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Position Overview:

The Government of Rwanda (GoR) strives to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by enabling equitable access to quality health services for the population as outlined in the Fifth Health Sector Strategic Plan (HSSP V). This commitment has been made against a backdrop of rising health care costs and uncertainty around the future availability of donor funding and calls for improved health sector sustainability. Acknowledging this, the Government aims to employ effective, equitable, efficient, and sustainable health care financing and systems strengthening, putting an emphasis on primary health care as the cornerstone of a strong and sustainable health system.

CHAI Rwanda’s Health System Strengthening (HSS) programs work on a day-to-day basis with Government leadership in the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Rwanda Social Security Board (RSSB). The goal of those programs is to support the Government to accelerate progress towards UHC by ensuring the sustainable delivery of quality, essential health services. This includes work to design and implement national Primary Health Care (PHC) reforms from health center level down to community health, to increase health workforce availability, to prioritize and sustainably finance essential services, and to support improved management, financing, and delivery of quality primary health care.

CHAI currently seeks a highly motivated and experienced Senior Technical Advisor to work with the Ministry of Health (MoH) National Health Intelligence Center (NHIC) to oversee the coordination, implementation, and daily management of artificial intelligence (AI) projects that strengthen Rwanda’s health system. The Senior Technical Advisor will be responsible for the strategic leadership, governance, coordination, and operational management for the NHIC/health AI lab. This role ensures that all artificial intelligence initiatives in the health sector are ethically sound, clinically safe, technically robust, and aligned with national digital health strategies. It provides end-to-end oversight of the AI lifecycle, leads a multidisciplinary team, manages partnerships, ensures regulatory preparedness, and drives the responsible scale-up of AI solutions across the national health system.

The incumbent will be seconded to the National Health Intelligence Center (NHIC) under the Ministry of Health and will report to the NHIC leadership and in parallel to the CHAI digital health Program Manager, while working closely with both technical and policy teams to translate health priorities into actionable AI-driven solutions.

The key functions and deliverables of this role will include:

1. Governance, Policy Alignment and Leadership

• Ensure alignment of AI solutions with national digital health strategies, MoH policies, and ethical AI principles.
• Lead or contribute to the development and enforcement of national AI standards, model validation protocols, safety frameworks, and regulatory readiness processes.
• Provide strategic oversight to ensure that AI systems are transparent, explainable, auditable, and fit for regulatory review.
• Represent the AI Lab in technical committees, steering groups, and regulatory working groups, advancing evidence-based AI governance.
• Promote institutional accountability through documented workflows, formal approval processes, and traceable decision-making.
• Lead and contribute to capacity-building initiatives, including mentorship, training programs, and knowledge dissemination for AI in healthcare.

2. AI Program Coordination and Strategic Planning

• Provide end-to-end oversight for the planning, execution, and monitoring of NHIC/AI project portfolio.
• Develop and manage annual and quarterly workplans, budgets, timelines, and performance reports.
• Ensure all AI initiatives are clinically relevant, ethically approved, and integrated into national health systems and care pathways.
• Coordinate cross-functional execution across clinical, data, ICT, legal, and policy units.
• Ensure that project risks, dependencies, and regulatory requirements are actively managed.

3. AI Lifecycle Management and Decision Authority

• Lead the full AI lifecycle, including use case intake and prioritization, prototyping and model development, validation and piloting, and clinical deployment
• Enforce formal decision gates for technical performance, clinical safety and ethical and legal compliance
• Ensure continuous model monitoring, version control, retraining protocols, bias detection and post-deployment surveillance

4. Team Leadership and Capacity Building

• Lead and supervise a multidisciplinary AI team, ensuring clarity of roles, accountability, and performance excellence.
• Establish effective task management, performance tracking, and quality assurance mechanisms.
• Conduct regular performance check-ins, coaching, and structured mentorship.
• Promote a work culture grounded in innovation, collaboration, ethical responsibility, and results orientation.
• Facilitate staff training and collaboration with academic institutions, technical partners, and research organizations.

5. Operations, Infrastructure, and Resource Management

• Facilitate operations of the NHIC/AI initiatives, including infrastructure readiness and workflow stability.
• Support coordination of procurement, maintenance, and utilization of hardware and software resources (servers, GPUs, cloud infrastructure).
• Support financial planning, grant management, and administrative operations.
• Ensure comprehensive project documentation, knowledge management, and institutional memory.

6. Partnership and Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as a focal point for coordination between health and research institutions, and private sector and innovation partners.
• Facilitate partner coordination meetings, reporting, and formal communications.
• Support the development of new partnerships, funding proposals, and strategic collaborations.

7. Ethics, Clinical Safety and regulatory Compliance

• Ensure full compliance with data governance, ethical, and privacy regulations governing health AI.
• Coordinate closely with clinical leadership, legal teams, and ethics committees to secure all necessary approvals.
• Establish and enforce clinical risk assessment, safety monitoring, and AI incident reporting frameworks.
• Ensure that no AI system is deployed into clinical workflows without formal ethical and clinical governance clearance.

7. Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting

• Develop and manage NHIC/health AI lab KPIs, dashboards, and activity trackers.
• Lead preparation of technical, progress, and donor reports.
• Support evaluation of AI model performance, impact, clinical safety, and scalability.
• Institutionalize learning through documentation of best practices, failures, lessons learned, and policy implications.

• Master’s degree or higher in Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Health Informatics, Computer Science, Digital Health or a related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in leadership, or program management role in the field of health and integration of AI in digital systems. Experience in healthcare would be an advantage.
• Proven experience working with government health institutions, donor-funded programs, clinical and regulatory environments.
• Strong understanding of AI applications in healthcare (including clinical decision support systems, predictive analytics, automation, and workflow optimization), digital health systems, and data governance principles
• Demonstrated leadership and team management skills, with experience overseeing cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication, organizational, and stakeholder engagement abilities.
• Clear commitment to ethical, equitable, and sustainable use of AI in healthcare.

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