Job Openings 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 

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Job profile :

• The Director Strategic Information (DSI)SI will be the lead technical expert responsible for all Strategic Information aspects of the programme, including monitoring, evaluation, analytics and reporting of performance and results.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Develop project research protocols and investigation materials in accordance with ethical standards and interfaces with the relevant Ethics committee/agency.
• Lead the team in the planning and implementation of formative research, target audience analysis, mid-term reviews, evaluations and behavioral surveillance surveys, special studies and evaluation research in support of  programme objectives
• Identify sub-project monitoring, research and evaluation; and training requirements.
• Coordinate staff on the project to develop and submit abstracts/journals to international conferences and journals
• Monitor compliance with project M&E framework including overseeing reporting of data from the field office to ensure timeliness, completeness, and quality.
• Develop methods for data quality assurance and support the conduct of data quality audits.
• Build the capacity of staff in project monitoring and data collection against set indicators and use of such information for programme implementation.
• Develop and oversees data flow pattern for the Project and ensure timely data collection, reporting, and use.
• Coordinate and ensure timely data entry into DHIS by project staff.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly reports SI reports using reports submitted from the field office. Synthesise and communicate main findings and conclusions for decision making
• Lead the team (CBOs and staff) in the design, administration, and data analysis and reporting of qualitative and quantitative research and evaluation with a focus on project impact especially those related to OVC interventions and programmes.
• Build the capacity of project teams in the use of data collection tools and data management best practices through training and mentoring.
• Work with the project finance team to prepare work-plans and budgets and track the progress of SI activities and budgets
• Development of all research, SI based budget and ensure that all program activities occur within the budget.

Qualifications/Experience:

• A minimum of Master’s degree in public health, epidemiology, social sciences, monitoring & evaluation, demography, biostatistics, statistics, analytics or a related field is required.
• At least seven years of progressive and relevant experience in areas of strategic information, Monitoring and Evaluation, medical informatics preferably with knowledge of international donors such as USAID, Global Fund, UN and World Bank.
• Demonstrated experience developing in-house tools and data management systems to track M&E and performance OVC indicators for the programme: LAMIS and NOMIS
• Highly skilled in health sector M&E HMIS and related information systems strengthening at the policy level. Knowledge of enterprise resource planning packages (SAP).
• Advanced knowledge of data base management and epidemiological modelling tools particularly Spectrum.
• Working experience in designing, establishing, and managing monitoring and evaluation systems, ensuring data quality, and managing data-intensive system.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of Nigeria’s health and social service information systems and monitoring and evaluation processes as it relates to data collection for performance-based reporting;
• Demonstrated understanding, experience, and competency in comprehensive HIV prevention, treatment and care and support service at the community and facility levels
• Demonstrated statistical analysis skills and use of relevant software (SAS, SPSS, Epi Info, Atlas) and proficient in Microsoft Office applications including MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.