Consultant, Reproductive Health Cost Reporting System in Nigeria Pilot Study at Palladium Group

Location: Abuja, Nigeria

Project Overview and Role   

• Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact - the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with foundations, investors, governments, corporations, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.
• For the past 50 years, we have been making Positive Impact possible. With a team of more than 2,500 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of more than 35,000 technical experts, Palladium has improved - and is committed to continuing to improve - economies, societies and most importantly, people's lives.
• Palladium is a child-safe organisation, and screens applicants for suitability to work with children. We also provide equal employment to all participants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or marital status.
• MEASURE Evaluation works in collaboration with other countries to strengthen their health information systems (HIS) to generate high quality data that used for decision-making. It is a cooperative agreement, leader with associate award, project funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The University of North Carolina (UNC) is prime recipient of the award, and there are five partner agencies: ICF International (ICF); John Snow, Inc. (JSI); Management Sciences for Health (MSH); Palladium Group (PG); and Tulane University (TU).

Background

• Under the USAID-sponsored MEASURE Evaluation project, Palladium developed the Reproductive Health Cost Reporting System (RHCRS.) The RHCRS is a management tool that can help health service delivery organizations to capture and analyze existing financial and other data on a regular basis. It is designed to treat financial, commodity, labor and other cost data as inputs to a system that allows service delivery organizations to estimate what it costs to deliver specific health services, what the cost drivers are and how these costs may differ across service delivery points, across regions and over time.
• Palladium is piloting the system in one or two to-be-selected non-governmental health service organizations in Abuja, Nigeria. A consultant is being recruited to assist with the pilot. This will be a short-term consultant who will report to the Technical Lead based in North Carolina, USA. All applicants must be based in Abuja, Nigeria.

Responsibilities   

• Serve as liaison between MEASURE Evaluation/Palladium and one or two heath care service delivery organizations in Abuja that have agreed to be part of the pilot.
• Assist the service delivery organizations with initial configuration of the Reproductive Health Cost Reporting System (RHCRS).
• Assist with in-country orientation and training of the service delivery organizations’ staff in the use of the RHCRS.
• Assist with data capture of secondary data for the RHCRS
• Assist with the time allocation study component of the RHCRS
• Provide data quality and completeness checks for all data captured or collected.
• Contribute to the final report

Requirements

• Higher degree in Public Health, Public Administration or Economics
• Knowledge of the health care system in Nigeria, especially in Abuja or FCT
• Experience working with complex Excel spreadsheets
• Excellent English

Application Deadline.
31st May, 2019.