Results for Development Institute Health Economist/Domestic Resource Mobilization Specialist Jobs in Ethiopia

Results for Development Institute Health Economist/Domestic Resource Mobilization Specialist Jobs in Ethiopia



Results for Development (R4D) is a leading non-profit global development partner. We collaborate with change agents around the world — government officials, civil society leaders and social innovators — to create strong systems that support healthy, educated people.



We help our partners move from knowing their goal to knowing how to reach it. We combine global expertise in health, education and nutrition with analytic rigor, practical support for decision-making and implementation and access to peer problem-solving networks.

Together with our partners, we build self-sustaining systems that serve everyone and deliver lasting results.


Responsibilities


  • Engage in fiscal space and other forms of health financing technical analyses to make policy recommendations on options for policy, with a focus on domestic financing
  • Produce policy advocacy papers for audiences including the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MOFED) and parliamentarians
  • Facilitate health financing policy dialogue and advocacy fora between Federal Ministry of Health and MOFED, and as appropriate with Parliamentarians
  • Provide strategic technical expertise in innovative domestic financing for health
  • Facilitate learning and experience sharing using the Joint Learning Network (JLN) platform and other mechanisms
  • Engage in the identification, design and implementation of operational researches related to domestic financing
  • Provide technical support in the advocacy and development of a phased plan for sustainable financing of exempted services
  • Take part in integrated supportive supervision
  • Act as R4D’s primary liaison to the Health Financing Improvement Program


    Qualifications:


  • 10+ years of relevant work experience in some combination of health financing, health systems, or health policy
    development and implementation
  • Master’s Degree in Economics, Business Administration, Public Policy, Public Health or equivalent
  • Proven understanding of health financing and economics issues, tools, and analysis methods—especially in their application to Ethiopia’s context
  • Strong network of relationships within the Ethiopian health financing community; experience working closely with the Ethiopian government, particularly the Federal Ministry of Health, Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, major donors and philanthropic foundations
  • Proven understanding of Ethiopia’s tax and spending system, public financial management system, central and regional fiscal responsibilities, and health financing strategy
  • Proven understanding of the sources of inefficiencies in health spending and feasible tools and approaches to address them
  • Experienced working with remote “home office” technical support to maximize the value of such support to program activities
  • Strong written and verbal communications skills, especially in conveying technical materials to audiences of non-specialist policymakers
  • Good and active listener and facilitator of policy dialogue
  • Productive, energetic, task oriented, works well leading and as a member of teams, good at providing and receiving feedback
  • Proven leadership experience in conceptualizing, planning, and executing projects
  • Strong analytical, problem solving, and quantitative skills, with experience leading the development of analytical products
  • Highly collaborative and approachable working style, and enthusiastic about working in an open-structure environment with multicultural peers and staff
  • Fluent in English and Amharic
  • High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, and Word


    How to Apply


    Interested and qualified candidates should apply online by 1st January, 2019


    For more information and job application details, see; Results for Development Institute Health Economist/Domestic Resource Mobilization Specialist Jobs in Ethiopia

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