The World Bank Group is hiring a Senior Digital HNP Specialist to accelerate digital transformation across Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) systems. In this role, you will strengthen country capacity to plan, govern, and implement scalable digital health solutions grounded in data governance, interoperability, cybersecurity, and user-centered design, working toward a world free of poverty on a livable planet.
What You'll Do
- Provide technical assistance to client countries to design and implement digital health strategies, blueprints, and roadmaps aligned with national health priorities and universal health coverage objectives.
- Advise on policy, legal, and institutional reforms to enable digital health transformation, including data governance, data sharing frameworks, privacy, cybersecurity, procurement approaches, and vendor management models.
- Develop and disseminate practical guidance (standards, templates, toolkits) for planning and scaling digital health solutions and digital public services related to HNP.
- Identify emerging global trends and proven practices (e.g., AI-enabled decision support, digital public health, virtual care) and support pilots with clear pathways to scale.
- Advise client counterparts on defining and implementing enterprise architecture and reference architectures for digital health, minimizing fragmentation and ensuring systems work together over time.
- Support implementation of interoperability layers and health information exchange approaches.
- Guide adoption of data and messaging standards for health and public health data exchange and promote reusable shared services (identity, registries, terminology services, messaging/notifications).
- Translate regulatory and compliance needs into digital-ready system requirements (auditability, role-based access, consent models, retention, reporting).
- Support design and strengthening of national health data platforms: governance, metadata, quality management, master data management (facilities, providers, products), and secure access models.
- Strengthen routine health information systems and ensure alignment between routine systems, program registries, and service delivery applications.
- Enable fit-for-purpose analytics for planning and performance: dashboards, equity and coverage monitoring, predictive analytics, and decision-support tools, while ensuring transparency, feasibility, and responsible use.
- Support digital public health capabilities: surveillance, early warning, outbreak management workflows, and cross-border/whole-of-government data exchange where appropriate.
- Support modernization of service delivery workflows and tools for priority HNP programs, such as maternal, newborn and child health; immunization registries and vaccination workflows; and nutrition beneficiary management and service tracking.
Team & Environment
The Senior Digital HNP Specialist will be embedded in or closely with the Digital and AI Vice Presidency and work in close alignment with the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice, reporting to the WBG Vice President, Digital and AI Vertical. You'll join a dynamic, diverse organization with 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, working with public and private sector partners to bring tangible and transformative changes around the globe.
Work Mode
This role is based onsite in Washington, DC, United States.
