Abt Associates is looking for Health Finance Advisor, LHSS Bangladesh 2021 in Dhaka.
Abt Associates seeks a qualified Health Finance Advisor for the USAID-funded (LHSS) Bangladesh Activity. USAID Bangladesh is supporting the Government of Bangladesh in its efforts to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. Bangladesh has directed attention toward improving coverage, efficiency, and quality of essential health care services, with a particular focus on improved governance, stewardship, financing, monitoring, and community engagement in urban areas. It is critical in order to achieve UHC that the GOB strengthens its capacity and commitment to financing self-reliance of the health sector.
Responsibilities
- Support and assist Principal Adviser, Health Financing in all the matters related to health financing and public financial management activities aligned with LHSS.
- Represent LHSS to engage and foster relationships at the national and subnational levels and with other stakeholders in the health financing, public financial management, and urban health sectors.
- Identify the appropriate support the aforementioned stakeholders need by critically co-assessing needs around health finance and health financing mechanisms and ensure that LHSS activities meet established timelines and standards.
- Travel independently to subnational levels and improve collaboration with and solicit feedback from stakeholders to build capacity as needed around social health protection and strengthening health financing mechanisms and governance.
- Work with the appropriate national bodies (MoHFW, HEU, MOLGRDC, MoF, etc.) to develop their capacity to act as stewards for health financing in Bangladesh.
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Location:
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Eligibilities
Preferred Qualifications
- The Health Finance Advisor is expected to have the depth and breadth of technical expertise and
- experience, professional reputation, management experience, interpersonal skills and written and oral presentation skills to fulfill the diverse technical and managerial requirements of key roles and responsibilities.
- Master’s Degree (minimum) in Health Economics/Health Finance (preferred), Public Health, Management, Medicine, Health Administration, or other relevant field.
- Six to eight years of relevant professional experience in managing progressively complex health programs. Experience in working in USAID programs is preferred (but not required).
- Familiar with Government of Bangladesh budgeting, planning, health financing, timelines, and stakeholders’ dealings.
- Recognized expertise in health financing, with demonstrated success in in strengthening health financing, including social health protection schemes, oversite of the implementation of health financing mechanisms, and domestic resource mobilization. Experience with other health financing topics, including public financial management, highly desirable.
- Proven track record of working effectively with government counterparts at various levels, ideally in South East Asia. Experience in Bangladesh is highly preferred.
- Previous experience building capacity and/or mentoring on these topics in Bangladesh highly desirable.
- Demonstrated leadership and management skills and ability to lead and motivate multidisciplinary teams.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with USAID, ministry officials, and other development partners and a proven track record of interacting with other projects, high-level host country governments and international agencies.
- A proven, successful record of achieving results. The Health Finance Advisor will be required to fulfil the key roles and responsibilities largely independently and requires the initiative to ensure work is progressing.
- Experience with urban health desirable.
- Fluency in English and Bengali is required.
Minimum Qualifications
- Master’s Degree and six to eight years of relevant experience OR the equivalent of education and relevant professional work experience
Eligible Regions: Bangladesh
