Specialist, Human Resources for Health and Community Health Worker Programming, Strategy, Investment & Evidence Division - GL D - Defined Duration until December 2029 (French Speaking)
Investing in Human Resources for Health (HRH) including Community Health Workers (CHWs) is essential for achieving the health-related sustainable development goals, including ending the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, addressing health inequities and achieving universal health coverage.
The Global Fund is a major source of funding for HRH/CHWs in the context of strengthening health systems. For the Grant Cycle 7 period (2024-2026) investment in HRH/CHWs was over $1.9B USD. These investment levels are expected to be broadly maintained in the upcoming Grant Cycle 8 period.
Core priorities for HRH/CHW programming in GC8 include: sustainability planning and gradual transition of HRH/CHW to government funding; integrated HRH/CHW education and capacity building, leveraging digital innovation; and strengthening alignment of HRH/CHW and quality improvement investments to service integration priorities with a particular focus on services for women and children at primary health care level.
These priorities are further enabled by a dedicated private sector-funded Catalytic Initiative on integrated community and health services for women and children. This is primarily programmed through Matching Funds to country grants, and complemented by a centrally managed Strategic Initiative (SI).
The Specialist for HRH/CHW programming will work in the Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health (RSSH) / Pandemic Preparedness and Response (PPR) Team and will
1. Serve as a key technical resource for francophone country portfolios, and support country teams on CHW programming, human resources for health and broader RSSH.
2. Serve as project manager for the SI, with a specific focus on supporting regional partnerships on CHW programming.
3. Support team internal functions including collaboration on HRH-CHW programming across the Global Fund teams.
Key Responsibilities
1. Provide technical advice and support to country teams on Human Resources for Health and CHW programming
The Specialist will serve as technical focal point for priority portfolios to ensure robust and timely implementation of HRH/CHW investments including those supported by the Catalytic Initiative. Working closely with country teams and in close coordination with other HRH-CHW and RSSH team members, tasks include:
- Provide technical support to countries on CHW programming, community health systems strengthening and integrated service delivery
- Provide technical and strategic support to country teams across the grant cycle to advance the implementation, integration, and sustainability of HRH/CHW investments. This includes: supporting quality implementation of HRH/CHW activities; monitoring progress against key milestones and results; identifying and mitigating risks; fostering the integration of CHWs within HRH systems and PHC platforms, and supporting country-led sustainability planning, in collaboration with HFD.
- Support design of TA elements e.g. support CTs to frame TA needs, draft concept notes, draft or review ToRs, and review TA deliverables
- Carry out joint missions with country teams, and support portfolio reviews as needed.
- Support resource development and consolidation of evidence, good practice, guidance, technical resources on priority topics.
2. Serve as Project Manager of the Strategic Initiative on Integrated Community and Health Services (CHW component)
The Specialist will ensure smooth delivery of an integrated package of technical support through a regional technical provider:
- Lead the process of regional TA provider selection and contracting with specific focus on elements relating to CHW programming.
- Monitor and manage TA provider performance, ensuring high quality and timely technical assistance.
- Ensure strong relevance and complementarity between SI component and country / regional priorities, and alignment with internal integration and sustainability priorities
- Manage all reporting and communication (internal and external) for the relevant components of the Strategic Initiative, with specific focus on leading reporting to private sector donors supporting the CHW components, and contributing to integrated internal reporting for the Integrated community and health services for women and children.
- Supported by RSSH Program Officers, develop workplans, financial forecasts, reporting tools, performance dashboards, critical milestones and other project management tools to ensure effective delivery.
3. Support team internal functions including collaboration on HRH-CHW programming across Global Fund teams.
- Support analysis of Global Fund’s HRH/CHW investments
- Lead synthesis of lessons learned and promising practices from country implementation, and support evidence syntheses, in relation to CHW integration in PHC systems, integration of disease-specific CHWs into national CHW programs and other relevant priority topics
- Support development of dashboards and work plans, contribute to strategy guidance notes, develop technical briefs
- Support internal and external learning dissemination events
- Contribute to talking points on HRH-CHW, support participation in external events on HRH-CHW
- Support collaborative initiatives on HRH-CHW programming within the RSSH-PPR team and across broader Global Fund Teams listed below
Subject to change by the Executive Director at any time at their sole discretion.
Qualifications
Essential:
Advanced university degree in Medicine, Public Health, or first degree and at least 10 years of relevant post first-degree work experience
Experience
Essential:
- Strong technical competencies evidenced by country-facing technical support experience in HRH and community health worker programming, primary health care and community service delivery
- Experience of designing TA and quality assuring TA products
- Strong project and supplier management
- Experience of working with diverse teams and external partners, including national governments and technical partners
- Experience managing effective communication across project teams and external partners
- Experience monitoring and analyzing data,and producing and communicating insights to inform decision-making and drive consensus with key stakeholders.
- Knowledge of HRH-CHW evidence base, good practice on CHW normative guidance and at least 2 of the other following topics: integrated models of care at community level, with a specific focus on interventions for women and children in the reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health continuum; continuous quality improvement and integrated supportive supervision; formalization of CHW roles including in the context of task sharing; gender analysis applied to HRH or CHW programs; HRH sustainability analysis and planning.
Desirable:
- Over 4 years’ of relevant professional experience, supporting, HRH and CHW programming in low- and middle-income countries.
- Experience working in Francophone Africa strongly preferred. Understanding of context-specific constraints and opportunities for integration and sustainability of HRH-CHW programs in fragile and conflict affected settings
- Experience with Global Fund processes, especially those associated with sourcing, SI financial and project management, grant-making and implementation
- Experience of partnership development, especially with regional institutions and private foundations.
Competencies
Languages:
An excellent knowledge of French and English is essential. Knowledge of other languages would be an asset.
Functional Competencies:
- Strengthening Systems for Health - Mastery
- Project Management - Expert
- Geopolitical awareness – Mastery
- Analytical - Mastery
- Operational Policy – Mastery
- Multicultural understanding – Mastery
- Communications - Mastery
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Job Posting End Date
10 November 2026
