Health Innovation Lead at Relief International (RI)

Your Responsibilities

This role includes the following responsibilities.

• Lead the development and implementation of Relief International's Health Innovation Strategy, creating a focused portfolio of evidence-based innovation opportunities aligned with organisational and country priorities.
• Identify and prioritise health and health-system challenges where innovation can improve outcomes, quality, equity, efficiency and resilience.
• Design, adapt and oversee innovation initiatives using an evidence-based approach that supports testing, learning and scale-up in fragile and conflict-affected settings.
• Scan global evidence, technologies, products and service-delivery models to identify innovations that can be adapted to low-resource and humanitarian contexts.
• Generate evidence on effectiveness, feasibility, cost, acceptability, equity and scalability to inform adoption and investment decisions.
• Lead resource mobilisation efforts, identify funding opportunities and contribute to the development of innovation-focused concept notes, proposals and strategic partnerships.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with ministries of health, donors, research institutions, innovators, private-sector organisations and implementing partners.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring and hands-on support to country teams to strengthen innovation capacity and facilitate adoption of successful approaches.
• Promote cross-country learning, knowledge sharing and thought leadership, helping position Relief International as a leading voice in health innovation for humanitarian settings.

About You

You will bring the following experience and skills.

• Advanced qualification in Public Health, Global Health, Health Systems, Health Policy or a related discipline.
• Significant experience working in global health, particularly in low- and middle-income countries and/or fragile, conflict-affected or humanitarian settings.
• Strong expertise in health systems strengthening and a deep understanding of how health services, financing, workforce, governance, communities and supply chains interact.
• Proven ability to identify complex health-system challenges and develop practical, context-appropriate solutions that can be implemented and sustained.
• Experience identifying, adapting, testing and scaling health innovations, with evidence of moving successful approaches beyond pilot stages toward adoption.
• Demonstrated experience designing or overseeing evaluations, implementation research, pilots or evidence-generation initiatives.
• Strong track record in partnership building, donor engagement and resource mobilisation.
• Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build relationships across governments, communities, donors, academic institutions and technical partners.
• Experience with digital health, AI, diagnostics, health technologies, implementation science, operational research or health economics would be highly desirable.