PATH is an international organization that drives transformative innovation to save lives and improve health, especially among women and children. We accelerate innovation across five platforms—vaccines, drugs, diagnostics, devices, and system and service innovations—that harness our entrepreneurial insight, scientific and public health expertise, and passion for health equity.
The Senior Digital Health Lead will drive the design and implementation of digitally enabled approaches for malaria and disease surveillance across diverse countries. This role focuses on advising Ministries of Health and partners on the selection, integration, and use of digital health platforms for data collection, analysis, visualization, and action. You will provide strategic leadership, architect complex implementations, and manage multidisciplinary technical teams.
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 (such as DHIS2) for data collection, analysis, visualization, and action.
- Support the 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.
- 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.
- Demonstrated experience in DHIS2 configuration, ETL pipeline construction, and API development.
- Ability to architect, oversee, and technically guide complex digital health implementations.
- Advanced understanding of malaria programs or similar health areas, disease surveillance, and digital health landscapes.
- Fluency in dashboard design, data quality concepts, and system performance considerations.
- Strong system design, integration expertise, and architecture skills.
- Experience engaging with software development practices (e.g., version control, testing, debugging, performance tuning) at an architectural level.
- Demonstrated ability to engage with emerging digital health and data innovations, including AI.
- Proven ability to lead technical teams and operate effectively in multidisciplinary environments, including staff supervision and mentoring.
- Educational background: Minimum of a BA/BSc/HND in a related field.
- Fluency in English is required; fluency in French is highly preferred.
- Willingness to travel up to 30%.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should apply online via the PATH recruitment portal on Workday. Follow this link to access the application page: https://path.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/Kenya-Nairobi/Senior-Digital-Health-Lead_JR1417.
