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: the Senior Director designs the frameworks that shape how ThinkWell solves financing problems for clients, and stays close enough to the technical detail to guide, troubleshoot, and quality-assure the work across the full span of health financing.

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, the Gates Foundation, corporate foundations, and other critical funders in this space. They also engage pharmaceutical companies where the work sits at the public-private policy intersection; purely commercial engagements are led by ThinkWell's Commercial Director.

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 doStrategic 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 ThinkWell's teams use to solve client problems.
• 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 — helping the firm and its clients navigate the transition toward domestic resourcing and blended financing models.
• 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 strategic purchasing, public financial management, domestic resource management, and outcomes-based financial modalities, bringing credibility and a clear point of view on the future of health financing. 

• Publish papers, articles, and blogs; present at conferences and participate in technical working groups; build ThinkWell’s reputation as a thought leader in the field.   

• Represent ThinkWell on high-level panels, conferences, and other venues 

• Consult and coordinate with key stakeholders within government, donors, and other entities to build ThinkWell’s reputation. 
• Translate complex technical material into a clear, compelling vision for ministries of finance and health, global funders, technical and implementing partners, and private-sector audiences.

Practice & Team Leadership

• Provide strategic guidance to, and help drive the performance of, a global team of health financing directors and technical leaders — ensuring consistency, quality, and shared learning across a distributed portfolio.
• Recruit, support, and mentor outstanding senior technical talent in health financing.
• Collaborate with ThinkWell's talent team to design technical training and professional development activities.

Fundraising & New Business Development

• Carry fundraising responsibility for ThinkWell's health financing portfolio and grow it.
• Originate new business: identify opportunities early, shape them with funders before they go to market, and lead capture through to close — including hands-on writing of proposals and concept notes.
• Cultivate and personally maintain senior relationships across the funder landscape, and engage pharmaceutical companies and corporate foundations where the work sits at the public-private policy intersection.

We are

A high-energy, get-it-done group with an entrepreneurial spirit running through everything we do. We thrive on making things work — turning a hard problem into a solution that holds up in the real world. We're committed to excellence in what we produce, and we'd rather challenge the status quo with something disruptive than settle for "good enough." We pride ourselves for having an anti-toxic environment that every staff member works hard to nurture.

You are

You run on momentum and results.. You're an entrepreneurial problem-solver who takes ownership and hold yourself and others to a bar of excellence in everything you produce. You're drawn to disruptive, better ways of doing things rather than defending how it's always been done. You're direct and honest — you say the true thing, even when it's hard to hear, and you can take it too. And you're a generous colleague who supports your teammates and models an environment free of politics and toxicity.