Summary
Date Posted: Monday, September 19, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Overview
CHAI is seeking a highly motivated, entrepreneurial individual with outstanding planning, health financing, management, analytical and communication skills to serve as an Associate for the Sustainable Health Financing team. The Associate must be fluent in English and have excellent relationship building and communication skills. He or she must be able to function independently with minimal oversight and have a strong commitment to excellence with a keen eye for detail. CHAI places great value on resourcefulness, responsibility, tenacity, flexibility, independence, energy, work ethic and humility.

Responsibilities:
The Associate will report to the Sustainable Health Financing Program and his or her responsibility will include, but are not limited to the following:
1. Work closely with MoH and across a range of relevant government institutions to identify key areas that require upgrades and improvements in primary health care, to develop a comprehensive long-term costed plan for driving these investments in and improving PHC, aligned with the vision and priorities of the Government of Rwanda. This will include a credible financing plan for how investments in the health system can be maximized and how external investments in systems can be sustained over time and support the implementation of the plan.
2. Engage with high-level government officials in the Ministry of Health to facilitate alignment on key priorities for accelerating progress on the current health sector strategic plan. This will require activities including:
1. Assessment of current health sector policies, strategies, and plans to determine initiatives, interventions and activities that are planned, in the pipeline, being implemented or can be effectively and efficiently delivered at the PHC level
2. Leveraging existing literature and available data to determine established targets, the status of progress towards targets and gaps across the health systems as related to PHC.
3. Develop and leverage existing costing of investment and recurring costs, relevant to PHC over an extended period. This may require additional data collection, tools, and approaches.
4. Map available resources against costs, including external and domestic funds projections, highlighting funding gaps. This will leverage existing information.
5. Develop a robust financing plan and facilitate stakeholder validation of plan, including the role for existing external financing to be re-aligned with this plan, for new external financing, and for increased domestic financing over time.
6. Support the government leadership in the design and implementation of health financing strategies, interventions, and reforms, including provider payment reforms for primary health care, priority setting and benefits package design, financial management, strengthening of donor coordination to support domestic resource mobilization and a sustainable transition towards greater self-reliance. This will include analytical work and engaging MoH team and other stakeholders, the development of literature reviews, concept notes, excel tools, quantitative and qualitative analyses
7. Support the government in resource mobilization plan development both domestically, including private sector engagement and promotion of medical tourism, and external financing to ensure health programs are financed more sustainably through diverse and innovative sources of funding.
8. Support the government to design a sustainable capacity-building strategy for MoH staff in analytical work, and data analysis, including costing, scenario modeling, budgeting, impact analyses, and other quantitative analyses that help assess opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness, and sustainability in health financing to inform priority reforms.
9. Organize policy dialogues, meetings, and workshops
10. Prepare background papers and technical briefs, and produce high-quality written reports and presentations for engaging stakeholders
11. Other responsibilities as assigned by supervisor.

Qualifications:
• Master’s degree with a strong quantitative focus in health economics, public health, or other relevant disciplines.
• Demonstrated knowledge of health financing systems and related concepts, with an ability to review and analyze policies, strategies and plans in health financing and overall health systems.
• At least 5-years of experience in a demanding, results-oriented environment in public or private sector.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and quantitative skills, including attention to detail and experience in modeling using Microsoft Excel.
• Strong communication skills, including delivery of compelling presentations and documents in Microsoft PowerPoint and Word.
• Effective interpersonal skills, demonstrated ability to build strong professional relationships with a range of stakeholders, and excellent organizational skills
• Ability to work independently, set priorities, and handle multiple tasks concurrently.
• Strong command of English.
• Proven ability to coordinate and manage a multi-stakeholder project and timelines.

Advantages:
• Expertise in strategic planning, prioritization, and budgeting for large scale program implementation, including development of investment cases
• Experience in programs focused on primary health care and health systems
• Experience working with governments in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Familiarity with a broad range of key global health issues, including Primary healthcare, health systems or health financing challenges in developing countries.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Postgraduate Degree

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