Health Financing/Costing Specialist – Consultant
Project Name: Reducing the Burden of HIV/AIDS and Health Systems Strengthening requirement for MCC Lesotho compact development
Location: Remote / Lesotho-based
Type: Consultant
Reports to: URC HQ Team Leader
University Research Co., LLC (URC)
URC is a global company dedicated to improving the quality of health care, social services, and health education worldwide. With a non-profit affiliate, the Center for Human Services (CHS), URC manages projects in over 45 countries, including the United States.
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Project Overview:
The Reducing the Burden of HIV/AIDS and Health Systems Strengthening requirement will support MCC to conduct formative research and landscape analyses, collect and analyze data related to health system performance and capacities, develop appropriate responses and make recommendations on compact design, and conduct due diligence of proposed HSS interventions. Activities will be carried out in Lesotho and internally within MCC.
Roles and Responsibilities:
The Health Financing/Costing Specialist will contribute to activities remotely and within Lesotho to assess current GBV services and capacities within the MOH and other ministries, including community-managed systems of protection, and develop potential activity recommendations and associated costs to strengthen comprehensive physical, health and psychosocial responsive services for victims of GBV.
The Health Financing/Costing Specialist will be responsible for the following:
- Contributing to formative research (desk review, research plan, instruments and tools), assessment activities, and analysis across tasks above, both remotely and during assessment mission(s) in Lesotho, including contributing to the development of quantitative tools and instruments
- Leading the costing of proposed potential GBV activities, detailing the costs of components included in the recommended comprehensive GBV services package
- Maintaining close communication with URC headquarters on task progress and challenges.
Required Qualifications:
- Advanced University degree (Master’s degree or PhD) in public finance or policy, business administration, health administration, health policy or field related to health financing.
- In the absence of a Master’s degree academic level, a bachelor’s degree academic level with an additional 2 years of experience will be considered.
- At least 3 significant experiences leading the costing and economic modelling of programs relating to social services.
- Previous experience of working with budgetary processes at national and district levels will be an advantage.
- Proficiency in English
To Apply:
For immediate consideration, please visit URC’s Career Opportunities page at www.urc-chs.com/career-opportunities.
You must attach your CV/Résumé ,Cover Letter, and USAID Form 1420 Contractor Employee Biographical Data Sheet where indicated.
Due to the large number of inquiries we receive, only candidates who have met the required experience & qualifications for this position will be contacted. No phone calls please. However, since we are active around the world in the field of public health, we may wish to retain your CV in our database for other/future opportunities, unless you direct us otherwise. Thank you very much for your interest.
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