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

Palladium seeks qualified candidates for an upcoming USAID-funded HIV service delivery project in Mozambique. The Senior Health Finance Advisor would lead a team to support the Mozambique health sector in implementing new health care financing models particularly for HIV service delivery and management.

• Guide and advise the health finance team on the project to work with the MOH and other stakeholders on development and implementation of strategies to achieve epidemic control through appropriate health economic and financing data collection analyses and modeling, and high-level advocacy including relevant political economy analysis to examine opportunities and barriers to financing HIV services.
• Provide technical input and global best practices in adopting and implementing new health financing model, costing differentiated models of care, identifying and implementing cost efficiencies and containment; and ensure that capacities are built at the MOH to manage newly-developed systems and tools for fiscal management, in coordination with other relevant ministries.
• Lead the health finance team to conduct assessments and analyses that will contribute to health care financing reform and contribute to the design of payment systems and a state-supported insurance program.

Duration: 5 years Location: Maputo, Mozambique

• Participates in the design and implementation of technical support activities related to health finance policy and health economics analysis to assist the Ministry of Health.
• Leads project activities to support the Ministry of Health in designing and implementing new health financing models.
• Regular interaction with the Government of Mozambique stakeholders relevant to this area as well as multilateral partners and donor agencies.
• Stays abreast of key developments in health finance reform, health insurance, cost-effectiveness analysis, and resource allocation methodologies for health in Mozambique to inform technical support activities.
• Prepares health financing and health economics analyses, recommendations, briefing notes, and assessments for internal and client use.
• Analyses health sector resource allocation patterns and health services efficiencies.
• Represents the project and company in the health financing area in Mozambique and with others in the professional community.

Requirements:

• Ten (10) or more years of work experience in health financing and health economics areas in complex, national-level projects;
• Masters level degree in economics, health economics or related area; additional degree in health-related area also a bonus;
• Understanding of Mozambique health system preferred;
• Experience in mentoring staff and building capacity of individuals and teams;
• Sound knowledge of methodologies used in health finance research, cost-effectiveness analysis, quantitative analysis, and statistical/econometric analysis.
• Prior experience in working with USAID and/or other international donors in Mozambique or East or Southern Africa.
• Ability to liaise effectively with and develop consensus among key stakeholders, including USAID, national and local officials, public, private, and civil society partners;
• 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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