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. By mobilizing partners around the world, we take innovation to scale, working alongside countries primarily in Africa and Asia to tackle their greatest health needs. Together, we deliver measurable results that disrupt the cycle of poor health.
PATH’s Center of Digital and Data Excellence (CoDE) helps countries and communities reach the unreached by mobilizing multisector partnerships, leveraging broad public health experience, and offering a full range of digital and data capabilities – from strengthening digital architectures to planning for the next generation of connected devices.
Digital Square, a global initiative within CoDE, is a partnership of the world’s leading digital health experts from 40+ organizations working together with countries to strengthen digital health systems. In pursuit of our Mission: connect health leaders with the resources necessary for digital transformation, Digital Square offers a new way to invest in digital health—providing a space where countries and members of the global community can gather to think big and do good, together. By convening government officials, technological innovators, donor and implementation partners, and others across borders and boundaries in the Digital Square, we can grow possibility into reality by focusing on our common goal: connecting the world for better health.
Digital Square is 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. For more information about Digital Square, its objectives and our progress to date please visit our website.
Digital Square is supporting the Digital Regional East African Community Health (REACH) Initiative, a coordinated, regionally-focused initiative that brings together stakeholders from the East African Community (EAC), EAC Partner States, development partners, technology providers, and the private sector to support the implementation of interoperable information and communications technology (ICT) across all dimensions of the health sector in East Africa while leveraging existing country digital health investments. The Initiative’s goals will be achieved through the creation of a robust enabling environment and the implementation of strategic regional health programs supported and facilitated by digital health technologies. One such health program has been prioritized for immediate implementation: the East African Health Cloud (EAHC), an interoperable health information system that will enable real-time capture, storage, analysis, and retrieval of health data across the region.
The East African Health Cloud (EAHC) will be the principle infrastructure for Digital REACH Initiative’s workstreams and health programs. Digital Square has been engaged to support the hosting for the EAHC and the selection of digital health common goods. These activities include: 1) an assessment of available hosting options with EAC and of available common goods in partner states: 2) a convening to socialize hosting and common goods recommendations with member states; and 3) the development and socialize EAHC Implementation Roadmap. The goal of these activities is to identify the most sustainable, feasible hosting option to facilitate the design and establishment of regional common digital public goods.
The Technical Writer/ Business Analyst position will be based in any of the East African countries in which PATH has offices, that is either Kenya, Uganda or Tanzania.
Responsibilities:
This position is uniquely situated and split between two programs within the Digital Square project: Digital REACH Initiative and the Global Goods team.
Technical Writer for Digital REACH Initiative:
Develop clear, compelling documentation including roadmaps and technical reports.
Support documentation of digital health tools and mapping to relevant informatics standards (e.g. HL7 FHIR).
Maintain document-related repositories (e.g., meeting minutes, technical deliverables, etc.) and document management processes.
Use PATH/Digital Square tools and systems as needed for project planning, tracking, and reporting.
Be responsive to client and PATH requests for technical updates, presentations, and information requests.
Other areas as directed by the Regional Director, CODE.
Business Analyst for Global Goods:
Contribute to preparation of project reports and presents briefings on proposed and ongoing activities.
Support trainings, webinars, meetings, connectathons, interoperability labs, etc.
Advise on standards, documentation and other activities to accelerate reuse and adaptation of existing global goods.
Contribute to development and tracking of project work plan, timelines, milestones, resource allocation, and deliverables associated with assigned projects.
Required Experience
Bachelor’s degree in information technology or similar subject, or similar / proven work experience.
5 years of experience working in health information technology/informatics and business process documentation including system requirements and designs, enterprise architecture, hosting diagrams, business process flows, data flows, Gantt charts.
Experience developing workshop summaries, assessment reports, business plans, or similar reports and presentations.
Advanced document creation, collaboration and management skills including the use of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Visio or equivalent business process modelling notation (BPMN) skills.
Excellent English oral, written, and presentation skills including example of report writing and/or presentations to be submitted with application.
Must be able to communicate and engage effectively with both informational communication technology professionals, health sector and management-level professionals, and be able to facilitate communication between these
Preference for understanding of international health architecture such as OpenHIE and or similar, data exchange standards such as HL7 FHIR, and health information systems currently in use in the global health and development landscape (e.g., OpenMRSEMR, LISOpenLMIS, OpenELIS, iHRIS, DHIS2).
Experience working with remote teams.
Availability for 20% local, regional and international travel to provide short term technical assistance.
PATH is dedicated to building an inclusive workforce where diversity is valued.
PATH is an equal opportunity employer. Every qualified applicant will be considered for employment. PATH does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or orientation, genetic information, age, national origin, marital status, disability status, or political ideology.
Job Location
Nairobi, Addis, or Dar, Kenya
Company Location
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa or Kenya, Nairobi or Tanzania, Dar es Salaam
Position Type
Full-Time/Regular
This position is uniquely situated and split between two programs within the Digital Square project: Digital REACH Initiative and the Global Goods team.
