Technical Director - Sustainable Health Systems & Private Sector Engagement

The Technical Director - Sustainable Health Systems & Private Sector Engagement will provide strategic and technical leadership to advance Jhpiego’s strategy for sustainable, market-enabled health systems in the evolving global health and international development landscape.

The Director will connect Jhpiego’s technical and implementation strengths in low- and middle-income countries with market development, sustainable financing, private-sector engagement, scalable service delivery models, and locally owned pathways to impact.

The Director will identify and incubate new solutions and business models, mobilize strategic partners and capital, strengthen organizational capabilities, and enable country teams to integrate sustainability from design through scale.

Technical Assistance and Quality Programming (Market Solutions, Sustainable Health Systems & Technical Enablement

• Lead development and execution of a Jhpiego-wide market solutions, sustainability, and innovative financing agenda aligned with organizational strategy and country priorities.
• Develop practical enterprise frameworks, playbooks, tools, templates, and decision frameworks that enable teams to design for sustainability from the outset.
• Identify unmet needs and market failures where Jhpiego’s capabilities can create differentiated, sustainable solutions with measurable health impact.
• Co-create and incubate viable business and service delivery models with country teams and global technical teams, including fee-based, subscription, licensing, accreditation, continuous professional development, and other context-appropriate models.
• Help country teams assess private-sector landscapes and design effective public-private collaboration models that improve quality, access, affordability, and equity.
• Build capacity of country and global teams in sustainability planning, market analysis, business model design, private-sector engagement, partnership structuring, and innovative financing.

Global Technical Strategy Development and Innovation

• Establish portfolio priorities, stage gates, and investment criteria for market solutions and innovation initiatives; recommend where Jhpiego should build, partner, scale, pivot, or stop.
• Scan global and country-level landscapes for promising product, process, digital, and service innovations relevant to Jhpiego’s technical priorities.
• Guide innovators and internal teams through validation, evidence generation, regulatory and policy considerations, product-market fit, market access, financing, and scale planning.
• Manage a focused portfolio of strategic initiatives, tracking milestones, resource use, risk, learning, and measurable progress toward adoption and scale.
• Establish transition and ownership plans so successful initiatives can be institutionalized within country offices, technical teams, local entities, or appropriate external partners.

Innovative Financing & Resource Mobilization

• Identify and structure opportunities to use grants more catalytically and co-mobilize complementary capital through blended finance, outcomes-based financing, pooled financing mechanisms, co-financing, and other fit-for-purpose mechanisms.
• Develop relationships with philanthropic foundations, development finance institutions, impact investors, corporations, financial institutions, family offices, and other capital providers relevant to Jhpiego’s mission.
• Partner with business development, technical, finance, legal, compliance, and country teams to integrate sustainability and financing approaches into opportunity identification, capture strategy, proposal design, and negotiation.
• Translate market and financing concepts into feasible structures with appropriate governance, risk allocation, performance…