Founded in 2002 by President William J. Clinton, the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) is a global health organization committed to strengthening integrated health systems around the world and expanding access to care and treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria and other illnesses. Based on the premise that business oriented strategy can facilitate solutions to global health challenges, CHAI acts as a catalyst to mobilize new resources and optimize the impact of these resources to save lives, via improved organization of commodity markets and more effective local management. By working in association with governments and other NGO partners, CHAI is focused on large scale impact and, to date, CHAI has secured lower pricing agreements for treatment options in more than 70 countries. In addition, CHAI's teams are working side-by-side with over 30 governments to tackle many of the largest barriers to effective treatment and care.
Human Resources for Health
CHAI's Human Resources for Health (HRH) Programs aim to build the health education infrastructure and health workforce necessary to create high quality, sustainable healthcare systems in developing countries. CHAI is focusing its efforts in three strategic focus areas: 1) significantly increasing the number of qualified health workers 2) optimizing the distribution of health workers 3) improving health worker productivity.
In 2014, CHAI supported the Government of Liberia to develop a bold, comprehensive Health Workforce Program to guide national and donor funds to achieve the objectives laid out in Liberia’s 2011 National Human Resources Policy and Plan (HRPP). The resulting strategy articulates Liberia’s need to increase health faculty at training institutions and medical infrastructure at training hospitals in order to achieve an aggressive scale-up plan that will increase the quality, skill-diversity and quantity of health professionals trained in Liberia. The strategy emphasizes the country’s desire to move from Ebola containment and treatment to prevention of a recurrence, which will only be achieved through rebuilding and strengthening the health system holistically.
In 2015, CHAI is supporting the Government of Liberia to mobilize resources for Liberia’s training institutions and government to ensure development and management of existing and new health professional training programs. In addition, CHAI is leading a coalition of advocacy and implementation partners to support Liberia's Ministry of Health with pre-implementation activities.
Candidates must have excellent planning, management, writing, analytical, communication and cultural sensitivity skills as they will be working closely with government and external partners. The candidate must have a passion for results and a commitment to excellence.
Role
The Manager of Health Financing will support the Ministry of Health to understand the cost of remunerating the health workforce in full, articulate existing/anticipated financial gaps and priorities, and secure needed funds. In order to do this effectively, the Manager of Health Financing will serve as an advisor to the Ministry of Health’s Office of Financial Management (OFM) and health financing division, in addition to building strong relationships with identified counterparts at the Civil Service Agency (CSA) and Ministry of Finance (MOF). S/he will facilitate coordination amongst MOH, MOF, CSA in order to develop a salary rationalization scheme for all cadres and facilitate health worker job creation. This individual will work with the OFM within the MOH to ensure the Government of Liberia is capacitated to take on financial management of the Health Workforce Program.
Responsibilities to Government of Liberia:
- Develop strong working relationships with key stakeholders in government, international partners, donors and NGOs, and ensure maximum coordination of resources and effort for successful implementation and scale-up
- Facilitate Ministry of Finance (MOF) and Civil Service Agency (CSA) engagement in health workforce absorption policies and discussion
- Support the Ministry of Health (MOH), MOF and CSA to develop a salary rationalization scheme for all cadres
- Liaise with CSA and MOF on absorption of Community Health Workers onto payroll
- Analyze donor and public health spending on workforce to advise on policies to facilitate health worker job creation
- Support the Ministry of Health and Government of Liberia to articulate the resources needed to absorb the health workforce and secure necessary funds
- Build capacity within the Ministry of Health’s health financing office and Office of Financial Management (OFM) to ensure government financial ownership of Health Workforce Program
- Provide assistance to the Ministry of Health OFM and MOF as needed for workforce related requests
- Liaise closely with technical partners in government to monitor and evaluate interventions against objectives and targets, bringing in technical expertise when needed to ensure rapid implementation
Responsibilities to CHAI:
- Support CHAI’s in-country leadership team to identify and define CHAI's overall strategy within the program area, develop clear operational plans for execution, and continually identify opportunities for CHAI to add value and maximize impact
- Develop clear operational plans for execution, and continually identify opportunities for CHAI to add value and maximize impact
- Perform other tasks as necessary
- Demonstrated strong analytical, leadership, and problem solving skills
- Ability to work independently and effectively in high-pressure, fast-paced environment and handle multiple tasks simultaneously
- Ability to work with teams across time zones and locations
- Proven ability to build relationships with a range of stakeholders
- Proven ability to drive immediate results
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to work with humility and achieve results
- High levels of proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and internet applications
Experience
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent plus 2 years work experience; or advanced degree plus 1 year work experience
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