Analyst, Health Financing, Yaounde, Cameroon

Country

Cameroon

City

Yaounde

Type

Contracting Organization Full Time – (eligible for benefits)

Business Unit

Country Programs - Country Teams

Additional Location Description

Overview:

The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) works in partnership with country governments, partners, and other major stakeholders to identify the key obstacles to access and scale-up of essential health services, and to develop sustainable strategies to overcome them. At the request of our partner governments, and given the current global funding landscape, CHAI is increasing technical support to governments in overcoming financing barriers to achieving universal access to health services.

Since 2007, CHAI has been supporting the Government of Cameroon to introduce and scale up lifesaving Pediatric and second line treatments for HIV as well as helping to strengthen HIV laboratory systems and improving malaria diagnostics. At the request of the Ministry of Health, CHAI will begin a formal sustainable health financing program in Cameroon in March 2014.

CHAI is looking for a Health Financing Analyst to implement this new program. The vision of the program will be to assist the Government of Cameroon to reach its goal of universal health coverage. This will be achieved by supporting the Ministry of Health to develop an evidence base and use this evidence to make key decisions and to advocate for health priorities with the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Economy and Planning and donors.

CHAI's work in sustainable health financing will provide process management and technical support. This will include participating in key forums on sustainable health financing, developing costing methodologies to better understand costs of health care and national health plans, tracking available resources to quantify funding gaps and assessing the feasibility for innovative financing mechanisms.

The analyst will be part of an established team in Cameroon that works very closely with the Ministry of Health, interacting on a regular basis with government officials, donors, NGOs and civil society.

Responsibilities:

Reporting to the Health Financing Program Manager, the Analyst will be responsible for the following:

• Support the identification of critical hurdles to improving the sustainability of health financing, both short-term and long-term;
• Develop models to quantify financial resource gaps across the health sector;
• Research and evaluate existing and potential innovative financing mechanisms to support the MOH in resource mobilization;
• Support the MOH to use analyses to better advocate for health priorities with government bodies and donors;
• Support the development of GFATM and other donor applications;
• Work daily with government officials at national and sub-national levels throughout planning and implementation phases to ensure skills transfer and government ownership, and provide technical support as needed; and
• Work with members of CHAI teams.

Qualifications:

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent plus 3 years work experience or advanced degree or equivalent plus 2 year work experience;
• Very strong quantitative and analytical skills, including experience working in Excel and budgeting;
• Strong organizational and problem solving skills;
• Ability to multi-task and to be effective in high-pressure situations;
• Ability to work independently on complex projects;
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build professional relationships;
• High levels of proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and internet applications.
• Fluency in spoken and written French and English is a must.

Advantages:

• Technical experience in health economics;
• Management consulting or other relevant private and public sector experience;
• Experience working on health related issues in resource-limited settings;
• Relevant experience working in a multi-cultural setting;
• Knowledge of health systems strengthening and/or global healthcare systems;
• Understanding of principles of health economics and related quantitative methodologies
• Understanding of Global Fund proposal development process as well as other donor funding mechanisms and processes; and

· Personal qualities including resourcefulness, entrepreneurialism, flexibility, independence, humility and strong work ethic.