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About Wekume

Wekume is a youth behaviour-change platform helping young people make healthier decisions. We combine digital engagement, campus and hostel outreach, peer influence, health-service linkages and rewards to make sexual and reproductive health (SRHR) information and services more accessible, private, engaging and actionable for young people.

Role Purpose

Wekume is seeking a volunteer Digital Health & Informatics Officer to help shape and strengthen its digital health strategy. The Officer will connect health priorities, technology, programme delivery and data so that health outcomes remain central to Wekume's work. A key priority is measuring impact beyond the app—including campus and hostel activations, peer ambassadors, rewards, referrals and partnerships.

Key Responsibilities

1. Digital Health Strategy

• Help develop and refine Wekume’s digital-health strategy and roadmap.
• Identify opportunities to use technology to improve access to SRHR information, services, referrals and behaviour-change interventions.
• Advise the team on relevant digital-health approaches, tools and opportunities.
• Ensure product and programme decisions are guided by health outcomes, not technology alone.

2. Health Direction Across Programmes

• Work with the Programs team to define clear health objectives for campaigns and interventions.
• Translate public-health and SRHR priorities into practical programme activities.
• Review campaigns, activations and digital interventions and provide health-focused guidance.
• Connect online and offline activities into a coherent health journey for young people.

3. Impact Measurement with M&E

• Work with Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) to strengthen digital-health and behaviour-change indicators.
• Help measure outcomes beyond app downloads, registrations and engagement.
• Support an impact framework covering reach, engagement, health action, service uptake and sustained behaviour change.
• Connect app data with insights from activations, peer ambassadors, rewards and health-service referrals.
• Turn programme data into useful insights, reports and recommendations.

4. Connecting Digital and In-Person Interventions

• Identify ways to link app engagement with campus, hostel and community activities.
• Explore digital follow-up after in-person activations.
• Strengthen referral and follow-up pathways with health-service partners.
• Help measure whether offline engagement leads to digital engagement and health actions.

5. Partnerships and External Representation

• Represent Wekume in relevant digital-health and health-tech spaces, webinars and communities of practice.
• Identify relevant organisations, networks, collaborators and partnership opportunities.
• Support engagement with government, academic, development and technology stakeholders.
• Share relevant ecosystem developments and opportunities with the team.

6. Digital Presence and Thought Leadership

• Contribute ideas for LinkedIn posts, articles, presentations, webinars and other thought leadership.
• Help communicate Wekume’s learning and evidence on youth digital health and behaviour change.
• Support the Founder/CEO and Communications team with health and digital-health insights.

7. Product and Technology Direction

• Work with the product/technology team to reflect health needs in product decisions.
• Provide health and programme input on features, user journeys, referral pathways and rewards.
• Help prioritise features based on user needs, feasibility and potential health impact.
• Flag privacy, confidentiality, consent and responsible-data-use considerations.

Key Deliverables (First Six Months)

• A practical Wekume Digital Health Strategy/Roadmap.
• A digital-health and behaviour-change impact framework developed with M&E.
• Recommended health indicators for programmes and digital interventions.
• Recommendations for connecting app activity with offline programmes and service referrals.
• A map of relevant digital-health partners, networks and opportunities.
• Regular product, health strategy and ecosystem recommendations.
• Contributions to Wekume’s digital-health thought leadership and external engagement.

Time Commitment and Working Arrangement

This is a volunteer position requiring 10 hours per week across 3 days. The role is flexible and primarily remote/hybrid, with participation in selected team meetings, programme activities and external engagements where relevant. The Officer will report to the Founder & CEO and work closely with Programs, M&E, Product/Technology, Partnerships and Communications.

Qualifications and Experience

Applicants may have a background in one or more of the following:

• Digital Health, Health Informatics or Health Information Systems
• Public Health, Global Health or Epidemiology
• Health Technology, Information Systems or Computer Science with health-sector experience
• Monitoring & Evaluation, digital interventions or health programme implementation

Experience in youth health, SRHR, HIV, behaviour change, digital health programmes, health information systems or health-tech is an advantage. We value strategic thinking, collaboration, clear communication, initiative and the ability to turn ideas into practical actions.

What the Volunteer Will Gain

• Practical experience shaping digital-health strategy for a growing youth-focused platform.
• Exposure to the intersection of technology, public health, behaviour change and impact measurement.
• Opportunities to engage with health-tech and development stakeholders.
• A portfolio of strategic contributions and programme learning in digital health.

The Person We Hope to Find

We are looking for someone who can ask: “How can we use technology, data and digital engagement to help a young person make a healthier decision and how do we demonstrate that it happened?”

Minimum Hours per Week:

10+ hours per week

Duration:

6+ months