Deadline: 11 December, 2021
Location: Luanda, Angola
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has opened applications for the role of Health Finance Specialist.
Across 190 countries and territories, UNICEF works for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
Responsibilities
- Prepare timely health system analysis, including equity analysis, cost effectiveness analysis and public health expenditure reviews and empower UNICEF Angola with evidence for dialogue in improving the efficiency of health spending
- Support and guide UNICEF Angola for the development of national health financing systems towards universal health coverage
- Prepare data-driven situational analyses of the state of health systems, health services and health care financing supporting the monitoring of health sector performance
- Undertake health sector budget analysis to inform UNICEF’s advocacy and technical assistance to ministries of finance and health
- Support engagements in the analysis and understanding of the underlying social determinants of health
- Facilitate the analysis of social and economic trends and health financing information with a focus on implications on fiscal space for health services and support engagement for policy dialogue and formulation
- Advocate for and support efforts to leverage resources for sustainable health system strengthening
- Provide technical support in the design, implementation and monitoring of innovative health financing initiatives
- Support the development of an investment case for health tailored to specific country contexts
- Collaborate with the central and local authorities to strengthen capacity in quality data collection, analysis for policy development, planning, implementation, coordination, monitoring of essential social services, with emphasis on community participation and accountability
- Provide technical assistance to government ministries and entities in developing health financing strategies, including advice on the right strategic purchasing and provider payment mechanisms
- Provide support to the Ministry of Health on budget planning and preparation, revenue collection, pooling, and procurement
- Work with sector colleagues to build capacity to undertake costing and cost-effectiveness analysis on priority interventions
- Carry out analyses on fiscal space, out-of-pocket spending, benefit incidence, or a national health account exercise
Requirements
- Advanced university degree in Health Economics, Health Financing, Public Financial Management, or a closely related field
- Five years, minimum, of relevant professional experience in a public finance or economic development role within the national/international health sector
- Experience in developing costing/using costing tools (OneHealth, CHPCT, EQUIST) will be a plus
- Knowledge of and professional experience in at least two of the public financial management in health; health economic analysis (especially cost analysis); strengthening public health financing and governance; and Health Systems Strengthening applications and programmes
- Experience working in a developing country is an asset
- Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organisation is an asset
- Fluency in English
- Fluency in Portuguese (strongly preferred)
To apply and for more information, click here.
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