Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries. They are seeking an Associate Director to lead their AI clinical decision support initiatives, focusing on enhancing health delivery and improving patient experiences through innovative AI solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead delivery of CHAI’s AI clinical decision support and agentic healthcare delivery initiatives end-to-end, from early pilots through scale, translating strategy and product roadmaps into sequenced work plans, milestones, accountable owners, and risk mitigation
- Own the program's forward view: track the frontier of clinical and agentic AI, anticipate where capabilities are heading, and reshape the roadmap and partnerships to stay ahead of the field rather than react to it, while pressure-testing new directions against real LMIC constraints, evidence, and safety requirements
- While continuously collaborating and liaising with the CHAI country leadership and departments, forge and maintain relationships with the Ministry of Health, including the digital health, clinical, and other relevant directorates, and coordinate engagement with the broader set of partners contributing to the initiative
- Evaluate how adjacent health system factors — demand generation, referral systems, infrastructure, supply chain, regulatory environment, human resources for health, data infrastructure — affect the initiative’s impact; surface them as they emerge, evidence them with data, and liaise with CHAI’s internal teams and external stakeholders to address them. This role does not own these adjacent programs, but is accountable for seeing them clearly and helping mobilize the wider system response
- Directly manage at least one Senior Associate / Manager / Sr. Manager; set a servant-leadership tone in which concerns and solutions are surfaced constructively, collaboratively, quickly, and without ego
- Own status reporting and stakeholder communications for senior CHAI leadership and external partners; produce clear written materials and progress narratives
- Anticipate and prepare for scale: regulatory pathways, infrastructure dependencies, workforce readiness, monitoring systems, and the operational shifts required as the initiative expands
- Provide informed technical support to the CHAI country offices, other CHAI global departments, and ministries as needed
- Travel internationally as needed (25-40% annually) and regularly within the US to support partner engagement and pilot activities
- Undertake other responsibilities as needed at the request of CHAI leadership
Skills
- Bachelor's degree required; master's degree in public health, health systems, business administration, computer science, mathematics, or a related field strongly preferred
- Progressively greater responsibility and professional experience in health systems, health technology, or large program leadership, with substantial experience in low- and middle-income country contexts
- Demonstrated track record of bringing health technologies (preferred AI technologies) from development through to deployment at scale
- Demonstrated holistic understanding of healthcare ecosystems, including the intersections between infrastructure, regulatory requirements, supply chain, human resources, data management, referral pathways, validation studies, etc
- Forward-looking strategic thinking: stays fluent in the frontier of AI, anticipates where the technology and the field are heading, and has a track record of turning emerging possibilities into ambitious but credible plans, with the judgment to know which bold bets are worth making in safety-critical, resource-constrained settings
- Direct experience working with ministries of health, ideally in roles requiring sustained, trust-based engagement on consequential decisions
- Strong roadmap development and execution skills: ability to take ambitious, ambiguous strategy and turn it into structured, sequenced delivery
- Strategic thinking, with the ability to see opportunities and threats before they arise and to position the program for them
- Strong stakeholder management across government, donors, technical partners, and internal teams
- Servant-leadership style; track record of building teams that surface concerns and solutions constructively, move quickly, and gel with both country and global colleagues
- Strong written and oral communication skills in English, including the ability to produce clear status reports, briefings, and stakeholder communications
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally (25-40% annually) and regularly within the US
Company Overview
CHAI's mission is to save lives and improve health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries by enabling the government and private sector to strengthen and sustain quality health systems. It was founded in 2002, and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org/.Company H1B Sponsorship
Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025, 1 in 2024, 2 in 2023, 3 in 2022, 1 in 2021, 5 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.