Deadline: Ongoing

Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Palladium Group is seeking to fill the role of Health Finance Advisor.

Palladium is a child-safe organisation that works with foundations, investors, governments, corporations, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.

Responsibilities

• Provide health financing expertise/technical assistance to state activities of the project, working with other technical staff and state government institutions as per project requirements
• Analyse the economic and financing implications of enhanced access and improved quality of primary healthcare services
• Provide guidance to state level MOHs regarding budgeting for service delivery activities and HRH planning
• Coordinate closely with the senior health financing advisor and other project technical staff to introduce new payment methods and manage health financing and economics related activities
• Provide analytical and evaluative techniques to identify, consider, and resolve health financing policy issues or problems
• Use various quantitative and qualitative techniques to perform financing and policy analysis tasks
• Develop activity-specific workplans and budgets
• Participate in and prepare necessary technical and programme-related reports, including presentations and white papers
• Guide and supports research, data collection, policy formulation, training and capacity building efforts in support of project activities and deliverables
• Ensure quality of services and compliance per project/programme requirements
• Organise, as needed, project/programme training, conferences, workshops, and meetings
• Interact with internal and external resources and other experts to bring new and ‘cutting edge’ ideas into approaches
• Prepare health financing analyses, recommendations, briefing notes, and assessments for internal and client use
• Represent IHP at health financing meetings/events and actively participate in the state health financing
• Represent the projects, company, and programmes in the health financing area in Nigerian and regional forums, as necessary

Requirements

• Advanced degree (MA, MSc, PhD) in Economics or Health Economics with academic specialisation in Health Financing or Commensurate work experience in health finance
• Five years, minimum, of health finance experience in Nigeria
• Sound knowledge in FCT’s governance and health finance landscape
• Sound knowledge of methodologies used in health finance research, Economic analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, quantitative analysis, and statistical/econometric analysis
• Knowledge of relevant literature related to topic area
• Demonstrated problem-solving, analytic, financial, and evaluative skills
• Attention to detail and ability to effectively and efficiently perform multiple tasks and balance competing priorities often within a required timeframe
• Professional and mature demeanor and conduct
• Ability to respond and adapt quickly to changing requirements and competing demands
• Appropriate software skills necessary to conduct research, and to conduct analysis of study data, such as STATA, SPSS, or equivalent
• Strong written and oral communication skills for high-level policy audiences (writing examples may be required)
• Fluency in English and local languages preferred

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