Lead, Global Virtual Health Alliance

Position description

The annual salary range for this role is $120,000-140,000 in New York.

The duration of this role is 3 years.

The World Economic Forum, committed to improving the state of the world, is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.

The Forum engages the foremost political, business and civil society leaders to shape global, regional and industry agendas.

Why we are recruiting

The Global Virtual Health Alliance (GVHA) is a new international, multi-stakeholder alliance convened by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia.

Technology is rapidly transforming the how, when and where of healthcare delivery. Digital tools are expanding capabilities and new care models are increasing access, democratizing knowledge and enabling more continuous, personalized care. These shifts are increasingly central to addressing global health system pressures, including workforce shortages, rising chronic disease, escalating costs and persistent inequities in access to care. Yet a fundamental question remains: can digital innovation truly transform health and the health systems that support the world’s 8 billion people?

Amidst this tension, a clear mega-trend is emerging: “virtual health” is presenting the potential for a fundamental paradigm shift in healthcare delivery. By extending care beyond traditional clinical settings and into homes and communities, virtual health improves access, continuity and outcomes across diverse populations. Virtual health encompasses an evolving set of care models powered by a connected ecosystem of technologies – including telemedicine, remote monitoring, digital therapeutics, mobile and AI-enabled tools, and asynchronous care – that together can transform how care is delivered and experienced.

The Global Virtual Health Alliance aims to establish a world class convening platform to bring together the world’s top global industry leaders from health, insurance, technology, telecommunications, and investment to work closely with virtual health experts, policy makers, regulators, multilateral organizations and patient representatives to support the development of a shared global vision, strategies, and collective guidance to shape the future of virtual health. The Alliance works to align priorities, develop strategies and mobilize action across policy, implementation and investment, operating as part of the Forum’s broader Digital Healthcare Transformation Initiative.

To support this ambition, the World Economic Forum is establishing a dedicated team to act as the Secretariat of the GVHA, responsible for shaping the Alliance’s strategic direction, coordinating its workstreams, and stewarding its development as a platform serving the global community.

Role Overview

The Lead, Global Virtual Health Alliance, will play a central role in delivering the core workstreams of the Global Virtual Health Alliance. Working closely with the Senior Lead, Global Virtual Health Alliance to shape the initiative, this role is responsible for driving content development, stakeholder engagement and delivery across priority areas of the Alliance’s agenda. This is a hands-on role suited to an experienced project manager who can combine analytical depth, process leadership, and relationship management in a fast-paced, global environment.

Reporting Lines and Interactions

This position will report to the Senior Lead, Global Virtual Health Alliance.

The successful candidate will work internally with other colleagues from across the Centre for Health and Healthcare, other relevant Centres, regional government relations teams, and account and partner development teams. Externally, this role will develop relationships with leaders and experts in Forum partner companies, knowledge partners and other stakeholders including governments, international organizations, civil society, and experts in global health.

Main responsibilities

• Strategic Support, Alliance Workstream Leadership, and Execution
  • Support the Senior Lead, Global Virtual Health Alliance in refining strategy, priorities and narratives for the Alliance. This includes monitoring key trends and adapting Alliance strategies and approaches as needed.
  • Lead core GVHA workstreams from design through delivery, translating strategic priorities into concrete plans, milestones and outputs. Manage interdependence across workstreams to ensure coherence, focus and momentum.
• Content Development and Insight Generation
  • Lead the development of high-quality knowledge products, including strategic frameworks, reports, briefs, blueprints and other practical knowledge tools.
  • Synthesize diverse expert and member inputs into clear, decision-relevant insights for senior leadership engagement through communications, engagements, and convenings.
• Stakeholder Engagement, Orchestration, and Facilitation
  • Directly shape the community composition and positioning of the Global Virtual Health Alliance with key relevant external stakeholders along with building and managing strong working relationships on behalf of the Alliance.
  • Facilitate working groups, workshops and expert discussions, enabling constructive dialogue and collaboration.
• Project Management and Coordination
  • Manage timelines, risks and dependencies across multiple parallel initiatives. Coordinate closely with internal Forum teams and external partners to ensure effective delivery.

Qualifications

To Be Successful in This Role, You Should

• Structure ambiguous problems into clear narratives, communications, workplans, outputs and decisions. Be comfortable working across strategy, analysis and execution in parallel.
• Facilitate constructive dialogue among diverse and senior stakeholders.
• Manage multiple initiatives and timelines without compromising quality.

Preferred requirements and experience

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in public health, health policy, technology, international relations or a related field.
• 6+ years of relevant professional experience in healthcare, digital health, consulting, policy or innovation-focused roles.
• Experience managing complex initiatives or portfolios involving multiple stakeholders and workstreams.
• Solid understanding of virtual health or digital health ecosystems and health system dynamics.
• Strong analytical, writing and facilitation skills, with experience producing senior-level outputs.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently while maintaining alignment with broader strategy.
• Experience working across public and private sector contexts.
• Prior experience with international organizations, global initiatives or multi-stakeholder platforms is an asset.

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