Senior Program Officer, Digital Africa

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Full time

**The Foundation**

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

**The Team**

The Africa Team works to enable the foundation’s ambitious goals of scaling evidence-based interventions that target a range of disease and socio-economic conditions which are endemic across Sub-Saharan Africa. The team executes its responsibility through direct country engagement to deploy interventions and delivery models, and by building the partner architecture to replicate successful interventions and models across multiple countries.

Our Africa Data and Digital Portfolio seeks to support and invest in country and regional institutions within the continent with the aim of capitalizing on the demographic dividend of young local talent and helping governments strengthen systems and sequence reforms in pragmatic, coordinated and cost-effective ways that will both enhance the transparency and use of data for delivery and inform effective resource allocation in budget constrained environments. It aims to help governments systematically and responsibly harness, test and scale the potential of digital transformation and automation in improving efficiencies and accountability in transactional and operational systems and increasing citizen inclusion. We are conscious of digital hype and concerned about digital exclusion, and have a pragmatic focus on supporting governments to ensure basic preconditions of people and institutions are in place to enable the full utility that automation and digital resources may have to offer.

Our portfolio is driven by a set of core principles that include a strong belief in country ownership; the importance of helping governments have choice and make informed evidence based decisions; strengthening coordination and reducing fragmentation; sequential and long term approaches to change; investing in local ecosystems especially harnessing the power of youth and women; and the ability to experiment, test, innovate and build evidence to inform responsible scale up of interventions with a grounded and deep understanding of country contexts, realities and starting points.

**Your Role**

The **Senior Program Officer, Digital Africa** is a member of the Africa Digital and Data Portfolio within the broader Africa Team.

We are looking for an energetic Digital Leader, with extensive practical experience in nurturing and growing national scale systems in Africa, with technical knowledge and expertise on a variety of health related transactional and operational systems, and the ability to support governments use automation to improve transactional efficiency, transparency and accountability. The postholder will be a pragmatic leader with deep knowledge and practical experience in supporting governments to enhance their core digital public infrastructure, especially national and service ID systems. We are looking for someone that is not swayed by hype, but rather has the practical ability to help governments responsibly make informed, sequenced and cost-conscious choices on digital goods based on ground realities.

This is an exciting role where you get to play multiple functions that include:

- ** Technical advisor and honest broker** to government requests who are seeking to deploy digital systems.
- ** Grant maker** to help invest in and strengthen national digital ecosystems and support reformists and champions within countries to move the needle.
- **Connector and collaborator** who can identify, work with and crowd in a range of internal, global, national, public and private partners over common agendas.
- ** Economic steward** who helps think through cost benefit options from the onset.
- ** Technical and critical evaluator** who helps generate evidence and critically help evaluate and distinguish between digital hype and digital opportunity.
- ** Risk taker and innovator **who can help test and try out innovative solutions within country contexts.
- ** Mentor and coach** where you get to work with, take bets, inspire and be inspired by young talent across the continent.
- ** Continuous learner and listener **where you get to immerse yourself in the ground where citizens are struggling to access basic services and critically question what role, if any, can digital investments play to imp

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