Senior Health Finance Advisor

A. BASIC FUNCTION OF THE POSITION The Senior Health Finance Advisor will provide technical expertise to USAID/Ethiopia's HAPN team, USAID supported programs and projects and the Government of Ethiopia in all areas of health care finance. Specific focus will be on the financial and economic aspects of the design of health policies, financial interventions and the analysis of related financial and economic impact. The incumbent will direct, manage and/or support the health care finance -related projects, including the project supporting the national level scale-up of Community-based and Social Health Insurance, which are ground breaking programs for the country in realizing the host government's goal of universal health coverage. Under the overall leadership of the HSS Team Leader, the advisor will help develop and expand USAID's healthcare finance activities within the HSS portfolio. Broad responsibilities will include providing technical leadership to USAID, interagency partners, Ministries of Health and Finance, The Ethiopian Health Insurance Agency and implementing partners through recommendations in the design, development, and improvement in health care financing activities that strengthen service quality, effectiveness, and efficiency. The advisor will specifically be required to provide coaching and mentoring support to the newly graduating Health Economists who will be deployed at RHBs to provide technical oversight to the Community-based and Social Health Insurance program. These Health Economists are new cadres of health program managers graduating from the newly started Masters program in Health Economics. Since there is little to none capacity in the area of health economics in the country either at FMOH or RHB level and these cadres of professionals are newly graduating with no experience, the incumbent will be heavily engaged in the overall guidance and technical mentoring of these cadres of professionals to be deployed at FMOH and RHB level. Technical Assistance and capacity building of HAPN team members in health care financing systems, analysis, design and oversight for activity management, development, piloting/testing, implementation and evaluation will also be key components of the position. The position requires both advisory and administrative ability, including hands-on health care financing technical expertise, results-oriented analysis, strong project management experience, clear communication skills, and close collaboration with a wide variety of stakeholders including: host ministries, implementing partners, interagency teams, USAID Headquarter personnel and other donors. The incumbent must ensure the presence and use of adequate administrative controls, information and data quality, procedural efficiencies and professional rigor. S/he will be expected to develop strategies and technical approaches for better USAID, USG, and partner coordination and improve integration of vertical programs related to health financing activities e.g. PEPFAR, maternal & child health, malaria control, vaccination, etc.