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Job Information:

  • Job Title: Associate Director, Health Financing
  • Job Schedule: Full time
  • Program (Division): Health Systems Strengthening – Health Financing
  • Locations: Pretoria, South Africa

Responsibilities:

Strategic Direction & Coordination

  • Provide strategic direction and technical guidance to CHAI country and program teams, and serve as a central authority for CHAI’s public financing work. This includes facilitating internal communication and information flow across programs and geographies, as well as external communication.
  • Collaborate with country teams to support the MOH/MOF in resource mobilization, managing and influencing budget cycles, strengthening Public Financial Management for health, improving efficiency and equity in financing, and strengthening strategic purchasing.
  • Promote the use of rigorous analytical methods in assessing options for improving health financing systems and driving efficiency gains. This can range from contributing to priority setting to expenditure reviews, for example.
  • Identify new approaches that CHAI is uniquely placed to drive, iterate on these approaches with country teams and governments, scope new projects and support their design, hire key personnel and work with them to demonstrate success, and adapt and support scale across countries.
  • Provide input across CHAI programs in health systems and other clusters to address financial bottlenecks to service delivery. This includes working closely with focal points for health workforce, digital health, private sector engagement, and efforts to address the foreign aid cuts.

Project Management

  • Manage a small core project team and closely collaborate across the HSS cluster, including with country focal points to provide cross-country support, implementation guidance, and direct technical assistance where needed.
  • Support onboarding of new staff working across the organization in the public finance space, and/or programs that can benefit from this work.
  • Drive delivery of key projects, working closely with country leadership.
  • Support fundraising and grant management, including donor reporting, communications, and compliance with funding requirements.
  • Facilitate rapid learning cycles by creating feedback loops across countries and programs—helping teams reflect on progress, identify what’s working (or not), and pivot strategies where needed.
  • Support the development and implementation of robust monitoring and learning approaches to track progress of CHAI’s health financing efforts, working closely with the Director of Strategy and Grants and Technical Director.
  • Document and synthesize cross-country insights and emerging lessons, and ensure they are systematically shared to drive continuous improvement.

Donor & Partner Engagement

  • Support resource mobilization efforts by aligning country and global priorities with funding opportunities and leading fundraising, from lead generation to proposal development.
  • Represent CHAI’s work with key donors and partners, including to engage new donors in this work.
  • Cultivate and maintain relationships with relevant stakeholders, including bilateral donors, development banks, philanthropies, and multilateral institutions (e.g., Global Fund, WHO, World Bank).

Qualifications:

  • 10-15+ years of experience in health financing in low- and middle-income countries, ideally with time at CHAI or a similar matrixed organization.
  • Demonstrated ability to coordinate complex projects or initiatives across multiple teams or countries, with strong organizational and problem-solving skills.
  • Strong understanding of government priorities and decision-making processes in health, including planning, budgeting, and donor engagement.
  • Experience applying analytical tools (e.g., cost-effectiveness analysis, gap analysis, prioritization frameworks) to inform health system planning and policy decisions.
  • Skilled at synthesizing complex information across contexts and stakeholders into clear, actionable insights.
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear, actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders.
  • Comfortable working in fast-paced, results-driven environments that require adaptability, problem-solving, and strategic thinking.
  • Experience supporting or contributing to resource mobilization efforts is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working at high levels of government (e.g., Ministers of Health, senior policymakers) to drive meaningful policy change.
  • Experience with multi-country program design and implementation.

How to Apply:

Interested candidates should send their application through Online [Apply-Now]. For more details visit official website: www.clintonhealthaccess.org

CHAI Overview:

The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is a global health organization that operates at the nexus of government, business, and health. Our approach hinges on our trusted relationships with governments to drive change across entire health systems.