PATH Technical Project Manager - Center for Digital & Data Jobs in South Africa
PATH Technical Project Manager - Center for Digital & Data Jobs in South Africa
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.
Responsibilities
Project Management and Leadership
Actively own and manage technical digital health projects and contracts that are often multi-faceted and span software development, implementation, design and data use in low resource settings. Work with PATH leadership to track, identify and drive forward work, issues and solutions in a proactive and results driven approach with a focus on supporting country objectives and systems use. Manage contractors spanning the range from NGOs to corporate consulting firms.
Leadership & Governance
Actively work with the Director of Digital Square South Africa to support the intra-government convening with Ministry of Health to establish guidelines, review data systems, and oversee adherence to the Digital Principles, eHealth strategies and Create champions for data use across different levels of the health system.
Infrastructure
Maintain landscape of country and regional infrastructure regarding availability of existing systems, electricity, connectivity, server hosting capabilities, IT development capacity, and maintenance support for various levels of the health Foster digital connections with innovations across various tools and devices. Provide guidance to ensure data privacy and security.
Policy & Processes
Assist South Africa in adoption of evidence-based policies that strengthen digital health implementations and data use. Evolve and execute PATH methodologies and processes to sustainably update and maintain health information systems.
Standards & Interoperability
Foster harmonization of national interoperability architectures in support of communication with and between digital systems, and technology standards to improve health system
Services & Applications
Promote PATH’s user-centric design methodologies for service and Ensure data platforms have strong technical project management and change management support with an emphasis on replicable health information systems and data warehouse solutions that multiple
countries and programs can leverage.
Requirements
A minimum of 10 years of experience in at least two of the following industries: health information systems, IT management, or equivalent information system design, development, and
Superior project management skills of virtual teams with demonstrated ability to manage vendors, collaborate with partners, and coordinate implementation activities through the use of project management and agile software management
Graduate degree in public administration, business administration, management information systems, computer science, or similar / proven work experience.
Capable person who has worked in multi-cultural environments bringing diverse groups together to achieve a common purpose with patience, grace and humility in low and middle income countries.
Preference for experience with health information systems currently in use in the global health and development landscape (e.g., EMR, LIS, HRIS, DHIS2) as well as South Africa.
Experience with one or more of the following: data warehouse systems and data marts, geographic information systems design, data visualization, business use, and modeling.
Experience in system design and implementation as well as preference for ability to understand and engage with technical and software teams (exposure and ability to work within modern development patterns such as agile etc.)
Excellent English oral, written, and presentation skills including evidence of quality proposal development, report writing, and presentations. Proficiency in French desired.
Advanced document creation, collaboration and management skills including the use of Microsoft Office, Visio or equivalent business process modeling notation (BPMN) skills. Graphic design, modeling, and visualization
Demonstrably strong analytical skills, including qualitative and quantitative analysis, enterprise architecture, IT architecture and systems analysis, and excellent deductive and inductive reasoning
Must be able to communicate effectively with both ICT professionals and health sector professionals and be able to facilitate communication between these
Understanding of the global health context including HIV/TB, surveillance systems, and international health architecture such as OpenHIE and or similar.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should apply online by 4th August, 2019.
For more information and job application details, see; PATH Technical Project Manager - Center for Digital & Data Jobs in South Africa
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