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Maisha Meds is hiring! We’re looking for a compliance fellow to help us ensure adoption of security and compliance best practices for patient data at the last mile!

Our main product is an Android app that both operates as a point-of-sale tool and helps pharmacies manage their inventory and restock products. Our app is used by hundreds of pharmacies in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Tanzania to support hundreds of thousands of patients every year. We're rapidly expanding our user base, and are planning on expanding to more countries this year!

We also launched a program to help subsidize medicine for patients and reward providers for better medical practices. We’ve helped thousands of patients in the past couple of months and we’re aiming to reach significantly more.

The Maisha Meds Fellowship Program

The Maisha Meds Fellowship Program is a unique, one-year, on-site engagement in East Africa. Our fellows lead initiatives which influence regional healthcare practices and patient outcomes. The program is designed to employ the talents of vaccinated professionals who’d like a change of scenery after a year of working from home. Maisha Meds covers fellows’ living expenses in East Africa, including a small stipend, and offers the flexibility to work from the Kenyan coast, the Maasai Mara, or other locations, as desired.

Compliance Fellow

We’re looking for a fellow to lead our compliance initiative. Our ideal candidate is knowledgeable about the healthcare space, can build processes, and provide training to help our organization become HIPAA and ISO compliant.

• Craft policies in place to ensure HIPAA and ISO compliance across Maisha Meds suite of software in partnership with Vanta
• Support ISO and HIPAA audits
• Adopt existing best-practice security and data policies for Maisha Meds context and putting Business Associate Agreements in place with key vendors
• Work with teams across the organization to enforce compliance, with a focus on two-factor authentication, training completion, password protection, and hardware encryption for all employees who access protected health information
• Source and evaluate vendors like Citrix and Rippling to streamline adoption of security standards and device management

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in healthcare or tech industry
• Knowledge and working experience in project management
• Familiarity with compliance regulations, especially HIPAA and ISO
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well with a culturally diverse team (we're a mix of Kenyans and international team members)
• Bonus: Worked with small tech companies and helped them become HIPAA compliant