Global AI Strategy & Special Projects Manager

Clinton Health Access Initiative; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Boston colocation

Extensive travel opportunities

Job summary

Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is seeking a Manager, AI – Special Projects to help build and scale CHAI's AI team, reporting to the Senior Director, Head of AI. This role blends strategic thinking with hands-on execution and requires extensive travel to CHAI country offices, with a strong preference for colocation in Boston to work in person with the Head of AI.

You will shape the team's core strategy, contribute to ambitious fundraising efforts, explore expansion areas of AI work, and

Qualifications

• Passion for AI and its potential to improve health systems in LMICs.
• 4 to 8 years of relevant professional experience.
• Advanced user of modern AI productivity tools such as Claude Cowork, Claude Code or Codex.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to distill complex topics clearly.
• Strong analytical ability and a demonstrated capacity to pick up new topics quickly.
• Willingness and ability to travel extensively to CHAI country offices and represent the team at conferences.

Responsibilities

• Support the development of the AI team's core strategy, and contribute to fundraising efforts including proposal development and donor engagement.
• Take ownership of potential new expansion areas of AI work, exploring initial strategies, assessing feasibility, and helping recruit the first members of new teams.
• Serve as a key partner in scaling the team, pitching in across hiring, onboarding, operations, and delivery as needed.
• Coordinate engagement across CHAI's 30+ country offices and ensure smooth integration of the AI team into CHAI's existing programs and country structures.
• Move fluidly between strategic analysis and hands-on execution, taking on whatever is most critical to the team's success at a given moment.
• Use modern AI productivity tools to build, automate, and systematize the team's own ways of working.
• Prepare high-quality strategic materials, analyses, and communications for internal and external audiences.
• Represent the AI team at conferences and in external forums as needed.
• Undertake other responsibilities as needed to support the growth and success of the team.

Skills

AI

Healthcare AI impact

Stakeholder communication

Analytical thinking

Travel readiness

Tools

Claude Cowork

Claude Code

Codex

Job description

Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is seeking a Manager, AI – Special Projects to help build and scale CHAI's AI team, reporting to the Senior Director, Head of AI. This role blends strategic thinking with hands-on execution and requires extensive travel to CHAI country offices, with a strong preference for colocation in Boston to work in person with the Head of AI.

You will shape the team's core strategy, contribute to ambitious fundraising efforts, explore expansion areas of AI work, and