Jobs at Palladium International

The Director of Health Financing reports to the Project or Deputy Project Director and will assist in providing strategic, technical leadership, and oversight to the health financing component of the project. S/he must have an appropriate balance of technical, managerial, and interpersonal skills and experience. The Director of Health Financing must have the capacity to successfully interact host country agencies, including national and county government, development partners, civil society and community-based organizations is essential.

Roles and Responsibilities 

• Assist the Project Director in the implementation of health financing activities, that includes but is not limited to budgeting, resources allocation and projections, and budget efficiencies.
• Provides direct supervision to health financing program staff.
• When required, serve as the interface between the project and USG stakeholders and Palladium senior management.
• Manages local partners that work in the health financing space. This includes but is not limited to ensuring that all partners are engaged, and produce the required results.
• If requested to do so by the Project Director, assumes responsibility for overseeing project budget and finances including financial performance reporting, budget projections and project spending in the health financing technical area.
• Works with the project monitoring evaluation team to develop and track project indicators related to health financing.
• When requested, represents the project at relevant professional meetings, working groups and seminars.
• Prepare analyses, recommendations, briefing notes, white papers, and assessments for internal and client use.

Position Requirements

• Significant progressively increasing responsibility work in health financing, host country budgeting, resource allocation and budget projections and other financing approaches.
• Familiarity with public financing management in Kenya.
• Demonstrated oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated health financing analytical skills.
• Demonstrated experience in health financing capacity building in public sector.
• Demonstrated management and supervisory experience of a relevant scope and scale.
• Experience working with local partners.
• Experience in interacting with host country agencies, including national and county governments, development partners, civil society and community-based organizations is essential.
• Prior experience developing strategic plans, workplans, and/or activity plans for large technical assistance programs that have a health financing component.
• Ability to communicate effectively and high comfort level writing and presenting data and information in a compelling way to difference audiences.
• Excellent written and spoken English and ability to communicate across technical disciplines and non-technical audience required.

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Key Responsibilities

• Serves as a member of the senior leadership team of CMLAP.As such, provides senior leadership, management oversight, and coordination on all matters project-wide;
• Provides subject matter expertise; technical assistance to the program, technical staff and administrators for CMLAP (Technical strategy formulation);
• Leads, reviews and monitors programmatic functions:
• Development of annual and operational work plans and budgets;
• Quality Activity implementation and employ use of work plan tracker.  COP Benchmarks Tracker among other project tools;
• Ensure that activity implementation is aligned with project technical strategies and approaches during conceptualization (concept notes review);In collaboration with the Project M&E specialist, ensure proper documentation of the activity reports.
• Provides analytical and evaluative techniques to identify, consider and resolve issues or problems;
• Ensures technical excellence of project interventions and lead the learning agenda related to analytics and data use;
• Provides functional guidance to project staff, other USG IPs and stakeholders to ensure deliverables are met within timelines and budgets as needed:
• Regular engagement with the Technical specialists and CPLS; staff meetings, thematic team meetings;
• Routine meetings with the USAID IPs in the respective program areas: SI, HIV, Malaria and Family Health.
• Organizes and supports as needed, project trainings, conferences, workshops and meetings;
• Participates and represents the organization as needed in outside associations, conferences and symposia; prepares necessary project-related reports, including presentations and white papers;
• Organizes and supports as needed project trainings, conferences, workshops, and meetings;
• Leads and assists in research, data collection, policy formulation, training and capacity building efforts in support of contract/agreement activities and deliverables.
• Provides guidance to lower level staff members;
• Acts as the COP when needed.

Required Qualifications:

Educational background and Experience:

• Advanced degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent;
• At least over 7 years of experience in public health program management, health governance, information systems strengthening, monitoring and evaluation, policy formulation, or other field related to international health programs are required;
• Demonstrated success in collaboration and coordination across partners, sectors and with home office;
• Demonstrated problem solving, analytic, financial and evaluative skills;
• Demonstrated experience managing projects or programs;
• Attention to detail and ability to effectively and efficiently perform multiple tasks and balance competing priorities often within a required timeframe;
• Effective written and oral communication skills;
• Professional and diplomatic demeanor and conduct, especially during interactions with the client and its constituents;
• Ability to anticipate, respond and adapt quickly to changing requirements and competing demands;
• Ability to take initiative and/or respond independently to situations;
• Fluent written and spoken English and Swahili required;
• Experience working with USAID and/or USAID partners is required.