Data FI Kenya Senior Health Financing Technical Advisor at Palladium International

Primary Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Assess health finance impact and other related health financing studies to improve access to key financial information to determine feasibility and sustainability of scaling up health finance interventions.
• Design and implement technical activities related to health finance policy in Kenya.
• Working closely with both in-person and virtual teams to achieve shared objectives. This will include other technical team members in Kenya, project partners, and the global technical leadership team to ensure application of high-quality Health Financing strategies, tools, and curricula.
• Lead development and implementation of policy tools, approaches, and curricula to achieve project objectives.
• Produce and/or edit a variety of documents including briefing materials, meeting notes, presentation slides, research briefs, and reports for a variety of stakeholders (such as funders, implementing partners, external audiences).
• Support project teams with the development and production of highly polished presentations, concept notes, briefing materials, and other products such as blog posts, newsletters, meeting summaries, thought pieces, and e-communications on key topics of interest.
• Contribute to the development of administrative policies and procedures to ensure efficient and effective project implementation.
• Provide technical support on matters health care financing and PFM.
• Conduct all work to accepted standards of research ethics.

Required Qualifications:

• Masters in health policy, public health, Statistics, Economics/Health Economics or relevant field; at least 10 years demonstrated relevant work experience, OR 8 years’ experience with at with a PhD degree will be an added advantage.
• Extensive experience in health systems strengthening and proven ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams effectively.
• Experience leading or providing support to the implementation of high-quality monitoring, evaluation, and learning activities (e.g., developing and or monitoring theories of change and conducting outcome harvesting).
• Experience managing and monitoring the execution of deliverables through collaboration with implementing teams, funders, and other technical partners and government.
• Track record of building teams, fostering collaboration, and achieving high-quality deliverables.
• Success in partnership building with diverse stakeholders, including public and private sectors, government representatives, donors, and community organizations.
• Proficient in interpersonal communication, writing, presentation, organization, and computer skills (Outlook, Microsoft office).
• Detail-oriented with the ability to balance multiple tasks and priorities within designated timeframes.
• Responsive and adaptable to changing requirements and demands.
• Knowledge of using any statistical software such as R, STATA, Python.