International Digital Health Senior Specialist
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International Digital Health Senior Specialist
Location: Argentina
The IDB Group is a community of diverse, versatile, and passionate people who come together on a journey to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our people find purpose and do what they love in an inclusive, collaborative, agile, and rewarding environment.
About this position
We are looking for a Digital Health Senior Specialist to join our Social Protection and Health (SPH) Division as a member of the SPH Digital Health Team. In coordination with the SPH Digital Health Team leader, you will contribute to our operational, economic, and sector work program in digital health. Your primary focus will be designing and supervising complex digital health operations in IDB member countries, with an initial three-year emphasis in Argentina and other southern cone and Andean countries.
You will contribute to digital health transformation by ensuring high-quality design, execution, and evaluation of operations to address health risk factors, improve healthcare delivery quality and resilience, and enhance health spending efficiency. Additionally, you will engage in policy dialogue and applied research on digital health for non-communicable diseases, health system strengthening, financing, and strategic health policy development.
Our Social Sector (SCL) is a multidisciplinary team that is convinced that investing in people is the way to improve lives and overcome the development challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean. Jointly with the countries in the region, the Social Sector formulates public policy solutions to reduce poverty and improve the delivery of education, work, social protection, and health services. Our objective is to advance a more productive region with equal opportunities for people of all genders and greater inclusion of the most vulnerable groups.
You will work in the Social Protection and Health (SPH) Division, which prepares and supervises operations in borrowing member countries in the areas of social protection (e.g., safety nets and transfers, early childhood development, aging) and health (e.g., health systems strengthening, health system financing, organization and performance, digital health transformation, etc.).
What you’ll do:
- Serve as a SPH Digital Health team member, supporting SPH’s regional approach and agenda for digital health. As business needs evolve, you will also contribute to other key areas within the Social Protection and Health Division.
- Lead, in coordination with all relevant parties (executing agencies, fiduciary specialists, among others), the design, supervision, monitoring, and evaluation of digital health operations.
- Identify and resolve complex execution issues related to supervising IDB financed operations in digital health.
- Lead and collaborate in the origination, conceptualization, and preparation of operations, including digital health initiatives, working closely with team members and relevant authorities to ensure alignment with strategic goals and operational requirements.
- Transfer technical and operational knowledge in digital health to entities in charge of executing IDB-financed operations.
- Develop and apply innovative economic and/or sector analytic work to support the preparation of country, sector, and regional strategies, loan operations, and technical assistance programs.
- Share and disseminate economic/sector knowledge and learning experiences to enhance the IDB's relevance to borrowing countries and the region.
- Engage in policy dialogue with government authorities and development partners based on your validated knowledge of the sector, development challenges of client countries, and IDB policies, strategies, and guidelines.
- Foster health sector modernization and transformation in IDB member countries.
- Work as a member of a multidisciplinary team, coordinating work within the division and sector in addition to supporting the activities of the IDB Invest and IDB Lab within the IDB Group.
- Manage project teams and resources effectively.
- Mentor junior staff to develop technical expertise in digital health.
- Provide input to prepare business plans and budgets for our work program's accomplishment and report progress to internal and external partners.
- Work independently with limited oversight.
What you'll need
- Education: You hold a Bachelor´s degree in medical sciences, economics, public administration, computer science, or engineering and a Master’s or Doctoral degree in public health, health management, economics, health economics, public administration, computer science, engineering, or another related field.
- Experience: You have at least ten (10) years of relevant and substantive experience handling national and regional digital health projects, including complex digital infrastructure, organizational change, quality improvement, design and implementation of digital health policies, and operational experience in multicultural environments.
- Languages: Proficiency in Spanish and English, spoken and written, is required. Additional knowledge of French or Portuguese is preferable.
Key skills
- Mentor and develop
- Promote Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
- Focus on clients
- Communicate and influence
- Innovate and try new things
Requirements
- Citizenship: You are a citizen of one of our 48-member countries. We may offer assistance with relocation and visa applications for you and your eligible dependents.
- Consanguinity: You have no family members (up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB, IDB Invest, or IDB Lab.
Type of contract and duration
· International staff contract, 36 months initially, renewable upon mutual agreement.
What we offer
The IDB Group provides benefits that respond to an employee's life's different needs and moments. These benefits include:
- A competitive compensation package.
- Leaves and vacations: 24 days of paid time off + 8 personal days + sick leave + gender-neutral parental leave.
- Health Insurance: IDB Group provides employees and eligible dependents with a robust medical benefits program that covers medical, dental, vision, preventive care, and prescription drugs.
- Pension plan: defined benefit pension plan that provides financial security and supports employees in planning for their future.
- Hybrid and flexible work schedules.
- Health and well-being: Access to our Health Services Center, which provides preventive care and health education for employees.
- Development support: We offer tools to boost your professional profile, such as mentoring, 1:1 professional counseling, training and learning opportunities, language classes, and mobility options, among others.
Our culture
At the IDB Group, we work so that everyone brings their best and most authentic selves to work, is willing to try new approaches without fear, and is accountable and rewarded for their actions.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) are at the center of our organization. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and encourage women, LGBTQ+ people, persons with disabilities, Afro-descendants, and Indigenous people to apply.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job interview process. If you are a qualified candidate with a disability, please e-mail us at diversity@iadb.org to request a reasonable accommodation to complete this application.
Our Human Resources Team reviews carefully every application.
About the IDB Group
The IDB Group, composed of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), IDB Invest, and the IDB Lab, offers flexible financing solutions to its member countries to finance economic and social development through lending and grants to public and private entities in Latin America and the Caribbean.
About IDB
The Inter-American Development Bank is devoted to improving lives. Established in 1959, it is a leading source of long-term financing for economic, social, and institutional development in Latin America and the Caribbean. The IDB also conducts cutting-edge research and provides policy advice, technical assistance, and training to public and private sector clients throughout the region.
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