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Senior Digital Health Lead
2026-03-12T09:07:49+00:00
PATH
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FULL_TIME
Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
Kenya
Healthcare
Management,Computer & IT,Healthcare,Business Operations,Social Services & Nonprofit,Science & Engineering
KES
MONTH
2026-03-22T17:00:00+00:00
TELECOMMUTE
8

Key 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

Qualifications and experience

  • 10+ years of experience designing and implementing digital health or health information system programs in low-resource settings. Requires 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.
  • Requires 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 engage with emerging digital health and data innovations including AI.
  • Requires focus / Focused on application and program integration rather than direct model development, data annotation, or data engineering.
  • 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 and preferably French; willingness to travel up to 30%
  • 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
  • DHIS2 configuration
  • ETL pipeline construction
  • API development
  • Dashboard design
  • System design
  • System integration
  • Architecture skills
  • Software development practices (version control, testing, debugging, performance tuning)
  • Engagement with emerging digital health and data innovations (AI)
  • Team leadership
  • Staff supervision
  • Mentoring
  • Fluency in English
  • Fluency in French (preferred)
  • 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 engage with emerging digital health and data innovations including AI.
  • Focus on application and program integration rather than direct model development, data annotation, or data engineering.
  • 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 and preferably French; willingness to travel up to 30%
bachelor degree
120
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Vacancy title:
Senior Digital Health Lead

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Healthcare, Category: Management,Computer & IT,Healthcare,Business Operations,Social Services & Nonprofit,Science & Engineering]

Jobs at:
PATH

Deadline of this Job:
Sunday, March 22 2026

Duty Station:
This Job is Remote

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, March 12 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Key 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

Qualifications and experience

  • 10+ years of experience designing and implementing digital health or health information system programs in low-resource settings. Requires 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.
  • Requires 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 engage with emerging digital health and data innovations including AI.
  • Requires focus / Focused on application and program integration rather than direct model development, data annotation, or data engineering.
  • 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 and preferably French; willingness to travel up to 30%

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Health/ Medicine jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: Sunday, March 22 2026
Duty Station: This Job is Remote
Posted: 12-03-2026
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 12-03-2026
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 10-10-2076
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