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Project Overview and Role:

Data.FI is a five-year global project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support the HIV and COVID-19 response. Data.FI partners with programs to accelerate and sustain access to high-quality data to expedite HIV and COVID-19 epidemic control and maintenance. By improving global, regional, national, and community/in-depth local analyses of HIV and COVID-19 epidemiologic and programmatic data, Data.FI expedites program achievements to improve client services and attain and sustain control of epidemics. Data.FI supports host country governments in enhancing existing health information systems (HIS), informing management responses to gaps in programming, and sustaining impact by supporting local partner transition. 
Purpose of Position 

In support of Nigeria’s national response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Data.FI is currently seeking to employ the services of a Public Health (PH) Specialist to provide strategic, programmatic, and support roles on project activities related to providing technical assistance to national Global Fund COVID-19 grantees and supporting other stakeholders on COVID-19 surveillance, vaccination, and other service delivery.

(S)he will provide technical assistance in the implementation and continued work regarding COVID-19 vaccine distribution, case management, oxygen supply systems, and administration plan activities with relevant ministries, departments, and agencies (MDAs) such as the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH), the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), and others. 

The PH Specialist will report the Data.FI Nigeria Deputy Country Director.

Location:  Abuja

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provide technical inputs to the project’s COVID-19 Strategy and support agency-wide efforts to design or modify project activities in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. 
• Ensure that the Data.FI COVID-19 Strategy - focusing on strengthening health information systems - and accompanying guidance/tools is aligned with external guidance from WHO, National, and best practices emerging from the public health response.
• Provide monthly technical reports of activities, progress, barriers, and success with a plan to address the barriers which will form part of the Data.FI Nigeria monthly COVID-19 bulletin.
• Provide technical support to state teams and sectors to mainstream other public health areas into the PH emergency operations centers (EOCs) at the national and sub-national levels.
• Work with the National SI Advisor and Capacity strengthening and learning specialist to develop and disseminate resources to assist the MDAs and state agencies in their deliverables.
• Provide COVID-19-related expertise and coordinate regular updating of technical information notes and briefings in line with National, CDC, and WHO technical guidance.
• Keep staff updated on the best scientific evidence and best program practices. 
• Support state staff on quality implementation of COVID-19 activities.
• Liaise with the COVID National SI Advisor to promote a robust learning agenda as countries adapt programming and take on new programming.
• Other duties assigned as required in line with the approved Data.FI Nigeria COVID-19 workplan.

Required Qualifications:

• A Master's degree in public health, epidemiology, or a related field.
• Knowledge of the methods, processes, and techniques used to develop and deliver public health or health-related programs in international and local settings.
• Working knowledge of COVID-19 vaccine distribution systems, national guidelines for COVID-19 case management, and logistics systems, including oxygen distribution systems.
• Demonstrated resourcefulness in problem-solving and initiative to learn new skills.
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders and provide support.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team. 
• Working knowledge of the Surveillance Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System (SORMAS), District Health Information Software, version 2 (DHIS2) system, and existing supply chain systems supporting COVID-19 epidemic interventions.
• Working knowledge of patient-level and aggregate data management systems. 
• Ability to achieve consensus among multiple stakeholders.
• Skills in data analysis with proficiency in at least one statistical package.  
• Excellent written and verbal skills in English; ability to communicate technical information to audiences with varying levels of technical expertise.

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Project Overview and Role:

Data.FI is a five-year global project funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support the HIV and COVID-19 response. Data.FI partners with programs to accelerate and sustain access to high-quality data to expedite HIV and COVID-19 epidemic control and maintenance. By improving global, regional, national, and community/in-depth local analyses of HIV and COVID-19 epidemiologic and programmatic data, Data.FI expedites program achievements to improve client services and attain and sustain control of epidemics. Data.FI supports host country governments in enhancing existing health information systems (HIS), informing management responses to gaps in programming, and sustaining impact by supporting local partner transition. 
Purpose of Position 

Palladium/Data.FI is seeking a Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist to support the Data Analytics and Data Use, team. The Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist will provide in-depth data analysis and develop high-quality dashboards and information products for key priority indicators. 

The Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist will work with the Data.FI Nigeria’s Data Analytics and Data Use Team Lead to develop and standardize visualizations across Data.FI Nigeria analytic platforms such as the Comprehensive Access Review Dashboard (CARD), Automated Partner Performance Reporting (APPR) line lister application, and other information systems are under optimization. The Specialist will report to the Data Analytics and Data Use Team Lead.

Location:     Abuja 

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Develop visualization mockups and prototypes in response to user requirements for implementation on the CARD.
• Create dashboards, automated reports, report templates, and presentations by analyzing requisite data using data visualization and analysis tools.
• Develop product catalogs to document the dictionary of visual assets for the CARD, line lister application, and information products developed in response to the HIV epidemic control.
• Influence interventions through state-of-the-art analytics with understandable, actionable, data-driven insights and quickly identify key themes from their data.
• Provide guidance and insight on data visualization options for dashboard design and use relevant business intelligence tools to execute the desired outputs.
• Work with the support of the Data Analytics team to enhance data collection structures and procedures to include relevant information for building analytic systems.
• Recommend data architecture and engineering structures necessary to support data mining, reports, analytics, and dashboards.
• Develop data strategies specifically around data structures, identifying critical information, and the tools used to retrieve and analyze the data.
• Develop and generate high-quality information products and infographics to generate meaningful use of data for programmatic decision-making.

Required Qualifications:

• Degree in computer science, statistics or management information systems, or any health-related degree with health informatics experience preferred. 
• At least 3 years of work experience in data analysis, data mining, BI (Tableau, Power BI, and other tools), and analytics development or other related analytical projects with recent proven experience developing data visualizations, dashboards, and reporting.
• Proficiency in the development of infographics and packaging of information products.
• Experience working with large datasets (on relational and non-relational data stores) and excellent understanding of metadata, DHIS2, and patient-level data.
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills, especially with data forecasting, cleaning, and transformations.
• Strong proficiency in query/reporting tools, SQL, Advanced Excel (or similar visualization tool), R/Python, or other statistical tools.
• Advanced data analysis skills and proficiency in statistical and GIS packages, at least one or two, such as Stata, SPSS, Epi, QGIS, etc. would be an added advantage.
• Experience working in health programming will be an added advantage.
• Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment with cross-functional teams to accomplish objectives.
• Ability to mentor and train through various methods, including online, face-to-face, or blended learning opportunities.
• Excellent analysis interpretation and presentation skills.

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Project Overview and Role:

The USAID Integrated Health Program Nigeria, implemented by Palladium, is an integrated health program with an expanded effort with the Government of Nigeria (GON) to identify and support rapid scale-up of proven interventions through improvement of service delivery and strengthening of health systems. It focuses on six service delivery intervention areas: maternal health, newborn health, family planning, child health, malaria, and nutrition.

 Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

Palladium is recruiting a Director of Health Financing who will work on the USAID/Nigeria Integrated Health Program (IHP) to provide senior level leadership to design and lead activities related to health financing for universal health coverage. Specifically, this position will provide national and global content knowledge and best practices, technical assistance, and support for the development and execution of health financing and financial risk protection activities.  Areas of expertise include fiscal space analysis, budget tracking, bottleneck analysis, system of health accounts, resource needs and financing gap analysis, domestic resource mobilization, risk pooling and health insurance, resource optimization, designing costed packages of services and strategic purchasing. Methodologies that may be applied include systematic literature reviews, health financing and budget performance tracking, financial and BHPCF/health insurance enrollment and utilization data analysis, PHC level business plans and expenditure tracking, accountability dashboards, public-private partnerships, qualitative and quantitative surveys, governance/regulatory assessments, innovative financing and financial feasibility of proposals for expansion of health programs and risk-pooling schemes.

The Director of Health Financing will provide technical assistance to and build capacity of country policymakers, state program managers and decision-makers; design and or conduct studies; and write position papers, reports, and technical briefs to inform relevant audiences. The candidate will be required to Identify innovative solutions for increasing enrollment and achieve other health financing results in social health protection schemes/ financial risk protection schemes. The candidate will also be required to determine methods and procedures on new assignments, and both implement and manage other staff or consultants in carrying them out. These responsibilities will require a person with knowledge on national and state governments as well as the private health sector participation. This position requires frequent travel to the five IHP target states. This position reports to the Deputy Chief of Party.

The position is based in IHP's Abuja Country Office in Nigeria.

Reporting and Supervision:

This position reports to the Deputy Chief of Party and provides supervision to the Senior Health Finance Advisor and technical guidance and oversight of IHP’s state health financing advisors.

Responsibilities:

• Provides health financing expertise/technical assistance and expert technical guidance based on proven global and in-country approaches to National and State activities of the project, working with other technical staff and host country government institutions.

• Designs and executes the overall health financing strategy for the project and support the MEL team to track the achievement of project results for health financing under the USAID contract.

• Provides remote and on-the-ground technical, managerial, and operational oversight, capacity building and mentoring to specific health financing and financial risk protection activities in States settings related to areas of core expertise.

• Works with the national and state level actors to establish and or strengthen multi sectoral health financing technical working groups (TWGs) to institutionalize ongoing health financing reforms.

• 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.

• Analyzes 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.

• Provides expert technical guidance towards the design and effective implementation of state contributory health schemes for: increased enrollment of formal and informal sector beneficiaries into the state health insurance scheme and BHCPF through salary deductions, individual premium payments, or contributions; improved revenue generation for the BHCPF and the SHIS equity fund; increased risk pooling and shift to strategic purchasing.

• Provides technical support to the National Steering Committee of the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) to ensure funds flow through the NHIS and NPHCDA gateways to the states and to Primary Healthcare Centers.

• Provides guidance to NPHCDA, FMOH and state governments regarding budgeting and for service delivery activities and HRH, and innovative financing.

• Uses various quantitative and qualitative techniques to perform financing and policy analysis tasks. Conducts health financing core analytics, expenditure analyses, economic evaluations, implement optimization and efficiency plans,  and develop resource mobilization plans for sustainable health financing systems.
  Participates in and prepares necessary technical and program-related reports, including presentations, quarterly and annual reports and white papers.

• Organizes and facilitates approved health financing activities including trainings, conferences, workshops, and meetings. Is responsible for the development of health financing activity-specific work plans and budgets.

• Ensures quality of services and compliance per project requirements.

• Provides functional guidance to outside vendors/grantees working on health finance related tasks to ensure deliverables are met within timelines and budgets.

• Represent IHP at health financing meetings/events and actively participate in the national Health Financing Technical Working Group, the NPHCDA, the FMOH/DHPRS health financing Division and other relevant technical committees.

• Documents health financing success stories/lessons learned and produces abstracts and publishable health financing materials including policy briefs and peer-reviewed articles.

• Performs other related duties and responsibilities as assigned

Required Qualifications:

• Advanced degree (MA, MSc, PhD) in economics, health economics, relevant social sciences or public health with academic specialization in health financing, social health protection schemes/financial risk protection or commensurate work experience in health finance

• At least 20 years of proven health finance experience and broad knowledge in Nigeria’s governance and health finance landscape OR advanced degree with 12+ years of experience

• 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 enrollment and achieving other health financing results in social health protection schemes/ financial risk protection schemes

• Knowledge of relevant literature and state of the art interventions related to topic areas

• Demonstrated problem solving, analytic, financial, and evaluative skills

• Attention to detail and ability to effectively and efficiently perform multiple tasks and balance competing priorities often within a required timeframe and able to work under pressure

• 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)

• Fluency in English required, and local languages (Hausa) preferred

• Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% of the time within Nigeria, including to states in the north

Professional Expertise/Competencies Preferred:

• Proactive and independent self-starter with an ability to take initiative and/or respond independently to situations

• Professional and mature demeanor and conduct

• Ability to provide technical guidance to a team of state health facility advisors

• Ability to respond and adapt quickly to changing requirements and competing demands

• Appropriate software skills necessary to conduct research, and to conduct analysis of study data, such as STATA, SPSS, or equivalent