Palladium Group Director of Health Financing Jobs 2023 – Nigeria NGO Jobs.
Palladium Group Nigeria looking for “Director of Health Financing”.
Applicants with a Advanced degree (MA, MSc, PhD) in economics may apply on or before 14 January 2023.
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Palladium Group Director of Health Financing Jobs 2023
The Palladium Group has published a job vacancy announcement on 02 January 2023 for qualified Nigeria’s to fill in the vacant post of Director of Health Financing to be based in Abuja, Nigeria.
| Recruiter | Palladium Group |
| Position | Director of Health Financing |
| Location | Abuja, Nigeria |
| Country | Nigeria |
| Total Vacant Post | N/A |
| Qualification | Advanced degree (MA, MSc, PhD) in economics |
| Experience Required | At least 20 years of proven health finance experience |
| Application Deadline | 14 January 2023 |
Palladium Group Job Vacancy 2023
Project Overview and Role: The USAID Integrated Health Program Nigeria, implemented by Palladium, is an integrated health program with an expanded effort with the Government of Nigeria (GON) to identify and support rapid scale-up of proven interventions through improvement of service delivery and strengthening of health systems. It focuses on six service delivery intervention areas: maternal health, newborn health, family planning, child health, malaria, and nutrition.
Responsibilities:
- Provides health financing expertise/technical assistance and expert technical guidance based on proven global and in-country approaches to National and State activities of the project, working with other technical staff and host country government institutions.
- Designs and executes the overall health financing strategy for the project and support the MEL team to track the achievement of project results for health financing under the USAID contract.
- Provides remote and on-the-ground technical, managerial, and operational oversight, capacity building and mentoring to specific health financing and financial risk protection activities in States settings related to areas of core expertise.
- Works with the national and state level actors to establish and or strengthen multi sectoral health financing technical working groups (TWGs) to institutionalize ongoing health financing reforms.
- Provides technical advisory support to the state’s contributory health agencies, state health trust fund agencies, and other relevant stakeholder platforms for the empanelment of public and private healthcare facilities, operational efficiencies for premium payments and reimbursements to health facilities for services.
- Analyzes the economic and financing implications of implementing enhanced health systems, economic incentives, and increasing access to and improving quality of primary healthcare services, including integrated reproductive/family planning, maternal and newborn health, child health, nutrition and malaria.
- Provides expert technical guidance towards the design and effective implementation of state contributory health schemes for: increased enrollment of formal and informal sector beneficiaries into the state health insurance scheme and BHCPF through salary deductions, individual premium payments, or contributions; improved revenue generation for the BHCPF and the SHIS equity fund; increased risk pooling and shift to strategic purchasing.
- Provides technical support to the National Steering Committee of the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) to ensure funds flow through the NHIS and NPHCDA gateways to the states and to Primary Healthcare Centers.
- Provides guidance to NPHCDA, FMOH and state governments
Qualification & Experience:
- Advanced degree (MA, MSc, PhD) in economics, health economics, relevant social sciences or public health with academic specialization in health financing, social health protection schemes/financial risk protection or commensurate work experience in health finance
- At least 20 years of proven health finance experience and broad knowledge in Nigeria’s governance and health finance landscape OR advanced degree with 12+ years of experience
- Sound knowledge of methodologies used in health finance research, economic analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, return on investment analysis, quantitative analysis, and statistical/econometric analysis
- Proven experience in identifying innovative solutions for increasing enrollment and achieving other health financing results in social health protection schemes/ financial risk protection schemes
- Knowledge of relevant literature and state of the art interventions related to topic areas
- 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 and able to work under pressure
- Proven leadership skills and experience in facilitating Communities of Practice
- Strong written and oral communication skills for high-level policy audiences (writing examples may be required)
- Fluency in English required, and local languages (Hausa) preferred
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% of the time within Nigeria, including to states in the north
Other Details
- Contract Type: Full Time
- Selection Process: Interview
- Salary: negotiable
- Application Process: Online
How to Apply Palladium Group Director of Health Financing Jobs 2023
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The Closing Date: 14 January 2023
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
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| Official Website | thepalladiumgroup.com |
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