The Health Finance Consultant will be responsible for providing expert guidance and technical oversight, primarily focusing on health costing research, study design, data management, analysis, and reporting, particularly concerning HIV programs, UHC strategies, and the national financing architecture in Kenya.
Study Design and Tool Development
- Review and refine costing research questions in alignment with study objectives.
- Finalize and validate data collection tools, including In-depth interview (IDI) guides, Focus group discussion (FGD) guides, and Key informant interview (KII) guides.
- Ensure tools are contextually appropriate, culturally sensitive, and aligned with ethical standards.
Oversight of Data Collection
- Provide technical oversight during data collection across selected sentinel facilities.
- Ensure adherence to study protocol, consent procedures, and data quality standards.
- Provide guidance on managing sensitive topics related to HIV, funding disruptions, and workplace stress.
Data Management and Analysis
- Guide transcription, translation, de-identification, and secure storage of qualitative data.
- Supervise data coding using NVivo or equivalent software.
Interpretation and Reporting
- Support in synthesis and interpretation of findings.
- Generate analytical summaries aligned to Health Costing Objective.
- Contribute to development of technical reports and policy-relevant insights and recommendations.
Key Deliverables
The expert will produce the following:
- Review data collection tools.
- Raw and cleaned, de-identified qualitative dataset.
- Verbatim transcripts in English of all IDIs, FGDs, and KIIs.
- Thematic analysis outputs.
- Health costing findings report.
Required Qualifications
The Health Finance consultant should possess:
- Doctorate degree in economics and health economics, Econometrics, statistics and public health/finance, health policy, or a related discipline.
- At least 10 years of experience in health financing, resource tracking, or economic evaluation within government or donor-funded programs.
- Experience working with national health-financing reforms, HIV Program, UHC strategies, or financial-data systems.
- Deep experience with Kenya’s Digital Health Act, Social Health Insurance framework, and national financing architecture.
- Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder-engagement skills.
- Experience in team management, policy dialogue, and technical representation.
- Experience within the USG funded environment in health financing and policy.
- Knowledge of using any statistical software such as R, STATA, Python.
- Experience working with public sector in Kenya.
- Proven ability to mentor research teams and lead the financing analysis.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with ability to engage diverse stakeholders.
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