Consultancy to Support MOH to Conduct a Rapid Update of Annual National and County Health Budget Analyses and Integration of Evidence to Inform Ongoing Health Sector Financing Reforms at Palladium International

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Organize and facilitate conceptualization and planning meeting with MOH task force members, firming final task implementation plan,
• Develop draft proposals for revision of contents and approaches of NCBA to align with ongoing health financing reforms,
• Organize and conduct national and county consultative meetings in 4 counties and acquire additional information needs as required under task (ii) above,
• Organize meeting with task team to enrich draft content proposals and present to wider stakeholders,
• Obtain documents or data and sources identified under (i) above in preparation for data analysis in accordance with format and contents agreed upon under task (ii) above,
• Lead and guide data collection, collation, analysis and produce essential data tables,
• Organize and facilitate report writing workshop for the task team members to prepare a first draft and with preliminary finding and recommendations,
• Lead the presentation of draft preliminary findings to key stakeholders for validation and obtain appropriate feedback including from counties,
• Finalize report and follow on for MOH adoption and publishing, followed by summary slides for high level presentation,
• Prepare for, organize and facilitate a workshop to plan for institutionalization of the process and integration into mainstream MOH and county activities leveraging HIS.
• Provide guidance to task team to present final report to general audience,
• Prepare an appropriate policy brief to be approved internally by Palladium Data.FI and thereafter widely shared with all stakeholders in the health sector.

 Required Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in public health or health economics and policy or closely related field is required. A combination of post-graduate public health and health economics is highly desirable,
• At least 10 years of experience in national arena of health and UHC policy, financing and governance,
• Proven hands-on experience in health financing strategies and good understanding of health financing reforms in Kenya,
• At least 8 years’ experience analyzing national and county budgets and tracking of public financial resources,
• Proven experience in leading engagements with MOH and other stakeholders to achieve health financing milestone.