Description
Simprints is a nonprofit tech company with a mission to radically increase transparency and effectiveness in global development. We build ethical, inclusive digital ID powered by biometrics to verify that health, aid, and services truly reach people. Simprints partners with organisations like Gavi to boost immunisation rates in developing countries, Ministries of Health like Ghana on pandemic response, and NGOs like BRAC to deliver maternal healthcare. Studies have shown Simprints increases impact through real-time, precision data, for example increasing maternal health visits by 38% in Bangladesh or accurate HIV tracing by 62% in Malawi. Today we’ve worked in over 17 countries helping deliver health, aid, and finance to >2.5M people. Our goal is to transform the way the world fights poverty, ensuring that every vaccine, every dollar, and every public good reaches the people who need them most.
About the Role
We are seeking someone passionate about delivering and growing technology-based solutions through a partnerships approach with the Ghana Health Service and Implementing partners. There is an opportunity to expand and grow within the organization, with an exciting role scope and the ability to contribute to social impact objectives.
You will ensure the delivery of the Gavi Ghana Phase 2 project, working closely with Simprints’ partners to utilize a biometric solution within the etracker solution for maternal and child health. We are seeking someone with significant experience in digital health programmes in Ghana.
This role is unique in its breadth, allowing collaboration with almost every team at Simprints. You’ll work closely with Simprints colleagues to develop a deep understanding of our partner’s technical requirements, work with our engineers to implement our technical solutions, and analyze data with a team of data scientists.
This role will have one direct report and report to the Senior Country Project Manager while maintaining close working relationships with other Simprints Staff in Ghana. The role will require intensive travel in Ghana, particularly in the Eastern and Oti Regions; you will need to be passionate about supporting users of our technology in health facilities whilst also being able to manage field officers.
Location
This role is based in Ghana, with significant travels to the Eastern and Oti Regions.
Duration
The role is funded for three years with the potential for extension
Salary
We are open to discussions regarding salary for this role. You will discuss this with the Talent Partner on your first call.
Your Impact
At Simprints, we want everyone to feel ownership of the tasks they are working on, starting from your first day. Within the first month, we’ll get you access to all of our systems, you will learn about the ecosystem and tech stack and you will be running interviews with internal and external stakeholders to understand priorities and needs. By your third month, you will be comfortable running the team processes, overseeing the breakdown of epics into user stories, and will have a good understanding of how our products are used. In six months, you will lead with a high degree of autonomy our open source strategy and roadmap.
Role Responsibilities
- Coordinate field deployments and performance of the Gavi Ghana project and regularly report on the progress of the intervention applying good practice in line with your experience and our evolving methodology (including but not limited to achieving the project deliverables as per contract, on time, on budget and mitigated of risks); identify and mitigate project risks; and provide appropriate, effective, and timely action, including where necessary coordinating with cross-departmental colleagues to ensure a technical solution that meets the project needs and resolve bottlenecks to meet the implementation needs. eEzjfod BIpnb
- Proactively monitor, manage and improve our service performance: Analyze our performance data to identify adoption issues, investigate any reported issues, and do everything necessary to resolve them in the short term whilst improving practices in the long term
- Supervise and support: At least bi-weekly travel to project sites to conduct or support the training and ongoing coaching of trainers regional, field coordinators and monitor field activities
- Represent Simprints in project regions and districts, maintain strong relationships with our key stakeholders, from government officials to users of our technology, demonstrating excellent stakeholder management and attention to detail whilst delivering our custom solution and providing detailed project input into donor reports
- Provide regular reporting and documentation of project activities