This role is for a Senior Health Financing Technical Advisor for the Data FI Kenya project. The successful candidate will be instrumental in assessing the impact of health finance and related studies to determine the feasibility and sustainability of scaling up health finance interventions. This position requires designing and implementing technical activities related to health finance policy in Kenya, providing high-level technical expertise, and collaborating closely with various stakeholders to achieve project objectives.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Assess health finance impact and other related health financing studies to improve access to key financial information to determine feasibility and sustainability of scaling up health finance interventions.
- Design and implement technical activities related to health finance policy in Kenya.
- Work closely with both in-person and virtual teams to achieve shared objectives. This includes other technical team members in Kenya, project partners, and the global technical leadership team to ensure application of high-quality Health Financing strategies, tools, and curricula.
- Lead development and implementation of policy tools, approaches, and curricula to achieve project objectives.
- Produce and/or edit a variety of documents including briefing materials, meeting notes, presentation slides, research briefs, and reports for a variety of stakeholders (such as funders, implementing partners, external audiences).
- Support project teams with the development and production of highly polished presentations, concept notes, briefing materials, and other products such as blog posts, newsletters, meeting summaries, thought pieces, and e-communications on key topics of interest.
- Contribute to the development of administrative policies and procedures to ensure efficient and effective project implementation.
- Provide technical support on matters health care financing and Public Financial Management (PFM).
- Conduct all work to accepted standards of research ethics.
Required Qualifications and Experience
- Education: Masters in health policy, public health, Statistics, Economics/Health Economics or relevant field. A PhD degree will be an added advantage.
- Experience: At least 10 years demonstrated relevant work experience, OR 8 years’ experience with a PhD degree.
- Extensive experience in health systems strengthening and proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams effectively.
- Experience leading or providing support to the implementation of high-quality monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) activities (e.g., developing and or monitoring theories of change and conducting outcome harvesting).
- Experience managing and monitoring the execution of deliverables through collaboration with implementing teams, funders, and other technical partners and government.
- Track record of building teams, fostering collaboration, and achieving high-quality deliverables.
- Success in partnership building with diverse stakeholders, including public and private sectors, government representatives, donors, and community organizations.
- Proficiency in interpersonal communication, writing, presentation, organization, and computer skills (Outlook, Microsoft Office).
- Detail-oriented with the ability to balance multiple tasks and priorities within designated timeframes.
- Responsive and adaptable to changing requirements and demands.
- Knowledge of using any statistical software such as R, STATA, or Python.
