Position Overview

LUMS is establishing Pakistan’s first National AI Hub for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH)—a multi-year initiative to integrate ethical, responsible, and scalable AI solutions into public health systems. The Program Manager will play a critical role in ensuring the Hub’s effective planning, coordination, execution, and monitoring across its planning and implementation phases.

This role requires a high-capacity professional able to manage complex, multi-stakeholder projects, coordinate across research, technical, government, and clinical partners, and oversee timely delivery of deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

1. Program & Project Management

· Lead day-to-day project coordination across planning and implementation phases

· Develop detailed project work plans, activity trackers, risk registers, and coordination mechanisms.

· Ensure timely delivery of key outputs, and manage internal and external logistics, administrative coordination and planning.

· Manage internal and external workflows, align cross-functional teams, and track progress against grant milestones.

· Prepare periodic updates, donor reports, financial reports and documentation.

· Coordinate fieldwork for mapping maternal health and newborn referral pathways.

· Oversee field researchers, data collectors, and deployment teams.

· Ensure compliance with IRB/ethics requirements at LUMS and AKU.

· Manage procurement, logistics, budgeting inputs, and vendor coordination.

· Work closely with the finance team to track grant expenditures in compliance with donor requirements.

· Coordinate sub-awards (e.g., with AKU) and ensure reporting compliance.

2. Stakeholder Coordination & Partnership Management

· Serve as the central coordinating point between LUMS, AKU, government bodies, hospitals, startups, NGOs, and international collaborators.

· Support the establishment of MoUs with provincial governments, hospitals, and partners for scaling AI interventions.

· Organize high-level convenings, workshops, stakeholder consultations, ethics committee meetings, and technical working groups.

· Maintain strong relationships with public health departments, donor organizations, and clinical partners.

Core Competencies & Skills (Aligned with Proposal Needs)

· Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multi-component, multi-stakeholder initiatives.

· Proficiency in developing work plans, Gantt charts, reporting structures, and progress dashboards.

· Ability to navigate ambiguity and evolving timelines (critical for planning & implementation phases).

· Strong interpersonal skills and diplomacy to coordinate with:

    · Federal and provincial health departments

    · Hospitals & clinics

    · Research partners

    · Donor teams

    · Startups and technical teams

· Experience organizing workshops, consultations, or convenings.

· Experience coordinating field research, data collection, user research, or human subjects-related work.

· Strong writing and analytical skills for donor reports, policy briefs, and technical documentation.

· Ability to translate technical information into accessible communication.

· Experience preparing progress reports, meeting notes, presentations.

Personal Attributes

· Mission-driven and passionate about public health, AI, or social impact.

· Proactive, solution-oriented, and able to manage complexity.

· Strong interpersonal and intercultural communication skills.

· Ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities.

· Detail-oriented with a commitment to high-quality execution.

What This Role Offers

· Opportunity to shape a national-level AI and MNCH agenda in Pakistan.

· Deep engagement with leading AI researchers, clinicians, donors, and government partners.

· Hands-on experience managing cutting-edge AI health innovations.

· A leadership pathway in digital health, AI governance, and large-scale public health programs.