Innovation & Impact Communications Fellow
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Innovation communications fellow translating mDoc’s AI-enabled healthcare and digital health work into rigorous stories. Building newsletters, research narratives and an innovation knowledge base.
Responsibilities:
- Work alongside mDoc's clinical, AI, product, research and implementation teams
- Identify important innovations, insights, results and lessons
- 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
- Draft 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 rigorous, understandable and compelling writing
- Help create a flagship monthly innovation newsletter
- 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 the problem, insight, solution, novelty, deployment, evidence/results, failures, changes, lessons and significance for major innovations and implementation experiences
- Work with research and data teams to turn findings into understandable stories without compromising scientific rigor
- Help explain what findings reveal 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 formats from articles to scripts to scientific abstracts
- Intellectual curiosity
- Analytical ability, including reading research, interrogating data and distinguishing evidence from assertion
- Storytelling ability
- Genuine interest in how technologies such as AI work, including their limitations, safety and real-world implementation
- Accuracy and rigor; ability to check facts, interrogate claims and avoid exaggerating evidence
- Comfort with ambiguity
- Ability to ask thoughtful questions of 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
- 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
- Engineering skills are not required
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




















