestones are being met, deliverables are completed and submitted on schedule. The Associate maintains live trackers, owns the donor report calendar, coordinates cross-team reviews, and flags risks early. The role also works directly with the Surveillance Analyst and the TPT Analyst, problem solving, structuring data outputs, cleaning programme trackers, preparing milestone evidence packages, and synthesising raw programme data into reporting narratives.

The Associate is the primary administrative and reporting interface with donor, working closely with the respective project leads for day-to-day programme matters. Overall reporting is to the Associate Director. The role requires someone who is highly organised, comfortable working with programme data and managing multiple concurrent project timelines.

Responsibilities

1. Milestone, Deliverable Tracking and Donor reporting
2. Maintain a consolidated milestone tracker for both workstreams, mapping all activities, deliverables, and donor-facing milestones against the approved activity plans.
3. Flag upcoming deadlines to the relevant field leads, Surveillance Lead, and TPT project lead, with sufficient lead time for preparation.

Project Background

India's rapidly urbanising cities home to over 500 million people and growing face a recurring burden of vector-borne and water-borne diseases, with dengue, malaria, cholera, and typhoid remaining endemic in informal settlements where drainage, waste management, and water supply remain inadequate.



Indian cities exemplify these pressures, with seasonal disease surges recurring each year across wards and peri-urban areas. Despite sustained investment in surveillance infrastructure through the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), the Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP), and the Metropolitan Surveillance Unit (MSU) network, a persistent gap remains between data collection and public health action. Peri-urban settlements straddling municipal and district boundaries frequently fall outside the active surveillance catchment of both, and when outbreaks emerge, response teams act without a shared, evidence-based picture of where risk is concentrated.

To address this, WJCF is implementing a 10-month Health Commitment Grant titled "Strengthening the Urban Ecosystem Against Future Disease Threats" under the Tuberculosis Implementation Framework Agreement (TIFA), funded by JSI Research and Training Institute and anchored by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), across five high-risk cities including Ahmedabad. The project converts fragmented environmental, epidemiological, and administrative data into spatially indexed intelligence that ward officers, MSU epidemiologists, and District Surveillance Unit (DSU) teams can directly act on.

In Ahmedabad, across three priority wards, this means a Ward-Level Risk Atlas, an early warning dashboard connecting surveillance data systems with laboratory and supply chain data, targeted upskilling with measurable impact on reporting compliance, and commodity gap mapping against the 72-hour outbreak response minimum, all submitted to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) and NCDC as a Surveillance-to-Action blueprint designed for replication.

📌 Associate (Ahmedabad)
🏢 Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)
📍 Ahmedabad