Position Summary

WJCF is looking to hire a Lead to head the Health Analytics and AI Unit (HAAU), embedded within the NHA and reporting to NHA leadership. This is a senior, hands-on role for someone who combines overall management of the unit with hands-on analytical and AI leadership. The individual will own the units workplan, delivery, and relationships with NHA leadership; scale the units diagnostic and decision-intelligence work towards predictive and prescriptive capabilities; drive the use of AI to generate high-quality, AI-ready datasets; and, because the role also carries a good working understanding of AB PM-JAY and ABDM together with familiarity with health financing, get financing-related framework work moving from the outset. We seek an exceptional and dynamic leader with strong credentials in data science, analytics, and AI, and a good working understanding of AB PM-JAY and ABDM, and demonstrated experience in managing technical teams and leading large technology transformation initiatives. The ideal candidate combines deep technical skill with senior programme-management discipline, translates policy and operational questions into decision-grade analytical work, and builds institutional capability rather than personal dependence. This position is based out of the NHA office in Current Delhi, so that the individual stays closely aligned with the NHAs immediate priorities and the rapidly evolving digital health landscape.

This role provides an excellent opportunity for a senior analytical leader who would like to be at the heart of, and directly shape, the application of advanced analytics and AI to Indias flagship health protection and digital health programmes.

Responsibilities

- Lead the HAAU end to end, owning the units workplan, delivery,



and relationships with NHA leadership.
- Scale the units diagnostic and decision-intelligence work towards predictive and prescriptive capabilities, moving from explaining what has happened towards anticipating what is likely to happen and recommending what to do about it.
- Drive the use of AI to generate high-quality, AI-ready datasets, and support governed access to NHA data for researchers and partners.
- Get health-financing framework work moving from day one, drawing on a working understanding of AB PM-JAY and ABDM and familiarity with core health-financing and health-economics concepts, until more specialised team members join.
- Translate policy and operational questions from NHA leadership into predictive, prescriptive, and scenario-modelling problems, and deliver decision-grade outputs.
- Coordinate the team, manage priorities and risks, and put in place the programme-management discipline (planning, prioritisation, and leadership-ready communication) the unit needs to deliver at pace.
- Manage and build a high-functioning technical team, including data scientists, AI/ML engineers, and subject matter experts/ specialists.
- Bring structure and discipline to the HAAU s expansion, sequencing workstreams, managing change and adoption with key stakeholders, by drawing on experience of leading comparable large technology transformations.
- Mentor emerging State Health Analytics and AI Units (SHAAUs), building lasting institutional capability rather than personal dependence.
- Embed privacy-by-design and strong health data governance across the units work, consistent with the DPDP Act 2023 and SAHI.
- Represent the HAAU with NHA leadership and external partners, and perform other responsibilities as requested by WJCF and NHA leadership.

📌 Lead, Health Analytics and AI Unit, Digital Health (New Delhi)
🏢 Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)
📍 New Delhi