Director, Health Financing

Overview

The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to our mission of saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries. We work at the invitation of governments to support them and the private sector to create and sustain high-quality health systems.

CHAI was founded in 2002 in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with the goal of dramatically reducing the price of life‑saving drugs and increasing access to these medicines in the countries with the highest burden of the disease. Over the following two decades, CHAI has expanded its focus. Today, along with HIV, we work with our partners to prevent and treat infectious diseases such as COVID‑19, malaria, tuberculosis, and hepatitis.

Our work has also expanded into cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and other non‑communicable diseases, and we work to accelerate the rollout of lifesaving vaccines, reduce maternal and child mortality, combat chronic malnutrition, and increase access to assistive technology. We are investing in horizontal approaches to strengthen health systems through programs in human resources for health, digital health, and health financing. With each new and innovative program, our strategy is grounded in maximizing sustainable impact at scale, ensuring that governments lead the solutions, that programs are designed to scale nationally, and learnings are shared globally.

At CHAI, our people are our greatest asset, and none of this work would be possible without their talent, time, dedication, and passion for our mission and values. We are a highly diverse team of enthusiastic individuals across 40 countries with a broad range of skill sets and life experiences. CHAI is deeply grounded in the countries we work in, with the majority of our staff based in program countries.

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CHAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to providing an environment of fairness, and mutual respect where all applicants have access to equal employment opportunities. CHAI values diversity and inclusion, and recognizes that our mission is best advanced by the leadership and contributions of people with diverse experience, backgrounds, and culture.

Global health has fundamentally changed, with significant reductions in development assistance for health. Alongside the crisis that has ensued are some opportunities — increased commitment from Ministries of Finance, a new wave of philanthropy, increased engagement from the private sector, and the potential for technology and AI to transform service delivery and systems.

CHAI's Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) group, and critically the health financing program, is working with governments that are taking this opportunity to strengthen health systems for the long term, demonstrating what is possible, and creating momentum across the globe. Our vision is to make primary health care available and affordable to hundreds of millions of people — averting tens of millions of preventable deaths — by working comprehensively to address the financing and systems barriers to this goal.

The (Senior) Director, Health Financing will be at the centre of this critical work — helping countries navigate the transition away from foreign aid including by making difficult trade‑offs, optimizing limited available resources, and building the financial architecture for PHC systems that can endure.

This role will report to CHAI’s Vice President Health Systems and NCDs, and will work closely with digital health, workforce, supply chain and private sector programs. The (Senior) Director will oversee a global team and work closely with over 100 staff across countries who are embedded or semi‑embedded in Ministries of Health, Finance and Insurance Agencies at national and sub‑national levels.

They will oversee a growing portfolio of $80 M across 10+ countries in Africa and Asia.

This role is being advertised at the Director level, but may be levelled at Senior Director depending…