Abro Finance House recruitment for the below stated post urgently:
Position: HEALTH SPEC/ECONOMIST (RESULTS BASED FINANCING-COTERM APPT)
JOB FAMILY: HEALTH, NUTRITION & POPULATION
LOCATION: LAGOS,
LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS: ENGLISH [ESSENTIAL)
BACKGROUND / GENERAL DESCRIPTION
NOTE: This is a Trust Fund supported jobs in Nigeria. If the selected candidate is a current Bank Group staff member with a Regular or Open-Ended appointment, s/he will retain his/her Regular or Open-Ended appointment. All others will be offered a three-year renewable co-terminous appointment.
The ABRO FINANCE HOUSE is seeking for Health Specialist/Economist to be part of the health team. The jobs in Nigeria will be based in Lagos.
Despite several decades of financial and human capital investments, Nigeria has made only limited progress in delivering key health interventions and the country still lags woefully on meeting the MDG targets. Bold innovations and reforms are required that increase the focus on results and address the ineffective incentive structures. We are at a Results Based Financing (RBF) operation that aims to address two key challenges encountered in the current Nigeria portfolio (i) How to enhance the focus on results; and (ii) How to shift the Bank’s strategic focus to a few states in order to demonstrate improved health outcomes. The proposed project is a performance-based loan in the amount of US$ 150 million aimed at improving delivery of high impact primary health care services. The project will:
Test the effectiveness of programmatic financing linked to a set of disbursement linked indicators (DLIs); and
Pilot test innovative results based management tools such as Results-Based Financing (RBF) for health facilities. These pilot innovations will be carefully evaluated using rigorous methodologies and implemented at a level of expenditure that will be sustainable.
The tasks of the Health Specialist/Economist will be to support the Nigerian government and the country team in understanding, designing and implementing both demand and supply-side results-based financing mechanisms to improve health outcomes. The Health Specialist/Economist will contribute to the Unit’s operational and analytic work program focused on results-based financing as a tool to strengthen health systems and to improve health outputs and outcomes.
To support design and implementation of RBF at country level, the HNP Family created the Health Results Innovations Trust Fund (HRITF). To-date, two donors — Norway and UK — have committed US$558 million equivalent for the HRITF through 2022. The HRITF has three specific objectives:
Develop and disseminate the evidence base for implementing successful RBF mechanisms;
Achieve HNP results for those that need them the most while simultaneously building national institutional capacity to strengthen health systems in general and sustain and scale-up effective impactful RBF mechanism.
The HRITF has awarded the Nigeria State Health PIC under funding stream 1A a total of US$17. 5M to provide financial support to country programs funded by IDA for RBF projects. This financing allows for staff costs during preparation and implementation of the RBF project. The jobs in Nigeria will be a national recruit, based in Lagos.
SELECTION CRITERIA
The selected candidate will have:
Knowledge and/or experience with designing results-based/performance-based financing mechanisms (and other related financing/contracting for health service provision) in developing countries, preferably in a variety of international and country settings, including different regions and different institutional contexts
Strong knowledge and understanding of the Nigerian political economy and institutional and governance context of Nigeria
Degree in Health Economics, International Development, or Public Health.
Proven analytical skills, writing ability, and written and oral communications skills.
Strong diplomatic skills and success working in teams both as a team member and as a team leader.
Strong Language and communication skills in English are required.
The ABRO FINANCE HOUSE is committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, nationality, culture and educational background. All applications will be treated in the strictest confidence.
HOW APPLY: forward your cv to tllgoal@yahoo. com
Application deadline:6th April,2011
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