LHSS East Africa: Cross-Border Health Consultant: Galafi/Dhikir (Djibouti/Ethiopia) at Abt Associates

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The consultant will lead the execution of the following tasks:

• Conduct data collection and key informant interviews with local and national cross-border health authorities and stakeholders as needed to obtain information on current cross border processes for routine data validation, utilization, and sharing, current capacity development needs within the cross border, and current cross-border risk pooling and other financing schemes;
• Participate during analysis and synthetization of findings from data collection for inputs into a landscape analysis report;
• Participate during designing, tailoring, adaptation, and conducting of local capacity building exercises and provide need-based support for activities outlined within the project work plan.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in social sciences, public health, health management, health information system, financing, or medicine, is required
• Minimum of 4 years’ prior experience working in the public and/or private sectors
• Experience working with national level health stake holders including ministry of Health(MOH) officials.
• Working experience and/or knowledge of cross-border health issues and/or, health information system, and/or financing sufficient to implement the Activity’s portfolio of interventions
• Experience in data collection to interpret and analyze results for decision making
• Experience in providing technical assistance and capacity building to local-level health stakeholders is preferred
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with public, government officials, community leaders, colleagues, partners, and other key stakeholders
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and as part of a team
• Fluent local language ( Somali ) writing/speaking skills is preferred
• Fluency in writing and speaking in English is required
• Experience in rapid implementation and readily assessing gaps and current capabilities to provide technical assistance