Principal Technical Advisor, Health Economics and Financing

Job Description

Health Care Financing at MSH:

Ensuring adequate health care financing—and its effective distribution across individuals, population groups, geographical areas, levels of care, and services—is essential to a strong, resilient health system and advancing progress toward Universal Health Coverage. MSH supports national governments around the globe to mobilize previously untapped sources of health care financing; prioritize available funding for health care through health technology assessments, economic analysis, and strategic purchasing; and protect people from the financial consequences of paying for health services out of their own pockets.

About this role:

MSH is seeking a qualified candidate to serve as a Principal Technical Advisor within its Health Economics and Financing practice area in the Global Health Systems Innovation Department.

The Principal Technical Advisor will provide technical leadership to MSH’s projects in health economics and financing, including specific areas such as reimbursement and pricing policies, designing benefits packages, development and expansion of state funded programs for access to health technologies.

This position will play a critical role within the health economics and financing unit, providing thought leadership to our diverse portfolio of projects in systems strengthening, capacity development, stakeholder engagement initiatives, national and international networking towards evidence-based policy making, and more efficient health care systems.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead integration or enhancement of evidence-based policy tools, such as HTA, into the systems including conducting capacity development and stakeholder engagement to ensure changes are feasible, acceptable, and sustainable.
• Lead MSH internal capacity development and engagement with international networks to ensure MSH success stories are heard and inspire others.
• Increase worldwide knowledge and understanding of MSH’s health economics and financing work through staff training, publications in journals, and presentations to external stakeholders while supporting new business development proposals to donors.
• Utilize strong quantitative skills and research capacity and has experience supporting projects funded by diverse donors such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, World Bank, or pharmaceutical companies.
• The listed job responsibilities are not exhaustive. The PTA position is an opportunity to be both innovative and strategic in suggesting and implementing new methods to achieve the outcomes desired by our clients and needed by the people our projects aim to serve.

The listed job responsibilities are not exhaustive. The PTA position is an opportunity to be both innovative and strategic in suggesting and implementing new methods to achieve the outcomes desired by our clients and needed by the people our projects aim to serve.

What do you need to apply?

MSH employs people of passion, we seek those individuals who dream of a better world. We look for professionals who combine experience, local knowledge, and an understanding of international best practices.

QUALIFICATIONS

What do you need to apply?

MSH employs people of passion, we seek individuals who dream of a better world. We look for professionals who combine experience, local knowledge, and an understanding of international best practices.

Education:

Required:

• Advanced graduate degree (Masters level or above) with formal training in a related discipline, including health economics, health technology assessment, public health, health services research, policy analysis, epidemiology, or biostatistics.

Experience:

Required:

• Minimum of 8 (eight) years of relevant work experience in supporting health reform activities in LMIC settings with an emphasis on integration of evidence-based policy making tools to the health reforms. 10 (ten) years of experience is strongly preferred.
• Proven experience with multi-stakeholder engagement in improving health policies, and conducting health reforms, such as facilitating high level stakeholder roundtables or fora.
• Proven experience with creating and implementing Roadmaps for health care reform activities, including integrating HTA, pricing or reimbursement strategies in a low resource setting.
• Must have proven experience supervising and mentoring technical staff for similar health projects in developing countries.
• Experience organizing and working with teams to produce high-quality deliverables.
• Previous work experience with international NGOs and USG funded projects in difficult settings.
• Minimum of three years of demonstrated experience operating with technical proficiency within the global HSS community on matters related to health financing and governance in LMIC countries.

Preferred:

• Experience with USAID projects is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience in program management and administration, and contract compliance.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain relationships with senior-level colleagues, particularly interacting productively, proactively, and comfortably with government agencies, NGOs, private sector groups, USAID and other donor organizations.
• Track record of strong commitment to sharing knowledge, documenting experiences, supporting creative initiatives, and sharing credit.
• Demonstrated strategic agility, diplomacy, conflict management, team building, written and oral communication, and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrated technical expertise in health economics and financing.
• Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
• A good record of international peer-reviewed publications.
• Fluency in English is required.

Physical Demands: Work is performed in an office environment and requires the ability to operate standard office equipment and keyboards. Must have the ability to walk short distances and pick up materials.

Travel: Up to 20% regional travel

 

MSH is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity, religion, creed, citizenship, national origin, age, veteran status, or disability unrelated to job requirements. MSH will take affirmative action to ensure that qualified applicants are employed and that employees are treated without regard to their race, age, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran and disability status.