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

Position Description:

• Navanti is 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 Out-brief 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.