Locations: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Deadline: Jul 10, 2025
Job Description
Digital Health Governance Advisor, Ethiopia – Data.FI
About Palladium:
Palladium is a global company working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 4,000 talented, motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender identities.
Project Background:
Palladium is implementing the USAID-funded Translating Data for Implementation (Data.FI) award. Data.FI is a $180 million project which serves as USAID’s primary mechanism for data, technology, and health information systems to support HIV activities across strategic PEPFAR countries. Data.FI is part of a suite of large-scale global HIV programs that USAID has awarded and represents the next generation of HIV/AIDS programs. Data.FI plays a key role in USAID’s goals of helping partner countries on their Journey to Self-Reliance and transitioning local organizations to prime recipients of USG funding.
The overall goal of the Data.FI project is to improve global, regional, and national in-depth analyses of HIV epidemiologic and program data that can be directly applied to expedite the achievement of PEPFAR targets to attain and sustain control of the HIV epidemic. The focus also includes directly supporting host country governments and implementing partners to further enhance existing health information system platforms to inform management responses to well-defined gaps in HIV/AIDS programming.
In order to ensure rapid access to high quality data, Data.FI works towards: accelerating data utilization to rapidly course correct and take to scale cost-effective and impactful activities, models and approaches required to attain and maintain HIV epidemic control; scaling and optimizing in-country health information system capabilities to collect, exchange, adapt, govern, and visualize information in order to track the attainment and maintenance of HIV epidemic control; and supporting the transition of prime funding and implementation to capable local partners.
Position Summary:
The Digital Health Governance Advisor provides strategic leadership and technical guidance on digital health governance frameworks, policies, and institutional arrangements in Ethiopia. This role supports the Ministry of Health in developing and operationalizing governance structures for stewardship, accountability, and coordination across digital health platforms. The Advisor works across stakeholders to promote standards, ensure compliance, and institutionalize national digital health priorities.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide strategic technical support to MOH on digital health governance frameworks and institutional mandates.
- Facilitate development and implementation of digital health policies, strategies, and governance guidelines.
- Support coordination structures (e.g., TWGs, steering committees) to ensure inclusive and aligned decision-making.
- Promote adherence to national data governance, privacy, and interoperability standards.
- Advise on sustainable financing, regulatory compliance, and stakeholder roles.
- Build capacity of national and regional counterparts in digital health governance best practices.
- Monitor and report on governance implementation progress and identify areas for improvement.
Required Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Public Health, Public Policy, Health Informatics, or related field.
- At least 8 years of experience in digital health governance, public sector coordination, or health systems strengthening.
- Strong understanding of Ethiopia’s health policy environment and institutional structures.
- Experience supporting government-led digital health initiatives and stakeholder engagement.
- Excellent policy writing, facilitation, and advisory skills.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
– Palladium is committed to embedding equity, diversity, and inclusion into everything we do. We welcome applications from all sections of society and actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success, and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender identity and expression, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, veteran, marital or Indigenous status.
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Safeguarding
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Note: Application are received and reviewed on rolling basis, Apply as soon as possible. Palladium reserves all rights to close the advertisement before the Deadline.