Technical Program Manager, Center of Digital and

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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.

The Center of Digital and Data Excellence (CoDE) at PATH works with government ministries of health, the private sector, and donors to strengthen the use of digital technologies and data for improved health services. Digital Square is one of CoDE’s flagship global initiatives. It is PATH-led and funded by multiple donors, including USAID and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to advance digitally enabled health services to help close the health equity gap. Conceived from the lessons of the inefficiencies and redundancies of prior investments in digital technologies for international development, Digital Square works with ministries of health to align adaptable, interoperable digital technologies with local health needs and brings partners together to improve how the global community designs, uses, and pays for digital health tools and approaches.

PATH is currently recruiting for a **Technical Program Manager **for its Digital Square team. The Technical Program Manager will provide strategic guidance and technical support for a growing portfolio of COVID-19-related activities, designed to support national governments in low-and middle-income countries to adapt, scale, and accelerate the deployment of digital tools that address demand-side challenges for COVID-19 vaccination.

**Responsibilities**:
The Technical Program Manager (TPM) will be a key member of the technical team and will coordinate and lead research, analysis, strategy, communication for their portfolio activities to ensure timely, strong, co-created project deliverables. The person in this role will provide support in management, development of annual work plans and overarching project management as needed. They will provide expertise in a particular functional or skill area and act as the technical liaison with project administrators to assure that reports and milestones are met for all assigned projects.

**Specific responsibilities include**:
Project Management
- Ensure the appropriate management of work plans and donor deliverables by overseeing the development and tracking of project work plan, timelines, milestones, resource allocation, and deliverables.
- Ensure adherence to defined standards, tools, and norms for activity planning, management, communication, and reporting. Reinforce standard operating procedures in project execution.
- Address or escalate issues related to project execution when there are budgetary implications, concerns from donor/government or procedural issues.
- Coordinate implementation of assessment frameworks across areas. Serve as the primary coordinator of research, technical writing, and reporting for project deliverables.
- Lead team meetings, define agendas, strategic direction/questions, and provide insights into key risks, challenges, and opportunities that should be presented to project team and/or donor or government.
- Effectively manage, track, and mitigate risks associated with project implementation by monitoring dependencies across the workplan with particular attention to non-compliance and regulatory standards. Work with project administrators to ensure financial management practices are followed.
- Participate in project reviews and prepare written technical reports and PowerPoint documents for government and clients.
- Support project leadership to engage with government officials and donors in support of the digital health initiatives. Work directly with grant donors to refine and deliver materials as requested, often working across partnerships for coordination of country-specific and regional opportunities.

**Research**
- Support Digital Square Leadership (specifically the Deputy Director of Social Innovation and Impact) to deliver accurate, highest quality research, analysis, and program management of activities for COVID-19 related work.
- Work with the monitoring and evaluation (M&E) Director and technical team to drive the project’s research agenda and assessment framework.
- Conduct research and analysis of health system business processes, digital health policies and strategies, and digital health stakeholders. Recommend improvements to achieve efficiencies and effectiveness.
- Conceptualize and co-publish peer-reviewed academic publications.

**Technical Management**
- Support global good partners to adapt tool specifications to meet country demand.
- Support implementation and utilization of adapted tools. Work with global good partners to ensure deployments include updated user guides and other tools relevant for frontline health workers.
- Lead a country-based project-s