Sr. Financing Advisor
ThinkWell, Ethiopia

ThinkWell seeks a dynamic and experienced Senior Financing Advisor specializing in health financing for an anticipated USAID project in Ethiopia. The Senior Financing Advisor will play a crucial role in providing technical financing assistance to the Ministry of Health, Regional Health Bureaus, and woreda health offices. The Senior Financing Advisory will work at the intersection of health financing and supply chain strengthening to help ensure access to and the availability of quality-assured health commodities to all Ethiopians.

This is a full-time position based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

This position is contingent upon award.

What You'll Do:

1. Lead ThinkWell’s technical assistance across various health financing areas.
2. Provide expert guidance and technical assistance to the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia on health financing strategies and policies, including revolving drug fund operationalization and improvement, resource mobilization, costing, budgeting amp; planning, and resource tracking.
3. Support capacity building activities for key stakeholders on health financing and public financial management issues.
4. Collaborate with key stakeholders to identify opportunities and challenges in the current health financing and medicines supply chain landscape.
5. Analyze and recommend contextually appropriate financing approaches to strengthen the resilience and responsiveness of the supply chain and health system.
6. Establish and maintain effective collaborations with key partners, government agencies, and other stakeholders involved in health financing and supply chain strengthening.
7. Coordinate with relevant actors to ensure a cohesive and integrated approach to health system strengthening.

We Are:
ThinkWell core values are our fundamental organizational guiding principles. They define our corporate culture, influence our behavior at work and help us achieve our mission. Our values are:

Think big
Influence the conversation
Empower others
Be exceptional
Always question
Relate authentically
Evolve by learning

You Are:
ThinkWell core competencies are foundational skills and behaviors that align with our values and are expected of all employees.

Anentrepreneurial, results-oriented ‘do-er’ with a willingness to take risk, think big and challenge conventional wisdom.

Achange makerwho reaches independent judgement with an open mind, influences the conversation, and seeks innovation.

Able to help create an empowering environment in which everyone feels free totake initiative, be accountable and fail intelligently (learn from mistakes).

Acollaborativecolleaguewho engages constructively with people from different cultures, orientations, and perspectives and maintains positive relations in a virtual world.

Principally motivated by agrowth mindset,meaning the pursuit of knowledge, experience, and self-improvement. You always question and continuouslylearn.

Authentic, honest, direct, self-aware and open to giving and receiving feedback.

Requirements

1. BA/BS and 10+ yrs exp or graduate degree and 8+ years of exp.
2. Substantive, relevant work experience in health systems with a development agency, NGO or government. Adept at communicating technical information to non-technical audiences.
3. Previous experience and proven track record in providing technical advice to high-level stakeholders on health financing topics.
4. Expertise on research and assessment design related to health financing.
5. A strong understanding of the current health financing landscape in Ethiopia.
6. Demonstrated experience designing and delivering capacity building related to health financing.
7. Demonstrated ability to engage effectively with external strategic partners, donors, and stakeholders.
8. Full fluency in English and Amhara.
9. Outstanding cross-cultural communication skills, including the ability to relate respectfully with staff at all levels, ages, genders, nationalities and orientations as well as across work areas.
10. Ability and willingness to travel up to 25%.

Ethiopia nationals are encouraged to apply.

Please submit a CV in English detailing your experience with health financing and supply chain strengthening.

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