Project Lead, Health Financing at the Management Sciences for Health (MSH)

The Management Sciences for Health (MSH), a global health nonprofit organization, uses proven approaches developed over 40 years to help leaders, health managers, and communities in developing nations build stronger health systems for greater health impact. We work to save lives by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Project Lead, Health Financing

Job Requisition ID: R4791
Location: Abuja
Job type: Full-time

Job Description

• MSH is seeking a Project Lead – Health Financing for a potential Gavi project in Nigeria. The purpose of this activity is to design and provide a package of technical assistance activities to the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), through the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), to institutionalize sustainable mechanisms for domestic financing (budgetary allocation and release of funds) for vaccines and supply chain operations and improve capacity of NPHCDA to generate and use evidence in supporting efficient immunization decisions and advocating for improved and timely financing in Nigeria. 
• This position is subject to project award and funding. 

Overall Responsibilities

• The Project Lead - Health Financing (PL) will be the Team Lead for the project and be accountable for project deliverables and results, implementation, and ongoing monitoring of project activities related to health financing and governance, including fulfillment of technical strategy and vision, project and people management, documentation and reporting, and client and stakeholder relationship management. 

Specific Responsibilities
Under the oversight of the Country Director, the Project Lead, Health Financing will: 

• Provide technical and programmatic direction with respect to programming aimed to strengthen health financing and ensure that activities and strategies are in line with technical and programmatic guidance. 
• Ensure technical excellence delivered on-time and within budget. 
• Develop and execute project results frameworks and MERL plans, ensuring appropriate and timely documentation and dissemination of key results. 
• Serve as the primary liaison between the project, Gavi, NPHCDA, FMOH, FMOF, and other stakeholders for activities related to immunization financing, ensuring effective dialogue and relationships across all stakeholders. 
• Manage and mentor staff, consultants, and local partners to ensure effective performance and institutionalization of expertise. 
• Build and maintain effective collaboration, coordination, and partnerships across key internal and external stakeholders and identify and ensure synergies with other relevant efforts to achieve maximum impact. 

The position will support the NPHCDA, FMOH to: 

• Lead, support or supervise analytical work, including financing and economic analysis in areas potentially including but are not limited to fiscal analysis, investment case, development of domestic resource mobilization strategy  
• Lead advocacy with central, state and local government actors to improve domestic financing an efficiency of resource allocation to sustain immunization service delivery in Nigeria. 
• Develop frameworks and plans to strengthen and institutionalize capacity to generate and use economic modeling for immunization prioritization decisions. 

Qualifications

• Candidates should possess a Postgraduate Degree in Health Economics, Health Financing, or related field.  
• 8+ years of progressively responsible experience in designing, leading project implementation, and/or evaluating health financing programs in Nigeria. 10+ years of progressively responsible experience is preferred. 
• Demonstrated technical knowledge of the health system and financing in Nigeria 
• Proven ability to provide technical leadership and support, capacity building and technical assistance on the design and implementation of activities related to domestic resource mobilization, and incorporation of efficiency in health sector decision-making. 
• Substantial experience providing technical leadership and/or assistance to ministries of health, sub-national health authorities, and/or national health insurance agencies in Nigeria. 
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with senior-level colleagues, particularly building productive and collaborative partnerships with government agencies, NGOs, private sector groups, donors and international organizations. 
• Proven ability to align diverse, multi-level teams with project goals, objectives, and result areas.  
• Strong interpersonal skills coupled with excellent communication skills. 
• Demonstrated strategic agility, diplomacy, conflict management, and negotiation skills. 
• Fluency in English is required. 

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.