Manager, AI - Special Projects

Manager, AI – Special Projects

Leveraging deep expertise in strengthening healthcare systems, CHAI has launched an ambitious Artificial Intelligence (AI) initiative to support Ministries of Health to systematically capture and scale the benefits of AI. The CHAI AI program seeks to support Ministries to reimagine what is possible with technology, building towards a vision of "AI Native Health Systems" that makes health care delivery accessible, high-quality, and efficient.

There are four pillars of the strategy: (1) bringing the capabilities of world-class clinical intelligence or "AI Doctors" to every clinician and patient, (2) developing and deploying new "AI Diagnostics" that decentralize and improve quality of diagnoses, and (3) health systems AI applications, or the creation of "National Health Intelligence Centers" that improve systems capacity in disease surveillance, financial and workforce management, supply chain, and beyond.

Finally, (4) to fully realize the potential of these uses of AI, CHAI is also supporting Ministries of Health to strengthen "AI Foundations", including physical and digital infrastructure, governance, and workforce strategy.

The Manager, AI – Special Projects will work directly with the Senior Director, Head of AI to help build, coordinate, and scale CHAI's AI team during a period of rapid growth. This is a broad, high-ownership role for someone who wants to operate at the center of a fast-moving team: shaping strategy one week, standing up a new area of work the next, and rolling up their sleeves to solve whatever is most critical to the team's success.

The individual will need to move fluidly between high-level strategic thinking and hands-on execution.

The individual will support the development of the team's core strategy and contribute to ambitious fundraising efforts, helping translate vision into compelling proposals and plans. They will take ownership of potential new expansion areas of AI work—exploring initial strategies, testing feasibility, and helping recruit the first members of new teams. As the team scales from a small founding group to more than twenty people in the next year, the individual will be a key partner in making that growth happen, pitching in wherever needed across hiring, operations, and delivery.

The individual will also coordinate engagement across CHAI's 30+ country offices, ensuring the AI team integrates smoothly into CHAI's existing programs and country structures. We are seeking someone who is an advanced user of modern AI productivity tools, thrives in ambiguity, communicates with clarity, and picks up new topics quickly. This role reports to the Senior Director, Head of AI, requires extensive travel to CHAI country offices, and carries a strong preference for colocation in Boston to work in person with the Head of AI.

• Support the development of the AI team's core strategy, and contribute to ambitious fundraising efforts including proposal development and donor engagement
• Take ownership of potential new expansion areas of AI work, exploring initial strategies, assessing feasibility, and helping recruit the first members of new teams
• Serve as a key partner in scaling the team, pitching in across hiring, onboarding, operations, and delivery as needed
• Coordinate engagement across CHAI's 30+ country offices and ensure smooth integration of the AI team into CHAI's existing programs and country structures
• Move fluidly between strategic analysis and hands-on execution, taking on whatever is most critical to the team's success at a given moment
• Use modern AI productivity tools to build, automate, and systematize the team's own ways of working
• Prepare high-quality strategic materials, analyses, and communications for internal and external audiences
• Represent the AI team at conferences and in external forums as needed
• Undertake other responsibilities as needed to support the growth and success of the team

• Passion for AI and its potential to improve health systems in low- and middle-income countries
• 4 to 8 years of relevant professional experience
• Advanced user of modern AI productivity tools (e.g., Claude Cowork,…