Health Financing & Private Sector Advisor at Solina Centre for International Development and Research (SCIDaR)

Technical responsibilities

The Health Financing & Private Sector Advisor will support the delivery of the following:

• Leads and provides day-to-day management support to the consortium teams in the state on health financing and private sector engagement
• Supports the institutionalization of ongoing health financing reforms by facilitating the set-up of HIV health financing technical working group in each state
• Provides high-level engagement to facilitate the design and implementation of the HIV Trust Fund for the state
• Oversees the mapping and needs assessments of all PMV/PHFs to ART sites
• Designs the engagement model(s) for the use of eligible PMVs/unsupported PHFs as drug pick-up centres
• Oversees the engagements with the unions of private medical practitioners on the integration of the private sector in HIV care
• Convene high-level engagements to register and activate eligible PMVs/PHFs as drug pick-up centres to support differentiated service delivery at each of the states
• Defines model and strategy for capacity building for private sector actors across the 3 states
• Provides oversight for the conduct of quarterly supportive supervision for mentorship and coaching in programmatic and technical capacities for Private Sector actors at each of the states
• Coordinates monthly data audit and review meetings for PMVs & PHFs for the 3 states and disseminates reports to the relevant stakeholders
• Oversees quarterly DQA for PMVs & PHFs at each of the assigned states (Kano, Bauchi, Jigawa and Niger) and disseminates reports to the relevant stakeholders
• Other duties as assigned

Required competencies

Education and Experience

• Academic training: Minimum of Bachelor’s degree in International Development, Policy and Strategy Development, Medicine, Public Health, Microbiology, Epidemiology, Health Management or a similar relevant field. A Master’s Degree is an added advantage.

Experience:

• Minimum of 6 – 10 years of progressive experience in health systems strengthening and/or HIV or PHC program design and implementation
• Strong understanding and experience of PHC programming, including the BHCPF and Health Insurance schemes
• Astute problem solving and strong team leadership and program management skills
• Stakeholder management and coordination
• Strong verbal and written communications skills,
• Strong report writing skills with excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office suite (Excel and PowerPoint)