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Position Title:	Health Financing Specialist
Reports to:	Director, Data, Impact and Learning – Africa Frontline First Catalytic Mechanism
Travel:	Approx. 30% of the time
Location:	Sub-Saharan Africa

ABOUT FINANCING ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH (FAH)

Financing Alliance for Health partners with African governments to “focus financing to achieve improved health for all”. We do so through working on five key outcomes: 1) Mobilizing more funding for health; 2) Directing More Funding to primary and community health, which have the highest returns on investment; 3) Ensuring Money is spent effectively, efficiently; 4) Building Government Capacity & Ownership; and 5) Shaping the Regional Health Financing Environment.

Our work aims to increase access to and utilization of quality primary health services for every household, ultimately reducing morbidity and mortality. We believe in the transformative power of community health workers (CHWs), who not only improve health outcomes but also create thousands of jobs, primarily for women, marginalized individuals, and youth.

FAH also plays a critical role in the Africa Frontline First (AFF) Initiative, a collaborative Catalytic Fund and network of technical assistance providers to scale and strengthen integrated and sustainable community health delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa. AFF support 17 countries in building high-functioning, resilient, country-led community health service delivery systems, including an expanded and institutionalized workforce of 200,000 CHWs by 2030.

AFRICA FRONTLINE FIRST OVERVIEW

Africa Frontline First (AFF) is an Africa-led partnership from the Community Health Impact Coalition, the Financing Alliance for Health, and Last Mile Health, under the championship of H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

AFF aims to support ten countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to build high-functioning, resilient, country-led community health service delivery with an expanded and institutionalized health workforce of 200,000 CHWs by 2030. Anchored within the local context and health reform journey of each country, these shifts in community health service delivery will contribute to reducing excess morbidity and mortality from COVID-19, Malaria, TB, and HIV, prevent maternal and child mortality, advance health security, and accelerate economic recovery at the community level following the pandemic. In turn, these investments in community health are critical to progress on the health SDGs, including ending AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, expanding universal health coverage (UHC), and as well as ensuring effective pandemic preparedness and response to COVID-19 and future pandemics.

POSITION DESCRIPTION

This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to play a leading role as a health financing expert within a transformative initiative dedicated to scaling and sustaining integrated, resilient community health systems across sub-Saharan Africa. As a key member of AFF’s Impact and Learning team, the Health Financing Specialist will bring critical technical expertise and a commitment to quality and rigor to deliver technical assistance, advisory support, and capacity building across all 17 countries where AFF operates.

Working closely with the Director of Data, Impact, and Learning and the Head of Program Delivery, the Specialist will support country implementing partners with guidance, quality assurance, and monitoring to ensure the impact and integrity of health financing projects and deliverables. This may include direct engagement with in-country sub-grantees, Ministry of Health officials, and representatives from regional institutions. The ideal candidate will be bilingual in French and English, enabling effective collaboration with a diverse range of in-country stakeholders across AFF’s francophone and anglophone operating environments.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Technical Assistance and Quality Assurance

• Provide health financing technical assistance to the program delivery team and implementing partners, including developing guidance, tools, and templates, to strengthen the quality, rigor, and usability of deliverables.

• Jointly design and deliver capacity-building activities for internal teams and external stakeholders to strengthen the quality and outputs of AFF’s program deliverables related to health financing.

• Conduct systematic review and quality assessment of select program deliverables and milestones against agreed technical standards and objectives.

• Support the due diligence process and review and approval of workplans and budgets and support the development of purchase and task orders (POs and TOs)

• Knowledge Management and Cross-Country Learning

• Track country milestone deliverables using a results framework, ensuring proper documentation, storage, and management of data.

• Conduct cross-country analysis of country milestone deliverables to identify emerging trends, insights, and lessons learned.

• Translate findings into reports, briefs, and other knowledge assets to inform program strategy and learning.

• Data Quality Assurance

• Work closely with the MERL Specialist to ensure the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of regularly collected impact and intelligence data.

• Translate health financing data into clear, meaningful impact narratives and visualizations (e.g., dashboards, charts, and summaries) to support decision-making and communication at the organizational, country, and regional level.

• Evaluation Design and Implementation Support

• Support the Director of Impact and Learning with the design and implementation of program evaluations and research partnerships, bringing key health financing expertise to ensure quality, rigorous, and relevance.

• Develop knowledge products with evidence from AFF’s research and evaluation activities (e.g. technical reports, leadership briefs, presentations).

• Cross-Team Coordination and Capacity Building

• Identify capacity-building needs within the AFF team related to health financing and support the development and delivery of capacity building activities related to health financing.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Required:

• Master’s degree in health economics, economics, or public health with a health financing focus, or related field.

• 5-7 years working in health financing and health economics

• Working proficiency both in English and French

• Experience working with ministries of health and finance, donors and implementing agencies, and strong communication skills to knowledgeable and effectively interact with key actors

• Established track record of carrying out analytical work and preparing high-quality technical reports, policy briefing materials, and presentations for technically expert audiences

• Strong and compelling writing skills

• Culturally nuanced with extensive experience across multiple countries/regions on the African continent, with high preference for experience working with Francophone countries in Africa

• Diplomatic and patient, with ability to understand specific nuances of country contexts (political, cultural, economic, etc)

Preferred:

• Experience with designing, implementing, overseeing or guiding the implementation of Global Fund grants, including previous experience as part of grant application teams, providing technical support in the implementation of grants.

Compensation:

This position offers a competitive compensation package commensurate to the background and experience of the candidate.

Timing:

Applications will be accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis.

Application Requirements:

Please submit a resume and cover letter through the following link: https://financingalliance.odoo.com/jobs/health-financing-specialist-201

We receive many applications for each vacant position, as a result only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from our recruitment team within 6 weeks of application, please consider your application unsuccessful.

FAH values the diversity of the people it hires and serves within the community. Our diversity is committed to fostering a work environment where individuals’ strengths and uniqueness are recognized, appreciated, respected, and responded to in ways that fully develop their potential.

FAH has a zero-tolerance approach to any harm to, or exploitation of, a vulnerable child or adult by any of our staff, partners, or representatives. We are committed to preventing all undesirable behaviour at work. This includes, child abuse and exploitation, sexual harassment, and abuse.