Specialist Health Finance

Reporting to a Senior Manager, Health Finance, the Specialist, Health Finance plays a pivotal role in supporting the evolution and adaptation of the Global Fund’s health finance agenda and helps drive efforts to ensure the long‑term financial sustainability of specific regional and national responses to fight HIV, TB, and malaria and strengthen systems for health (including community systems). As the global funding landscape evolves and countries progress toward universal health coverage (UHC), decreased reliance on external financing and greater integration of national HIV, TB, and Malaria responses into health systems, the Specialist, Health Finance provides high quality technical support and advisory to countries and Global Fund country teams on health finance, financial sustainability, the effective, efficient, and equitable use of existing resources, and effective transitions from external financing.

For a specific sub‑set of identified countries, the Specialist, Health Finance serves as a health finance focal point and plays a key role in the implementation of Health Finance and Global Fund Secretariat priorities related to country level financial sustainability and transition planning, implementation of co‑financing and efforts to strengthen DRM, the identification of and high‑quality implementation of technical assistance, the development and operational implementation of alternative, new, and innovative financing modalities, and engagement with national and regional stakeholders to support shaping of sustainable health finance solutions and health finance related reforms at the country level.

They provide end‑to‑end health financing, value for money, and financial sustainability support to Country Teams and countries for a sub‑set of the Global Fund portfolio.

In strong collaboration with relevant grant management Country Teams, technical teams across the Global Fund Secretariat, teams within F&A, and country stakeholders, the Specialist, Health Finance has the following responsibilities:

• Supports development of country specific financial sustainability and transition roadmaps and overall financial sustainability and transition planning in collaboration with Country Teams and national stakeholders, as relevant to the country and/or regional portfolio

• Provides high‑quality technical support and advice to regional and country teams, including on specific health finance, financial sustainability, transition and value for money technical areas relevant for the individual region (e.g. sustainability & transition planning, costing / efficiency analysis, RBF, social contracting, health financing / insurance schemes incl. risk pooling & user fees, resource tracking, fiscal decentralization, etc.). In doing so, the Specialist, Health Finance, collaborates closely with other teams in the Health Finance Department and with specific focal points from SIID technical teams to provide highditi quality and streamlined support for Global Fund country teams and countries
• Provides technical advice for the design of Global Fund grants and development, negotiation,עט tracking, and implementation of co‑financing commitments in relevant countries, including supporting country dialogue, review of Funding Requests, grant‑making, grant‑approval processes and other aspects of Global Fund grants linked to health finance, financial sustainabilityτως and value for money.
• Contributes to and support internal reviews of health finance aspects of country portfolios, including supporting TRP reviews, PPCs, pre‑GACs, country audits, thematic audits, evaluations, etc.
• Supports the effective implementation of domestic financing advocacy priorities (as relevant) for the specific regional portfolio, to strengthen domestic financing of health and the three diseases in strong collaboration with the Advocacy team of the Health Finance Department

• Supports the effective implementation of relevant technical assistance, including strategic initiatives and…