Senior Program Officer, Digital Health and AI

The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we're committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The Team

The HIV/TB Delivery Team works to accelerate the introduction, adoption, and scale-up of effective prevention and treatment interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Our mission is to strengthen health systems, expand equitable access, and ensure that people living with or affected by HIV and TB can benefit from high-quality, stigma-free services.

Within this mandate, digital health and artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly critical enablers. The Foundation is committed to using AI responsibly to reduce the digital divide and ensure that its benefits reach underserved populations. Advances in machine learning and generative AI offer new opportunities for self-care, consumer engagement, decision support, epidemiologic surveillance, and health system intelligence. The HIV/TB Delivery Team is uniquely positioned to test, adapt, and scale AI innovations that directly improve program delivery, empower individuals, and build resilient health systems.

This role will therefore sit at the intersection of HIV/TB program priorities and the Foundation's emerging AI strategy, ensuring that new digital and AI-driven solutions are not only technically sound but also programmatically relevant, ethically deployed, and scalable across LMICs.

Your Role

The Senior Program Officer, Digital Health and AI will lead efforts to embed AI into HIV prevention and treatment programs, with a special focus on self-care innovations as well as to improve the performance of TB programs. You will be responsible for shaping investment strategies, building partnerships, and designing pathways to ensure AI-driven solutions can transition from proof-of-concept to sustained scale.

You will serve as both a technical advisor and portfolio manager, collaborating with Foundation teams, country partners, and global stakeholders to develop and deploy AI solutions that strengthen HIV self-care, improve service delivery, and expand access for those most in need.

This SPO role offers a unique opportunity to redefine the future of HIV self-care by embedding AI and digital health solutions into prevention and treatment programs. The successful candidate will directly influence how AI strengthens HIV/TB delivery, expands equitable access, and builds resilient health systems in LMICs. By integrating programmatic expertise with cutting-edge technology, this role will help ensure that the promise of AI is harnessed to improve the lives of millions affected by HIV and TB worldwide.

*This is a 12-month limited-term position based in Seattle, WA. Relocation will not be provided.

What You'll Do

Strategy and Framework Development

• Develop and operationalize the Foundation's digital health and AI strategy for HIV and TB, with a focus on self-care, consumer-facing applications, program performance and program intelligence.
• Define high-priority AI use cases for HIV/TB programs, such as digital adherence support, stigma-free conversational agents, provider decision support, improving program efficiency and real-time surveillance systems.
• Align HIV/TB AI efforts with the Foundation's broader AI Taskforce and Core AI strategy, ensuring program relevance and technical coherence.

Self-Care Integration

• Design and scale AI-enabled self-care models that empower individuals in HIV and TB prevention, testing, and treatment adherence.
• Ability to model or provide support to modelers to estimate the value add of AI applications
• Develop tools that support autonomy, confidentiality, and long-term engagement in care (e.g., digital adherence platforms, patient decision aids, self-testing support).
• Integrate AI-driven self-care approaches into the introduction of new HIV and TB prevention and treatment products (e.g., Lenacapavir, MK-8527).

Programmatic Investment and Evidence

• Manage a portfolio of AI and digital health investments for HIV/TB, ensuring impact, scalability, and alignment with global health priorities.
• Establish evaluation frameworks, regulatory pathways, and ethical safeguards for AI in HIV and TB self-care.
• Lead and/or advise on clinical evaluations and pilots of AI-enabled tools, ensuring rigor, safety, and contextual fit in LMICs.
• Contribute to the development of digital epidemiologic tools (e.g., AI-powered HIV prevalence surveys, community-level surveillance).

Partnerships and Stakeholder Engagement

• Build and maintain partnerships with governments, regulators, NGOs, funders, academic institutions, and private sector innovators to advance responsible AI adoption in HIV programs.
• Represent HIV/TB Delivery within cross-foundation AI discussions and taskforces, ensuring HIV priorities are integrated into larger AI strategies.
• Advocate for responsible and equitable AI adoption in global HIV/TB discourse.

Innovation and Systems Resiliency

• Identify, test, and scale AI solutions that address workforce shortages, service delivery gaps, and stigma-related barriers in HIV/TB care.
• Ensure that AI investments build resilient digital health ecosystems and integrate seamlessly with broader HIV/TB delivery strategies.
• Stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring HIV/TB programming benefits from cutting-edge but context-appropriate innovations.

Travel

• This position requires significant travel and extended stay in South Africa, and potentially other countries on the African Continent.

Your Experience

• Advanced degree in Public Health, Medicine, Computer/Data Science, or related field.
• 8+ years in global health, digital health, or AI, with strong grounding in HIV prevention and treatment preferred.
• Proven track record in designing, evaluating, or scaling digital or AI tools in LMICs.
• Demonstrated experience in self-care approaches, consumer engagement tools, or programmatic innovations for HIV.
• Familiarity with AI/ML applications in healthcare, product development, and regulatory considerations.
• Deep understanding of LMIC contexts and global HIV/TB program challenges.
• Ability to influence technical, program, and policy stakeholders.
• Strong commitment to responsible AI and addressing bias, equity, and digital inclusion.
• Ability to connect AI innovation with long-term HIV/TB program impact.

Other Attributes

• Skilled at translating complex challenges into feasible, context-specific solutions.
• Adept at working across diverse technical and program teams.
• Commitment to testing, adapting, and scaling creative AI solutions.
• Ability to travel internationally up to 25%

**Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.

The salary range for this role is $208,600 to $323,400 USD. We recognize high-wage market differences in Seattle and Washington D.C., where our offices are located. The range for this role in these locations is $227,400 to $352,400 USD. As a mission-driven organization, we strive to balance competitive pay with our mission. New hires salaries are typically between the range minimum and the salary range midpoint. Actual placement in the range will depend on a candidate's job-related skills, experience, and expertise, as evaluated during the interview process.

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Hiring Requirements

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Inclusion Statement

We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.

All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.

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