Technical Director - Sustainable Health Systems & Private Sector Engagement

Overview

The Technical Director - Sustainable Health Systems & Private Sector Engagement will provide strategic and technical leadership to advance Jhpiego’s strategy for sustainable, market-enabled health systems in the evolving global health and international development landscape.

The Director will connect Jhpiego’s technical and implementation strengths in low- and middle-income countries with market development, sustainable financing, private-sector engagement, scalable service delivery models, and locally owned pathways to impact.

The Director will identify and incubate new solutions and business models, mobilize strategic partners and capital, strengthen organizational capabilities, and enable country teams to integrate sustainability from design through scale.

Responsibilities

Technical Assistance and Quality Programming (Market Solutions, Sustainable Health Systems & Technical Enablement

• Lead development and execution of a Jhpiego-wide market solutions, sustainability, and innovative financing agenda aligned with organizational strategy and country priorities.
• Develop practical enterprise frameworks, playbooks, tools, templates, and decision frameworks that enable teams to design for sustainability from the outset.
• Identify unmet needs and market failures where Jhpiego’s capabilities can create differentiated, sustainable solutions with measurable health impact.
• Co-create and incubate viable business and service delivery models with country teams and global technical teams, including fee-based, subscription, licensing, accreditation, continuous professional development, and other context-appropriate models.
• Help country teams assess private-sector landscapes and design effective public-private collaboration models that improve quality, access, affordability, and equity.
• Build capacity of country and global teams in sustainability planning, market analysis, business model design, private-sector engagement, partnership structuring, and innovative financing.

Global Technical Strategy Development and Innovation

• Establish portfolio priorities, stage gates, and investment criteria for market solutions and innovation initiatives; recommend where Jhpiego should build, partner, scale, pivot, or stop.
• Scan global and country-level landscapes for promising product, process, digital, and service innovations relevant to Jhpiego’s technical priorities.
• Guide innovators and internal teams through validation, evidence generation, regulatory and policy considerations, product-market fit, market access, financing, and scale planning.
• Manage a focused portfolio of strategic initiatives, tracking milestones, resource use, risk, learning, and measurable progress toward adoption and scale.
• Establish transition and ownership plans so successful initiatives can be institutionalized within country offices, technical teams, local entities, or appropriate external partners.

Innovative Financing & Resource Mobilization

• Identify and structure opportunities to use grants more catalytically and co-mobilize complementary capital through blended finance, outcomes-based financing, pooled financing mechanisms, co-financing, and other fit-for-purpose mechanisms.
• Develop relationships with philanthropic foundations, development finance institutions, impact investors, corporations, financial institutions, family offices, and other capital providers relevant to Jhpiego’s mission.
• Partner with business development, technical, finance, legal, compliance, and country teams to integrate sustainability and financing approaches into opportunity identification, capture strategy, proposal design, and negotiation.
• Translate market and financing concepts into feasible structures with appropriate governance, risk allocation, performance metrics, and implementation arrangements.

Private-Sector Engagement, Partnerships & Business Development

• Shape Jhpiego’s approach to strategic private-sector engagement across providers, pharmacies, manufacturers, distributors, insurers, technology companies, employers, investors, and industry associations alongside existing experts and country teams.
• Build and steward high-value global partnerships that can generate capabilities, market access, capital, technology, distribution, or scale opportunities for country programs.
• Support analysis and pursuit of new business opportunities, contribute to positioning and capture strategies, support proposal design and resource mobilization, and inform pursuit decisions.
• Ensure that market-based approaches protect and prioritize Jhpiego’s public health mission and incorporate safeguards for quality, equity, affordability, ethics, and responsible partnership.

External Representation & Thought Leadership

• Represent Jhpiego with senior government officials, funders, investors, corporations, universities, networks, and peer organizations at priority forums and working groups.
• Develop thought leadership and external positioning that strengthens Jhpiego’s reputation as a leader in sustainable, market-enabled health systems and innovation-to-scale.
• Advise executive leadership on structural shifts in global health financing, private-sector participation, market dynamics, and emerging opportunities for organizational growth and impact.

Learning, Evidence & Knowledge Management

• Collaborate with monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning teams to establish methods, indicators, and quality standards; document results, challenges, and lessons; and generate evidence for adaptation, advocacy, replication, and scale.
• Create communities of practice and mechanisms to capture, codify, and disseminate lessons across countries and technical portfolios.
• Define and track enterprise and portfolio-level indicators for sustainability, leverage, revenue diversification, adoption, scale, equity, and health impact.

Supervision and Team Management

• Recruit, manage, coach, and develop staff, consultants, and matrix teams; establish clear objectives, accountability, and an inclusive, high-performing culture.
• Manage assigned budgets and technical resources with strong stewardship, compliance, and ethics.

Required Qualifications

• Advanced degree in public health, health economics, business administration, finance, public policy, international development, medicine, or a related field; equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered.
• Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible experience in global health, international development, health systems, private-sector engagement, innovation, market development, financing, or related fields, including significant leadership responsibility.
• At least 7 years of substantive experience in private-sector engagement, market solutions, market shaping, health product access, or related work in low- and middle-income countries.
• Strong understanding of mixed health systems and the roles of government, private providers, payers, manufacturers, distributors, technology companies, employers, and civil society.
• Demonstrated success developing complex, cross-sector partnerships and influencing senior stakeholders without relying solely on formal authority.
• Experience moving new initiatives from concept through validation, resourcing, implementation, and scale, with evidence of making disciplined portfolio choices.
• Strong business acumen, including the ability to assess value propositions, business models, unit economics, revenue strategies, and financing structures.
• Proven ability to lead diverse, geographically dispersed, and matrixed teams and to collaborate effectively across technical, program, finance, legal, and business development functions.
• Excellent strategic thinking, facilitation, negotiation, communication, and executive presentation skills.
• Ability to work effectively amid ambiguity, balance innovation with risk management, and manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.
• Commitment to equity, local leadership, ethical partnership, and responsible market engagement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with blended finance, outcomes-based financing, development finance, market systems development, venture building, product management, implementation research, or responsible applications of artificial intelligence and digital health.
• Established networks among philanthropic funders, development finance institutions, impact investors, corporations, accelerators, and global health partners preferred.
• Fluency in French, Portuguese, Spanish, or another language relevant to Jhpiego’s country portfolio preferred.

The salary range for this role is expected to be: $127,874 - $162,786

Total Rewards:

The referenced salary range is based on Johns Hopkins University’s good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level. Johns Hopkins offers a total rewards package that supports our employees' health, life, career and retirement. More information can be found here: https://hr.jhu.edu/benefits-worklife/

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