Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implementation of digitally enabled approaches for malaria and disease surveillance across diverse countries
- Advise Ministries of Health and partners on the selection, integration, and use of digital health platforms for data collection, analysis, visualization, and action
- Support development of digital and data governance frameworks, including data sharing, privacy, and security standards
- Guide improvements to geographic data systems, geo-registries, and spatial analytics to strengthen visualization and decision-making
- Facilitate strategy discussions on digitalization with donors, governments, and internal PATH teams, translating donor priorities into actionable program designs
- Strengthen integration and interoperability across health information systems and digital tools
- Design and manage partnerships to advance digital health innovation within malaria programs
- Provide team leadership for digital health specialists, including supervision and mentorship of technical staff, and contribute to proposal development and resource mobilization efforts.
- Represent PATH’s digital health and malaria capabilities internally and externally
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience designing and implementing digital health or health information system programs in low-resource settings.
- Demonstrated experience in DHIS2 configuration, ETL pipeline construction, and API development, combined with the ability to architect, oversee, and technically guide complex digital health implementations.
- Advanced understanding of malaria programs or similar health area, disease surveillance, and digital health landscapes, including the use of data and digital tools to support program decision-making.
- Experience working with a range of digital health platforms and analytics tools, with the ability to assess, integrate, and guide their effective use across diverse program contexts.
- Fluency in dashboard design, data quality concepts, and system performance considerations, with responsibility focused on technical leadership rather than day-to-day operations and development.
- Strong system design, integration expertise and architecture skills. Includes experience engaging with software development practices (e.g., version control, testing, debugging, performance tuning) at an architectural and review level.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and operate effectively in multidisciplinary environments, including staff supervision, mentoring, and concurrent management of multiple initiatives.
- Fluency in English
Nice to Have
- Fluency in French
- Demonstrated ability to engage with emerging digital health and data innovations including AI.
Benefits
- Leadership role in shaping the future of digital health and malaria programming
- Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits
- Collaborative, mission-driven global health environment
Additional Information
- Willingness to travel up to 30%
