Location: Kyiv, Ukraine
Management Sciences for Health (MSH) is seeking a Technical Advisor, eHealth for a potential one-year health system strengthening project in Ukraine, funded by the US Government. The position is subject to project award and funding.
The Technical Advisor is a hands-on project delivery and technical coordination role supporting the project's portfolio of national digital health and medicines-management initiatives, under the supervision of the Senior Technical Advisor, eHealth. The role independently manages assigned activities across the software development life cycle (SDLC), converts program and Government of Ukraine priorities into clear delivery plans and technical requirements, coordinates multidisciplinary teams and contractors, and ensures deliverables are complete, accurate, traceable and ready for acceptance.
Main duties and responsibilities:
- eHealth project and portfolio delivery: manage assigned eHealth activities from initiation through implementation and operational handover, maintaining scope, work plans, schedules, risks, issues and decisions; coordinate multidisciplinary teams; support pilots, rollout and stabilization.
- Requirements, SDLC and quality assurance: lead or coordinate discovery and requirements definition (MVP scope, business, functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, roadmaps); review architecture, integrations, APIs, data flows, security and release plans; coordinate QA and UAT.
- Stakeholder, vendor and consultant coordination: engage Government of Ukraine institutions, implementing partners, vendors and consultants; facilitate meetings; support scopes of work and terms of reference; monitor contractor performance.
- Technical analysis and solution support: analyse current-state processes and systems, prepare evidence-based recommendations, and provide technical coordination for systems such as NMVS, eStock, MedData, national registers, NHSU BI/data products and formulary/pricing tools.
- Planning, reporting and knowledge management: contribute to work plans, status and final reports, technical briefs and lessons learned; review consultant outputs; maintain records of requirements, deliverables and decisions.
Required qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, software engineering, public health informatics, project management, business analysis or a related field (Master's degree or professional certification preferred).
- At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in IT project management, digital-product delivery or business analysis, including at least 3 years managing complex software initiatives across the SDLC.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating cross-functional technical teams, vendors or consultants and senior stakeholders across parallel priorities.
- Strong understanding of the SDLC, project management, Agile/Scrum/Kanban/Waterfall approaches, APIs, databases, information security, CI/CD and BI/analytics.
- Strong analytical, facilitation, negotiation and stakeholder-management skills; advanced Microsoft Office and Google Workspace; Jira/Confluence or equivalent.
- Fluency in spoken and written Ukrainian and at least upper-intermediate English (B2).
Preferred: experience with national-scale public-sector eHealth, medicines-management or registry projects in Ukraine, and with Government of Ukraine institutions and donor-funded programs.
Closing date: 2026-09-30
HOW TO APPLY:
Apply online via the MSH Workday careers portal (requisition ID R5145). This position is subject to project award and funding.