Innovation & Impact Communications Fellow
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Innovation communications fellow documenting mDoc's AI-enabled healthcare and digital health work. Translating research, clinical and implementation insights into compelling stories, newsletters and technical publications.
Responsibilities:
- Work alongside mDoc's clinical, AI, product, research and implementation teams to uncover and communicate what mDoc is building, testing and learning
- Help build an innovation newsroom inside mDoc
- Identify important innovations, insights, results and lessons with ML, clinical, product, research and implementation teams
- Attend selected product and implementation discussions
- Interview team members, partners and, where appropriate, people using mDoc's services
- Research and draft innovation and thought-leadership articles, technical and evidence-based blogs, case studies, executive and founder thought leadership, conference abstracts and submissions, policy and technical briefs, video and documentary scripts, research manuscripts and papers, and grant and partner-facing innovation narratives
- Translate complex technical, clinical and implementation work into writing that is rigorous, understandable and compelling
- Help create a flagship monthly innovation newsletter about what mDoc is building, testing, learning and discovering
- Provide funders, governments, researchers, technologists, healthcare leaders and partners with a transparent view into building and deploying new healthcare models in real-world settings
- Systematically document mDoc's innovation and institutional knowledge in an Innovation Story Bank
- Capture for major innovations: the problem, insight, solution, novelty, deployment, evidence/results, failures, changes, lessons and significance
- Work with research and data teams to turn findings into understandable stories without compromising scientific rigor
- Help explain what findings indicate about how healthcare could work differently
Requirements:
- Minimum: a Bachelor's degree (Second Class Upper or equivalent) in public health, global health, medicine, science, technology, journalism, communications, public policy, international development, behavioral science, health informatics or another relevant discipline
- 0–2 years of relevant experience
- Recent graduates who completed studies within the last 2–3 years are strongly encouraged to apply
- A portfolio or writing samples demonstrating strong writing, such as published articles, blogs, research papers, reports or academic writing
- Exceptional writing across articles, scripts and scientific abstracts
- Intellectual curiosity and ability to ask why, how, what happened next and what was learned
- Analytical ability to read research, interrogate data and distinguish evidence from assertion
- Storytelling ability to find stories in technical reports, product meetings or conversations with frontline health workers
- Genuine interest in AI and technology, including their limitations, safety and real-world implementation
- Accuracy and rigor in fact-checking, interrogating claims and avoiding exaggeration of evidence
- Comfort with ambiguity and innovation that may involve things that did not work
- Ability to interview and engage experts, senior leaders and frontline teams
- Preferred: a completed Master's degree in a relevant field
- Preferred: prior exposure to research, journalism, communications, health or technology-related work, including academic, volunteer, internship or NYSC placements
- Preferred: experience writing for scientific, technical or policy audiences, including abstracts, manuscripts or briefs
- Desirable: familiarity with digital health, health systems or African health contexts
- Desirable: basic video or documentary scripting skills
- Desirable: experience producing newsletters or editorial content
- Desirable: ability to work with data and interpret research findings with support from the research team
Benefits:
- Unusual exposure to designing and deploying health innovation in African health systems
- First-hand experience in AI-enabled healthcare
- First-hand experience in digital and phygital health delivery
- First-hand experience in clinical AI safety and governance
- First-hand experience in human-centered product development
- First-hand experience in real-world health technology implementation
- First-hand experience in health systems and self-care
- First-hand experience in research and evidence generation
- First-hand experience in scientific and technical communications
- First-hand experience in executive thought leadership
- First-hand experience in innovation storytelling
- Work with senior leaders and multidisciplinary teams
- Build a portfolio of substantive work
- Exceptional Fellows may be considered for longer-term roles at mDoc
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