Technical Advisor, Health Financing (Francophone)

Technical Advisor, Health Financing (Francophone)

About Palladium: 

Palladium is a global company
working to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and
livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power,
and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions
and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural
world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 3,000 talented,
motivated, and diverse staff of all religions, races, languages, and gender
identities. 

Palladium Americas:

Our
Americas’ business team has brilliant and passionate colleagues working in
Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America as well as
the Caribbean, fulfilling projects and assignments for clients from
institutions, corporations, governments, and foundations based in the Americas.
We have offices in Washington, DC, New York City, and Raleigh-Durham, NC.

This Opportunity:

Palladium is seeking a mid-level Francophone professional to act
as Technical Advisor on Health Financing to design and implement health
financing activities on global and bilateral health projects, with a focus on
Francophone Africa.

You and Your Career:

If you are a problem-solver, collaborator, and doer; are fully
professionally fluent in French; have strong expertise in health finance (in
particular insurance); and are intrigued by the potential of blended finance
and innovations to advance social protection, we are interested in hearing from
you. 

We are a learning organization and provide growth opportunities
from the start.  We pride ourselves on giving you the freedom, resources,
and guidance to chart a fulfilling career!

Primary
Duties and Responsibilities: 

The
successful candidate will be expected to:

• Provide high quality technical assistance to project country teams, country governments, multi-sectoral stakeholders and partners related to health financing, with a focus on family planning and HIV
  
• Generate technical analyses related to health financing across health systems, and also for priority health areas (HIV, TB, family planning, MCH etc.), including desk-based research, quantitative analyses (e.g. costing), health insurance related analyses, health market analyses, and investment case and economic model development
  
• Support and facilitate high level policy dialogue with government stakeholders and partners related to health financing, health financing reform, health insurance and universal health coverage
  
• Lead planning, development, and implementation of health financing activities, including management of staff, budget, reporting requirements, and products
  
• Develop, review and/or prepare models, presentations, manuscripts, reports, and briefs for internal and/or client or government use
  
• Mentor and supervise staff and consultants and support capacity development activities and knowledge sharing within the company on health financing and sustainable financing for health
  
• Represent projects/programs in specific international and DC-based technical meetings and fora, including coordination meetings with partners, clients, and other stakeholders
  
• Participate in outside associations, conferences, and symposia, including presentations of technical work
  
• Contribute to new business development efforts, as required and appropriate
  
• Work well both independently with limited management direction and within a team
  
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities as assigned

Key
competencies required:

• Full professional fluency in French, both written and oral
  
• In-depth understanding of health systems and health financing issues in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and/or Southeast Asia contexts
  
• Experience providing technical assistance in health financing, health insurance, health sector reform, public financial management, global health economics, or other specifically related fields in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and/or Southeast Asia
  
• Experience developing and implementing activities in support of universal health coverage objectives
  
• Experience conducting policy reviews and analyses
  
• Strong quantitative skills, including data analysis, costing, modeling and statistical interpretation, and high level of proficiency with Excel
  
• Experience supporting and facilitating high-level government policy dialogue and coordinating and collaborating with development and implementing partners
  
• Ability to present complex information to diverse audiences. Clear and effective writing and oral communication skills, including significant experience with report development and delivering oral presentations supported by PowerPoint slides
  
• Strong program management, organizational, and interpersonal skills
  
• Demonstrated problem solving, analytic, financial, and evaluative skills
  
• Attention to detail and ability to effectively and efficiently perform multiple tasks, and balance competing priorities often within a required timeframe
  
• Ability to respond and adapt quickly and independently to changing requirements and competing demands
  
• Work well with limited oversight and with diverse cross-cultural groups, partners, and colleagues
  
• Professional and mature demeanor and conduct
  
• Excellent judgment
  
• Ability and willingness to travel internationally up to 25%

Professional
expertise/competencies preferred:

• Experience with, or strong interest, in innovative and blended finance for health
  
• Experience working with the private sector on health-related initiatives
  
• Experience with statistical software such as Stata and SPSS
  
• Past work experience managing USAID- or other donor-funded projects beneficial
  
• Experience managing junior staff and/or consultants

Diversity,
Equity & Inclusion – We welcome applications from all sections of society and
actively encourage diversity to drive innovation, creativity, success and good
practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our
workforce; and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair
treatment regardless of their background or personal characteristics. These
include: (but are not limited to) socio-economic background, age, race, gender
identity, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality,
veteran, marital or Indigenous status. 

Safeguarding
– We
define Safeguarding as “the preventative action taken by Palladium to protect
our people, clients and the communities we work with from harm”. We are
committed to ensuring that all children and adults who come into contact with
Palladium are treated with respect and are free from abuse.  All
successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced selection process
including safeguarding-focused interviews and a rigorous due diligence process.

Please submit an updated resume and cover letter detailing your interest in this role.