Senior Manager - Health, Africa

Responsibilities

• This is a senior role within TBI, suited to an exceptional candidate with deep experience and strong networks across in the health sector in Africa.
• Subject-Matter Expertise
• Act as a technical expert and thought partner to advisory teams across Africa, advancing a portfolio of work aligned with senior political leaders' priorities in health reform and institutional capacity strengthening, and enabling better care for the public.
• Develop innovative, practical solutions to client challenges and present them in a compelling manner
• Engage, as needed, with senior stakeholders (e.g. Heads of State, Ministers, and other senior officials) to advance projects and solutions
• Support Advisory leadership in delivering high-quality advice, including ideation and problem-solving to ensure excellence in delivery and real-world impact.
• Contribute subject-matter expertise to support recruitment of health specialists across the organisation, including in-country embedded advisors
• Play an active role in the TBI global Health community beyond Africa, contributing to global strategy and sharing knowledge generated from our work in Africa with other regions.
• Offer and Solution Development
• Work with Africa leadership, Global Experts health team and country teams to continuously strengthen and evolve TBI's health offer, including addressing challenges related to cost, quality of care, delivery methodology, and technology adoption.
• Lead the design and development of programmes to deliver high-impact projects, complementing hands-on advisory support
• Identify emerging trends and opportunities to inform new solutions, drawing on TBI's global community of practice
• Collaborate with Global team colleagues across functional and sectoral areas to develop integrated solutions to complex, cross-cutting challenges
• Leading TBI Africa's Health Community of Practice
• Capture and codify best practices across the portfolio, creating agile feedback loops to strengthen solutions and delivery (in collaboration with performance and impact teams)
• Lead the Health Community of Practice in TBI Africa, contributing to institutional knowledge and cross-sector learning
• Collaborate with the global health practitioners group and Global Experts health team to ensure effective knowledge sharing across the organisation
• Support robust data stewardship of health programmes across country and regional teams
• Deploy expertise, understanding and networks in African regional and global health organisations to support positioning of our country work.
• Internal Leadership
• Provide leadership and, where appl

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Additional Information

We don't just talk, we do. Lead the change with us. At the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, we work with political leaders around the world to drive change. We help governments turn bold ideas into reality so they can deliver for their people. We do it by advising on strategy, policy and delivery, unlocking the power of technology across all three. And by sharing what we learn on the ground, so everyone can benefit. We do it to build more open, inclusive and prosperous countries for people everywhere. We are a global team of over 800 changemakers, operating in more than 40 countries, across five continents. We are political strategists, policy experts, delivery practitioners, technology specialists and more. We speak more than 45 languages. We are working on over 100 projects, tackling some of the world's biggest challenges. We're all here at TBI to make a difference. In a world of ever more complex challenges, we believe diversity of background and perspective is a strength. We pride ourselves on a culture that values and nurtures difference. We are dedicated to unlocking potential, not only for the countries we work in but also for each of our team members. No matter where you're from or who you are, if you're passionate about the transformative power of progressive politics, we invite you to build a better future with us. Role Summary The Senior Manager - Health is a senior expert role within TBI Africa. The role will work closely with Africa leadership to shape and advance TBI's health portfolio across the continent. You will collaborate with global experts across TBI, the fundraising team, and country and project teams to develop, refine, and align solutions for political leaders in the health sector. You will provide globally recognised, practical subject-matter expertise to TBI country teams and clients. This will support client engagements, programme and project design, key deliverables and fundraising activity, ensuring that we consistently bring the best of TBI to our health work in Africa. To succeed in this role, you will engage collaboratively across advisory, policy, and politics teams to deliver bold, evidence-based solutions, drawing on TBI's growing body of thought leadership and strategic partnerships. This is a largely client-facing role and involves significant continental travel (approximately 30%).

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