Placement Organization: Vecna Cares Charitable Trust
Placement Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Eligible Citizenship: Non-American
Placement Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Eligible Citizenship: Non-American
About: Vecna Cares Charitable Trust provides technology and training to support and strengthen health systems in under-served areas for better health outcomes. We build systems that close the information gaps between patients, care givers, and decision makers. Vecna Medical donates intellectual property and up to 10% of software engineer working time to the Vecna Cares Charitable Trust for product development and support.
Vecna Care’s CliniPAK, the Clinical Patient Administration Kit, plays a key role in forwarding our global health and primary care initiatives. These units include rugged touch screen tablets, cell phones, solar panels and biometric devices to capture patient data for better reporting and better care.
Vecna Cares is currently piloting our CliniPAK product in Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Boston and working with teams in all locations to identify necessary improvements and create models that can then scale-up effectively.
Through developing and installing technology solutions, supporting local capacity building, improving efficiencies and promoting public health initiatives, our contributions help to improve quality and reduce the cost of delivering care in health systems.
Position Overview: The Program Manager will work at the Vecna Cares headquarters in Boston and will act as the intermediary between the technical team designing the technology applications and product users of the technology in the field. He/she will be responsible for helping to ensure that the product is functional, useful and effective for the users and help to set and achieve program and solution goals within budget and schedule. The manager will assess the efficacy and capacity of theproducts, demonstrate the impact of the product on healthcare challenges and identify new market opportunities.
The Program Manager will also have the opportunity to work with a variety of web-based technologies, create and develop features on evolving medical technology products, manage software-hardware integrations, which will then be turned around and used by patients and healthcare workers in the field within a matter of weeks.
Responsibilities:
Manage team of engineers and contributors for on time and on budget medical technology product release
- Define features and specifications for new medical technology products
- Manage details of multiple projects both stateside and international to coordinate unique product features and configurations for each client
- Pursue funding opportunities and support client demonstrations
- Contribute to fast growing, agile team
Required Skills and Experience:
- Proficiency in basic computer programs: Word processing, spreadsheets, presentations
- Interest in technology for problem solving
- Experience in project leadership or management, including meeting project schedules and constraints in producing a deliverable
- Highly motivated and self-driven, self-managing and accountable personality
- Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills
Preferred Skills and Experience:
- Health care delivery exposure or experience
- International development or travel experience
- Previously illustrated creativity using technology for problem solving
- Any experience in computer programming, networking and information systems desirable but not required: SQL, JavaScript/Java, Mobile Development, etc.
- Undergraduate or higher degree in computer science or any engineering discipline
- Grant writing experience and/or business model development
Living Conditions: Fellows will be provided with housing, health insurance and a living stipend of $750 (net/take home amount)*. Fellows will receive an award of $1500 upon successful completion of the fellowship year. Flights to and from the placement site and all other costs associated with GHC programming are included, plus $600 in professional development funds.
* Both international and national fellows will receive a monthly living stipend of $750, take home amount, but they may begin at different gross amounts because of visa and tax requirements.
To apply to this position click here: http://ghcorps.org/fellows/apply/application/
