Health Informatics Officer, June 2026

Overview

Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, is implementing digital health solutions to support public health programs. As part of ongoing system improvements and program expansion, Jhpiego seeks a to hire a competent individual to implement a series of technical developments, enhancements, refinements, and compliance updates for its mobile health applications.

Responsibilities

Implement mobile app changes collated from visits from project supported states.
Update and integrate Predictive Analysis into new and existing mobile applications.
Improve the Mobile applications based on feedback loop during data synchronization operations.
Implement historical risk score view on all developed mobile applications.
Enhance the monthly in-app pulse surveys and feedback mechanisms to ensure adequate use of developed mobile applications.
Implement modular architecture for existing mobile solutions to enable future expansion to other disease areas.
Design and develop accessibility features in existing and future mobile applications.
Implement in-app push notifications across mobile applications developed.
Integrate existing mobile application with external APIs like the NAFDAC Greenbook, LOMIS.
Implement and monitor the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature in developed mobile applications.
Upgrade and develop robust user manuals for the existing and future mobile applications.
Integrate existing and future mobile solutions into robust backends for unified data storage.
Design and implement database storage mechanisms for robust data collection across all mobile solutions.

Deliverables:

Implemented changes and bug fixes identified in all deployed mobile applications.
Modularized codebase supporting plug-and-play modules for new disease areas (e.g., TB, MNCH) with architecture documentations.
Functional accessibility settings (e.g., font scaling, screen reader support, colour contrast), user documentation.
Integrated and tested predictive models on revised ML algorithms. Model documentation and code.
UI component and backend logic for historical data collection, risk trends, verifications.
Configured Cloud Messaging (or equivalent), notification service, and UI integration.
Enhanced user notifications during sync (e.g., progress, success/failure messages, retry logic).
Revised data collection, use, and privacy documentation based on approved standards from NDPR.
Fully functional and tested Case Management component developed and delivered and exportable as a standalone module.
Successful integration of the external APIs, enabling seamless, real-time information lookup within developed mobile applications.
Operational Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and package recognition features that are capable of accurately scanning and identifying images and texts.
Mobile applications compliant with modern accessibility standards, featuring functionalities such as screen reader support, dynamic text sizing, and high-contrast modes.
Comprehensive and user-friendly User Manuals documenting all features and workflows of developed mobile systems.
A secure, scalable, and efficiently designed database schema and implementation for the Case Management Module, ensuring data integrity and optimal performance.
Implementation of offline-first mobile, using capture-and-sync later as well as USSD.
Deployment and maintenance of fully integrated mobile solutions across Project supported states.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Health Informatics, or a related field.
5+ years of experience in digital health system development.
Proven experience with:
- Mobile app development (Jetpack Compose, Kotlin, Flutter or React Native)
- Modular software architecture
- Push notification frameworks (e.g., FCM)
- Accessibility standards (WCAG)
- Familiarity with IRB processes and data ethics in health systems.
- Strong documentation and communication skills.
- Application programming Interface (API) integrations.

How to apply

Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package.

Please apply using this link: https://jobs-jhpiego.icims.com/jobs/7325/health-informatics-officer/job

Applicants must submit a single document for upload to include: cover letter, resume, and references.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found

Only shortlisted candidates will receive an invitation for an interview

For further information about Jhpiego, visit our website at www.jhpiego.org

Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.

Jhpiego is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer

Jhpiego, a Johns Hopkins University affiliate, is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of gender, marital status, pregnancy, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, other legally protected characteristics or any other occupationally irrelevant criteria. Jhpiego promotes Affirmative Action for minorities, women, individuals who are disabled, and veterans.

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Our History

Responding to the Changing Needs of Women and Families Worldwide

Since its founding in 1974, Jhpiego has been innovating to save the lives of women and families worldwide. From the first day, Jhpiego has been asking the question: How can we make lifesaving services available and accessible to the people who need them—all over the world?

Dr. Theodore M. King, an early innovator and champion for women’s health, was the moving force behind the founding of Jhpiego, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University. In the early 1970s, King recognized the need to make physicians, nurses and administrators from developing countries aware of reproductive health breakthroughs, such as laparoscopy (a procedure used to inspect internal reproductive organs for infertility or to provide contraception by closing off the fallopian tubes) and modern contraceptives. Originally known as the Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics, the organization was funded through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Under King’s leadership, as a founder, trustee and later president of Jhpiego for 14 years, the organization conducted a steady stream of programs throughout the developing world.

How Did We Get from There to Here?

Early on, Jhpiego established itself as a leader in reproductive health training. Beginning in 1974, Jhpiego held training sessions on family planning/reproductive health for doctors and nurses in the USA In 1979, Jhpiego started its first in-country training programs in Tunisia, Brazil, Kenya, Nigeria, Thailand and the Philippines. From 1987 through 2004, Jhpiego conducted three global Training in Reproductive Health Projects, funded by USAID. Beginning in 1993, Jhpiego published learning materials on long-acting family planning methods.

Over the years—to respond more effectively to the needs of individual countries—Jhpiego became increasingly field-based and established its first field office in Kenya in 1993. Today, Jhpiego has field offices in more than 30 countries worldwide. Similarly, Jhpiego’s programming areas have expanded to meet changing needs in the field. In addition to family planning and reproductive health, Jhpiego now has expertise in maternal and child health, infection prevention and control, HIV/AIDS and infectious diseases.

Jhpiego’s work has also expanded to address reproductive health policy and guidelines and to support health systems strengthening. For example, in 1996 in Brazil, Jhpiego launched a performance and quality improvement approach, now known as Standards-Based Management and Recognition (SBM-R), which has since been implemented in 30 countries. SBM-R empowers health workers and facilities to improve the performance and quality of their services by providing them with the tools and methods they need to make decisions, solve problems and innovate at the local level.

Innovations in Training Methods and Technologies

In 1986, Jhpiego pioneered a competency-based training (CBT) approach that emphasizes learning by doing. CBT focuses on how the participant performs and promotes the trainer’s ability to encourage learning. Jhpiego also introduced the use of anatomic models for “humanistic training.” To minimize risk to clients, learners first practice on models until they achieve competency. In 1995, a clinical training skills manual—the cornerstone of Jhpiego’s training approach—was published. Using a systematic “training of trainers” approach, Jhpiego has created a global network of qualified physician, nurse and midwife trainers.

As early as 1984, Jhpiego collaborated with the University of the West Indies to deliver reproductive health courses, via satellite, to six islands in the Caribbean. In 1987, Jhpiego sponsored a global meeting on reproductive health education and technology with the World Health Organization (WHO) and introduced computer-assisted instruction to simulate clinical situations in several of its US-based courses. In 1995, ReproLine, an online source for reproductive health information, was launched. Today, Jhpiego continues to explore new learning technologies: mobile phones in Afghanistan, a computer-based learning management system in Ethiopia, computer-based training in Ghana, a distance learning program in Zambia.

Practical Solutions for Low-Resource Settings

Since the 1992 publication of its international reference standard Infection Prevention for Family Planning Service Programs, Jhpiego has been at the forefront in promoting evidence-based practices that can protect health care professionals, staff and clients from potentially life-threatening infections. To this end, Jhpiego has tested and introduced practical, low-cost infection prevention procedures that can be implemented effectively in settings with limited resources.

In developing countries, cervical cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths among women. In 1995, Jhpiego began research with the University of Zimbabwe to find a low-cost alternative to the Pap test that could make cervical cancer prevention a reality in low-resource settings. Based on the results of this research, Jhpiego helped form the Alliance for Cervical Cancer Prevention in 1999 and received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to expand its cervical cancer program. Since that time, Jhpiego has developed and piloted the single visit approach in which women are screened and treated during the same visit.

In 1995, Jhpiego began addressing HIV/AIDS and its integration with family planning services. Six years later, Jhpiego began work in HIV voluntary counseling and testing with a USAID-funded project in Jamaica. In 2002, Jhpiego received its first funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for work in HIV/AIDS and, the following year, developed a global learning package on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV—with CDC, WHO and university partners—to enable global scale-up. Also in 2003, Jhpiego began work on male circumcision for HIV prevention in Zambia. In 2008, Jhpiego developed a global learning package on male circumcision for HIV prevention with WHO and UNAIDS.

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Overview

Responsibilities

Implement mobile app changes collated from visits from project supported states.
Update and integrate Predictive Analysis into new and existing mobile applications.
Improve the Mobile applications based on feedback loop during data synchronization operations.
Implement historical risk score view on all developed mobile applications.
Enhance the monthly in-app pulse surveys and feedback mechanisms to ensure adequate use of developed mobile applications.
Implement modular architecture for existing mobile solutions to enable future expansion to other disease areas.
Design and develop accessibility features in existing and future mobile applications.
Implement in-app push notifications across mobile applications developed.
Integrate existing mobile application with external APIs like the NAFDAC Greenbook, LOMIS.
Implement and monitor the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) feature in developed mobile applications.
Upgrade and develop robust user manuals for the existing and future mobile applications.
Integrate existing and future mobile solutions into robust backends for unified data storage.
Design and implement database storage mechanisms for robust data collection across all mobile solutions.

Deliverables:

Implemented changes and bug fixes identified in all deployed mobile applications.
Modularized codebase supporting plug-and-play modules for new disease areas (e.g., TB, MNCH) with architecture documentations.
Functional accessibility settings (e.g., font scaling, screen reader support, colour contrast), user documentation.
Integrated and tested predictive models on revised ML algorithms. Model documentation and code.
UI component and backend logic for historical data collection, risk trends, verifications.
Configured Cloud Messaging (or equivalent), notification service, and UI integration.
Enhanced user notifications during sync (e.g., progress, success/failure messages, retry logic).
Revised data collection, use, and privacy documentation based on approved standards from NDPR.
Fully functional and tested Case Management component developed and delivered and exportable as a standalone module.
Successful integration of the external APIs, enabling seamless, real-time information lookup within developed mobile applications.
Operational Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and package recognition features that are capable of accurately scanning and identifying images and texts.
Mobile applications compliant with modern accessibility standards, featuring functionalities such as screen reader support, dynamic text sizing, and high-contrast modes.
Comprehensive and user-friendly User Manuals documenting all features and workflows of developed mobile systems.
A secure, scalable, and efficiently designed database schema and implementation for the Case Management Module, ensuring data integrity and optimal performance.
Implementation of offline-first mobile, using capture-and-sync later as well as USSD.
Deployment and maintenance of fully integrated mobile solutions across Project supported states.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Health Informatics, or a related field.
5+ years of experience in digital health system development.
Proven experience with:
- Mobile app development (Jetpack Compose, Kotlin, Flutter or React Native)
- Modular software architecture
- Push notification frameworks (e.g., FCM)
- Accessibility standards (WCAG)
- Familiarity with IRB processes and data ethics in health systems.
- Strong documentation and communication skills.
- Application programming Interface (API) integrations.

How to apply

Jhpiego offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive employee benefits package.

Please apply using this link: https://jobs-jhpiego.icims.com/jobs/7325/health-informatics-officer/job

Applicants must submit a single document for upload to include: cover letter, resume, and references.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found

Only shortlisted candidates will receive an invitation for an interview

For further information about Jhpiego, visit our website at www.jhpiego.org

Note: The successful candidate selected for this position will be subject to a pre-employment background investigation.

Jhpiego is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer

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