Program Officer

PATH is a global nonprofit dedicated to achieving health equity. With more than 40 years of experience forging multisector partnerships, and with expertise in science, economics, technology, advocacy, and dozens of other specialties, PATH develops and scales up innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing health challenges.

**Building a common platform for stakeholders of Digital Health**

In 2015 health was added as a critical component of the government’s vision of a “Digital India.” This vision turned into action when the National Digital Health Mission, now known as the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), was established in 2020 with the singular goal of providing integrated digital health infrastructure across the country.

As part of its focus on strengthening the overall adoption of Digital Health, PATH will develop a consortium of stakeholders who are interested in areas of Digital Health. The consortium will focus on being the common platform for digital health where stakeholders contextualize, align and facilitate appropriate and transformative digital solutions to the country's digital health vision.

**Responsibilities**
- Manage, supervise, provide leadership, and support the consortium coordination with relevant stakeholders to ensure that goals are achieved
- Strategic planning and execution of the functioning of consortium
- Undertake landscape assessments to seek, sense and analyse trends in the environment and develop relevant documents
- Maintain records of the activities performed under the project
- Ideate and plan for different engagement models
- Provide management support to the project team for effective, timely, successful, and impactful implementation of opportunities as a result of consortia output including stakeholder engagement (donors, digital, public health, government), risk mitigation, etc.
- Create and maintain documentation including strategy, development, implementation, and evaluation frameworks. This would also include preparing reports, presentations, knowledge documents, etc.
- Collaborate with relevant teams in PATH for conceptualizing opportunities in line with the PATHs program
- Participate and represent PATH in key meetings and workshops with external stakeholders including government, donors, and partners
- Support with knowledge management initiatives and lead digital literacy sessions for the external stakeholders, partners, and PATH

**Required Skills**:
Required Experience
- Any graduation (preferably B.Tech.)/ M.Tech. in computer science or IT
- 4-6 years of professional experience across digital, consulting, public sector, and development sector
- Must have experience in at least one large-scale digital transformation (consulting / implementation) program in the public sector preferably in digital health in one or more LMICs
- Experience in working with government, donors, and stakeholders
- Excellent coordination skills, both internal across programming sectors and support teams, and externally with implementing partners
- Must have experience in program and project management including vendor and partner engagement
- Relevant prior experience in the Digital Health domain would be strongly desirable
- Good understanding of the digital health ecosystem and/or governance domain is desirable
- Demonstrated ability to multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced dynamic and multi-stakeholder environment
- Excellent command of written and spoken English with the ability to articulate views and ideas in a clear and precise manner across spoken and written modes of communication
- Must possess very good interpersonal skills and the ability to handle and prevail in situations of conflicting opinions in a truly multi-stakeholder environment
- Ability to confidently collaborate and engage across all levels of leadership internally and externally
- Sophisticated level of expertise needed in MS Office suite especially Word, Excel, and PowerPoint tools
- Demonstrated skills in planning, coordination, supportive supervision, and monitoring
- Strong documentation and report writing skills with sharp analytical focus and problem-solving ability
- Ability to work with limited supervision and an expectation to lead

**Must have legal authorization to work** in India.**

**PATH is dedicated to building an inclusive workforce where diversity is valued.**

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