Health Financing Director at Society for Family Health (SFH)

Job Profile:

• The Director of Health Financing will work with programme leadership to provide guidance on the activities related to health financing for universal health coverage. Specifically, this position will provide national and international subject knowledge and best practices, technical assistance, and support for the development and execution of health financing and financial risk protection activities. 
• Designs and executes the programme’s overarching health financing strategy and supports the MERL team to track the achievement of deliverables and results for health financing under the programme.  
• Provides health financing expertise/technical assistance based on proven global and national approaches to programme activities, working with other technical staff and government institutions.  
• Analyses the economic and financing implications of implementing enhanced health systems, economic incentives, and increasing access to and improving quality of primary healthcare services, including integrated reproductive/family planning, maternal and newborn health, child health, nutrition and malaria.  
• Supervise capacity building and mentoring for specific health financing and financial risk protection activities related to core programme areas. 
• Provides technical advisory support to the state’s contributory health agencies, state health trust fund agencies, and other relevant stakeholder platforms for the empanelment of public and private healthcare facilities, operational efficiencies for premium payments and reimbursements to health facilities for services.  
• Provides technical guidance for the design and effective implementation of state contributory health schemes for increased participation of formal and informal sector beneficiaries into the state health insurance scheme and BHCPF and the SHIS equity fund; increased risk pooling and shift to strategic purchasing.  
• Lead the conduct of health financing core analytics, expenditure analyses, and economic evaluations, implement optimization and efficiency plans, and develop resource mobilization plans for sustainable health financing systems.  
• Participates in and prepares necessary programme reports, including presentations, quarterly and annual reports and white papers.  
• Organises and facilitates approved health financing activities including training, conferences, workshops, and meetings.  
• Represent SFH at health financing meetings/events and relevant Health Financing Technical Working Groups.  
• Documents health financing success stories/lessons learned and produces abstracts and publishable health financing materials including policy briefs and peer-reviewed articles. 

Qualifications/Experience:

• Advanced degree (Master’s or above) in health financing, health economics, economics, public health or public policy with a specialization in health financing, social health protection schemes/financial risk protection, or commensurate work experience in health finance 
• Minimum of 10 years of proven health finance experience and broad knowledge of Nigeria’s governance and health finance landscape  
• Expert knowledge of health systems and policy development, particularly in health system financing (e.g. health expenditure tracking, financial protection, public financial management, strategic purchasing, costing, cost-effectiveness, health technology assessment and benefit design, sustainability, and addressing fragmentation); 
• Deep conceptual understanding of health systems, primary health care and the goals of universal health coverage, health security, and population health improvement; 
• Deep conceptual understanding of the links between the macroeconomy, development, health, and equity; 
• Sound knowledge of methodologies used in health finance research, economic analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, return on investment analysis, quantitative analysis, and statistical/econometric analysis. 
• Proven experience in identifying innovative solutions for increasing enrolment and achieving other health financing results in social health protection schemes/ financial risk protection schemes. 
• Demonstrated problem solving, analytic, financial, and evaluative skills. 
• Proven leadership skills and experience in facilitating Communities of Practice 
• Strong written and oral communication skills for high-level policy audiences (writing examples may be required) 
• Ability to provide technical guidance to a team of state health facility advisors. 
• Appropriate software skills necessary to conduct research