Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, September 27 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Position Summary
• The Financing Alliance for Health is seeking highly skilled, multi-functional, and entrepreneurial leaders with a passion for global health to serve as Health Financing Technical Advisor’s in the following countries, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Central African Republic and Zambia.
• The Health Financing Technical Advisor’s will play a crucial role in providing technical expertise and strategic guidance to governments in the design, scaling, and sustainable financing for primary healthcare programs. The Advisor’s will collaborate with stakeholders, including governmental ministries beyond MoH, donors, NGOs, and the private sector to develop and implement health financing mechanisms and strategies.

Key roles and responsibilities
• Provide high-quality technical support to governments on primary healthcare programming and financing through embedment with MoH-PHC-related departments.
• Primary Health Care Strategy: Provide support in the development of PHC strategies, policies, and other guidelines in collaboration with MoH and other stakeholders.
• Health Financing Strategy: Contribute to the development and implementation of health financing strategies for primary health care. This involves analyzing the current financing mechanisms, identifying gaps and opportunities, and recommending strategies to ensure sustainable and equitable financing for primary health care services. Provide technical assistance in the innovative design, implementation, and management of health financing models and mechanisms that promote financial risk protection and expand access to primary healthcare services.
• Economic Evaluations: Conduct health outcome/impact evaluations (e.g., Cost-Benefit/-Effectiveness/-Minimization Analyses and Models) to demonstrate the benefits, value for money, impact, and returns on investments of interventions related to primary healthcare.
• Policy Advocacy: Engage in policy advocacy efforts to promote evidence-based health financing policies and reforms that support primary healthcare. This involves policy analysis, generating evidence on the impact of different financing approaches, and engaging policymakers to influence decision-making processes.
• Resource Mobilization: Responsible for supporting efforts to mobilize financial resources for primary healthcare, both domestic and external resources. This includes identifying potential funding sources and providing guidance on resource mobilization, allocation, and utilization to maximize program impact.
• Financial Planning and Budgeting: Assist in the development of annual financial plans and budgets for primary healthcare. This involves estimating primary healthcare funding needs, advising on the appropriate allocation of resources, and ensuring financial plans and budgets are aligned with the government’s primary healthcare goals and objectives.
• Collaboration and Coordination: Lead coordination efforts between MoH and other health actors and stakeholders (government agencies, donor agencies, civil society, private sector among others) to ensure alignment and synergy in health financing efforts for primary healthcare.
• Monitoring and Evaluation: Contribute to the monitoring and evaluation of health financing components of primary healthcare. This includes the development of performance indicators, collecting, and analyzing health financing data, and providing regular reports on health financing performance and sustainability.
Qualifications
• A Master’s degree in Health Economics, Policy and Planning, Public Health, or related field.
• A minimum of 10 – 12 years relevant experience in health systems strengthening, PHC programming and financing, experience directly supporting governments in LMICs in health financing, budgeting, and evidence-based decision-making strongly preferred.
• In-depth knowledge of health financing principles, concepts, strategies, and best practices.
• Experience in the development of PHC strategies and policies, costing of interventions, funding gap analyses, resource mapping, and investment cases.
• Experience in providing support in policy reforms around user-fee elimination, revenue collection, risk pooling, and strategic purchasing for healthcare services.
• Familiarity with health systems strengthening and primary health care approaches.
• Experience and understanding of Public Financial Management (PFM) including budgeting and budget cycle, and resource mobilization and advocacy for the public sector.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to generate innovative solutions.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective partnerships and work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders.
• Proven ability to work independently, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines.
• Proficiency in relevant computer applications and software and possess excellent oral and written presentation skills.
• Experience in leading and managing technical teams.
• Fluency in both English and French is an added advantage.
• Strong Africa regional experience is preferable.
• This position is recommended to candidates who reside and are authorized to work in the countries listed.

• Compensation
• This position offers a competitive compensation package linked to the background and experience of the candidate.
• Timing
• Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education: Associate Degree

Job application procedure
Application Requirements
• Please submit a resume through the link https://rb.gy/e13xp 
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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