Overview
The World Bank Group is seeking an Extended Term Consultant (ETC) to support its engagement on digital health transformation. The role will focus on the adoption, adaptation, coordination, and implementation of digital technologies into Bank-financed health projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Support technical assistance to client countries to design and implement digital health strategies, blueprints, and roadmaps.
- Advise on policy, legal, and institutional reforms to enable digital health transformation and responsible AI for health.
- Contribute to the development and dissemination of practical guidance for planning and scaling digital health solutions.
- Identify emerging global trends and proven practices and support pilots with clear pathways to scale.
- Advise and support client country teams on how to prioritize, design, operationalize, and/or adapt digital health and AI initiatives.
- Advise client counterparts on defining and implementing enterprise architecture and reference architectures for digital health.
- Support implementation of interoperability layers and health information exchange approaches.
- Guide adoption of data and messaging standards for health and public health data exchange.
- Support the strengthening of routine health information systems.
- Support countries to establish the regulatory, institutional, and technical frameworks needed to govern AI in health.
- Guide AI capacity building and workforce change management.
- Advise clients on AI integration into health system analytics.
- Support the evaluation and validation of AI in health.
- Co-create and support World Bank country teams and clients on developing appropriate terms of reference and evaluation processes.
- Support the delivery of capacity-building workshops and coaching for client counterparts.
- Support the digital health components of capacity building efforts.
- Contribute to knowledge products, case studies, reusable templates, and communities of practice.
- Facilitate timely and high-quality delivery of activity outputs.
- Support fit-for-purpose analytics for planning and performance.
- Coordinate with the broader World Bank teams and communities to ensure a OneWBG approach to digital health transformation.
- Undertake the timely drafting of narrative reports for periodical reporting and tracking of activities and deliverables.
- Support key technical partnerships both within and outside the World Bank.
- Support the onboarding of new team members as appropriate.
- Coordinate with World Bank TTL(s) to support project design and implementation, draft proposals, and report on progress.
Required Experience
Minimum five years of relevant experience in digital health, health information systems, public-sector digital transformation, or data/developer roles supporting health programs. Experience in global digital health, from an operational or project perspective; including expertise in at least two of the following: digital health enterprise architecture and interoperability; health data platforms and governance; digital information for public health, surveillance, and routine reporting; program systems (immunization, nutrition, community health, referrals); digital health analytics/AI-enabled decision, workflow, or diagnostics support; digital supply chain transformation and information management. Track record of successful implementation of digital health solutions at scale including in LMICs.
Qualifications
Master’s degree in public health, health informatics, information systems, computer science, data engineering/architecture, or related field combining HNP domain experience with digital transformation expertise.
