Senior Technical Advisor, Health Workforce

Clinton Health Access Initiative•Greensboro, NC

About The Position

This role will support the design and implementation of health workforce investment strategies in partnership with donors, governments, and academic institutions across multiple countries. The position will be a critical contributor to CHAI's health workforce team, providing strategic, technical, and coordination support across pre-service training reform, faculty development and sustainability planning, equipment procurement, and infrastructure scoping. This role will support development of relationships with philanthropic donors, government counterparts, academic partners, and internal CHAI teams. They will advise donors on investment planning processes including governance, contracting, and results frameworks, while working with academic institutions to strengthen faculty development programs and address barriers to sustainability. We are seeking a highly experienced individual with deep expertise in health workforce development, health systems strengthening, and donor engagement in low- and middle-income countries. The candidate must be comfortable operating across multiple technical domains, countries, and institutional partners with a high degree of independence. They must bring skills in grant management and stakeholder coordination. CHAI places great value on relevant professional skills including strategic thinking, adaptability, relationship management, and the ability to maintain coherence across complex, multipartner programs.

Requirements

Minimum of 10 years’ progressive leadership experience in health workforce development with health systems strengthening perspective
Direct experience with health workforce intervention planning, funding, and implementation within a ministry of health or equivalent national-level government agency
Direct experience with pre-service training reform for professional health workers internal to a higher education institution in a low-income country; specific expertise and experience in designing and implementing faculty sustainability plans and faculty development systems/programs within training institutions
Experience developing and coordinating higher education partnerships between higher education institutions, and working with senior academic leadership on the design and management of these partnerships
Strong understanding of grant management processes and workflows, including grant management capacity building
Demonstrated ability to design and scale organizational structures, including building staffing models, creating performance management and goal-setting systems, and growing teams across multiple countries and institutional partners
Legal training or equivalent expertise relevant to contract negotiation, regulatory frameworks, procurement processes, and governance structures in international development or philanthropic fund management
Experience with national-level community health policy integration
High-level donor management experience, including direct engagement with philanthropic donor principals
Experience drafting high-level communications and briefings between senior government officials and donors
Experience designing and implementing monitoring, evaluation, and learning frameworks and data systems for multi-site programs in contexts where CHAI operates
Experience with global health equipment markets, including price negotiations, market-shaping initiatives, cost analysis across multiple scenarios and geographies
Experience in financial modelling and cost analysis for health programs, including demand forecasting, benchmark pricing, and budget rationalization across national procurement processes
Experience planning and implementing major health facility infrastructure projects

Nice To Haves

Proficiency in French, Portuguese or other languages relevant to CHAI's operating contexts in sub-Saharan Africa

Responsibilities

Advising donors on the design for their health workforce investment strategies
Design workforce investment planning processes and workflows, including governance and contracting processes
Contribute strategic thinking to overall design, including partner roles, timelines, etc.
Advise on pre-service training interventions, faculty sustainability planning, faculty development systems/programs, institutionalization of community health worker training, medical curriculum reform, clinical simulation capacity development, infrastructure planning, health systems and facility management training, CPD systems building, e-learning platforms, and any other relevant intervention areas based on expertise
Develop a framework for faculty sustainability plans; work with partners to review, refine, and finalize faculty sustainability plans
Design results framework linked to theory of change that can inform measurement, evaluation, and learning agenda
Design a performance management framework for strengthening faculty development programs
Assist with development of strategic direction and key performance indicators
Review and provide feedback on periodic project reports
Co-design pre-service training faculty development and sustainability plans
Work with academic partners to identify and address barriers to successful implementation and faculty development sustainability planning; assist academic partners to support successful implementation of project objectives including sustainability goals
Analyse ongoing progress and make recommendations to academic partners on project administration and implementation
Coordinate partners to deliver on government equipment procurement requests to support workforce investments
Advise on rationalization of procurement requests including strategic integration with health worker training, workflow management, and other systems
Lead scoping for new CHAI work areas in infrastructure and biomedical equipment management, defining the technical approach, internal capacity, and developing the technical and operational strategy, funding pipeline, and partnerships required to deliver at scale across CHAI's country programs
Lead technical collaboration with existing infrastructure partners on select major hospital infrastructure projects and scope broader infrastructure collaboration opportunities
Work with existing CHAI programs to scope and design a program to strengthen national biomedical equipment technician workforces and management systems