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 foundation is committed to leveraging Artificial Intelligence’s transformative potential to address critical development challenges.
The Digital, Health Innovations and Artificial Intelligence (DHAI) cluster is a core enabler for key goals of the India Country Office (ICO) across our portfolio. Our work focuses on ethical and responsible AI adoption, ensuring that advancements in AI drive positive impact, reduce inequities, and support the strategic goals of governments in India as well as select countries in the South and Southeast Asia region.
On the health innovation front, the cluster is focused on new products such as vaccines, drugs, devices including AI-enabled, diagnostics, modeling, and other data science approaches that are crucial to many programs. The foundation has also been partnering with the Department of Biotechnology, BIRAC, Indian Council for Medical Research and private sector players to strengthen vaccine R&D in India. Our aim is to help India serve as a credible source of supply for life-saving vaccines, diagnostics and pharmaceutical products for diseases that affect the poorest.
Our digital work includes technical assistance support to key central government and focus geography state agencies in the development, rollout and scale up of digital architecture in health, gender and poverty reduction, and helping to study impact. The newest addition to our work is in AI where we aim to catalyze Indian innovation, in close collaboration with Government (Central and select States) efforts, on foundation’s priority sectors, such as health, education, gender and agriculture.
Your Role
The Senior Program Officer, AI will lead and manage a portfolio of investments in AI, working in close partnership with program teams across health, education, agriculture, and gender equality. A key component of this role involves supporting the Government of India in achieving its strategic goals in AI adoption, while ensuring that AI solutions can be scaled effectively across India and facilitate adoption of relevant use cases across other priority geographies of the foundation. The role will focus on advancing AI use cases that address critical societal challenges, while fostering a strong ecosystem for AI innovation and deployment in India.
The postholder will be based at the foundation’s ICO office in New Delhi, and report to the Director, Health R&D, Digital Innovation and AI.
What You’ll Do
Your Experience
This role presents a unique opportunity to shape the trajectory of ‘AI for Social Good’ in India. If you are passionate about the intersection of AI, policy, and development, we invite you to join us in driving transformative change at scale.
Other Attributes
Application deadline: 21 April 2025
Hiring Requirements
As part of our standard hiring process for new employees, employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a background check.
Candidate Accommodations
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Inclusion Statement
We are dedicated to the belief that all lives have equal value. We strive for a global and cultural workplace that supports ever greater diversity, equity, and inclusion — of voices, ideas, and approaches — and we support this diversity through all our employment practices.
All applicants and employees who are drawn to serve our mission will enjoy equality of opportunity and fair treatment without regard to race, color, age, religion, pregnancy, sex, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, and prior protected activity.
Annually based
Delhi , India
Delhi , India
