Project Manager , Public Health Informatics

Overview

POSITION SUMMARY The Public Health Informatics project manager supports the design, implementation, and coordination of data and surveillance activities for the Sentinel Program. Working with epidemiologists, data engineers, computational scientists, field teams, and global partners, this role ensures that data systems, analytics, and workflows are technically robust, operationally feasible, and aligned with national needs. The PM guides both the user-facing and back-end components of tool development to ensure solutions are intuitive, reliable, and scalable.

Reporting to the Sentinel Program Manager and collaborating closely with technical and country leads, the ideal candidate brings strong public health informatics expertise with the organizational and strategic skills needed to keep complex, multi-partner data efforts aligned and moving forward. This role benefits from someone who is familiar with code, though their main responsibilities center on coordination and overseeing system design and implementation rather than tool development.

• Project Management
  • Serve as the project manager for Sentinel Connect implementation across several countries, ensuring activities remain on schedule and aligned with program objectives
  • Ensure appropriate communication with project stakeholders regarding timelines and status, deadlines, data requirements, reporting, logistics and all other project-related issues
  • Facilitate project meetings to align the team around goals and communicate blocking issues
  • Maintain organized documentation, workflows, and communication channels that support efficient cross-team and cross-country coordination.
• Public Health Informatics & Systems Design
  • Map workflows and user needs across diagnostic, clinical, and surveillance activities to understand data flows and identify opportunities for improvement
  • Define system requirements and ensure informatics tools align with project priorities, national needs, and operational realities; work closely with technical partners to guide solution design
  • Ensure back-end data structures and databases are appropriate for current use cases and scalable for future needs
  • Ensure front-end components (dashboards, reporting interfaces, user workflows) are intuitive, usable, and tailored to intended audiences
  • Map data flows and conduct ad hoc analyses for systems performance assessments
  • Provide advisory support on data privacy, ethics and governance related to Sentinel data collection and use
• Partner Engagement & Capacity Strengthening
  • Serve as a technical resource for the Sentinel team, as well as ministries of health, research institutes, and implementing partners
  • Cultivate strong working relationships with ministries of health, implementation partners, and internal teams, ensuring clear communication, aligned expectations, and smooth coordination across all technical and operational activities.
  • Support consultations, requirements gathering, collaborative problem-solving, tool deployment, and capacity-building related to surveillance data systems
  • Ensure alignment with national priorities, partner needs, and broader public health strategies

• Master’s degree in public health informatics, epidemiology, data science, public health, or related field
• Minimum three years of working experience in a related field, ideally in the infectious disease space.
• Experience supporting and building relationships with ministries of health and/or working in low-resource settings
• Demonstrated ability to map workflows, gather user requirements, and translate operational needs into system specifications
• Familiarity with data architectures, databases, concepts of interoperability, and digital health tools
• Experience working with multidisciplinary, international teams to guide tool development and/or system implementation
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey technical information to non-technical audiences
• Strong organizational, stakeholder and project management skills
• Willingness to travel internationally (~25%) to support partner needs and field work

• Ability to conduct basic epidemiological…