Senior Associate, Private Finance Job Clinton Health

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The Senior Associate will play a core role across investment sourcing, execution, diligence, and deal structuring to support high impact private health companies across sub-Saharan Africa to expand their reach, while working closely with commercial investors and development finance institutions to design and stand up financing mechanisms that can be replicated across markets and subsectors.

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Develop an in-depth understanding of high-potential health companies and key financing constraints in the private health market in sub-Saharan Africa

• Build and manage a sourcing and screening pipeline, including clear investment-readiness criteria and triage processes to prioritise the highest potential businesses across focus markets.
• Engage with businesses across priority health areas (e.g., primary care, diagnostics, oncology, oxygen, pharmacy, and supply chains) to understand market dynamics, identify disruptive business models and technologies, and identify recurring constraints in access to capital and scaling.
• Build relationships with financiers across the capital spectrum (e.g., microfinance institutions, local commercial banks, impact investors and development finance institutions), to understand barriers in underwriting healthcare investments and constraints in deploying capital.
• Design, pilot and scale blended finance and risk-sharing mechanisms that unlock investment in health systems

Provide targeted transaction support to high impact companies

• Work directly with founders and management teams to build/refine financial models, unit economics, and fundraising materials (e.g., data room, investor memo, capital plan), and run targeted investor/bank outreach through to term sheet/credit approval.

Support communication and strategic projects related to CHAI’s Private Finance work

• Develop clear, structured presentations and materials to inform decision-making by governments, donors, investors, and CHAI leadership.
• Support strategic projects related to CHAI’s Private Finance work, including scoping new financing opportunities, developing concept notes, and advising CHAI teams on opportunities to mobilize private capital for health impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Business, Economics, Finance, or a related field; CFA or equivalent a plus.
• 4-7 years of full-time experience in venture capital, growth equity, investment banking, private equity, corporate finance, transaction advisory, or structured finance, with demonstrated experience in deal execution, capital raising, or investment readiness advisory. Prior experience working directly with SMEs or growth-stage businesses in emerging markets strongly preferred.
• Prior work experience in sub-Saharan Africa strongly preferred, or demonstrated experience working in emerging markets and with growth-stage businesses in resource-constrained settings.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex Excel-based modeling work with expertise in financial modelling and financial statement analysis.
• Hands-on experience in corporate/project finance structuring, including exposure to debt, equity, or blended finance transactions.
• Comfortable working with imperfect information and “messy” SME financials, and able to impose structure quickly.
• Demonstrated track record of supporting companies or projects through capital raising, investment readiness, or transaction execution, with ability to show tangible outcomes (capital deployed, deals closed, or material improvement in investment readiness).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English; experience developing Microsoft Powerpoint presentations for senior executives.

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