Senior Health Systems Advisor (Private Sector Financing)

Global Health Fellows Program II
Washington - United States
S: Based on experience

Global Health Fellows Program
Technical Advisor III/IV: Senior Health Systems Advisor (Private Sector Financing)
Office of Technical Support, Asia Bureau, United States Agency for International Development
Location: Washington, DC
Assignment: Two year fellowship
GHFP-II-P5-202

The Global Health Fellows Program (GHFP-II) is a five year cooperative agreement implemented and managed by the Public Health Institute in partnership with Global Health Corps, GlobeMed, Management Systems International and PYXERA Global. GHFP-II is supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

GHFP-II's goal is to improve the effectiveness of USAID health programs by addressing the Agency's immediate and emerging human capacity needs. The program seeks to accomplish this goal first through the recruitment, placement and support of diverse health professionals at the junior, mid and senior levels. These program participants include fellows, interns, corporate volunteers and Foreign Service National professionals. The program then provides substantial performance management and career development support to participants, including annual work planning assistance, and ensures that professional development opportunities are available.

Looking to the future, GHFP-II also seeks to establish a pool of highly-qualified global health professionals that will ensure the Agency's ongoing technical leadership and effectiveness. This objective is supported by an extensive outreach program that brings global health opportunities and specialized career advice to a diverse range of interested individuals, with a particular focus on those underrepresented in the field of global health.

INTRODUCTION:
To leverage Asia's significant economic growth to further support improved health, the Health Team is reviewing ways to capture that growth in public-private partnerships. The Bureau is actively engaged in helping missions look at domestic resource mobilization and health financing initiatives that capitalize on the existing Asian capacity for innovation and risk taking. To this end, the Health Team is seeking a Senior Health Systems Advisor (Senior Advisor), who will explore and advise on new ways of doing development and prepare officers in the field to capitalize on their changing economic context, particularly as it relates to private sector financing, taxation as part of domestic resource mobilization and the Global Financing Facility for Maternal and Child Health.

The Senior Advisor will be an integral part of a six person Health Team and work closely with and receive technical guidance from the Health Team Lead as his/her onsite manager.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Senior Health Systems Advisor will be responsible for:

Development and Implementation of Multisectoral Approaches:
• Providing assistance to missions in developing strong strategies for leveraging public and private resources that achieve shared health outcome goals.
• Disseminating information on the drivers of change when countries are adopting Universal Health Coverage.
• Exploring and promoting the use of contractual mechanisms that exist in within the Agency which can support adaptive programming including gift authority, Broad Agency Announcements around Global Development Partnerships and Development Innovation Accelerators, and Development Credit Authority.
• Organizing opportunities with other operating units such as The Lab and Center for Innovation to learn how the Team may implement new ways of doing business within Agency policy.
• Providing strategic thinking support to missions that includes analyses focused on Political Economy and sustainability.
• Serving as an activity manager on discrete programs being implemented by our implementing partners.
• Providing inputs to the legislative bills on Health Systems Strengthening currently being rewritten.

Provision of Technical Support to Field Programs:
• In collaboration with the Office of Health Systems within the Global Health Bureau, working on program and activity designs that increase domestic resource mobilization from private resources, including the expansion of health insurance markets.
• Providing input to missions across Asia on the Global Financing Facility implementation, its impact on program design and the impact it may have on overall resourcing for maternal health.
• Monitoring and engaging in the community of practice on developments in urban health programming, particularly as it intersects with Domestic Resource Mobilization, Universal Health Coverage and equity.
• Tracking new areas of development that can contribute to keeping the programming and portfolio on the cutting edge of development, bring up creative ideas for the team to explore doing business differently.
• Join the practice group with the Office of Health Systems Strengthening in the Global Health Bureau to continue the liaison work between the two Bureaus and to ensure the rapid developments within South East Asia are reflected in Agency thinking.

Technical Training and Professional Development:
• Further developing and revising the existing adult learning course that will serve as an opportunity for mission health officers to improve their knowledge and understanding of current health insurance and innovative financing activities.
• Supporting Missions that are offering bilateral training courses that they have independently developed, to ensure that the curricula reflect the most up to date technical knowledge.
• Participating in any organized training opportunity, particularly those sponsored by our partners WHO and the World Bank, to ensure that health officers expand their skills.
• Working closely with health officers to develop the language and context necessary to understand the UHC landscape, specifically health care financing, improving their fluency and facilitating dialogue with other donors and senior host country partners.
• Furthering the spread of Political Economy Analysis as a tool for developing programs.
• Identifying other development tools that can inform strategy, such as frameworks around Complex Adaptive Systems, which can inform the programming in the Bureau.

Country and Bureau Backstopping:
• Backstopping assigned countries across the Bureau's geographic range in activities such as participating in GH Country Team calls, working with the Desk Officer, being the initial point of contact within the Bureau for the Country Health Team, contributing to routine reporting requirements and strategies or country plans that may be revised, as well as providing support to mission health teams on a temporary basis as necessary. Country assignments depend on personal interest, prior experience and the country portfolio.
• Contributing to the Bureau's Performance Plan and Report, Health Implementation Plan and Portfolio Review, as necessary and developing familiarity with the budget for health activities.

Communication and Collaboration:
• For each country backstopped, working closely to facilitate information sharing and collaborative work platforms among the Asia Bureau desk officer, mission health staff and Global Health Bureau.
• Coordination and outreach with the US Department of State, US Centers for Disease Control and Surveillance, US Department of Health and Human Services, the Foreign Service Training Institute, the World Bank and other multilaterals on country and region-specific issues.
• Writing formal memos and emails to different audiences to promote transparent and timely communication. These writing products may include briefing papers for senior managers, talking points for conferences, and informational memos for the field.

LEVEL IV
An Advisor at the level IV will be further responsible for:
• Developing and making recommendations to Asia Bureau leadership on the appropriate allocation of resources in a broad range of health investments in the Asia region.
• Lead sessions during the 2016 Asia State of the Art (SOTA) Conferences on Health Care Financing.
• Collaborating with relevant Asia Bureau and Global Health Bureau staff to plan, participate, facilitate and present at international and domestic meetings, workshops and conferences dealing with health systems strengthening, health financing, private sector engagement and publishing in peer-reviewed journals as appropriate and approved.

International and domestic travel approximately 30-35%.

REQUIRED SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE:
• Master's degree or higher in public health, finance, health economics, health systems strengthening or a related social science field.
• Experience and familiarity with working in the Asian development context highly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability in strategic planning and design, coupled with hands on program management skills that show prior experience in taking ideas to actualization.
• Demonstrated track record in creating public-private partnerships and engaging the private sector to help achieve shared development outcomes.
• Experience working cross-sectorally and bringing in advances from governance, urbanization, and financing to bear in supporting health programs. Proven ability to apply innovative approaches, work independently and apply new methods to solve problems, while remaining efficient in a fast-paced, changing and challenging institutional environment.
• Experience working with USAID Missions, other donor organizations, host country governments and non-governmental organizations, including universities and research bodies.
• Ability to absorb and synthesize a broad range of information, including financial, regulatory, clinical, demographic, marketing and scientific information.
• Excellent ability to communicate, influence and convince verbally and in writing. Understanding of the institutional processes that can promote communication.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships with people of varied professional, educational and cultural backgrounds.
• High degree of independent judgment and ingenuity to interpret possibilities of program change because of shifting country context and changing economic and political scenarios.
• Fluency in a foreign language is preferred
• Ability to travel internationally.
• US citizenship required.

In addition to the above, the position requires the following at each level:

TECHNICAL ADVISOR III
• Minimum ten (10) years' experience in health systems strengthening, health economics, health finance or private sector partnerships, with at least three (3-5) years' experience in an international or resource challenged setting.

TECHNICAL ADVISOR IV
• Minimum fifteen (15) years' experience in health systems strengthening, health economics, health finance or private sector partnerships, with at least five (5) years' experience in an international or resource challenged setting.

SALARY AND BENEFITS:
Salary based on commensurate experience and earnings history. The Public Health Institute offers a comprehensive benefits package including professional development programs.

TO APPLY:
All applicants are required to apply for this position through GHFP-II's online recruitment system at https://www.ghfp.net/recruitment/, which allows you to store your CV, profile and bio data form in our database. A separate cover letter describing your qualifications and experience, interest and familiarity with issues relating to this position, and how this position relates to your career goals is required for each application. All online applications must be submitted by May 27, 2016 by 5:00 pm Eastern time.

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