Managing Director of Digital Square

PATH

Managing Director of Digital Square

Tracking Code

10460

Job Description

This position can be located in Seattle, Washington DC, San Francisco, United States; New Delhi, India; Nairobi, Kenya; Johannesburg, South Africa; Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Dakar, Senegal; Geneva, Switzerland

 

PATH is a global organization that works to accelerate health equity by bringing together public institutions, businesses, social enterprises, and investors to solve the world’s most pressing health challenges. With expertise in science, health, economics, technology, advocacy, and dozens of other specialties, PATH develops and scales solutions—including vaccines, drugs, devices, diagnostics, and innovative approaches to strengthening health systems worldwide.

 

International development and global health represent one of the greatest opportunities for the impact of digital technologies on a global scale. New technologies, approaches and tools are emerging daily, unfortunately into a fragmented and immature digital health market landscape that currently limits their promise to transform country health systems and accelerate and amplify progress towards national and global health goals.

 

Digital Square is a global initiative, supported by PATH and funded by multiple donors, including USAID and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to invest in and mature the field of global digital health to realize this promise. Conceived from the lessons of the inefficiencies and redundancies of prior investments in digital technologies for international development Digital Square brings global and regional actors together to create a new way of thinking about, and a new way of doing, development.

 

We are maturing the field by improving coordination and alignment of both the donors that fund digital health projects and the community that implements them. We are improving the open source digital health software ecosystem and the capacity of governments to choose, maintain, and use these global goods. This increased coordination and matured software ecosystem will allow low- and middle-income countries to effectively manage their own regional and country digital health systems, thereby reducing reliance on development technical assistance over the longer term and improving health impact.

 

The Managing Director of Digital Square will lead or play a key supporting role for a portfolio of the Digital Square’s country, regional or global digital health implementation activities. He or she will need to ensure donor coordination, partner alignment, and staff direction during the implementation of these activities.

 

Responsibilities:

The primary responsibility (60%) of this position will be to lead day-to-day management of country and regional initiatives in the Digital Square portfolio, set and enact the vision/targets for country expansion, and setting a standard operational approach that can be replicated in each new location. This expansion would specifically include buy-ins through the USAID mechanism. Activities include:

·         Define and oversee the operationalization of technical strategies for country and regional digital health implementation activities in alignment with the Digital Square mission and vision and under the guidance of the Technical Director

·         Define organizational structural strategies and project direction for the implementation of activities within each country/regional network

·   Support the Executive Director and Operations Director with the creation and implementation of a staffing plan and buy in strategy for each buy-in which details the following:  staff LOE, overall scope, deliverables timeline and coordination with overall cooperative agreement and reporting requirements

·         Serve as a technical representative and advocate for PATH/Digital Square at conferences, meetings, and other forums as directed by the Technical or Executive Director

·         Support in particular in-country Directors/leaders - ensuring technical direction of country

and regional buy-ins, ensuring coordination amongst and between country buy-ins and alignment against the overall Digital Square award, and supporting in country leads with relationship management with donors in country and at donors at donor headquarters

·         Provide technical assistance and mentoring to Digital Square staff so that they better understand and are better able to meet Digital Square as well as PATH standards and expectations

·         Under the leadership of the Technical and Executive Directors, support the development of concept notes, technical approaches, articles, white papers and presentations for advocacy and engagement with donors on potential future implementation activities for both new and existing donors

·         Refine and implement the advocacy strategy to encourage global private- and public-sector and multilateral leaders to align with and expand investments for digital health global goods in country

·         Support cross-country relationships and global goods use by fostering conversations and connections between countries and global goods suppliers; connect country stakeholders to capacity-building networks in the Digital Square eco-system

 

The Managing Director will also support other related (40%) Digital Square activities, including:

·         Oversee implementation of Digital Square’s strategy for engaging and supporting regional and global digital health networks, country expansions, and market shaping opportunities

·        Support the continued expansion and management of Digital Square as a virtual, connected and geographically diverse team

·         Contribute to and review technical approaches for business development activities

·         Set vision for ensuring sustainability of Digital Square’s work

Required Experience

·         Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 10 years’ of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

·         Credible, articulate, demonstrated expertise in the following:

·         Introduction and scaling of digital technology in low and middle income countries.

·         Application of digital technology to strengthen health systems and services

·         Demonstrated experience with multi-lateral/bi-lateral USAID-funded projects, with a preference for digital health projects.

·         Openness to new ideas and the ability to creatively grow those into fully formed proposals, implementation and sustainability.

·         A passion to represent the initiative and the organization publicly; to create and maintain effective working relationships with high-level government personnel and partners from a variety of sectors.

·         The ability to represent and communicate an idea, a project, or an organization in any medium and to a variety of audiences, including blog posts, email, team meetings, speaking engagements, and pitch meetings, to name a few.

·         Experience managing and leading a diverse team of geographically distributed employees with multiple perspectives (think global coalitions, associations, or working groups) to set strategies and execute them successfully.

·         Experience managing a large pool of contractors through a changing donor landscape and evolving global priorities.

·         Willingness and ability to travel globally at least 25% of the time.

 

 

Job Location

New Delhi, India

Company Location

India, New Delhi

Position Type

Full-Time/Regular

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