Manager/Senior Manager, Lead Exposure

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day secretariat support to NCDC for the NBPCT, including preparation of meeting agendas, data-backed workplans, activity plans, and meeting charters across surveillance, capacity building, and enforcement priorities.
• Support NCDC's National Lead Technical Working Group through data synthesis, expert inputs, documentation, and follow-up mechanisms that convert deliberations into actionable outcomes.
• Facilitate sub-working groups on laboratory surveillance and diagnostics innovation pathways, as prioritised by NCDC.
• Support integration of state and laboratory surveillance data into the Integrated Health Information Platform (IHIP) and contribute to dashboard and visualisation design for NCDC decision-making.
• Strengthen NCDC's capacity for data-backed decision-making in hotspot identification, laboratory and referral infrastructure mapping, and partner coordination.
• Consolidate and disseminate learnings from state-level engagement through regional and national workshops.
• Support the Programme in convening and facilitating inter-ministerial consultations on lead and chemical toxicants across environment, industry, labour, food safety, water, and mines ministries.
• Prepare technical inputs, briefing materials, and correspondence for senior decision-making within the ministry.
• Manage embedded teams at national and sub-national level, leading deliverables, workplan trackers, and milestone dashboards to monitor progress against grant commitments and government-agreed deliverables.
• Support development of costed annual workplans and embed these into the programme's operational budgeting cycle.
• Prepare high-quality progress reports, briefing notes, and strategy documents for donors and government counterparts.
• Lead WJCF's engagement in focal states in coordination with NCDC and state health departments, tailoring activities to each state's readiness and existing ecosystem.
• Support state-level surveillance system strengthening and feed learnings back into the national platform for wider uptake.
• Facilitate alignment between state health and environment departments on lead-related priorities.
• Build and maintain relationships with NCDC, MoHFW senior officials, state health departments, CPCB, FSSAI, and development partners including WHO, UNICEF, Pure Earth, Vital Strategies, and others active in the lead ecosystem.
• Support advocacy efforts in collaboration with strategic partners, ensuring technical assistance and policy advocacy are complementary.
• Represent WJCF in national and state-level forums, partner convenings, and technical working groups as required.

Qualifications

• Postgraduate degree in environmental health, public health, public policy, health management, development studies, biochemistry or a related field.
• Minimum 7–10 years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated experience working directly with national-level government institutions MoHFW, NCDC, NHM, or equivalent central ministries.
• Proven experience managing multi-stakeholder coordination (technical working groups, inter-ministerial task forces, or TSU-type mechanisms).
• Strong analytical capability: ability to synthesise epidemiological evidence, policy documents, and programme data into clear recommendations and high-quality written outputs.
• Experience preparing donor reports, and strategic planning documents.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, ability to work independently in ambiguous, semi-structured environments.
• Prior experience in a secretariat or TSU role supporting a government technical programme.
• Familiarity with India's surveillance architecture (IHIP, IDSP, or analogous platforms).
• Professional proficiency in Hindi.
• Demonstrated success in fundraising, grant writing, and donor relationship management.