Chief Technology Officer - Nigeria Remote at Resolve to Save Lives

This position will work as a seconded staff within NCDC, coordinating closely with the leads of surveillance, laboratory, ICT, emergency operations, and those leading state-level EOCs. S/he will also work closely with and receive support from the project and technical leads in the Epidemic Intelligence Unit (EIU) at Resolve to Save Lives.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

Establish an enabling environment to actualize a digital transformation for the detection and response to disease threats.

• Lead the evolution and implementation for the digital transformation of NCDC, including a digital governance, financing and management strategy, to strengthen disease surveillance, emergency operations and response.
• Identify knowledge and capacity gaps and design and implement a strategy for improving digital capabilities within NCDC.
• Coordinate and manage the relationships between relevant MDAs, domestic and international partners and donors to strengthen existing digital solutions in alignment with the overall objectives and goals of NCDC.

Lead and manage a team of technologists to provide targeted technical assistance and facilitate institutional change

• Identify gaps in digital capabilities necessary for success of NCDC programs.
• Recruit and establish a high-performing, small team of technologists to facilitate improvement of existing and/or new data products, workflows and analytics that address identified gaps.
• Oversee management processes (e.g. routine prioritization/workload management, leave, travel)
• Enable effective goal-setting, team process, performance management; coach staff to identify leadership and technical challenges and implement commensurate solutions

Support the implementation of specific digital solutions and/or pilot programs, to systematically support epidemic preparedness and response

• Develop clear, evidence-informed proposals and budgets to support any new RTSL-funded initiatives related to digital transformation
• Support the piloting of digital and data-driven projects, with a focus on human-centered design and quick, iterative learning.
• Evaluate the application of standard, interoperability profiles and associated utilities to support communication with and between digital systems and technology standards to improve health system performance.
• Engage state-level users to understand the product use cases and requirements to inform the development and roll-out of solutions across sub-national levels.

Required experience, skills, and abilities:

• 10+ years of experience leading data, product management, software development, or design teams as a product, engineering or design lead
• Understanding of public health or healthcare, particularly in LMICs, is highly desirable, ideally with experience in Ministries of Health or other associated government structures

Required leadership experience in:

• Collaborating and coordinating with stakeholders with different interests in a fast-paced environment to ensure product deliverables are met
• Interacting with organizational leadership on change management
• Managing product development, sprints, roadmaps and backlogs, ideally in a digital transformation initiative, with a focus on systems thinking and user-centered design
• Managing a government technology team that has external vendors and in-house digital solutions
• Software development experience for public health applications with an eye towards interoperability and security challenges of working with health data, particularly in LMICs
• Analyzing and translating data for appropriate decision-makers, connecting data to action
• Managing data systems at scale, ideally experience with DHIS2

Desirable experience in:

• Developing technical strategies for a diverse range of organizational ambitions
• Building and managing diverse and inclusive teams
• Budget management and proposal writing
• The Agile product management framework
• engaging and influencing global health stakeholders on advancing technological innovation