Health Systems Practitioner - PEA, Nigeria Health Population and Nutrition at Navanti Group - 8 Openings

Navanti provides timely and insightful data and analysis that shapes programming and empowers local voices, bringing their concerns, ideas, and knowledge to a broader audience. Its systems inform high quality interventions in rapidly evolving, conflict affected environments, employing an approach to contextual, nuanced data that uncovers and engages local actors and opportunities in need of support, resources and training – to create sustainable and transformative solutions that impact their communities. Navanti offers near-real time understanding of local dynamics, enabling an anticipatory programmatic capacity that takes advantage of near horizon change.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Health Systems Practitioner - Political Economic Analysis (PEA) , Nigeria Health Population and Nutrition

Locations: Abuja, Akwa Ibom, Bauchi, Ebonyi, Kebbi, Lagos, Sokoto & Zamfara
Team: USAID / Nigeria MEL Support Activity
Project: USAID / Nigeria Health Population and Nutrition (HPN) Office
Reporting to: Assessment and Evaluation Advisor
Employment Type: Independent Contractor / Short-Term Technical Assistance (STTA)
Period of Performance: July 2023 - September 2023

Background

• Navanti supports a Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Support Activity program that assists USAID/Nigeria in advancing its broader organizational learning and development efforts.
• This program strengthens the Mission's capacity and performance in programmatic monitoring, evaluation, learning, collaborating, and adapting.
• The MEL Support Activity closely aligns with USAID/Nigeria's Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) and provides a broad range of specialized technical assistance, training, data gathering and analysis, field-based monitoring, evaluations and assessments, facilitation of organizational learning and adaptation initiatives, and short-term technical assistance.

Project Objective

• USAID/Nigeria has engaged the MEL Support Activity to conduct a Political Economic Analysis (PEA) to understand the political and economic contexts and influential actors affecting Nigeria’s health system performance.
• This knowledge will inform USAID’s new health service delivery and systems strengthening activities.
• Though this is a broad assessment, the PEA will provide specific insights into the following locations:
  • South-South region (Akwa-Ibom state)
  • South-East region (Ebonyi state)
  • South-West region (Lagos state)
  • North-East region (Bauchi state)
  • North-West region Kebbi, Sokoto, and Zamfara states)
  • North-Central region (FCT)

• The primary purpose of the Political Economic Analysis (PEA) is to analyze the political economy of the health sector overall from a problem-based lens under the following four broad themes:

  • Underfunding of the health systems
  • HRH recruitment, proficiency, and retention
  • Equitable distribution of health resources (urban/rural, lowest quartile) and
  • Transparency and Accountability
• The estimated start date will be July 24, 2023. The assessment is expected to last until September 2023 and the estimated LOE will be 35 days, maximum.

Position Description

• We are seeking a Health System Practitioner who will provide technical support to the team leader to conduct a rigorous and high-quality political economy analysis.
• Under the guidance of the MEL Support Activity, the specialists are expected to work closely with the team leader USAID/Nigeria team and USAID/Washington Health Systems Advisor and Health Governance Lead.
• The team leader will be supported by two health research assistants. The Health Practitioner will be part of the team carry out in-country PEA for USAID/Nigeria.

Responsibilities
The Health Systems Practitioner will:

• Participate in a PEA kick-off session with USAID/Nigeria technical team.
• Support to conduct an initial desk study: gather relevant secondary materials to identify key actors and stakeholders, relevant local and oversight institutions, coordination mechanisms and support structures.
• Work with the team leader in the design and development of workplan including protocols for data collection in selected states and FCT.
• Participate in field work including conducting several KIIs and FGDs with stakeholders from health institutions, states and national health actors, members of the parliaments, State and federal legislators, civil society organizations (CSOs), implementing partners and others.
• Work collaboratively with other team members throughout assessment design, field work/data collection, analysis, and report writing to complement each other's areas of expertise.
• Participate in Out-brief with USAID and other partners.
• Write the draft and final assessment report with support from the other team members, taking into consideration feedback from the presentation.
• Present political economy analysis results to diverse audiences according to USAID standard reporting

Qualifications
The candidate is expected to have the following qualifications:

• Master’s Degree in Health Economics, or Public Health with a health systems planning, strengthening and implementation focus;
• At least 10 years of relevant work experience in health systems strengthening and health economics;
• Experience working with federal and state ministries of health and finance, donors and implementing agencies;
• Strong communication skills to effectively interact with key actors;
• Established track record of carrying out analytical work and preparing high-quality technical reports, policy briefing materials, and presentations;
• Strong quantitative skills and research capacity, proficiency in STATA or another statistics software is highly desirable, or may be substituted by exceptional command of Excel;
• Strong and compelling writing skills;
• Experience working in the health sector with international donor organizations particularly USAID
• Knowledge of local language(s).
• Excellent writing and presentation skills.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.