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The Benjamin William Mkapa Foundation (BMF) is a non- profit Trust, established in 2006 with the vision towards healthy lives and well-being for all, in Tanzania and the rest of Africa. Its strategic mission is to innovate sustainable and resilient health and related system solutions for equitable health outcomes. BMF’s Vision and Mission can be achieved through empowered workforce, which is self-motivated, committed to growth and integrity, and the one who seeks excellence in execution.

BMF seeks for innovative, self-driven, dynamic, and competent qualified candidates to fill the vacancy below: –

Overall Purpose of the Role

The Digital Health Manager provides strategic and technical leadership for BMF’s digital health initiatives, ensuring all institutional and project-level systems align with Tanzania’s national digital health agenda, eHealth strategies, and data governance requirements. He/she will strengthen and harmonize digital platforms, interoperability frameworks, and emerging technologies across BMF programs. The position drives data-driven decision-making, improves service delivery efficiency, and supports scalable, sustainable digital health solutions.

• Provides strategic leadership for BMF’s digital health agenda, including developing the Digital Health Roadmap and ensuring alignment with national systems.
• Overseeing the design, deployment, and maintenance of digital platforms, promoting interoperability, and building staff capacity in digital systems and data use.
• Leads development and enforcement of data governance policies and SOPs aligned with national laws and donor standards.
• Ensures robust data security measures, including backups, firewalls, and recovery systems.
• Strengthens digital and data analytics skills through training and mentorship.
• Fosters partnerships with government, academia, tech firms, and donors to advance digital innovation and represents BMF in national and global digital health forums.
• Integrates digital health metrics into M&E systems, develops indicators, and manages real-time dashboards.
• Enhances analytics capacity, produces evidence-based reports, and supports research and documentation of digital health impact.
• Identifies funding opportunities, provides technical input for proposals, and supports BMF’s positioning in digital health initiatives.
• Prepares accurate cost estimates, budgets, and sustainability strategies for funding applications.

• Strong abilities in partnership building, advocacy, communication, planning, and project management.

• Advanced degree in Health Informatics, Digital Health, Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science, Data Science, Public Health, or related field.
• Master’s degree in public health, Health Informatics, Business Administration or Digital health will be an added advantage.
• Experience in deploying and managing health information systems and system integration and interoperability standards is desirable.
• Understanding and/or collaborative history with key partners from Government/ regulatory bodies on ICT and data governance, Digital Start-up related entities, etc.