Health Financing Technical Director Job, HS4TB at Management Sciences for Health

• Actualize the project’s technical vision and strategy to respond to the needs of all HS4TB task order buy-ins from USAID field missions and headquarters.
• Provide technical leadership and oversight for the project and ensure the successful implementation of project activities and timely reporting.
• Maintain a HS4TB/USAID partnership that engenders trust and respect and build USAID’s confidence in MSH’s technical ability to get the job done.
• Work in close collaboration with the project leadership team to ensure coordinated, efficient and effective technical support for project buy-in countries.
• Promote a team approach that emphasizes high level technical performance, creative and innovate approaches, and the achievement of project objectives.
• Align human resources with project work plans and emerging SOWs from the USAID Missions, including recruitment of human resources and consultants.
• Set technical direction and lead/participate in annual work plan development, implementation, and review.
• Direct efforts to write technical concept notes and develop new buy-in proposals, and ensure project technical alignment with buy-in country and USAID technical policies and strategies in each country.
• Contribute to a knowledge management system where learning from grassroots and countries is documented and shared to influence new programming and expand the global knowledge base on health systems strengthening.
• Identify opportunities for integrated planning and implementation creating synergies between various program technical areas.

Required Qualifications:

Degree in a public health, public policy or a related discipline combined with the following minimum years of direct health finance or governance experience working in health systems in low and middle income countries:

• 15 years of direct relevant experience with Bachelor’s degree
• 12 years of relevant experience with Master’s degree
• 10 years of relevant experience with JD/ABD (all but dissertation)
• 8 years of relevant experience with PhD
• Experience must be in the management or implementation of development activities in/for low and middle-income countries (LMICs).
• At least five years of experience while physically based in the country/region of implementation (e.g. Tanzania Deputy Chief of Party, based in Tanzania; Senior Technical Advisor for West Africa, based in Ghana) is preferred.
• Minimum of three years of demonstrated experience operating with technical proficiency within the global HSS community on matters related to health financing and governance in LMIC countries.
• Demonstrated technical expertise in at least one, and preferably both, of the following areas: health financing and health governance.

How to Apply

Application Deadline: 22nd August 2022.