Technical Advisor III, Digital Health Solutions, Continuity of Integrated Health Services; CIHS) Project

NOTE:

This is a remote-global role. The hiring team is considering candidates wherever CRS is registered to work at. CRS does not sponsor visas for remote employees.

The Pay Range referenced in this job announcement only applies to applicants who perform the job within the US and to applicants classified by CRS as International Assignees. Staff hired on local payroll would follow the respective Country pay range. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your anticipated work location during the candidate selection process.

Pay Range
$95,173 - $117,498 Annually

You will contribute to strategy development in Digital Health Solutions for the anticipated Continuity of Integrated Health Services (CIHS) project, a multi-country initiative supporting Guinea, Liberia, Mali, and Togo, on activities with significant digital health and data systems components. You will provide technical advice and leadership in the design, deployment, and scale-up, and sustainability of digital health solutions and the overall digital health architecture while building the capacity of CIHS country teams as well as host governments in the management of large-scale digital health systems.

You will serve as a focal point for a project geographic area as needed, in line with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) program quality principles and standards, donor guidelines, and industry best practices to Technical Advisors and Country Program (CP) teams to advance the delivery of high-quality programming to the poor and vulnerable. Your advice and experience will be critical to ensuring successful implementation and long-term sustainability of these investments.

The incumbent is a trusted advisor that works at both strategic and tactical levels knowing, in detail, the necessary activities that need to take place to deliver successful technology solutions for impact in alignment with CRS’s broader health and systems strengthening objectives.

• Contribute to the design, advocate for, and ensure implementation of CIHS strategies, standards, tools, and best practices in Digital Health Solutions that effectively engage partners, donors, and governments. Ensure a cross-sectoral approach that integrates protection and disaster risk reduction. Support CIHS country teams and government counterparts in the analysis of business processes, documentation and analysis of functional and non-functional requirements, and translation of programmatic needs into digital health system specifications.
• Provide technical solutions and leadership and support to CIHS country teams, Ministries of Health, related directorates (e.g., information systems), and other government stakeholders to strengthen the design, implementation, scale-up, interoperability, governance, and sustainability of digital health and health information systems. Ensure digital solutions align with national strategies, policies, standards, and broader health system strengthening objectives.
• Contribute to HQ, regional, and country program staff efforts to pre-position CRS for strategic growth opportunities in Digital Health Solutions. Provide technical guidance in proposal development and project design with a focus on complex projects to ensure innovative programming solutions and technical excellence. Support CPs to appropriately staff project teams and provide guidance during development, implementation, and/or monitoring of milestone plans, workplans, budgets, and reports.
• Oversee and lead the delivery of capacity strengthening initiatives in the startup, implementation, and scale-up of digital health initiatives, including solution design, project management, system configuration and deployment, mobile device…