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
