The Foundation
We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.
The Team
The India Country Office (ICO) is central to the foundation’s commitment to advancing equitable health outcomes and strengthening India’s health innovation ecosystem. The Digital, Health Innovations, and Artificial Intelligence (DHAI) Cluster is a core enabler of the ICO’s key goals across our portfolio. The cluster advances R&D and innovation across foundational research; medical devices, vaccines, and drugs, as well as data-science methods (modeling, AI-enabled tools). We approach this by accelerating R&D and the deployment of affordable, high-quality, accessible devices, working with the Government of India - at central and state level, academia, industry, and global networks.
Your Role
As a Program Officer, Medical Devices you will play a crucial role in shaping and managing a portfolio of critical investments focused on advancing sensor-based, AI-enabled medical device technologies that support improved maternal, neonatal, and women’s health, including devices for respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) management, intrapartum monitoring, antenatal care innovations, as well as neonatal care device packages and algorithmic risk-stratification tools with the potential to improve public health outcomes in high-burden populations. You will collaborate with internal and external partners to drive innovative solutions ensuring medical devices are designed, validated and deployed effectively in public health programs.
You will bring expertise in medical device development, including clinical use case prioritization and validation, product specifications, sensor, AI vision and algorithm development, regulatory pathways, and market access strategies, and work closely with product development partners, global health organizations, and policymakers to ensure successful implementation of devices for maternal, neonatal, and respiratory health.
This is a 12-month limited term employment (LTE), based at the foundation’s ICO in New Delhi , reporting to the Deputy Director, Drugs, Diagnostics & Devices. Relocation will not be provided.
What You’ll Do
This is a highly collaborative role and will involve working with multiple Program Strategy Teams (PSTs) in Seattle and teams across the ICO, for new product development and scaling. In this role you will:
Design, structure, and manage grants and contracts for AI-enabled medical device innovation for maternal, neonatal, and women health conditions aligned with India and PST goals.
Identify and select partner institutions and shape scope and strategy for selected grants and contracts to meet selected strategic goals.
Apply milestone-based technical performance metrics and drive go/no-go decision-making.
Provide technical and strategic support to grantees and contractors, ensuring alignment with foundation priorities.
Review interim and final reports; write final evaluation and synthesize and document lessons learned across related grants and contracts.
Collaborate closely with foundation teams in Seattle and ICO on the medical devices for maternal, neonatal, and respiratory health.
Analyze opportunities based on medical device advances in maternal, neonatal, and respiratory health needs to find…