About the Role
The Lead, Digital Healthcare Transformation, will play a central role in delivering the Pathfinder engagement track of the Digital Healthcare Transformation initiative. This role is responsible for driving strategic direction for the Pathfinders and supporting the Forum’s Outcome-Based Care (OBC) initiative.
Responsibilities
- 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 achieving digital health adoption at scale, emerging digital health models and capabilities, and adapting partner strategies and approaches as needed.
- Lead core Pathfinder engagement track and Outcome-Based Care activities from design through delivery, translating 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 through communications, engagements, and convenings.
- Directly shape the community composition and positioning of the Pathfinder and Outcome-Based Care partners within the Digital Healthcare Transformation initiative and with key relevant external stakeholders.
- 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.
Requirements
- Structure ambiguous problems into clear narratives, communications, workplans, outputs and decisions.
- Be 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.
Skills
- Digital health
- Health policy
- Technology
- International relations
- Healthcare
- Consulting
- Innovation
- Digital health ecosystems
- Analytical skills
- Writing skills
- Facilitation skills
- Relationship building skills
- Independent work
- Public sector contexts
- Private sector contexts
- International organizations
- Global initiatives
- Multi-stakeholder platforms
Location
- New York
Work Type
- On-site (3 days per week)
Experience Level
- 7+ years of relevant professional experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's or Master’s degree in public health, health policy, technology, international relations or a related field
Salary/Compensations
- $120,000-140,000
About the Company
- The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation, committed to improving the state of the world.
- The Forum engages the foremost political, business and civil society leaders to shape global, regional and industry agendas.
- The 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.
- Our mission is to unlock the full potential of digital health, health data, and AI by catalysing global collaboration and converting ambitions into real-world impact.
- The DHT initiative has three core engagement tracks: (1) “Insights” to accelerate knowledge sharing, (2) “Ecosystem Shaping” to advance collaboration on policies, incentives, and digital health business models, and (3) “Pathfinders” to engage key stakeholders in specific regions.
- Join an independent and impartial organization with over 55 years of connecting leaders to make sense of global challenges and move the world forward together.
- Be part of a global team that brings leaders together through dialogue, to build trust, and turn shared understanding of complex global issues into collective solutions.
- Our culture is grounded in care, curiosity and respect, encouraging genuine dialogue and meaningful collaboration.
- By investing in trust and understanding, we create an environment where everyone can contribute fully to our shared mission.
- Work in an environment that values shared learning, diverse perspectives, and real-world collaboration, helping you grow through challenge, not routine.
- At the Forum, every role contributes to global progress.
- We advance together and help our partners shape solutions that make a lasting impact.
