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Health Financing Advisor – Nigeria IHP is needed at Palladium Group
JOB TITLE: Health Financing Advisor – Nigeria IHP
Job Ref: req8007
LOCATION: Abuja
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Provides health financing expertise/technical assistance to State activities of the project, working with other technical staff and state government institutions as per project requirements.
- Analyses the economic and financing implications of enhanced access and improved quality of primary healthcare services
- Provides guidance to state level MOHs regarding budgeting for service delivery activities and HRH planning
- Coordinates 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
- Provides analytical and evaluative techniques to identify, consider, and resolve health financing policy issues or problems.
- Uses various quantitative and qualitative techniques to perform financing and policy analysis tasks.
Required Qualifications
The following may be acquired through a combination of formal or selfeducation, prior experience or onthejob training:
- Advanced degree (MA, MSc, PhD) in economics or health economics with academic specialization in health financing or commensurate work experience in health finance
- At least 5 years of health finance experience in Nigeria
- Sound knowledge in Federal Capital Territory’s governance and health finance landscape
- Sound knowledge of methodologies used in health finance research, economic analysis, costeffectiveness 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 highlevel policy audiences (writing examples may be required)
- Fluency in English required, and local languages preferred
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Job Features
Job Category | Medical/ Healthcare / Pharmaceutical |
Deadline | Not Specified. |