Lead, Digital Healthcare Transformation

World Economic Forum • New York, NY

15h • $120,000 - $140,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The World Economic Forum's Centre for Health and Healthcare works to identify and scale up solutions for more resilient, efficient, and equitable healthcare systems. The flagship Digital Healthcare Transformation (DHT) Initiative, launched in 2024, is a global public-private platform for systems change in health, aiming to unlock the full potential of digital health, health data, and AI by catalyzing global collaboration. The initiative has three core engagement tracks: 'Insights' for knowledge sharing, 'Ecosystem Shaping' for collaboration on policies and business models, and 'Pathfinders' to engage key stakeholders in specific regions to highlight digital health excellence and accelerate collaboration. This role is central to delivering the Pathfinder engagement track and supporting the Outcome-Based Care (OBC) initiative, focusing on health data as foundational for new health models.

Requirements

• Ability to work on site 3 days per week.
• Structure ambiguous problems into clear narratives, communications, workplans, outputs, and decisions.
• Comfortable working across strategy, analysis, and execution in parallel.
• Facilitate constructive dialogue among diverse and senior stakeholders.
• Manage multiple initiatives and timelines without compromising quality.
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in public health, health policy, technology, international relations, or a related field.
• 7+ years of relevant professional experience in healthcare, digital health, consulting, policy, or innovation-focused roles.
• Experience managing complex initiatives or portfolios involving multiple stakeholders and workstreams.
• Solid understanding of digital health ecosystems and how they influence and shape emerging health system policies, business models, and operating dynamics.
• Strong analytical, writing, and facilitation skills, with experience producing senior-level outputs.
• Strong relationship-building skills to quickly establish trust, credibility, and transparency with key public and private sector stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently while maintaining alignment with broader strategy.
• Experience working across public and private sector contexts, understanding and aligning priorities towards common goals.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience with international organizations, global initiatives, or multi-stakeholder platforms is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Play a central role in delivering the Pathfinder engagement track of the Digital Healthcare Transformation initiative.
• Drive strategic direction for the Pathfinders.
• Evaluate and potentially establish a global Pathfinder network, building on relationships and synergies.
• Provide capacity to carry forward the Forum’s Outcome-Based Care (OBC) initiative.
• Support the Head, Health Systems Transformation in refining strategy, priorities, and narratives for the Pathfinder engagement track and the Outcome-Based Care initiative.
• Monitor key trends in digital health adoption, emerging digital health models and capabilities.
• Adapt partner strategies and approaches as needed.
• Lead core Pathfinder engagement track and Outcome-Based Care activities from design through delivery.
• Translate strategic priorities into concrete plans, milestones, and outputs.
• Manage interdependence across Pathfinders and related workstreams to ensure coherence, focus, and momentum.
• Lead the development of high-quality knowledge products, including strategic frameworks, reports, briefs, video content, blueprints, and other practical knowledge-sharing tools.
• Synthesize diverse expert and member inputs into clear, decision-relevant insights for senior leadership engagement.
• Directly shape the community composition and positioning of the Pathfinder and Outcome-Based Care partners.
• Build and manage strong working relationships on behalf of the initiative.
• Facilitate working groups, workshops, and expert discussions, enabling constructive dialogue and collaboration.
• Manage timelines, risks, and dependencies across multiple parallel Pathfinder and Outcome-Based Care workstreams.
• Coordinate closely with internal Forum teams and external partners to ensure effective delivery.

Benefits

• Independent and impartial organization with over 55 years of connecting leaders to make sense of global challenges and move the world forward together.
• Global team that brings leaders together through dialogue, to build trust, and turn shared understanding of complex global issues into collective solutions.
• Culture grounded in care, curiosity, and respect, encouraging genuine dialogue and meaningful collaboration.
• Environment where everyone can contribute fully to our shared mission.
• Environment that values shared learning, diverse perspectives, and real-world collaboration, helping you grow through challenge, not routine.
• Every role contributes to global progress.
• Advance together and help our partners shape solutions that make a lasting impact.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior