Sr. Director/Director, Health Financing

The Senior Director, Health Financing sets the strategic direction for ThinkWell's health financing portfolio worldwide and reports to the CEO. This is an architect and practitioner role: with creativity and gusto, the Senior Director designs the vision and approach that shape how ThinkWell tackles complex health financing challenges while staying close enough to the technical detail to guide, troubleshoot, and quality-assure the work. The Senior Director drives that vision through ThinkWell's programs, providing technical direction and hands-on support to country teams so that a coherent approach runs across a portfolio spread over many countries and clients. They lead a global team of health financing directors and technical leaders, recruit and build technical talent, and produce compelling deliverables. The Senior Director is a recognized global leader in the field, credible on high-level panels and technical advisory bodies at a moment when health financing is shifting away from traditional donor funding toward domestic resourcing and blended models. They carry fundraising responsibility for the health financing portfolio and arrive with live relationships across the funders that matter for health financing and health systems work — the U.S. Department of State, multi-laterals, philanthropies, corporate foundations, and other critical funders in this space. They embrace the private sector and are constantly looking for private collaboration. Location: Fully remote, open to candidates anywhere in the world. Candidates must be authorized to work in their country of residence, with meaningful working overlap with U.S. Eastern time. Travel up to 30%. What you'll do Strategic Vision & Technical Direction Set the technical vision and strategic direction for ThinkWell's health financing practice globally; act as the architect who designs and refines the strategies and approaches. Provide authoritative technical guidance across the full span of health financing — provider payment mechanisms and strategic purchasing, health benefits package design and priority setting, social health insurance, public financial management, domestic resource mobilization, and performance-based approaches. Guide ThinkWell's strategic positioning as a leader in transition as the health financing landscape shifts amid declining traditional donor funding Step directly into country-level engagements to provide hands-on technical guidance and troubleshoot delivery, pairing global strategic vision with operational fluency. Set and hold the quality bar for health financing work across the portfolio. External Representation Lead and support engagement with global partners working on transition, public financial management, domestic resource management, strategic purchasing and outcomes-based financing, bringing credibility and a clear point of view on the future of health financing. Publish papers, articles, and blogs; present at conferences and participate…