E T Consultant for Digital Health Transformation-Kenya

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Eastern and Southern Africa (AFE) Region

We need the best and brightest talent focused on our region in order to harness the potential and innovation happening across the continent. Home to about 700 million of Africa’s people, Eastern and Southern Africa is a geographically, culturally and economically diverse region of 26 countries stretching from the Red Sea in the North to the Cape of Good Hope in the South. The subregion harbors some of Africa’s protracted conflicts, rendering many of its countries fragile, while significant gaps in education, health, and skills development continues to keep people from reaching their full potential. This creates a huge development challenge, impacts heavily on the lives and livelihoods of people, and hinders regional integration and trade. But it also creates an opportunity to work closely with country leaders, civil society, development partners, and young people to chart a brighter course for the future. We are looking for dedicated professionals to join our innovative and diverse team to improve people’s lives.

Health, Nutrition and Population (HNP) Global Practice Context:

The central contribution of the HNP Global Practice to the World Bank’s twin goals is to enable the achievement of Universal Health Coverage (UHC), in which all people are effectively covered by essential health services, and nobody suffers undue financial hardship because of illnesses. The HNP Global Practice includes staff members in Washington, DC and many country offices. The HNP Global Practice works with and across multiple sectors, in recognition of the fact that HNP outcomes often depend on actions that lie outside the HNP sector. The HNP Global Practice supports country and regional efforts to: (i) improve health outcomes, especially for the poor and most vulnerable; (ii) expand access to high-quality HNP services, interventions and technologies that give the most value for money; (iii) strengthen health systems for results; (iv) establish and improve health financing mechanisms that promote efficiency, equity and sustainability of investments; (v) strengthen health-relevant institutions within and outside the health sector; (vi) harness multisectoral policies and investments for better health outcomes; and (vii) develop and learn from rigorous impact evaluations.

Eastern and Southern African Region Digital Health and Country Context

Africa's health systems stand at a genuine inflection point in digital health. Across the Africa East (AFE) region, there is a genuine opportunity to leapfrog older, incremental digitization pathways by building diagnostic tools, administrative systems, and AI-enabled platforms directly on newer digital rails such as mobile connectivity and cloud infrastructure.

The World Bank is supporting the digitization of countries' healthcare systems and prioritizing improved access to essential health services. This is being done through various lending operations and technical assistance in the post-COVID era.

Kenya

In order to build an interconnected and secure digital ecosystem to support Universal Health Coverage (UHC), the Government of Kenya enacted the Digital Health Act and established a Digital Health Authority (DHA) with the mandate to lead the country's digital health transformation agenda. DHA’s core

Responsibilities

• Lead and contribute to technical assistance and lending operations that help countries design, prioritize, implement, and scale digital health solutions to improve service delivery, data governance, use, and transparency, aligned with national health priorities and UHC objectives.
• Advise client countries and World Bank teams on policy, legal, institutional, procurement, and governance reforms for digital health transformation, including responsible AI, data governance, privacy, cybersecurity, and vendor management.
• Provide strategic advice to governments, World Bank teams, and relevant stakeholders on digital health reforms, platforms, technologies, and investments that improve system quality, efficiency, transparency, equity, sustainability, and impact, drawing on global good practice, country context, capacity, and portfolio needs.
• Conduct analytical work, including desk reviews, key informant interviews, and field visits, to assess country digital health landscapes, existing information systems, health data structures and governance, implementation progress, information management ecosystems, and digital health literacy.
• Contribute to knowledge products, case studies, templates, presentations, reports, mission aide memoires, briefings, and related materials to capture lessons and support scale-up of successful models.
• Provide guidance on practical guidance, standards, templates, toolkits, resources for planning, procuring, and scaling digital health solutions and digitally enabled primary health care.
• Identify emerging trends and proven practices in digital health and AI-enabled systems, and support demonstration models, pilots, and prototypes with clear pathways to scale and sustainability.
• Lead technical dialogue on enterprise architecture, reference architectures, interoperability layers, and health information exchange approaches that reduce fragmentation and enable systems to work together.
• Guide adoption of data, messaging, and terminology standards, and promote shared services such as identity, registries, terminology, messaging, and notifications.
• Strengthen routine health information systems and align reporting systems, program registries, service delivery applications, and other digital tools.
• Support demonstration models and data integration across systems to analyze health sector performance and strengthen evidence-based decision making at national and local government levels.
• Support fit-for-purpose analytics, dashboards, predictive analytics where appropriate, and decision-support tools for planning, monitoring, equity, and coverage tracking.
• Strengthen stakeholder capacity in data quality assurance, analytics for evidence-based decision making, and maintenance of digital tools and information systems.
• Support countries to establish regulatory, institutional, and technical frameworks for responsible AI in health, including oversight, accountability, and redress mechanisms.
• Advise on responsible AI applications for health analytics, including bottleneck analysis, commodity forecasting, clinical decision support, planning, and service delivery.
• Develop and disseminate methods to evaluate AI applications for performance, safety, equity, and feasibility, including in low-resource and multilingual settings.
• Lead workshops, coaching, and learning activities on digital health architecture, interoperability, governance, AI, implementation, data use, and workforce change management.
• Coordinate with World Bank teams, TTLs, regional/global teams, and communities of practice to support a OneWBG approach to digital health within HNP/ Africa East.
• Support country teams and clients with TORs, procurement and evaluation processes, proposals, budgets, progress reports, and implementation plans.
• Facilitate timely, high-quality delivery of analytical work, knowledge products, reports, and operational deliverables with inputs from teams, clients, and partners.
• Contribute to digital health learning initiatives through the HNP Learning Program, Digital Health Community of Practice, and related platforms.
• Assist the TTL in supervising consultants and firms mobilized for digital health expertise, onboarding team members as needed, and providing other digital health support to World Bank task teams.
• Master’s degree in public health, health informatics, information systems, computer science, data engineering/architecture, information technology, or related field.
• At least eight years of relevant

Experience

in digital health, health information systems, ICT, public-sector digital transformation, or health data/developer roles, including in international development.

• Operational expertise in at least three areas: enterprise architecture and interoperability; health data platforms and governance; routine, surveillance, or program information systems; analytics, dashboards, AI-enabled decision support, or diagnostics; and scalable MIS in developing country contexts.

• Track record designing, implementing, deploying, or maintaining scalable, interoperable digital health or management information systems, including at scale in LMICs.

in Eastern and Southern Africa is an advantage.

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integrating and using data for performance tracking, dashboards, analytics, and evidence-based decision making.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, program management, and technical delivery skills, including in resource-constrained environments.

• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with ability to prepare concise deliverables, collaborate across teams, and lead strategic dialogue.

• Excellent written and spoken English is essential; fluency in a second language (French) is an advantage.

• Ability to work effectively in cross-cultural, multidisciplinary teams with sound judgment and composure under pressure.

WBG Culture Attributes:

1. Sense of urgency: Anticipate and quickly respond to the needs of internal and external stakeholders.

2. Thoughtful risk-taking: Challenge the status quo and push boundaries to achieve greater impact.

3. Empowerment and accountability: Empower yourself and others to act and hold each other accountable for results.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

As per WBG policy, an Extended Term (ET) appointment is subject to a lifetime maximum of three (3) years. Former and current ET staff who have completed or are in the process of completing their third-year ET appointment are not eligible for future ET appointments.

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E T Consultant for Digital Health Transformation-Kenya

World Bank Group

Nairobi

Both national and international

EC3 - Extended Term Consultant Appointment level

Speaks English, French

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Summary by Impactpool

The World Bank Group is seeking an E T Consultant for Digital Health Transformation in Kenya to support the digitization of healthcare systems and improve access to essential health services. The consultant will provide technical assistance on strategy, governance, interoperability, and data use, while also advising on policy reforms and digital health solutions. This role involves conducting analytical work, contributing to knowledge products, and strengthening health systems through innovative digital health practices. The ideal candidate will have extensive

Master’s degree in public health or related field

At least eight years of relevant