Technical Advisor
Clinton Health Access Initiative- Rwanda (CHAI) | Post type: jobs October 1, 2025 - Deadline 15/10/2025 | NumberOfPosition [1]

Clinton Health Access Initiative- Rwanda (CHAI) Overview

The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to saving lives and reducing the burden of disease in low-and middle-income countries.

CHAI RWANDA

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Title: Technical Advisor

Program: Sustainable Health Financing

Job Location: Kigali

Start date: Immediately

Type of Assignment:Full-Time Paid

Organization Overview

The Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to strengthening integrated health systems around the world and expanding access to care and treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria and other illnesses. Based on the premise that business-oriented strategy can facilitate solutions to global health challenges, CHAI acts as a catalyst to mobilize new resources and optimize the impact of these resources to save lives, via improved organization of commodity markets and more effective local management. CHAI does not operate stand-alone programs, nor does it build parallel health systems. Rather, CHAI works at the invitation and in support of governments. We focus on large-scale impact and have secured lower pricing agreements for treatment options in more than 70 countries. CHAI's teams are working side-by-side with over 30 governments to tackle many of the largest barriers to effective health care. For more information,
please visit: http://www.clintonhealthaccess.org

Program Overview

The Government of Rwanda (GoR) strives to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by enabling equitable access to quality health services for the population as outlined in the Fifth Health Sector Strategic Plan (HSSP V). This commitment has been made against a backdrop of rising health care costs and uncertainty around the future availability of donor funding and calls for improved health sector sustainability. Acknowledging this, the Government aims to employ effective, equitable, efficient, and sustainable health care financing and systems strengthening, putting an emphasis on primary health care as the cornerstone of a strong and sustainable health system.

CHAI Rwanda’s Sustainable Health Financing (SHF) programs work on a day-to-day basis with Government leadership in the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Rwanda Social Security Board (RSSB). The goal of those programs is to support the Government to accelerate progress towards UHC by ensuring the sustainable delivery of quality, essential health services. This includes work to prioritize and sustainably finance essential services, to improve financial protection through the Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI) scheme, and to support improved management, financing, and delivery of quality primary health care.

Position Overview

CHAI seeks a Technical Advisor to support CHAI Rwanda’s sustainable health financing program. In this role, the TA will shape and drive provider payment mechanisms reforms by working closely with key decision makers of RSSB, collaborating with a team of technical experts. This will include support to various health financing reforms and operational improvement initiatives, including a provider payment reform for PHC and the revision of the CBHI benefit package.

The Technical Advisor will report to CBHI Head of Department and in parallel to the Program Manager for Health Systems Strengthening and will work closely with other CHAI teams at the country and global level, including in Health Financing; Health System Strengthening; Reproductive, Maternal, and Child Health; and others.

Responsibilities

Act as a key advisor to the Head of CBHI /RSSB in the design and implementation of health financing interventions and reforms. Those will include, and not be limited to, the following:
- An ambitious provider payment reforms for primary health care providers. This will involve support to the government at central and subnational levels for the roll out of the payment reform.
- The institutionalization of an evidence-based process to revise CBHI health benefit package and ensure essential services are covered by the scheme
Advise government on the development and implementation of a mid to long-term financing plan for primary health system strengthening, and help drive progress towards a stronger and more sustainable PHC insurance system.
Support the government in conducting in-depth financial analyses to inform priority reforms. These analyses may include the following
- Projections of service demand and financial needs for CBHI, as well as an analysis of financial availability and funding gaps.
- Efficiency analyses that will inform interventions to improve financial management at central and peripheral levels and for different pillars of the health system.
- Critical analysis of the distribution of financial resources for the health system as a whole and the expenditure incurred.
- Other quantitative analyses to assess the opportunities to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of health financing in Rwanda.
Transfer expertise to government partners in data analysis, including costing, scenario modelling and budgeting.
Draft presentations and reports for internal and external stakeholders on the work of health system strengthening in Rwanda.
Pursue opportunities for collaboration across CBHI units, helping to build a cross-cutting community of practice within the organization.
Other responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.

Qualifications

At least 7 years of experience in Designing and implementing health financing policies, conducting economic evaluations and cost analyses, analyzing health economics data to support decision making, supporting health financing projects or health systems strengthening.
Experience in Sub Saharan Africa is highly preferred.
Holds a master’s degree in health economics, or health Finance related field
Experience working with government authorities in developing countries, with experience in sub-Saharan Africa;
Strong quantitative, presentation and writing skills, including proficiency in MS Excel, PowerPoint and Word;
Excellent working command of English language.

Advantages

Experience in training and supporting teams in health financing practices
Experience working in public health and with international organizations;
Familiarity with a broad range of key global health issues, including Primary healthcare, health systems or health financing challenges in developing countries.
Fluency in French or Kinyarwanda.

Application procedure:

Interested candidates should email a letter of interest (maximum 1 page) outlining how their professional background meets the requirements outlined above; CV (maximum 3 pages); and the names of three references
to chairwandarecruiting@clintonhealthaccess.org with “Technical Advisor_SHF” in the subject line.
The deadline for applications is Wednesday 15thOctober 2025. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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