The ILO's Impact Insurance Facility is looking for suitable candidates to take up fellowships with three new partners under its Fellowship Programme in the areas micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). This vacancy announcement concerns the fellowship in the public health sector in East and West Africa.
Two fellowship opportunities in the public health sector in East and West Africa
Ensuring equitable progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is a top priority for developing countries and donors alike. Yet, progress is not equal across all segments of society. The Facility is working with various national health insurance schemes in East and West Africa to implement digital solutions to improve enrolment and renewal processes thereby improving health systems to achieve Universal Health Coverage. The projects will focus on: market segmentation in relation to optimal Pubic Private Partnerships (PPPs), the application of FinTech to health insurance specifically targeted to the informal sector, process digitisation through the development and building of IT infrastructure/digital platforms, designing and implementation of alternative distribution strategies and change management. See the terms of reference for the public health sector projects for full details about this position.
Ensuring equitable progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is a top priority for developing countries and donors alike. Yet, progress is not equal across all segments of society. The Facility is working with various national health insurance schemes in East and West Africa to implement digital solutions to improve enrolment and renewal processes thereby improving health systems to achieve Universal Health Coverage. The projects will focus on: market segmentation in relation to optimal Pubic Private Partnerships (PPPs), the application of FinTech to health insurance specifically targeted to the informal sector, process digitisation through the development and building of IT infrastructure/digital platforms, designing and implementation of alternative distribution strategies and change management. See the terms of reference for the public health sector projects for full details about this position.
Description of duties and expected outputs
The fellow will be responsible for supporting the project.
Specific duties included, but are not limited to, the following:
· Manage overall project and communicate with key stakeholders
· Market research to understand market segmentation in relation to optimal PPPs i.e. which digital (or other) avenues could reach which segment of the informal sector
· Digitisation of the membership enrolment and/or renewal processes through the development and building of a suitable IT infrastructure, which allows for multiple distribution partners – this would (in once case) be guided by an earlier IT feasibility study. Distribution partners could be MNOs, banks, insurers or other private players
· Designing and implementation of a distribution and regional expansion strategy
· Marketing, branding and promotion to drive membership uptake
· Capacity building
· Explore opportunities to replicate the new digitalised processes within other countries
· Implementing a pilot and monitoring it
· Refining the solution after the pilot for scale up
· Supporting the strategy and change management process for relevant departments
· Executing the ILO’s change management framework
· Conducting business analysis and other relevant research on the ongoing basis to respond to learning agenda questions
· Documenting lessons related to learning agenda
Required qualifications
Education
· Advanced degree in IT, Economics, Management, Insurance or other relevant field
Experience
· Minimum of 5 years of work experience in insurance, financial services or related industry out of which at least 3 are in IT. FinTech experience advantageous.
Desirable skills
· Digital technology
· Insurance product design and operations
· Project management
· Business analysis
· Mass market distribution strategies
· Change management
· Exposure to African or developing countries is a plus
Language
· Excellent written and oral communication skills in English
HOW TO APPLY:
The deadline for applications to the fellowship positions is 10 August 2016 (midnight CEST). Click here to apply now. More information about the Fellowship Programme can be found by clicking here.
