Senior Health Specialist – Health Services
Overview
The Senior Health Specialist – Health Services will provide specialized health-sector expertise throughout IFC’s investment cycle and serve as a bridge between health-system policy and private-sector delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide due diligence support and input to investment documents and meetings as a technical specialist on IFC’s health services projects.
- Assess how a proposed investment fits within country service-delivery networks, referral pathways, workforce capacity, financing arrangements, and regulatory frameworks.
- Identify complementary public policy, institutional, or advisory actions needed to achieve development impact.
- Conduct regular portfolio reviews and field visits to assess project health outcomes and compliance with sector-specific good practice standards.
- Identify opportunities and provide support for Advisory and WBG collaboration.
- Contribute to the development and refinement of WBG's health sector strategy.
- Lead or contribute to analytical work on private sector health market dynamics, investment trends, and regulatory environments in emerging markets.
- Represent WBG in external forums, conferences, and working groups related to private sector health investment and global health financing.
- Author or co-author sector notes, working papers, and policy briefs.
- Develop and maintain knowledge products, including sector toolkits, investment guides, good practice notes, and case studies.
- Contribute to internal learning events, training sessions, and communities of practice related to health sector investing.
- Contribute private-sector and implementation perspectives to health-sector diagnostics, policy dialogue, country strategies, Health Compacts, and upstream engagement.
- Advise on how health financing, purchasing and reimbursement, licensing, accreditation, competition, taxation, workforce, data governance, and quality regulation affect private-sector participation and health outcomes.
- Advise on enabling frameworks for mixed health systems, including strategic purchasing, contracting, public-private collaboration, provider regulation, referral arrangements, and accountability mechanisms.
- Translate policy and regulatory reforms into viable investment and advisory opportunities, while identifying affordability, equity, quality, market-concentration, and fiscal risks.
- Bring lessons from IFC clients and industry operations into policy design, and help private providers understand and respond to public-policy objectives.
Required Experience
Minimum of 8 years (15+ years strongly preferred) of international operational/managerial/consultancy experience with health services companies and familiarity with the regulatory, quality and operational aspects of health services businesses; Deep executive or operational experience in private health services, with demonstrated responsibility for business models, clinical quality, growth, investment, operational performance, or market entry in emerging economies. Demonstrated experience working at the interface of private health-sector operations and health-system policy, including direct engagement with ministries of health, finance ministries, regulators, public purchasers, social health insurance agencies, or development institutions.
Qualifications
Master’s or advanced Degree in Healthcare management or related field