Mozambique: Senior Health Governance Advisor - Mozambique Efficiencies for Clinical Outcome

Palladium seeks qualified candidates for an upcoming USAID-funded HIV service delivery project in Mozambique. The Senior Health Policy Advisor would lead a team to support the Mozambique health sector in implementing policy and governance activities within the response to HIV.

• Guide and advise the health policy team in ensuring international best practices in HIV prevention, care and treatment are mainstreamed into national and regional policy and guidelines.
• Conduct high level advocacy including relevant political economy analysis to examine opportunities and barriers to recognized best practices in HIV services.
• Provide technical input and global best practices in adopting and implementing new policies and guidelines, particularly around differentiated models of care, adherence and retention support, governance and accountability of service delivery, and different prevention models.

Duration: 5 years Location: Maputo, Mozambique

• Provides assistance to the government of Mozambique in the development and implementation of HIV policies at the national and sub-national levels.
• Prepares health policy analyses, recommendations, policy briefs, and assessments for client and government use.
• Facilitates stakeholder consultation and meetings at the national level.
• Knowledge of and HIV service delivery, differentiated models of care, and HIV prevention issues.
• Provides assistance within the project team on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and documentation of project results.
• Support capacity building efforts for governmental actors to develop analytic and operational skills related to HIV policy and planning.
• Engaged in developing effective policy implementation monitoring mechanisms with government officials.
• Actively participates in the development of annual work planning, design, implementation, and reporting related to project technical activities.

• Performs other related duties and responsibilities as assigned

• Master's Degree or higher in public health, public policy, political science, public administration, communication or a related field.

• 7-8 years of experience required, including at least 3 years working with the Government of Mozambique at the national level.

• Extensive experience in health policy, policy analysis, policy implementation and policy communication.

• Demonstrated strength and experience providing technical assistance, writing technical reports, and policy briefs targeted to decision makers.

• Proven ability to work collaboratively and build consensus across diverse sets of stakeholders, including governmental, nongovernmental, and international actors.

• Experience in M&E and documentation of project results highly desirable.

• Prior experience working with USG-funded programs is preferred.

• Strong written and oral communication skills for high-level policy audiences.

• Strong facilitation skills required.

• Spoken and written language proficiency in English and Portuguese required.

Applications Interested candidates should submit a current resume with a cover letter online at ThePalladiumGroup.com

Note: Only short-listed candidates will be contacted for the interview.

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