Country: Cameroon
City: Yaounde
Type: Regular – Full Time (eligible for benefits)
Business Unit: Country Programs - Country Teams
Overview:
Founded in 2002 by President William J. Clinton, the Clinton
Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to
strengthening integrated health systems around the world and expanding access
to care and treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria and other illnesses. Based on the
premise that business oriented strategy can facilitate solutions to global
health challenges, CHAI acts as a catalyst to mobilize new resources and
optimize the impact of these resources to save lives, via improved organization
of commodity markets and more effective local management. By working in
association with governments and other NGO partners, CHAI is focused on large
scale impact and, to date, CHAI has secured lower pricing agreements for
treatment options in more than 70 countries. In addition, CHAI's teams are
working side-by-side with over 30 governments to tackle many of the largest
barriers to effective treatment and care.
Since 2007, CHAI has been supporting the Government of
Cameroon to introduce and scale up lifesaving Pediatric and second line
treatments for HIV as well as helping to strengthen HIV laboratory systems and
improving malaria diagnostics.
At the request of the Ministry of Health, CHAI will began a
formal sustainable health financing program in Cameroon in March 2014. CHAI is
looking for a Health Financing Analyst to implement this new program. The
vision of the program will be to assist the Government of Cameroon to reach its
goal of universal health coverage. This will be achieved by supporting the
Ministry of Health to develop an evidence base and use this evidence to make
key decisions and to advocate for health priorities with the Ministry of
Finance, Ministry of Economy and Planning and donors.
CHAI’s work in sustainable health financing will provide
process management and technical support. This will include participating in
key forums on sustainable health financing, developing costing methodologies to
better understand costs of health care and national health plans, tracking available
resources to quantify funding gaps and assessing the feasibility for innovative
financing mechanisms.
The analyst will be part of an established team in Cameroon
that works very closely with the Ministry of Health, interacting on a regular
basis with government officials, donors, NGOs and civil society.
Responsibilities:
Reporting to the Health Financing Program Manager, the
Analyst will be responsible for the following:
- Support
the identification of critical hurdles to improving the sustainability of
health financing, both short-term and long-term;
- Develop
models to quantify financial resource gaps across the health sector;
- Research
and evaluate existing and potential innovative financing mechanisms to
support the MOH in resource mobilization;
- Support
the MOH to use analyses to better advocate for health priorities with
government bodies and donors;
- Support
the development of GFATM and other donor applications;
- Work
daily with government officials at national and sub-national levels
throughout planning and implementation phases to ensure skills transfer
and government ownership, and provide technical support as needed; and
- Work
with members of CHAI teams.
- Analyze
and draw conclusions from large volumes of data, inform strategic
decision-making and assess the impact of CHAI's work
- Manage
the development and maintenance of market intelligence databases,
quantitative models and forecasts
- Create
quantitative models and analyses to estimate the impact of market
interventions
- Develop
communication materials based upon analyses
- Present
analytical findings to internal and external audiences
- Perform
other tasks as necessary
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s
Degree or equivalent plus 3 years work experience or advanced degree or
equivalent plus 2 year work experience;
- Strong
organizational and problem solving skills;
- Ability
to multi-task and to be effective in high-pressure situations;
- Ability
to work independently on complex projects;
- Strong
interpersonal skills and ability to build professional relationships;
- High
levels of proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and internet
applications
- Excellent
problem solving, analytical and quantitative skills
- Ability
to think strategically, handle ambiguity and work in a very fast-paced,
limited-structure, multicultural environment
- Fluency
in spoken and written French and English is a must.
Advantage:
- Technical
experience in health economics;
- Management
consulting or other relevant private and public sector experience;
- Experience
working on health related issues in resource-limited settings;
- Relevant
experience working in a multi-cultural setting;
- Knowledge
of health systems strengthening and/or global healthcare systems;
- Understanding
of principles of health economics and related quantitative methodologies
- Understanding
of Global Fund proposal development process as well as other donor funding
mechanisms and processes; and
- Personal
qualities including resourcefulness, entrepreneurialism, flexibility,
independence, humility and strong work ethic.
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