National Digital Health Advisor, Primary Health Care, Transformation in Indonesia project

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PATH is a global nonprofit dedicated to achieving health equity. With more than 40 years of experience forging multisector partnerships and with expertise in science, economics, technology, advocacy, and dozens of other specialties, PATH develops and scales up innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing heath challenges. 

PATH has been working to support the advancement of health equity in Indonesia through technical partnerships since the 1980s. Our current portfolio in Indonesia includes work to support healthcare providers and communities in preventing and responding to communicable and non-communicable diseases, advance digital health innovation, and address global health security priorities.

PATH seeks a National Digital Health Advisor—based in Jakarta—to lead digital health and artificial intelligence (AI) integration initiatives under Phase 2 of the Primary Health Care (PHC) Transformation in Indonesia project. The project aims to strengthen cadre skills to offer life-course-based PHC screening and referral services, including promoting the use of digital tools to facilitate PHC service delivery and puskesmas-community linkages, including advancing the Kader Kita digital decision support tool; expanding community-based health screening; and creating an enabling and continuous learning environment leveraging AI and large language models to enhance cadre and puskesmas skills and further strengthen community PHC delivery.

The National Digital Health Advisor will drive delivery of Kader Kita expansion and integration with MOH platforms, digital enablement, and AI/large language models (LLM) integration (including optical character recognition [OCR]) in close collaboration with national and subnational Ministry of Health (MOH) and broader government counterparts. The Digital Health Advisor will lead ideation, planning, and oversee day-to-day implementation of digital health and AI integration workstreams under the project, aligning proposed activities with MOH priorities and national and subnational systems and procedures (e.g., data governance requirements, interoperability standards, workflows); managing local partners and consultants involved in implementing digital health activities; and ensuring all project digital platforms are iteratively improved to meet user needs and program objectives. They will report to the Project Coordinator, with additional technical oversight from the Global Director—Primary Health Care. People from minority groups and individuals with disabilities and special needs are strongly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities:

Technical Strategy and Implementation

• Maintain and operationalize the project’s digital health and AI/LLM integration technical roadmap in alignment with PATH’s strategy and with an eye to ensure digital solutions are scalable, secure, and support subnational workflows.

• Oversee daily technical operations, including managing project staff and consultants, and coordinate digital activities across project sites.

• Proactively identify risks and flag issues requiring project leadership decision-making

• Provide regular progress updates to Project Director and Project Coordinator.

• Contribute to project reporting, presentations, and donor updates as requested.

• Assist in organizing coordination meetings, technical workshops, and training sessions as needed.

Local Partner Management and Quality Assurance

• Serve as primary technical liaison with digital vendors to monitor progress, sprint plans, and implementation issues to ensure timely completion of tasks.

• Partner with research partner to drive forward an evaluation study on digital enablement and integrated AI/LLM elements in Kader Kita.

• Enforce code quality standards, conduct architectural reviews, and ensure rigorous testing protocols (user acceptance test, performance testing) are followed before deployment.

• Support the vendors when needed for configuration, monitoring, and maintenance of data pipelines between digital tools and dashboards.

• Facilitate user feedback loops from implementation teams to inform system updates and design refinements.

• Monitor performance against service level agreements and project objectives, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products.

Architecture, Interoperability, and Innovation

• Oversee the architecture of the Kader Kita ecosystem, ensuring seamless data flow between the app, backend dashboards, and other related applications, or external systems.

• Lead the design and implementation standards, including FHIR, data exchange workflows, documentation, ensuring full compliance with SATUSEHAT platform and ensuring data mapping between Kader Kita and subnational systems (e.g. Simpus).

• Oversee the configuration and maintenance of data pipelines to ensure data schemas support analytical requirements, such as data verification, completeness, and enhanced data-driven decision-making.

• Lead scoping, design, and implementation of AI/LLM integration into Kader Kita and other project digital health initiatives, including AI use cases for assisted decision support, ongoing learning tools for community health workers (CHWs), enhanced supportive supervision support for CHW supervisors and puskesmas teams, data recording (including use of OCR), and other related needs.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Engage regularly with national and subnational MOH to discuss and advance project digital health and AI integration priorities.

• Represent the project in various local government-driven forums to ensure alignment with national digital initiatives and systems/platforms.

• Translate user feedback from stakeholders into technical requirements for development/local partner.

Required Experiences and Skills:

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of five years of job-related experience in health information systems, digital health, and supporting national and subnational implementation

• Robust understanding of Indonesia's digital health ecosystem, particularly digital tools and platforms utilized for primary health care service monitoring and reporting.

• Strong knowledge of and proven experience with health information systems, especially in interoperability (such as FHIR, OMOP, etc); standards (ICD, SNOMED-CT, LOINC); and advanced data analytics.

• Experience and strong contacts with national Ministry of Health, including the digital transformation team (TTDK/DTO) and Center for Data and Information Technology (Pusdatin) and technical directorates.

• Familiarity with digital health public goods, such as OHIE and other tools (Odoo)

• Technical skills related to application development using modern tools and programming languages, especially Python.

• Knowledge and experience in implementing digital and AI/LLM-driven tools for community-level data collection, service delivery, and capacity strengthening/learning.

• Understanding of Indonesia's primary health care health system, including knowledge of the community health system, is a plus.

• Excellent organizational skills and ability to successfully manage competing priorities and meet deadlines.

• Demonstrated capacity to work independently as well as collaboratively in a teamwork environment, with solid interpersonal and verbal communication skills.

• Field-oriented and comfortable with a team approach to programming 

• Excellent judgment and strong initiative.

• Strong oral and written proficiencies in Bahasa Indonesia; English language fluency desired.

• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook).

• Candidates currently living in Jakarta are preferred.