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Jhpiego
Jhpiego
1,001 – 5,000 Employees
ConsultingHealthcareHealthcare Insurance
Jhpiego is a global nonprofit organization focused on improving healthcare for women and their families. The organization works with governments and partner organizations to expand access to essential health services, strengthen health systems, and develop practical solutions in maternal and newborn health, family planning, and infectious disease prevention. Its work supports healthier pregnancies and safer childbirth while addressing broader healthcare challenges in communities around the world.
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Technical Director, Sustainable Health Systems and Private Sector Engagement

Lead Jhpiego’s work to build sustainable, market-enabled health systems. Develop private-sector partnerships, innovative financing, and scalable solutions across global health programs.

USUnited StatesMDMaryland
$127,874 – $162,786 / year
On-siteFull-timeLeadEnglish RequiredDirector

Description

  • Guide Jhpiego’s strategy for sustainable, market-enabled health systems.
  • Direct the market solutions, sustainability, and innovative financing agenda from development through execution.
  • Create organization-wide frameworks, playbooks, tools, templates, and decision processes for sustainability.
  • Identify unmet needs and market failures, then develop sustainable solutions with measurable health impact.
  • Develop and incubate business and service delivery models with country and global technical teams.
  • Help country teams evaluate private-sector landscapes and design public-private collaborations.
  • Strengthen team capabilities in sustainability planning, market analysis, business model design, private-sector engagement, partnership structuring, and innovative finance.
  • Set priorities, stage gates, and investment criteria for innovation initiatives.
  • Monitor global and country landscapes for relevant product, process, digital, and service innovations.
  • Guide initiatives through validation, evidence generation, regulatory and policy review, market access, financing, and scale planning.
  • Oversee a portfolio of strategic initiatives, tracking milestones, resources, risks, learning, and progress.
  • Plan transitions and ownership for initiatives that succeed.
  • Structure catalytic grants and complementary capital opportunities using blended finance and other mechanisms.
  • Build relationships with funders, investors, corporations, financial institutions, and other capital providers.
  • Coordinate with business development, technical, finance, legal, compliance, and country teams on opportunities and proposals.
  • Set the direction for private-sector engagement and develop high-value global partnerships.
  • Contribute to business opportunities, capture strategies, proposal development, and resource mobilization.
  • Ensure market-based approaches uphold public health, quality, equity, affordability, ethics, and responsible partnership.
  • Represent Jhpiego with senior external stakeholders and advance thought leadership.
  • Advise executive leaders on global health financing, private-sector participation, market dynamics, and growth opportunities.
  • Work with monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning teams to develop methods, indicators, standards, evidence, and knowledge sharing.
  • Build communities of practice and monitor sustainability, leverage, revenue diversification, adoption, scale, equity, and health impact.
  • Recruit, lead, coach, and develop staff, consultants, and matrix teams.
  • Oversee assigned budgets and technical resources with sound stewardship, compliance, and ethical practice.

Requirements

  • Advanced degree in public health, health economics, business administration, finance, public policy, international development, medicine, or a related discipline; a comparable combination of education and relevant experience may be accepted.
  • At least 10 years of increasingly responsible experience in global health, international development, health systems, private-sector engagement, innovation, market development, financing, or related areas, including substantial leadership.
  • At least 7 years of substantial experience in private-sector engagement, market solutions, market shaping, health product access, or related work in low- and middle-income countries.
  • Strong knowledge of mixed health systems and their public, private, financial, technology, employer, and civil-society stakeholders.
  • Record of developing complex cross-sector partnerships and influencing senior stakeholders.
  • Experience advancing initiatives from concept through validation, resourcing, implementation, and scale.
  • Business acumen covering value propositions, business models, unit economics, revenue strategies, and financing structures.
  • Ability to lead diverse, geographically dispersed, and matrixed teams.
  • Excellent strategic thinking, facilitation, negotiation, communication, and executive presentation abilities.
  • Able to navigate ambiguity, assess and manage risk, and handle competing priorities on tight deadlines.
  • Commitment to equity, local leadership, ethical partnerships, and responsible market engagement.
  • Preferred: experience with blended finance, outcomes-based financing, development finance, market systems development, venture building, product management, implementation research, AI, or digital health.
  • Preferred: established relationships with philanthropic funders, development finance institutions, impact investors, corporations, accelerators, and global health partners.
  • Preferred: fluency in French, Portuguese, Spanish, or another relevant language.
  • Employment is contingent on successfully completing a background check.

Benefits

  • Total rewards package covering health, life, career development, and retirement.
  • Support with accommodations during the pre-employment process.
  • Equal opportunity employer.

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