Country

South Africa

Type

Full Time

Program (Division)

Health Systems Strengthening - Health Financing

Telecommute

No

The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to our mission of saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries. We work at the invitation of governments to support them and the private sector to create and sustain high-quality health systems.

CHAI was founded in 2002 in response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, with the goal of dramatically reducing the price of life-saving drugs and increasing access to these medicines in the countries with the highest burden of the disease. Over the following two decades, CHAI has expanded its focus. Today, along with HIV, we work in conjunction with our partners to prevent and treat infectious diseases such as COVID-19, malaria, tuberculosis, and hepatitis. Our work has also expanded into cancer, diabetes, hypertension, and other non-communicable diseases, and we work to accelerate the rollout of lifesaving vaccines, reduce maternal and child mortality, combat chronic malnutrition, and increase access to assistive technology. We are investing in horizontal approaches to strengthen health systems through programs in human resources for health, digital health, and health financing. With each new and innovative program, our strategy is grounded in maximizing sustainable impact at scale, ensuring that governments lead the solutions, that programs are designed to scale nationally, and learnings are shared globally.

At CHAI, our people are our greatest asset, and none of this work would be possible without their talent, time, dedication, and passion for our mission and values. We are a highly diverse team of enthusiastic individuals across 40 countries with a broad range of skill sets and life experiences. CHAI is deeply grounded in the countries we work in, with the majority of our staff based in program countries. Learn more about our exciting work: http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org

CHAI is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to providing an environment of fairness, and mutual respect where all applicants have access to equal employment opportunities. CHAI values diversity and inclusion, and recognizes that our mission is best advanced by the leadership and contributions of people with diverse experience, backgrounds, and culture.

Program Overview

CHAI’s Health Systems Strengthening group is building a new team focused on scaling private finance to deliver sustainable and equitable health services. The team will support Governments to develop and execute blended finance transactions and work with private healthcare businesses to scale service delivery in an effort to extend the health impact of the private sector as well as private capital. The team is currently focused on solar electrification of health facilities at scale through public-private collaboration and blended finance structures, demonstrating a new way of working beyond the traditional project-based grant financing approach. It is expanding to mobilise private finance in further areas such as medical oxygen and radiotherapy.

Despite hundreds of millions invested by donors in electrifying health facilities across the continent, there have been operational and financial challenges limiting impact. Lack of funding for ongoing maintenance has meant that systems often fail long before the end of their lifetime; projects are donor-driven rather than coordinated around a national strategy and tailored to specific health needs; and governments typically lack upfront funding for large-scale deployment. These challenges are not restricted to solar investments and extend to other expensive diagnosis and treatment equipment and infrastructure.

In response to these issues, the CHAI team is supporting governments to unlock new financing models and sources— including outcomes-based contracts, as-as-a-service models, impact bonds, and guarantees — to crowd in private capital and align incentives around long-term equipment and infrastructure performance.

The team will also work on scaling finance and services of the private health sector to reach underserved or lower income communities which are traditionally overlooked by private investments, which tend to focus on urban populations. In this way, private healthcare service providers across the value chain can complement traditional domestic and donor health systems.

Position Overview

CHAI is recruiting a Technical Advisor, Solar Financing, to support our work with governments on solar electrification. The Solar Financing Technical Advisor will be responsible for overseeing all economic, financial and technical analysis related to the private finance team’s work in solar, oxygen, radiotherapy, and further areas. This role will specifically work on supporting design, preparation, and implementation of solar and other related private capital projects in several countries across the Africa continent. The Technical Advisor will work with CHAI country teams to provide technical advice to Governments on new approaches to partnering with the private sector to improve health service delivery and reduce costs, and support the implementation of these approaches.

• Support the development of the private finance team, in collaboration with program leadership

  • Provide input into the program strategy and objectives.

  • Gather market intelligence on potential focus areas for CHAI’s private capital team, and advise on their suitability for private finance based on economic and financial assessment.

  • Support development of new proposals and projects.

  • Supervise and capacitate Associate level staff.

• Technical advisory support on solar

  • Perform modelling to assess the economic value of solar electrification options (e.g., on-site solar with/without batteries, wheeled power) for different health levels of care.

  • Advise CHAI team and partner governments on optimal solar electrification design to meet energy reliability and emissions reductions goals in a cost-effective way.

• Economic and financial modelling & analysis

  • Supervise and lead the development of economic and financial models on business cases for solar, oxygen, radiotherapy, and other areas as opportunities arise.

  • Increase the team’s capacity within solar energy and medical oxygen manufacturing modelling, project finance, investment analysis, and health economics.

  • Ensure the technical quality of project development and deal structuring of future blended finance transactions for health.

  • Provide transactional service support on all blended, project, or PPP deals.

• Stakeholder engagement & implementation

  • Lead on relationship building with stakeholders such as solar developers, EPCs, oxygen suppliers and private health providers to gather market data, pricing insights, and key trends.

  • Coordinate support provided to CHAI solar financing country teams and oxygen teams, including data collection, economic analysis to inform private sector engagement, presentation development to guide Ministry decision-making and operational support in executing solar electrification, medical oxygen, radiotherapy, and further private finance initiatives.

  • Capacitate country and global solar financing teams through training and mentoring.

• Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) and program support

• Compile lessons learned from solar, medical oxygen and further private finance projects in the region and disseminate insights through clear presentations, reports, and publications.

• Coordinate work with other CHAI programs who require technical assistance on solar, medical oxygen, or other areas on opportunities to leverage private finance for health impact.

• Develop and monitor a set of M&E indicators to track program results and perform economic analysis to demonstrate health impact, private finance mobilization, and economic returns of solar, medical oxygen, and other private finance initiatives.

• Master’s degree or degree in Business, Economics, Finance, or Public Health.
• At least 5 years of professional experience in public or private finance sectors, demonstrating increasing responsibility.
• Preferred background in management consulting, investment banking, private equity, or funds management.
• Willingness to travel as required, with estimated travel between 30-50%.
• Experience in public or private health finance or energy finance is an advantage.

Attributes:

• Strong analytical and financial modelling skills, with extensive experience in Excel and PowerPoint, including presenting data-driven recommendations to senior leadership.
• Entrepreneurial and solution-oriented mindset, with the ability to tackle complex projects independently in fast-paced, high-pressure environments.
• Strategic thinker, capable of aligning long-term program goals with actionable steps, ensuring both short- and long-term objectives are met.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to build relationships and interact with confidence, humility, and respect with diverse partners, including government officials, private sector representatives, and NGOs.
• Ability to coach and mentor junior staff.

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