Senior Manager, Health Finance - GL E - Defined - French Speaking

Senior Manager, Health Finance - GL E - Defined Duration until December 2028 - French Speaking

Reporting to the Head of Health Finance, the Senior Manager, Health Finance plays a pivotal role in the evolution and adaptation of the Global Fund’s health financing agenda, driving 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 HTM responses into health systems, the Manager has operational responsibility in driving the Global Fund’s evolution from a primarily grant‑based funding model to a catalytic enabler of long‑term, domestically financed, self‑reliant and country‑owned health systems in accordance with country ownership principles and compliance with the board approved STC Policy.
The Senior Manager, Health Finance serves as a key technical advisor and health financing expert to the Global Fund’s Regional Teams, country teams and in‑country stakeholders in the development and execution of health financing levers that accelerate financial sustainability, autonomy, investment optimization, and policy innovation for Global Fund supported countries. They support and influence senior management decision‑making, trade‑offs and policy choices across the Global Fund and at country level.
At the core of this role is the technical and operational oversight of a progressive financial sustainability transition agenda for specific regions of the Global Fund grant portfolio — designed to support countries in reducing dependence on external aid while strengthening fiscal space, institutional capacity, and health reforms to sustain the impact of Global Fund’s investment in HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, community and systems for health.

The Senior Manager, Health Finance in close collaboration with department heads, technical experts and country teams, will lead the use and implementation of diverse financing modalities to unlock increased and improved domestic public spending, including (but not limited to) national health insurance and health financing schemes, social contracting, strategic purchasing modalities, performance‑based financing, blended financing, and other financial instruments such as Debt2

Health, impact investing, and public‑private partnerships (PPPs), as appropriate in the specific country context. This position plays a central role in driving country ownership, transition planning and execution to accelerate stronger self‑reliance, strategic co‑financing, and domestic and innovative resource mobilization across government and civil society implementers.
They advise on and execute health financing activities and strategic shifts as part of the embedded technical resources in the design, development, approval, and implementation of Global Fund grants within the Global Fund country team ecosystem ensuring efficient, effective, and equitable use of all sources of funds.
In addition to health finance, effective transition and financial sustainability leadership, the Senior Manager, Health Finance plays a key people management and culture‑building role, directly leading a highly focused team of Health Finance professionals. The role is expected to foster a high‑performance environment rooted in psychological safety, inclusion, and trust, where technical excellence, integrity, and collaboration thrive. Through ongoing mentorship, technical coaching, and capacity‑building, the Senior Manager, Health Finance ensures that the team is not only operationally effective but also forward‑looking, adaptive, and ready to evolve with the dynamic evolution of the Global Health Financing landscape and the Global Fund’s strategic needs.

• Lead the development, rollout and operationalization of country‑specific financial sustainability and transition roadmaps in collaboration with Country Teams and national stakeholders as part…