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 youโll do:
- Serve as a SPH Digital Health team member, supporting SPHโs 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 Bachelorยดs degree in medical sciences, economics, public administration, computer science, or engineering and a Masterโs 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