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Senior Advisor, Health Financing
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Management Sciences for Health (MSH) saves lives and improves health by helping public and private organizations throughout the world to effectively manage people, medicines, money, and information. Working from more than 30 country offices and our Arlington, Virginia and Cambridge, Massachusetts US headquarters, our staff from 65 nations is highly regarded for its technical expertise, integrity, and commitment to making a lasting difference in health. We live our mission to save lives and improve the health of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
MSH is seeking candidates for a for a five-year USAID/South Sudan HSS project. The goal of the Health Systems Strengthening Project is to increase the ownership and capacity of County Health Departments (CHDs) and State Ministries of Health (SMOHs) to ensure the provision of high quality primary health care in Western Equatoria State (WES) and Central Equatoria State (CES). Through expanded capacity of health managers to oversee the provision of health care services, the Health Systems Strengthening Project will support the MOH in its goal to provide comprehensive primary health care to all people in South Sudan. Preference will be given to applicants with relevant experience in South Sudan. Position is subject to project award.
OVERALL RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Senior Advisor, Health Financing will have responsibility to ensure implementation of basic financial mechanisms for planning and budgeting at the State Ministry of Health and County Health Department levels to ensure that decentralize funding can be adequately planned and managed; development and implementation of financial monitoring and control systems; and auditing procedures are in place. Skills such as auditing, budget management and oversight, and financial analysis will be critical for managers at both the state and local level, and will require training and on-site mentoring for their capacity building. This advisor will also work with the CHDs and SMOHs to establish manageable and responsive demand-side incentives for fiscal responsibility, including community participation, accountability and oversight, as well as annual performance plans. Each County and state will have a robust and transparent mechanism for funding service delivery, capable of receiving funds from both the GOSS and directly from donors.
SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:
-Contribute to the design and support a rapid baseline assessment of organizational development and/or leadership and management practices within CHD and SMOH units
-With CHD and SMOH staff, determine priorities for financial management and analysis, audit and control, and reporting capacity building.
-Develop in conjunction with other team members and implement financial systems elements of a standardized training program for CHD and SMOH staff, to include topics such as planning, utilization of data for decision making, budgeting, etc.
-Support SMOH and CHD staff to clarify their roles and responsibilities for managing financial resources
-Participate in strengthening existing Village Health Committees
-Assist CHDs and SMOHs to increase dissemination of information
-Design program for costing of county and state health plans and reinforce the ability of VHC, CHD and SMOH officials to effectively advocate for their capacity building needs.
-Propose efficient ways of improving financial skills of health program managers, through on-the-job training, embedded advisors or other innovative methods
-Oversee implementation of supply-side incentives – performance bonuses to health care facilities that meet specified quality targets, to be set in consultation with other project technical staff.
-Assists in research of technical subjects as well as in the preparation of technical briefings, documents and “success stories”
-Provides follow up to COP requests and plans, including timely submission by contracting partners and staff of required reports
-Participates in field visits and technical activities
-Based on state and county health plans, determine potential resource gaps at the CHD and/or SMOH levels. Where appropriate and feasible, assist in the resolving those gaps.
-In the context of the performance-based financing agreements that are will be in place as the mechanism for securing the core service delivery outputs of the developing health system, work with colleagues, GOSS officials, and other agencies involved to help assure that the scopes of work and terms of service agreements are clear, that the negotiated indicators are relevant and understood by all parties.
-Participates with colleagues, GOSS officials, and other agencies involved in the design, updating (and as appropriate, negotiation) of health service performance indicators, targets, and incentive structures.
-Works with the technical and financial teams to review service delivery performance.QUALIFICATIONS:
1, Masters level degree in a relevant field such as public health, public administration, health administration, finance, etc.
2. A minimum of 5 years of demonstrated expertise, with substantial developing country context experience, in facilitation of health financing system development and strengthening, including central level coordination and systems integration.
3. Experience in capacity building in the area of financial management.
4. Demonstrated extensive experience in developing budgets.
5. Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
6. Previous experience in a developing country context is required.Management Sciences for Health is an equal opportunity employer offering employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, citizenship, physical or mental handicap, or status as a disabled or Vietnam Era veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces.
*To apply for this position, please submit a resume to https://jobs-msh.icims.com/jobs/4713/job. For more information about MSH, please visit our web site at www.msh.org. If you cannot apply online or have difficulty doing so, please email an explanation of your problem to
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