Location: Kigali, Rwanda
Travel Expectation: Up to 30%
Job Type: Full-time, 3-year contract
Reports to: Director, Rwanda AI Scaling Hub
About the Rwanda Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The Rwanda Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR) is a partnership between the Government of Rwanda and the World Economic Forum committed to advancing the responsible and inclusive adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies to accelerate Rwanda’s national development priorities.
As part of the World Economic Forums global network of over 20 centers, C4IR serves as a public private collaboration platform that shapes policy, fosters innovation, and builds strategic partnerships with national and international stakeholders to ensure that technology benefits all of society.
About the Rwanda AI Scaling Hub
The Rwanda AI Scaling Hub (the Hub) aims to harness the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accelerate national development outcomes safely and sustainably delivering evidence-based impact that deepens regional knowledge and shapes global benchmarks for inclusive, context-responsive innovation.
As a multi-stakeholder platform, the Hub enables the scaling of AI solutions that address Rwanda’s development priorities, ensuring safety, sustainability, and public ownership while catalyzing investment and building an inclusive ecosystem that drives innovation across Africa and beyond.
Description
The Program Manager, Health will lead the coordination, planning, and execution of AI-driven health use cases within the Hubs portfolio. This role ensures alignment with Rwanda’s health priorities and digital health policies while maintaining strong collaboration with public institutions, implementing partners, and regulatory bodies. The Program Manager will oversee deployment, monitoring, and scale-up of AI health solutions to ensure that all initiatives meet the highest standards of ethics, safety, and sustainability.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate implementation and stakeholder engagement across AI health use cases to ensure alignment with Rwanda’s health priorities and digital health policies.
- Translate public health and frontline requirements into actionable technical briefs for partner organizations, product teams, and technical leads.
- Oversee planning, deployment, compliance, monitoring, and scaling of assigned AI health solutions, ensuring adherence to ethical standards, data privacy, and regulatory frameworks.
- Maintain regular reporting on project deliverables, health outcomes, adoption rates, and lessons learned for senior leadership and national stakeholders.
- Ensure interoperability of AI solutions with existing health systems, data platforms, and national digital health infrastructure.
- Collaborate with government ministries, regulators, and health agencies to ensure compliance with legal, safety, and technical standards.
- Facilitate knowledge sharing, cross-sector collaboration, and problem-solving across all workstreams to promote continuous learning and improvement.
Key Qualifications and Experience
- Education: Master’s degree in Public Health, Health Informatics, or related field preferred.
- Experience: Minimum of 5 years in program or project management in health, digital innovation, or health systems strengthening.
- Technical understanding: Familiarity with AI applications in healthcare, including predictive analytics, clinical decision support, and digital health systems.
- Health policy expertise: Understanding of Rwanda’s health system, data governance frameworks, and public health priorities.
- Stakeholder management: Proven ability to engage and coordinate among government agencies, donors, private sector actors, and implementing partners.
- Compliance and ethics: Strong knowledge of health data privacy, patient safety standards, and responsible AI practices.
- Leadership and communication: Exceptional facilitation, negotiation, and communication skills, with the ability to align diverse stakeholders toward common goals.
Our Values
- Responsible Impact
- Technical excellence
- principled collaboration
- Effective communication
