Management Sciences for Health ,Principal Health Finance Technical Advisor Jobs in Rwanda

Overview

The Principal Health
Finance Technical Adv
isor will support the implementation of the health
financing activities of the RHSSA for a two year term. S/hewill be expected to
work closely with the Rwanda Social Security Board (RSSB) and dedicate up to 60
percent of her/his time to provide technical leadership on health insurance and
reform efforts towards programmatic and financial sustainability.

The Advisor will
work in a fast-paced, results-driven environment on a team that is responding
to high priority government requests. MSH is therefore seeking a highly
motivated individual with relevant technical expertise, analytical skills and
an ability to think strategically about the role of health economics and health
financing for health systems strengthening and to build capacity of staff in
the MOH and RSSB and other relevant stakeholders.

Specific
Responsibilities

Technical
Support and Capacity Building (80%)

Health Insurance
(60%):

• Advise
  RSSB management on institutional capacity building leading to improved and
  effective management of CBHI.
• Support
  RSSB on generating and interpreting evidence to make key economic,
  managerial and policy decisions to ensure financial sustainability of
  health insurance schemes.
• Conduct
  analytical studies and assessments that will inform affordability and
  sustainability of CBHI including governance, pooling and strategic
  purchasing.
• Support
  the RSSB design and implementation of long term health financing strategic
  plans ensuring financial sustainability of the health insurance schemes
  and fostering further improvement of provider quality and efficiency.
• Support
  institutionalization of CBHI financial modeling, costing and pricing
  reviews and updates to enable the projection of revenues and expenditures
  while ensuring equity and quality of care.
• Develop
  cost control strategies through designing a competitive, cost-effective
  and equitable benefit package and purchasing services from providers.
• Contribute
  to adaptive strategies and reforms that improve the enabling environment
  for private sector actors to support the expansion and effectiveness of
  CBHI.
• Perform
  other related assignments related to health insurance as tasked by RSSB
  management.

Economic and
Health Financing Analysis (10%):

• Advise
  and strengthen capacity of the MOH Planning, Health Financing and
  Information Systems team, and broader Ministry of Health, to improve
  planning and evidence-based budgeting at the central and decentralized
  levels through institutionalized health resource tracking and economic and
  health financing analysis.
• Develop
  processes to improve budget formulation, monitor financial and program
  performance and generate other routine evidence on efficiency in the health
  sector.
• Conduct
  cost, gap, impact, and other quantitative analyses that assess
  opportunities to improve efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability in
  health financing.
• Draft
  policy and technical briefs on relevant technical areas to maintain a high
  level of policy dialogue and advocacy.
• Strengthen
  sustainability of PBF system, link PBF and accreditation at health center
  level, develop synergies with CBHI, update indicator package.

Income
Generating Activities (10%):

• Develop
  and promote innovative Community Health Worker cooperative practices for
  income generation.
• Strengthen
  business plan framework and income generating activities at CHW
  cooperatives and district hospitals.
• Support
  health facility income generation strategies to drive self-sufficiency.
• Support
  MoH/MoF in improving finance management capacity at all levels.

Project
Management and Coordination (20%)

• Document,
  plan, and track project status.
• Mobilize
  Short Term Technical Assistance in specific technical areas when needs
  arise, draft SOW recruit and supervise consultants.
• Ensure
  the completion of the health financing sub-components in an accurate,
  timely and cost efficient manner.
• Contribute
  to quarterly and annual RHSSA reports and other routine reporting
  requirements.

Qualifications
and Experience

Required:

• A
  postgraduate degree in health economics, business, public health finance
  or related field
• Minimum
  eight years of experience in designing, implementing and evaluating health
  economics and financing policies, with particular expertise in community
  health insurance.
• Significant
  experience in resource-limited settings in Africa, Asia, Latin America or
  in middle-income country.

Preferred:

• PhD in
  related field
• Ten
  years of progressively responsible experience and experience in international
  public health, health finance and community-based health insurance.

Knowledge
and Skills

• Proven
  leadership and collaboration with other technical advisors, experts, and
  host country staff from the public, private and NGO sectors.
• Demonstrated
  capacity to develop and implement work plans, monitor and evaluate
  activities, and draft reports.
• Exceptional
  interpersonal, teamwork and partnering skills
• Fluency
  in English ,and French language skills desirable

Competencies

Physical
Demands

• Travel
  requirements: Availability to travel within Rwanda (20-30%) and
  internationally (minor) as needed.
• Basic
  office operations: keyboard use, pulling drawers, lifting papers
  <10lbs., etc.

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