Welcome to Doctors on Ground
Building Resilient Communities. Find out how you can reach out to us, volunteer with us, or collaborate with us by navigating the links below!
GO ON THE GROUND
Volunteer to be a Community Health Navigator (CHN)!
Our Community Health Navigators (CHNs) are the volunteers who do the work on the frontlines. Browse through our ongoing projects below to find out more about what we're doing on the ground.
GO BEHIND THE SCENES
Apply to join our internal team!
We are always looking for passionate, driven individuals to join our team. Browse our open positions below and find out where you can make a difference!Some roles may already be filled, or are no longer taking applications. To view the latest openings, have a look at the full list of open roles through our Application form below.Feel free to reach out to us on Instagram, or directly contact the Human Resources Unit for any questions!
care through the lens of gender
Women First
Women First is the gender lens through which Doctors on Ground sees, measures, and builds its work. Operating as one of our core flagships, Women First is our way of respecting and paying credence to the intersectional nature of healthcare as felt by women.
Community Healthcare Support
#JagaJiran
#JagaJiran is our core initiative to address gaps in healthcare across various populations. #JagaJiran is a network of volunteers who go on the ground (and who don't need to have a medical background or training) to visit, check up on, and support patients who otherwise may not have the means to access support themselves.
| Location | Dates | Initiatives |
|---|---|---|
| Urban and suburban Kuala Lumpur and Selangor | Recurring throughout the year | Home visits, patient check-ins |
Data and Delivery of Care
Database & Records Management
Roles in data and records management fall across three areas: patient registration, case documentation, and health data management.
| Patient Registration | Supporting the intake and registration of new patients we meet at screenings, clinics, and community initiatives. |
| Patient Case Registration | Preparing case records for field missions, maintaining visit logs, and processing case reports brought back from the field. |
| Health Data Management | Supporting the digitisation of paper records and managing our archive of patient health records. |
Across all areas, leadership roles also oversee data systems and develop workflows to improve how information is used and shared across departments.
You can browse through the full list of openings in our application form. Ready to join?We look for potential on top of experience. Depending on the role you're going for, some prior experience may be preferable — but don't worry, we warmly welcome everyone to apply and learn on the job!
recordkeeping the fieldwork
Legal Administration Unit (LAU)
The Legal Administration Unit is responsible for supporting the organisation’s legal and governance functions by drafting and reviewing agreements, managing partnership and external-facing legal documentation, and monitoring the lifecycle of contracts. The unit plays a key role in identifying and mitigating legal risks while ensuring all legal instruments meet high standards of accuracy, compliance, and professionalism.
| Legal Administration | Writing legal agreements for our partnerships and external-facing relationships, tracking the lifecycle of agreements, and flagging legal risks to ensure our legal instruments meet internal standards of precision. | Given the nature of the role, we have a strong preference for candidates with a legal background (law students are welcome too!). |
You can browse through the full list of openings in our application form. Ready to join?We look for potential on top of experience. Depending on the role you're going for, some prior experience may be preferable — but don't worry, we warmly welcome everyone to apply and learn on the job!
recordkeeping the fieldwork
Project Management
The Impact & Outreach Unit (IOU) is the administrative backbone of all our project management. While project teams are on the ground, the IOU ensures everything surrounding the project — the paperwork, inventory, reporting, and the handoffs — is properly taken care of.
| Project Recordkeeping | Filing and maintaining post-project documentation, including impact reports, project timelines, budgets, and partnership information. It means ensuring that when a project concludes, its full record is accurately captured and accessible for future reference. |
| Site Management | Tracking and managing the inventory across projects to account for materials before, during, and after each deployment. |
| Cross-unit Coordination | Working closely with the Partnerships & Engagement Unit to maintain accurate partnership records, and acting as the bridge between returning project teams and the Health Data Unit to notify the arrival of new patient data for processing. |
You can browse through the full list of openings in our application form. Ready to join?We look for potential on top of experience. Depending on the role you're going for, some prior experience may be preferable — but don't worry, we warmly welcome everyone to apply and learn on the job!
the ones who bring people in
Partnerships & Engagement (PEU)
The Partnerships & Engagement Unit (PEU) is the outward-facing arm of Doctors on Ground. They look at opening doors for partnerships and collaborations across a wide range of actors— brands, studios, corporations, government branches, and community groups— to amplify our mission.We are actively expanding the PEU to cover these roles:
| Partnership Development | Identifying and reaching out to potential partners, drafting outreach messages and proposals, and building a pipeline of prospective collaborations that align with our mission and values. |
| Partnership Management | Maintaining active partner relationships, supporting the execution of partnership agreements, and keeping partnership records and documentation accurate and up to date. |
| Project Support | Working directly with project teams to ensure partnership agreements are properly executed ahead of and during active collaborations to make sure nothing falls through the cracks. |
Across all areas, leadership roles also drive the strategic direction of the Unit. The Head of the Unit would manage the partnership pipeline at an organisational level and be responsible for overseeing the organisation-wide compliance to partnership standards.
You can browse through the full list of openings in our application form. Ready to join?We look for potential on top of experience. Depending on the role you're going for, some prior experience may be preferable — but don't worry, we warmly welcome everyone to apply and learn on the job!
our structure and systems
Governance Bureau (GBU)
The Governance Bureau (GBU) exists to make sure we hold ourselves to account. It builds and maintains the frameworks, protocols, and compliance systems that govern how we operate across finance, partnerships, human resources, and beyond.We are actively expanding the GBU to cover these roles:
| Governance Development | Leading or co-developing frameworks across financial, partnerships, and operational domains to translate operations into policy documents that are consistent, compliant, and fit for purpose. |
| Governance Implementation | Work side-by-side with departments to roll out new frameworks and ensure existing protocols are abided by. |
| Access Compliance | Administering and monitoring access provisions across the organisation, supporting the Director of Governance in conducting access audits, and following up on compliance gaps to ensure our internal controls remain robust and up to date. |
Across all areas, you will also assist in the upkeep of existing governance instruments to ensure consistency as we evolve.
You can browse through the full list of openings in our application form. Ready to join?We look for potential on top of experience. Depending on the role you're going for, some prior experience may be preferable — but don't worry, we warmly welcome everyone to apply and learn on the job!
the people behind the people
Human Resources Unit (HRU)
Our Human Resources Unit (HRU) keeps our people moving. As we continue to grow, the infrastructure supporting our people will be paramount in ensuring our workforce sustains the work we do. Roles in the HRU fall across two areas: recruitment and people management.
| Recruitment | Coordinating end-to-end volunteer recruitment — sourcing applicants, managing candidates, and onboarding incoming staff into our operational teams. |
| People Management | Overseeing the engagement and welfare of our active staff — upkeeping records, facilitating human resource protocols, handling offboarding, and acting as a point of reference when people need assistance. |
We are also actively looking for a Head of unit to lead the team. The Head of the HRU will additionally support the development of human resource protocols to fill in gaps where they exist, and ensure cross-departmental compliance to the human resource lifecycle.If you have prior experience in human resource development, people management, and team leadership, we'd love to hear from you.
You can browse through the full list of openings in our application form. Ready to join?We look for potential on top of experience. Depending on the role you're going for, some prior experience may be preferable — but don't worry, we warmly welcome everyone to apply and learn on the job!
the pillars of our systems
Administrative Roles (Secretarial and Financial)
All of our administrative functions fall under the Secretariat. These functions encompass three areas: documentation management (secretarial), legal administration (legal), and finance and accounting (financial).
| Secretrial | Maintaining and updating our document library, monitoring version control across active documents, and working with all departments to ensure files are correctly catalogued, named, and accessible at all times. |
| Finance & Accounting | Supporting the recording of our income and expenditure, maintaining financial logs and records, and assisting in the preparation of basic financial reports for internal use. |
Leadership roles across all areas will also support the development and oversight of internal standards and compliance, as well as strategic coordination of the teams.
You can browse through the full list of openings in our application form. Ready to join?We look for potential on top of experience. Depending on the role you're going for, some prior experience may be preferable — but don't worry, we warmly welcome everyone to apply and learn on the job!
care through the lens of gender
Welcome to Women First by Doctors on Ground
Women First is the gender lens through which Doctors on Ground sees, measures, and builds its work. Operating as one of our core flagships, Women First is our way of respecting and paying credence to the intersectional nature of healthcare as felt by women.
go on the ground
Women First Kuala Lumpur
Women First Kuala Lumpur is the pilot project under the larger Women First domain. Throughout 2026, we plan on delivering care on the ground to the women we pledge to protect.