Summary
Date Posted: Monday, May 23, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The work will include reviewing of “minimum” benefit packages based on source of funding considering the roles of tax, social and private health insurance and out-of-pocket payments. Deciding on the structure of the insurance market, i.e. define the roles of Health Insurance and individual insurers; extent of management/decision rights at public providers taking into account the need for efficient management and necessary human capacities; Define the role of performance oriented financing and identify reform potentials recognizing the role of management autonomy; Evaluate and define the role of equity-oriented financing and identify reform potentials with a special focus on the role of the budget and formula funding. Develop a plan for including the poor and vulnerable in social health protection

Summary of Assigned Duties:
• Review key policy documents
• Conduct literature review of sustainable financing strategies in developing countries
• Present and share different alternative options and strategies in their generic form to the technical working group Healthcare Financing
• Diagnose health systems performance in terms of UHC, identifying problems and the underlying causes
• Contribute to organise and structure the discussion of country specific objectives.
• Identify strategic reforms, policies and actions required to meet country specific objectives
• Propose the necessary governance and capacity building arrangement to ensure implementation of strategic reforms
• Develop monitoring and evaluation systems to monitor progress and adjust implementation accordingly.
• Assessment of current situation of healthcare financing in Zanzibar.
• Produce a summary of key finding of the Zanzibar healthcare financing.
• Develop set of healthcare financing options suitable for Zanzibar context.
• Present those options with benefits and drawbacks to MOHSWEGC senior management.
• Develop agreeable health financing goals and vision for the health sector based on UHC
• Develop draft healthcare financing strategy with implementation and monitoring and evaluation framework for Zanzibar and way forward for the options decided upon.
• Technical Supervision
• Objective
• The Main objective of the consultancy will be to assist the Ministry of Health to develop a medium- to long-term Health Financing Strategy to facilitate achievement of universal coverage.
• More specifically;
• Engage policy makers and other senior entities to discuss and agree on the overall goals and vision for the health sector, based on UHC aspirations;
• Review the health financing landscape with a view to diagnosing the present health system’s performance in terms of UHC; identify problems and their underlying causes
• Develop/propose specific objectives needed to steer the country towards universal health coverage;
• Identify strategic reforms and actions needed to realize the stated objectives, including, but not limited to strategies in eliminating health financing fragmentations;
• appropriate actions to improve efficiency and effectiveness of health financing to providers;
• A review of the existing and proposed health benefits.
• Outline the governance and capacity building actions needed to ensure implementation of the proposed strategic reforms
• Outline the evaluation modalities/framework needed to monitor implementation aspects and corrective actions as may be needed.

Specific Requirements
• language:
• Essential: Fluency in both English and Swahili language.
• Desirable: Working knowledge of other UN language is an added advantage.
• Education:
• Essential: Masters’ Degree in Public Health or Health Economics or above
• Desirable: Ph.D. in Public Health or Health Economics is an added advantage.
• Experience:
• Essential:
• The Consultant must have at least 5 - 7 years’ experience on health financing related tasks.
• Desirable:
• At least 5 years in developing of health financing strategies
• The Consultancy firm or individual for this assignment must have the following qualifications;
• Registered as a consulting firm or an individual by appropriate authority.
• Evidence of working experience of at least five years in developing health financing strategies.
• Existence of professional staffs in the area of health financing strategies where upon the team leader should have at least a master’s degree in public health/ health economics, or other relevant fields. Other team members should have at least Bachelor’s degrees in health economics or other relevant fields.

Skills and Competencies
• Technical understanding in health care financing is strongly desired.
• Experience of working in developing countries (multicultural environment)
• Must have excellent research and analytical skills
• Excellent communication, writing and editing skills and fluent in English language, including ability to present information in different stakeholders. Ability to communicate well in Swahili will be an added advantage.
• Ability to commence work immediately.
• Producing results;
• Fostering integration and teamwork;
• Communicating in a credible and effective way;
• Moving forward in a changing environment
• Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure
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