The Financing Alliance for Health Country Engagement and Health Financing Specialist Jobs in Kenya

The Financing Alliance for Health Country Engagement and Health Financing Specialist Jobs in Kenya

Role

Reporting to the Program Director, Building Integrated Readiness for Community Health. The Country Engagement and Health Financing Specialist will work directly with country providers and provide them advice, guidance, oversight, and monitoring in executing their program workplan.

In addition to working with the assigned countries, this role will provide technical advice across all countries on the Global Fund funding process. This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to pioneer a transformative initiative, dedicated to scaling and sustaining integrated, resilient community health systems across ten African countries.

This position is only open to candidates who are located and authorized to work within Sub-Saharan Africa Remote or in Nairobi. This position has a fixed term contract until March 2024, with potential for renewal.

What You’ll Do

Plan, supervise, monitor, follow up and report on, together with BIRCH providers, all aspects of AFF in-country activities for the countries in your portfolio.

Review progress reports from country implementing partners to make recommendations for review by the BIRCH Director.

Serve as a liaison between AFF’s financing, political prioritization, and impact teams and the 3-5 countries in your portfolio

Support development of narrative and budget components of GC7 funding request development and other health programming and financing technical support with BIRCH providers, Ministry of Health, and other relevant actors including Global Fund team.

Provide technical advice to all countries in AFF’s portfolio, on key Global Fund processes, information, and technical guidelines.

This role includes 30% travel.

What You’ll

Bring

Master’s degree in health economics, economics, or public health with a health financing focus, or related field

Several years working in health financing and health economics

Experience working with ministries of health and finance, donors and implementing agencies, and strong communication skills to knowledgeable and effectively interact with key actors

Experience with the Global Fund funding request development process, including previous experience as part of writing teams, country coordinating mechanisms, technical guidance to Ministries, or in review of funding requests

Established track record of carrying out analytical work and preparing high-quality technical reports, policy briefing materials, and presentations

Strong and compelling writing skills

Culturally nuanced with extensive experience across multiple countries/regions on the African continent, with high preference for experience working with Francophone countries in Africa

Diplomatic and patient, with ability to understand specific nuances of country contexts (political, cultural, economic, etc

Working proficiency in French required (Bilingual is strongly preferred) with additional language skills are an added advantage

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; The Financing Alliance for Health Country Engagement and Health Financing Specialist Jobs in Kenya

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