Director of Health Financing, Kenya Human Resources for Health (HRH) 132 views

Director of Health Financing, Kenya Human Resources for Health

Organisation Profile

Palladium is a global leader in the
design, development, and delivery of Positive Impact – the intentional creation
of enduring social and economic value. We work with foundations, investors,
governments, corporations, communities, and civil society to formulate
strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental,
and financial benefits.

For the past 50 years, we have been making Positive Impact possible. With a
team of more than 2,500 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global
network of more than 35,000 technical experts, Palladium has improved – and is
committed to continuing to improve – economies, societies and most importantly,
people’s lives. In Kenya, with a staff of 129 people,
Palladium works in economic growth, private sector engagement, health, data and
digital solutions. In health, with USAID funding under HPP and HP+, Palladium
worked to advance sustainable financing of Kenya’s health policy priorities
with a focus in HIV planning, reproductive health, malaria and maternal health.
The Afya Pwani project builds county health systems and capacity, and
strengthens governance for strategic planning, and health information systems
development. The Kenya Health Management Information Systems II Project, funded
by the CDC works to improve clinical service delivery by strengthening
electronic medical records systems and creating a data warehouse.

Palladium is a child-safe organization, and screens applicants for suitability to work with children. We also provide equal employment to all participants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or marital status. 

Position Overview

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.