Responsibilities
- Provide senior-level strategic guidance to the Ministry of Health in the design, governance, and oversight of national HRH implementation frameworks, ensuring coherence with HSSP V, PHC reform agendas, and global best practices.
- Lead the design and oversight of high-impact health workforce initiatives, establishing rigorous methodological standards and ensuring alignment with national HRH policy priorities and international frameworks.
- Convene and lead high-level interdisciplinary dialogue among government institutions, development partners, and academic stakeholders to drive coordinated action across health workforce planning, service delivery reform, and systems strengthening.
- Lead strategic resource mobilization, proactively engaging with government agencies, multilateral organizations, bilateral donors, private foundations, and development partners to secure sustained funding for critical HRH priorities, including SRH workforce development.
- Independently lead the development of high-value grant proposals and funding strategies, ensuring technical rigor, funder alignment, and consistency with national HRH strategic priorities.
- Drive a robust HRH knowledge and dissemination agenda, including peer-reviewed publications, policy briefs, and strategic communication products that amplify evidence and influence national and global HRH discourse.
- Establish and champion institutional standards for health workforce data governance, ensuring data integrity, reproducibility, system interoperability, and full adherence to national and international ethical standards.
- Lead the development and institutionalization of HRH data sharing, reporting, and archiving policies, ensuring full alignment with national health information systems and supporting government capacity to sustain these systems independently.
Requirements
- Extensive expertise in human resources for health
- Proven track record of influencing policy at senior government levels
- Demonstrated ability to design and drive large-scale health workforce reforms in complex, resource-constrained settings
- Strategic leadership experience in health workforce planning, policy reform, and systems strengthening
- Ability to independently drive high-impact initiatives and influence national HRH decision-making
Work Arrangement
Remote (Country) — Rwanda
